Senior Accountant - Thai Summit South Africa
(2025-02)
- Cost Analysis & Reporting: Track and analyze material, labor, and overhead costs. Prepare variance analysis reports comparing standard costs to actual expenses.
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Collaborate with department heads to build budgets and generate monthly, quarterly, or annual cost forecasts.
- Inventory Control: Co-ordination of monthly Stock take, reconciliation of differences and reporting. Oversee all inventory accounting functions, including the valuation of raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods.
- Process Improvement: Identify inefficiencies in operations and supply chains to recommend cost-saving solutions.
- Finance Business Partnering: Liasing with Stakeholders to monitor, and report on plant KPIs (Production volume report, labour efficiency and scrap report).
- Capex: Maintain company Fixed Asset register, ensuring compliance with safekeeping procedures, and accurately recording asset acquisitions, disposals, transfers, and depreciation in financial records. Provide financial analysis and support for all capital expenditure requests and track spending on approved projects.
- General Ledger: Month end Closing
- Review of Balance Sheet reconciliations
- Petty cash management
- Calculation, processing, reconciliation and control of all accruals and provisions
- Control of internal processes (Compliance)
- Review of Creditors recons, and payment pack sign off. Ensure Accounts payable queries are resolved.
- Review of open orders and commitments with purchasing department to ensure timeous and completeness of expense & liability recording.
Factory Accountant - Bridgestone South Africa
(2022-02 - 2025-01)
- Purchase order approvals on SAP
- Weekly review & upload of payroll wages file onto SAP
- Processing of monthly GL & Payroll journals entries.
- Performance of General ledger reconciliations, identifying actions required and ensuring resolution.
- Calculation, processing, reconciliation and control of all accruals and provisions.
- Preparation of monthly budget control reports for various departments. Review of plant level expenses, with appropriate follow up and reporting.
- Control of accounting processes at the Consumable Stores, ensuring completeness of transaction processing.
- Interacting with Accounts Payable department as to the state of plant supplier accounts, assisting in the resolution of any potential problems and ensuring good standing of the accounts.
- Review of open orders and commitments with purchasing department to ensure timeous and completeness of expense & liability recording.
- Budgets & Forecast preparation and calculating & analysing of variances versus budget.
- Weekly cycle counts & monthly stock take.
- Running bi-annual inventory counting at the warehouses.
- Fixed assets management.
Factory Finance Accountant - AVI (National Brands Ltd)
(2016-02 - 2022-01)
- Preparation of budgets & forecasts monthly, quarterly and annually per cost centre.
- Maintain labour cost & utility tool & assistance in L&O process (standards, movements etc. per factory).
- Manage expenditure in relation to approved budgets and forecasts and report on variances, and recommend and implement corrective measures where necessary.
- Cost centre Management- Ensure all costs are recorded in the correct period, to the correct accounts per the CAVI rules.
- Weekly and monthly spend reports vs budget & forecasts.
- Prepare the management accounts for review by the finance manager.
- Review financial risks through regular audits.
- Balance sheet reconciliations.
- Month end journals
- CAPEX management (Acquisitions, transfers and disposals).
- Management of the Fixed Asset register.
- Manage the physical asset tagging post capitalisation and conduct regular asset spot checks on production lines.
- Production volume reporting
- Usage variance analysis and inventory reporting (weekly and monthly stock take).
- Weekly labour efficiency report.
- Monthly KG/Man hour report.
- Raising supplier invoices/Credit notes on SAP.
GL Bookkeeper - AVI (National Brands Ltd)
(2014-10 - 2016-01)
Reason for leaving: Needed exposure to factory environment
Accounts Payable Administrator - AVI (National Brands Ltd)
(2011-09 - 2014-09)
Reason for leaving: Promoted to Bookkeeper
Bank Seta Learnership - Nedbank Group Technology
(2010-02 - 2011-02)
Reason for leaving: Contract ended
