SENIOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT - Greenway Farms
(2025-06)
- Develop and monitor budgets, cashflow forecasts and review management accounts for accuracy.
- Perform variance analysis investigation on management accounts for all departments
- Review balance sheet reconciliations, cash management and profit or loss statement review.
- Review general ledger allocations and postings to ensure accuracy and correct financial classification
- Review and approve reconciliations for accounts payable and accounts receivable to ensure completeness and accuracy
- Review payroll process, VAT, UIF, PAYE, SDL before submission to SARS to ensure compliance and accuracy.
- Oversee fixed asset register, including asset tracking, verification, and accurate depreciation calculations.
- Approve depreciation, intercompany journals and all month end journal postings.
- Manage and support the capital expenditure process, ensuring proper approval, allocation, and reporting
- Lead month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring timely and accurate accruals, journals, reconciliations, and adjustments
- Review management accounts and assist in the preparation of financial statements
- Review and approve complex journal entries, ensuring proper documentation, accuracy, and compliance with accounting standards
- Coordinate with external auditors by preparing audit schedules and supporting documentation for audit processes
- Ensure compliance with internal accounting policies, tax regulations, and internal control frameworks
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT - Aerial Cableway - Hartebeespoort
(2024-05 - 2025-06)
- Managed ticket sales operations, ensuring precise billing and effective revenue recognition.
- Compiled revenue reports and financial report
- Manage inventory controls and stock counts.
- Managed payroll processes, calculating hours to be paid to employees and ensured accurate payroll.
- Managed supplier payment process
- Reviewed accounts receivable and accounts payable reconciliation
- Compiled and analysed expenditure, management accounts and variance analysis
- Reviewed general ledger postings to ensure correct allocation.
- Cash flow management including petty cash reconciliation
- Prepared VAT reconciliation and verified VAT payable to refundable.
- Coordinate the annual audit process and liaise with external auditors.
- Lead and develop a high performance team culture
- Prepared and presented board packs to board meetings assisting the General Manager.
ASSISTANT FINANCIAL MANAGER - Cool Ideas - Rosebank
(2022-10 - 2023-04)
- Spearheaded planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of revenue generation processes to improve financial viability.
- Managed a team of 8 individuals, focusing on debt collection and revenue management.
- Led the creation of new accounts and ensured timely revenue collection and reconciliations for weekly reporting.
- Developed and implemented standard working procedures for the finance team.
- Provided training such as excel to the finance team.
- Handled and resolved customer service billing queries escalated by the finance team, including investigations on historical queries.
- Performed detailed account reconciliations on revenue data, client accounts to identify discrepancies and recommend necessary resolutions.
- Offer and manage payment and settlement arrangements to customers.
- Manage the refunds process from determining account balances through to processing the refunds.
- Monitored weekly suspensions for non-paying client.
- Provided feedback on any technical issues identified on suspensions to assist developers' better system and internal controls.
- Monitored debtors book to identify high-risk clients.
- Analyze debtors and assign them to the team based on priority.
- Handled debt management and legal process to deal with bad debt to the credit bureau.
- Ensured compliance with legal, regulatory, and statutory frameworks, contributing to financial sustainability and minimizing risks.
- Run monthly invoicing, process daily and monthly debit order runs & journals.
- Payment allocations, apply credit adjustments and correct billing.
- Prepared weekly and monthly debtors reports.
- Month-end revenue analysis and reporting.
- Presented challenges, success, and strategies of the finance department to monthly MANCO meetings.
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT - KTC-ZA - Rooihuiskraal
(2020-11 - 2022-10)
As a Section Head for the Debt Protection and Collection Department, my mandate was to aid company recover debt through debt collection strategies, data management, and managed client accounts, debt collection, account reconciliation, investigation of discrepancies, process development, and reporting.
- Coached, trained, managed performance of a 15-member team.
- Perform detailed account reconciliations, deal with queries, and investigate discrepancies in client accounts.
- Identify unmanageable debt and hand over uncollectable debt to the legal department.
- Issuing monthly customer statements.
- Keep correct records of all transactions with supporting documentation.
- Develop and document processes and procedures for the department.
- Prepare and ensure invoicing is accurate.
- Consult with internal departments such as IT, customer service, and systems on invoicing.
- Preparation monthly board reports.
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT - Tolplan - Rooihuiskraal
(2017-07 - 2020-10)
Spearheaded the Debt Protection and Collection Department where I aided the department with financial analysis and risk assessment.
- Established and maintained strong stakeholder relations, resolving customer queries and improving service delivery.
- Managed a team of 23 individuals, focusing on debt collection and debt recovery.
- Reviewed debtor schedules, outlining debtor outstanding balance to ensure accuracy.
- Ensured correct debtor aging for client debtors accounts.
- Applied prescription for debt older than three years.
- Responsible for auditing the completeness and accuracy of the invoices, account statements, and other source documents to be provided to third parties.
- Identified defects in invoicing and billing and prepared adjustment journals.
- Processed adjustments to the system to correct balances.
- Ensured VAT correctly applied in debtor accounts.
- Prepared evidence packs to present in court for debt summoned.
- Managed the budget and expenditure within the department.
- Prepared audit reports and presented findings to Head of Department.
SENIOR ASSOCIATE - PriceWaterhouse Coopers - Mafikeng
(2013-01 - 2017-06)
Completed my SAICA articles with PriceWaterhouse Coopers and was then promoted to senior associate after 3 years of articles.
- Audited financial statements of various educational institutions and municipalities.
- Performed variance analysis of financial statements and substantiated deviations from forecasts.
- Regularly updated and reconciled the asset register, ensuring all fixed assets were properly tracked and accounted for.
- Completed monthly VAT reconciliations and managed submissions to SARS, ensuring compliance with tax laws.
- Managed timely and accurate submissions of VAT201 and EMP201 forms, maintaining compliance with SARS requirements.
- Prepared fixed asset register (additions, disposal, and transfer in terms of IAS 16).
- Maintained and balanced loan amortization schedules and handled reconciliation of intercompany loans for accurate financial reporting.
- Attended management meetings and presented audit findings.
- Compiled management report pack or Board packs.
