Aneesa Davids

I am a fully qualified financial chartered accountant CA(SA) with strong interpersonal and communication skills. I am confident in my ability to develop strong relationships with clients as well as team members. I am a firm believer in working as a team towards a common goal and am comfortable with my ability to function within a team. I have an ability to think "outside the box" in order to find solutions to problems, while keeping in mind the most efficient method.

Senior Financial Manager - Unison Risk Management Alliance

(2021-08)

• Oversee claims month end process
• Monthly reporting to insurer and clients
• Prepare, comment and provide recommendations on reports and their findings in the Management Board Meeting
• Ensure appropriate development of staff members reporting to Senior FM
• Ensure execution of finance strategy as set by Board Members
• Ensure planning of systems and processes for effective financial, regulatory and tax management
• Prepare the necessary budgetary and forecasting processes for Group Risk Solutions for all operational and capital expenditure requirements
• Prepare Board Packs including financials for Cell Captive Board Meetings
• Full responsibility for treasury function
• Prepare and Review monthly reconciliations
• Oversee and drive all interim audits
• Oversee and drive year-end audits
• Oversee the issuing of financial information and financial reporting
• Arranging board/related meetings and ensuring there's a proper record of the meeting and action plans
• Advising the directors on all financial regulatory and statutory matters
• Report the board of directors on audit and financial risk matters
• Responsibility for all accounting, tax and treasury transactions, including foreign transactions and the functioning and processing including capturing into appropriate recording systems
• Manage all third parties' relationships for financial related functions, including for those that have been outsourced, and provide measurement regularly in terms of agreed to SLA's
• Ensure all financial returns for regulatory and statutory bodies are submitted correctly and timeously
• Provide leadership & guidance to the governance and compliance to all businesses
• Annual budget and action plans for submission to directors

Financial Controller - Pharma Dynamics

(2016-09 - 2021-03)

• Monthly, quarterly and annual group reporting
• Management reporting including cost center and product disaggregation
• Manage the entire audit process (quarterly and annually)
• Quarterly tax calculations
• Deferred tax calculations
• Monthly forecasting including balance sheet and cash flows
• Variance analysis
• Gross margin analysis
• Foreign exchange hedging analysis
• Managing petty cash
• Financial statement preparation
• Conduct analysis of product, therapy customer wise profitability
• Trend Analysis for last 2-3 years as required
• Preparation of finance and sales review data for presentation to group company

Founder - Open Closet (Online Retail Store)

(2016-05 - 2016-12)

• Establishing and setting up an online retail store
• Maintaining the webstore
• Buying and selling of used female and children's clothing
• Marketing
• Social media

Financial Accountant - Dimension Data (Pty) Ltd

(2015-03 - 2016-04)

• Prepare and submit monthly management accounts for multiple divisions
• Prepare monthly reconciliations of balance sheet accounts
• Prepare and process monthly journals
• Manage and maintain asset register
• Prepare monthly reports including but not limited to the income statement, customer profitability reports, expense claim reports, headcount reconciliations, billing report analysis etc. to various divisional managers for decision making
• Maintain financial dashboard for the Financial Manager to analyze the financial strength of the business
• Approve and submit staff expense claims
• Credit card control management
• Liaise with various divisions within the group for intercompany processing at month end
• Close off general ledger books at month end
• Submissions of income statement and balance sheet reconciliations to Head Office for quarterly statutory reporting as well tax submissions
• Reconciled and rectified various backlogged accounts
• Ensure accuracy, validity and completeness of all general ledger accounts when accounts were transferred to a new accounting system (SAP)
• Ensured submissions were accurate on the consolidation reporting package, BPC (Business Objects Planning and Consolidation)
• Process all petty cash journals
• Analyze and submit overtime claims for review to divisional managers
• Any ad hoc financial queries requested by management
• Assisted with Mozambique bank account reconciliations
• Managing actual expenditure to budget
• Maintain appropriate supporting documents for audit review every quarter
• Prepare forecast for financial year
• Prepare and submit service packs monthly for review by managers and Group
• Prepare and monitor all training expenditure against budget for all divisions

Financial Accountant - Old Mutual Property

(2013-10 - 2015-02)

• Preparation of financial statements for numerous subsidiaries within the Group including prior years
• Preparation of provisional tax, income tax and VAT submissions
• Managing and liaising with auditors for numerous subsidiaries with the Group
• Responsible for financial management of a subsidiary from initiation to reporting
• Budget analysis and cash flow forecasting

Financial Accountant - Sheerline Aluminum

(2013-07 - 2013-09)

• Improve, maintain and correct fixed asset register as well as tax values
• Preparation of annual financial statements
• Improve, maintain and correct cash sale accounts as well as internal controls
• Improve and correct the leave pay balances and schedules
• Help prepare the BEE reports as well Employment Equity reports
• Perform stock adjustments as well as daily sales reports
• Correct and fix messy accounts as well as implement controls

Financial Accountant - Prudential Asset Management

(2013)

• Preparation of Annual Financial Statements for nine companies including Unit Trust
• Submission of compliance and statutory documents to the Financial Service Board
• Preparation of consolidated annual financial statements
• Preparing financial statements in Namibian currency
• Reconciliation of inflow and outflow accounts
• Collating data for the forecast, year to date management accounts and budgets for the year for the review by the Board of Directors
• Calculation of the long term insurance annual and quarterly return for submission to the FSB
• Calculation of spreading of assets as well as capital adequacy requirement reports
• Maintain the relations and interlinking between the auditors and actuaries
• Performing the audit preparation and managing this process
• Submission of tax returns for all entities

Trainee Accountant - Deloitte

(2010 - 2012)

Key Clients: Hertz Car Rental, Pinnacle Point Group, Sea Harvest, Deslee Mattex, City of Cape Town, Walmart, Sun chemical, RTT style

• Auditing of Income statement and Balance Sheet and application of IFRS
• Assessing the control environment and making recommendations to management
• Managing audit team and developing an audit plan
• Performing controls testing
• Liaising with clients and reporting to management
• Ensuring applicable laws and regulations are adhered
• Auditing the procurement policy at government
• Preparing financial statements in Namibian currency
• Performing Risk assessment analysis
• Performing budgets and forecasts
• Drafting management reports
• Developing an audit plan
• Managing teams from audit plan stage to the reporting stage
• Preparing group reporting packs to head office

Cashier - Clicks

(2006 - 2006)

• Ensure that all customer goods are scanned and paid for
• Cashing up at end of the day and doing reconciliations

Volunteer Worker - Somerset Hospital

(2003 - 2003)

• Sorting out administrative work for employees of the hospital
• Entertaining the children in the hospital

Bachelor of Commerce - CA option - University of Cape Town (2005 - 2009)

Post Graduate Diploma - Accounting - University of Cape Town (2005 - 2009)

CA(SA) (2023 - 2023)