Head of Finance at Machinery Contractors (2025-03 – Present)
Head of Finance at Machinery Contractors. All of the below role with additional duties required by the board.
- Stakeholder Communication & Reporting - Communicate financial insights clearly to executives and board members. Build relationships with investors, suppliers, and regulatory bodies.
Production and business analyst & Junior Financial Management at Machinery Contractors (2013-03 – 2025-03)
Production Analyst at Machinery Contractors
- Financial statements: Prepare monthly management accounts and report the statements to the board. SOFP, SOCI, variances from prior months.
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Create and manage factory budgets with accurate forecasting models. Adapt financial plans to demand fluctuations and market conditions. With Actual compared to budget monthly.
- Cash Flow & Capital Management: Maintain strong cash flow for factory operations. Manage debt, financing, and capital investments efficiently.
- Cost Management & Optimization: Implement cost-control measures to improve margins. Analyze production costs, overheads, and raw material expenditures.
- Operational & Supply Chain Finance: Understand manufacturing processes and supply chain logistics. Manage working capital, inventory, and procurement costs effectively.
- Risk Management & Compliance: Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards. Develop risk mitigation strategies for financial and operational risks.
- Asset management: Maintain Asset register and all acquisitions or repairs. Insurance and claims.
- Bank and Forex and Customs: Handel import and export clearances, forex payment and receipts and bank recons.
- Prepares work to be accomplished by gathering and sorting documents and related information.
- Pays invoices by verifying transaction information, scheduling, preparing disbursements, and obtaining authorization of payment.
- Obtains revenue by verifying transaction information, computing charges, and refunds, and preparing and mailing invoices.
- Maintains accounting ledgers by posting account transactions.
- Verifies accounts by reconciling statements and transactions.
- Maintains financial security by following internal accounting controls.
- Secures financial information by completing database backups.
- Maintains financial historical records by filing accounting documents.
- Collects revenue by reminding delinquent accounts and notifying customers of insufficient payments.
- Work together with HR department to ensure all is compliant, accurate and payslips are on time.
- Capture in Sage Professional for payroll run. EMP201, EMP 501 submissions.
- Preparations for annual audit for AFS with auditors and the execution of the audit with post meeting with board members.
- SLA and NDA, work with procurement to ensure cost saving is done, supplier selection and benchmarking.
- On site IT problem solving and installations. Software and hardware installations that are needed.
- VAT, PAYE / UIF, annual tax returns via auditors and all SARS reconciliations and payments.
- Compile the BEE gathering sheet for audit and verification. Supplier BEE vetting.
Assistant Accountant at Machinery Contractors (2011-02 – 2013-03)
Student position in the financial accounting (Accounting) sector. Assistant accountant at Machinery Contractors
- Job cards, orders, creditors and debtors, bookkeeping tasks and stocktaking on pastel and Access (PMS)
- Reason for Leaving: Offered full time contract
