Accountant – contract position - Computers For Africa
(2025-11)
Head of Department - Financial Controller / Bookkeeper – 3 companies - Filtaquip (Pty) Ltd
(2025-03 - 2025-11)
- Owner started phoning me over weekends and asking me to meet him for a date
Head of department - Bookkeeper – Retail and trusts for 23 companies, Salaries - Rainbow Builders (Pty) Ltd
(2024-12 - 2025-03)
- Retail hours, Saturdays, public holidays
Head of Department - Full function books to balance Sheet and Management accounts, CIPC, AFS, Forex - Astra Industrial Fasteners (Pty) Ltd
(2020-05 - 2024-11)
- Debtors collections and handovers
- Supplier recons and payments local and foreign
- Fixed assets
- Monthly management accounts
- Balance sheet balancing and journals
- CIPC
- BEE
- Annual AFS for companies
- Annual stocktake
- Insurance
- Audit packs for year end
- SARS E filing for Paye and Vat
- Payroll on VIP
- Owner/manager asked me to send bank batch (not proof of payment) and say it was proof of payment for vat of over R500 000.00 for an unrelated party. This was not a legal request and I said no.
Head of department - Full function books to balance Sheet - Marelli Motori South Africa
(2018-07 - 2020-03)
- Debtors opening accounts, CGIC, collections and handovers
- Supplier recons and payments local and foreign
- Fixed assets
- Monthly management accounts
- Inventory and stocktakes
- Audit packs for year end
- 1 set of books
- Balance sheet balancing and journals
- SARS E filing Paye and Vat
- Business Units reporting monthly to Head Office in Italy
- Quarterly and annual budgets
- Payroll
- Reporting to Head Office in Italy for Finance
- Reporting to MD in Gauteng for day to day
- MD talking of retrenchments so Debbie resigned and then covid hard lockdown for a month, when company opened again after lockdown they did retrenchments
Full function books to balance Sheet - Tradecore Steel
(2017-01 - 2017-12)
1 year maternity contract
- Debtors opening accounts, CIS, collections and handovers
- Supplier recons and payments local and foreign checking
- Fixed assets
- Monthly management accounts
- Inventory and stocktake
- Audit packs for year end
- Balance sheet balancing and journals
- Paye and Vat
- Payroll for Head Office
- Reporting to Head office for Financials
- Contract position whilst Finance lady on maternity leave
Credit and HR Manager - Ampa Group
(2016-01 - 2016-12)
1 year
- Credit Manager supervise 2 senior credit controllers
- HR Manager for 350 staff, 3 branches
- Screening of all new staff
- Disciplinary hearings and outcome And Union Talks
- CCMA busy with section 189A retrenchments and Business rescue
- Dealt with liquidators helping collect outstanding money
- Company liquidated by Investec
Head of Department - Financial Controller - Pecsser (Pty) Ltd
(2012-05 - 2015-11)
3.5 years
- Financial Controller supervise 2 senior accountants
- Run accounts department – supervise 2 credit controllers and 1 creditors clerk
- HR and payroll 40 staff members, 3 branches, 2 satelites
- Checking paperwork for local agents
- Petty cash
- SARS paye and vat
- Workmens compensation
- Staff contracts
- Recruitment and training
- Staff disciplinary hearings
- Monthly management accounts
- Travel arrangements for 3 branches
- Insurance
- Policies and procedures
- Stocktake and branch control
- Coastal offices had already moved, talk of JHB offices being moved to Midrand and I did not have a reliable car at that point in time I have bought a new car now so I can now travel
Admin Manager - Pure and Cool Cooling Systems
(2010-12 - 2012-04)
1.5 years
- All the admin for a small company, Invoicing, Drs, Crs, Cashbook, Payroll, Journals, Year end pack for auditors
- Company liquidated
Head of department - Group Financial Manager – 4 branches - Stewarts & Lloyds – Boksburg
(2008-10 - 2010-08)
Almost 2 years
- Managed 2 Debtors Clerks
- Managed 500 debtors to the value of R 15 million per month
- Oversee letters of demand and handing over customers
- Opened new accounts and processed paperwork and references
- Oversee monthly reports to Coface Insurers
- Authorised credit notes
- Analysed debtors aged analysis
- Managed 2 Creditors Clerks
- Checked reconciliations and paperwork before payment of 150 local Suppliers R 15 million
- Analysed expense allocations and cash flow
- Oversaw that GRN trial balance only had current deliveries outstanding
- Hands on of 2 Cashbooks – current
- Downloaded Nedbank statements, captured and reconciled daily
- Loaded and authorised EFT's
- Captured stock quantity whenever stock take was done
- Assisted with investigating variances on cycle count variances
- Hands on of aspects of cash float to the value of R 5 000.00
- Entered and posted journals and balance sub modules
- Updated fixed asset spreadsheet for auditors
- Processed month end procedure and balancing
- Ran financial reports for analysis
- Hands on of all returns on efiling
- Prepared paperwork, loaded and authorised EFT for Workman's Compensation
- Recruitment, training and development of new Admin staff
- Took disciplinary measures for existing Admin staff
- Ongoing training of existing Admin staff
- Evaluated staff performance and completed job appraisals
