Aquisha Lukhai

Dedicated and detail-oriented Senior Bookkeeper with a strong academic foundation in auditing. Proven ability to manage tight deadlines and work independently. Skilled in maintaining accurate financial records, reconciling accounts, and supporting overall financial operations. Seeking to leverage expertise in bookkeeping and audit principles to contribute to a dynamic finance team.

Senior Bookkeeper at Stewards Financial Custodians (2024-08 – Present)

• Software used: Sage Pastel and Xero
• Assisting with preparation of monthly management accounts
• Collating annual audit files for management company and assisting with resolving and responding to audit queries and implementation of recommendations
• Completing year-end recons and passing closing entries/journals
• Fixed asset register maintenance and management
• Maintaining inter-company transactions and loan schedules
• Full function bookkeeping to trial balance, invoicing, and cashbook processing, reconciling multiple bank accounts and credit cards
• Debtors and creditors capturing, management and reconciliation
• Liaising with customers and reconciling debtor variances
• Liaising with suppliers and reconciling creditor variances
• Vetting of customers and suppliers and KYC procedures
• Calculating periodic vat liabilities/refunds for VAT201 declarations
• Filing and maintaining accounting records and source documents
• Amending ledger, supplier and customer accounts balances where necessary
• Preparing monthly payroll, calculating income, deductions, bonuses, commissions and employee reimbursements using Intercode Payroll
• Maintaining employee leave schedules and administration of leave taken
• Preparing/amending employee contracts
• Maintaining and updating employee records
• Calculations in terms of paye, sdl, uif and provident/pension funds
• Completing UIF returns
• Liaising with and reporting to bargaining councils
• Preparing and submitting EMP501 recons via payroll and manual capture on easyfile
• Company secretarial services, statutory registrations, assisting with drafting of letters
• Maintaining company statutory records and minute books
• Preparing intercompany loan agreements and contracts
• Completing finance applications and collating supporting documentation
• Completing insurance policy documents, submitting claims and supporting documents and facilitating replacement or repair
• Preparing powers of attorney for SARS and legal application
• Completing bank FICA verifications
• Authorizing Balance of payment (BOP) forms and releasing client payments using Investec online banking system for forex deals and investments
• Preparing periodic reports to FSCA on company liquidity and compliance matters

Accounting Bookkeeper at CP Naidoo and Partners (2023-10 – 2024-05)

Reason for leaving - Contract position

• Capturing of bank statements on pastel partner, handling 40 clients in total, 20 clients per even and odd vat period
• Bank and vat reconciliation
• Capturing of debtor's invoices and creditors
• Managing monthly, even, and odd vat clients
• EMP201 calculation and filing
• Vat201 calculation and filing
• EMP501 calculation and filing
• Filing Income Tax Returns
• Processing and review of monthly management accounts
• Closing off accounts to trial balance

Accounting Bookkeeper at Astel Systems (2023-06 – 2023-09)

Reason for leaving - Filling in for maternity leave

• Capturing of bank statements on Pastel, Quickbooks
• Submitting monthly VAT201 and EMP201 returns
• Preparation of monthly invoices and statements
• Timesheet management
• Managing debtors, allocating debtor payments, analysis of reports
• Preparing payroll/pay slips on Sage VIP payroll and microsoft excel
• Creating purchase orders on pastel partner and managing payment to creditors
• Administrative and filing duties

Junior Bookkeeper at The Taxplan (Pty) Ltd (2022-01 – 2023-05)

Reason for leaving - Better opportunity

• Capturing bank statements, credit card statements, bond statements, invoices, journals on Sage Pastel, handling up to 25-30 clients
• Capturing VAT for even, odd, and monthly clients
• Drafting annual financial statements for companies
• Filing CIPC annual returns
• Registering companies and workers for UIF on U-filing
• Using e@syFile for EMP501's
• Skilled in Timekeeping, Pastel, Microsoft Excel, e@syFile SARS E-filing, VAT201's, EMP201's
• Computer-literate performer, and Telephone Manner, as well as administrative duties
• Using Capitec for Foreign Exchange for booking outward deals/payments
• Manage and execute foreign exchange trades through the Capitec trading platform, focusing on major and minor currency pairs
• Completing BOP forms, capturing suppliers, bank details, uploading invoices, APN'S, etc and liaising with Capitec
• Completing Access bank BOP forms
• Adding clients onto Docfox, Capitec platforms
• Purchasing of consumables, assets and inventory as required
• Managing repairs and maintenance, liaising with property managers, contractors, brokers, agents, service providers and tenants
• Liaising with real estate agents for property valuations
• Liaising with homeowner's association, attorneys and real estate agents, reconciling levy accounts and assisting with maintaining record of property sales
• Importing of IRP5 certificates to easyfile, resolving validation issues and variances on the EMP501 recon
• Calculating, preparing and submitting VAT201, EMP201 and EMP501 declarations and responding to SARS verifications and queries
• Resolving SARS tax queries at branch
• Following up on tax queries via SARS call centre, online query system and virtual appointments
• Checking company tax compliance status, resolving non-compliance and generating tax clearance pin

Advanced Diploma in Internal Auditing – Durban University of Technology (2022 – 2023)

Diploma in Internal Auditing – Durban University of Technology (2020 – 2022)

Bachelor Pass – Verulam Secondary School (2015 – 2019)