Cherish Benting

Highly motivated and hard-working individual with drive, energy, creativity and versatility. Quick learner interested in delivering functionality to end users. Spontaneous with warm personality, self-motivated, enjoys new challenges and committed to delivering best results.

Demonstrated ability to coordinate variety of tasks, identify improvements and add value. Works well in teams, supportive of colleagues and relates easily to others. Copes well under pressure with proven record of commitment and determination.

Financial Accountant - Alpen Food Company

• Weekly/Monthly stock count variances processed to be within % range aligned with production/(sales & returns)
• Capture and reconcile all bank accounts/fuel cards/credit cards
• Prepare monthly sales analysis reports
• Review monthly wages
• Review month end creditors by 20 of the month
• Prepare and complete all month end accruals/requirements
• Monthly Trade Marketing Budgets review with sales team
• Prepare monthly management reports
• Monthly balance sheet reports
• Prepare intercompany reports
• Identify fixed cost savings
• 100% ensure foreign customers and suppliers accuracy
• Department Budgets adherence quarterly
• CAPEX control – physical asset count quarterly. Zero material misstatements & control breaches in statutory audit
• 100% legal compliance, incl. of completion & submission of SARS VAT/month end tax accrual calculations
• Reporting: Accurate & timely reporting of monthly reports, UK requirements, budgets (in accordance with deadlines)
• Maintain customer/SKU/brand P&L's bi-monthly
• Support commercial decision making - ROI per KG (TBC)
• Annual financial audit execution

Accountant / Cashbook Supervisor - Britos Meat

(2022-02 - 2024-02)

• Daily cashbook/bank recons - importing of transactions and allocations
• Process daily intercompany transfers on bank
• Process monthly interest on Call/Fixed deposit bank accounts
• Management of Accounts & Cash Department, consisting of two people
• Monitoring/Overseeing and reviewing daily cash ups performed by Cash Up/Admin Clerks
• Assisting in training new staff
• Implementing processes & procedures, to enhance team performance
• Importing sales from POS system
• Monthly sales analysis
• Completion of monthly STATS reports
• Monthly Reconciliation of all Control Accounts - Sales, Cash-on-hand, Credit cards, Spark ATM's
• Journal Monthly control account recons
• Accounts Review and verification of supplier statement on a timeous basis
• Review of creditors reconciliations
• Verify creditor payments loaded on bank
• Monthly update of Bank Amortization schedules, process interest and charges as per schedules
• Calculation of monthly Franchise Fees and Advertising Fees
• Invoicing of Franchise Fees and Advertising Fees
• Debtors processing, sending statements & invoices, maintaining A/R age analysis, follow ups, etc
• Manage Rentals (Rental invoicing and utility accounts)
• Capturing journals/month end accruals, deferments & provisions
• Review of general ledger accounts and act on exception reports
• Prepare/submission of VAT return schedules
• Prepare/submission of EMP201 schedules
• Preparation of monthly management account schedules
• Preparation of monthly loan account recons/processing loan account transactions/processing intercompany invoices & journals
• Calculating monthly interest of loan accounts
• Balance Sheet reviews
• Payroll journals
• Any adhoc ledger journals as & when required
• Asset register/depreciations
• Assist with the preparation and coordination of audited processes
• Assist Senior Accountant with duties

Bookkeeper/Accountant - Forever New SA (Steve Madden)

(2021-10 - 2022-02)

Reason for leaving – due to traveling, rise in fuel cost

• Bookkeeping to balance sheet
• Capturing journals (CSV journals)
• Cashbooks reconciliations
• Monthly management accounts and preparing accounts for year-end
• Assist accounts department with queries relating to bookkeeping function
• Manage creditors and reconciliations
• Communicate with suppliers regarding payment advice for non-email-pro suppliers, statement reconciliations and overdue invoices
• Sundry suppliers capture
• Processing of Invoices and Credit Notes
• Capturing of all payments on banking and cashbook entries
• Reconciling Creditor Accounts
• Inventory and Stock on-hand reports
• Checking and Capturing of POD's on stock system
• Invoicing wholesale debtor accounts
• Monitoring customer accounts
• Customer/Supplier Queries
• Debtors/Creditors Recons
• General ledger and journals
• Weekly POS cash-up recons
• Weekly cash/credit card recons
• Daily banking
• Forex payments
• Balancing control accounts
• Asset Register & Depreciations
• VAT Returns/SARS submissions
• Monthly sales journals
• Payroll journals
• Balance sheet recons
• Liaising with auditors
• Cashflow projections/assist with budgets

Bookkeeper - Gourmet Coffee Roasters

(2018-09 - 2021-10)

• Local Creditors - Capturing of all Creditors invoices and return & debits, linking to GRN's, vendor reconciliations for 3 Companies
• Making sure costs are allocated to correct GL accounts
• Check VAT allocations
• Prepare supplier payment batches
• Upload payment batches on banking system, first release of payments
• Maintain creditor files
• Complete new creditor applications
• Follow up/attend to creditor queries
• Weekly/monthly creditors age analysis reporting
• Process month end creditor accruals
• Process and journal creditor discounts
• Foreign Creditors – Daily/weekly update of payment schedule for prepayments/weekly/monthly foreign payments according to daily exchange rates and reporting to management
• Daily/weekly booking of FEC with bank
• Completion of FEC BOP forms for foreign payments, considering correct BOP allocations for imports
• Preparation of all attaching documents for foreign payments, including customs documentation
• Submission of all documents to the bank for foreign payments
• Assisting bank with any related queries to foreign payments
• Capturing of foreign invoices on system once consignments are received
• Age analysis reporting on outstanding creditors
• Process journals as and when required
• Costings – Calculation of costings for all import consignments. Calculating profit/loss as well as margin allocations for reselling value of products
• Debtors – Generate all Debtors invoices and credit notes – linking to sales orders etc
• Month end debtor statements
• Reconciling debtor statements
• Processing of monthly cost reallocation journals to loan accounts for companies
• Reporting on debtor age analysis
• Generate monthly Rental/Service Level Agreement Invoices
• Quote clients for new Service Level Agreements and maintaining a record thereof
• Process all credit checks on potential new clients
• Property Management – Generate monthly property rental for tenants according to rental agreement
• Reconcile property accounts and generate statements
• Process cashbook for property Trust accounts
• Maintain and update property rental agreements/trust
• Renewal of all trust property building insurances with Nedbank
• Any adhoc queries as and when needed
• Banking – Processing of three cash books on a daily/weekly basis
• Month end bank recons
• Daily/monthly recons for creditors/debtor payments and intercompany transfers
• Posting cash book transactions (debtors and creditors, expenses, etc) to correct GL accounts
• Petty cash processing/weekly reconciliation
• Cash Register - Daily POS cash up and reconciling of daily cash sales
• Processing daily cash register closing on till
• Processing of VOID's on cash till
• Capture daily POS sales for coffee shops
• Reconcile weekly POS Cash-ups
• Capturing/reconciling of all cash on hand payments
• Record keeping of all cash payments to company
• Loan Accounts – processing intercompany accounts and reconcile loan accounts
• Processing of payments on loan accounts
• Assets Control – Maintain asset register
• Imports/Local Consignment Insurance – Processing of monthly reconciliation for imports insurance and submission to insurance company for invoicing/payment
• Wages/salaries – weekly processing of wages/monthly salaries
• Preparation of month end EMP201
• Month end payroll journal
• Reconciling payroll general ledger
• Payroll admin – prepare UIF, compensation forms as and when needed
• Reconcile diesel/petrol accounts
• Prepare monthly management reporting for companies
• Processing of all month end journals as and when needed