- Completed employment equity forms
- Ensured paperwork for leave, loans and advances were up to date
- Held departmental meetings when required and sent information via email
- Prepared monthly Excel spreadsheets for Branch Director to send to Head Office
- Analysed expenses and income for the month
- Prepared Income statements, trial balance and balance sheets
- Processed monthly internal audit on paperwork for year end
- Prepared Excel spreadsheets for expenses and balance sheet accounts
- Prepared final trial balances, balance sheets and bank reconciliations
- Processed year end on general ledger to clear income statement accounts to retained earnings
- Monthly Excel spreadsheet for owner to send to Head Office
- All aspects relating to accounts system administration
- Managed Cashier, Ensure cash up were completed and balanced daily
- Managed Receptionist
- Managed Filing Clerk
- Managed Tea Lady / Cleaner
- These branches were not doing well, so all Boksburg finance staff moved to other branches, I resigned as I wanted to work on the East Rand
Head of department / Bookkeeper / Supervisor / System Administrator / HR for 2 Companies - Aztec Electronics (Pty) Ltd
(1998-06 - 2008-10)
10.5 years
- Supervisor
- Hands on function for complete debtors' system to the value of R 10 million per month
- Processed letters of demand and handing over customers
- Opened new accounts and references
- Bank clearances
- Prepared forms for bank for ceded debtors monthly
- Authorised credit notes
- Analyzed debtors aged analysis and ensured debtors book was clean
- Checked reconciliations and paperwork before payment of 120 local suppliers to the value of R 4 million
- Authorised EFT payments monthly
- Analyzed expense allocations and cash flow
- Oversaw that GRN trial balance only had current deliveries outstanding
- Hands on of 10 cashbooks i.e., current, call, 32-day call, Forex
- Downloaded Nedbank statements daily, capture and reconcile
- Prepared sundry creditors, C.O.D. paperwork for payment
- Loaded and authorised EFT daily
- Captured stock quantity whenever stock take was completed
- Assisted with investigating variances
- Petty Cash
- Hands on all aspects of petty cash to the value of R 2 000.00
- All aspects relating to fixed assets, vehicles and Nedfleet
- Entered and posted journals
- Processed paperwork audit of sub modules
- Updated fixed asset spreadsheet for Auditors
- Processed month end procedures and balanced modules
- Ran financial reports for analysis
- Hands on of all returns on efiling
- Prepared paperwork, loaded and authorised EFT for Workman's Compensations
- Applied for letter of good standing
- Recruitment, training and development of new Admin staff
- Ongoing training of existing Admin staff
- Filled in employment equity forms
- Ensured paperwork for leave, loans and advances were up to date
- Held departmental meetings when required and sent information via email
- Input hours on VIP from 45 clock cards weekly
- Captured leave and loan forms for wages' staff
- Updated salary staff leave on Excel spreadsheet monthly
- Processed EFT to Multidata for salary staff monthly and authorise
- Ran IRPs reports annually and balanced to VIP for wages staff
- Processed journals in General Ledger
- Investigate and correct outstanding balances
- Processed month end and balance to General Ledger
- Analysed and closed off jobs that were finished but not closed
- Prepared monthly Excel spreadsheets for Owner
- Analysed expenses and income for the month
- Prepare income statements, trial balance and balance sheet
- Processed monthly internal audit of paperwork for year end
- Prepared Excel spreadsheets for expenses and balance sheet accounts
- Prepared final trial balance, balance sheet and bank reconciliation
- Processed year end on General Ledger to clear income statement accounts to retained earnings
- Full function backups to problems
- Managed Receptionist
- Managed Filing Clerk
- Managed Tea Lady / Cleaner
- Needed a challenge as I had finished studying
Head of Department - Financial & Personnel Manager - Kenochem (Pty) Ltd
(1996-01 - 1998-05)
2.5 years
- Full debtors' book to the value of R 3 million (150 debtors), Oversee 1 Debtors Clerk
- Oversee 2 Creditors Clerks, Full creditors book to the value of R 4 million
- Analysed expense allocations and cash flow, Authorised EFT's
- Oversaw GRN trial balance on current deliveries outstanding
- Full function of cashbook
- Managed petty cash to the value of R 1 000.00
- Hands on of assets and vehicles
- Full function monthly to year end
- Processed returns on efiling
- Full function for Company
- Processed weekly wages and monthly salaries
- Investigated and correct outstanding balances and Job Costing
- Prepared paperwork for Owner
- Prepared audit pack annually
- Full function backups to problems
- Company liquidated
Bookkeeper to Balance Sheet / Supervisor Accounts Dept - ACB Clearing Bureau
(1991-01 - 1996-12)
Bookkeeper to Balance Sheet / Supervisor Accounts Dept - FPS Insurance Company
(1988-01 - 1990-12)
Bookkeeper to Trial Balance - UAL Merchant Bank
(1985-01 - 1987-12)
Cashier / Punch Operator / Debtors Clerk - MICFA
(1981-01 - 1984-12)
