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
