Katiso Seloane

I am a Tax and Reporting Accountant at WSP Africa Group and eligible to register with SAICA as a CA(SA). I bring over six years of experience spanning External Audit, Financial Reporting, Taxation, and Financial Analysis. My background covers a diverse portfolio of engagements across both the private and public sectors, including industries such as Energy (Eskom Rotek), Logistics & Automotive, Transport (PRASA), Industrial, Cooperative Governance, Local Government, and Municipalities.

I have strong technical expertise in IFRS and GRAP, and I am proficient in several financial systems including CaseWare, SAP, PeopleSoft, Horizon Hyperion, Oracle, and TeamMate.

Tax and Reporting Accountant - WSP Group Africa (Pty) Ltd - MIDRAND

(2025-11)

• Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly, and annual group reporting packs to the Canadian parent, ensuring accuracy, IFRS compliance, and timely delivery.
• Manage intercompany transactions across African and non-African entities, including invoicing, reconciliations, FX revaluations, and settlement of balances.
• Oversee cross-border foreign transactions, ensuring compliant treatment of VAT/GST, withholding tax, DTAs, exchange control, and documentation.
• Prepare monthly VAT calculations and reconciliations (South Africa), file VAT201s, resolve queries with SARS, and maintain audit-ready support.
• Compute and submit Provisional Tax (1st & 2nd), final corporate tax adjustments, and annual tax packs; reconcile tax balances and support audits.
• Manage withholding tax calculations, filings, certificate tracking, and accounting across multiple jurisdictions.
• Maintain Transfer Pricing documentation, including TP Local File, support CbC reporting data, and process year-end TP adjustments.
• Support statutory reporting and external audits through preparation of schedules, reconciliations, and technical notes.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses, and ensure data integrity within ERP and reporting systems.
• Collaborate with Group (Canada), African finance teams, and external advisors to resolve tax, reporting, and compliance matters.

Audit Senior - AUDITOR GENERAL OF SOUTH AFRICA - Pretoria, South Africa

(2023-07 - 2025-10)

• Performing audits, budgets, and analysing variances by investigating the reasons for variances and presenting them to the Audit Manager.
• Performing monthly reports for client invoices and presenting to the audit manager all the internal payable accounts, and billed invoices (receivables).
• Preparing reports for audit clients, presenting findings, and making recommendations from the audit engagements.
• Performing monthly debtors (audit clients) and internal creditors (IT, data analytics, and tax) reconciliations to keep track of unrecorded billings, payments, and errors in the receivables and creditors balances to ensure that the balance is up to date and to resolve the issues identified in a timely manner.
• Managing the budget for the audit expenditure. Ensuring that travel claims, subsistence allowances, and time spent on the engagement are in accordance with the plan.
• Reviewing audit work performed by the junior audit team members for logic and accuracy, and providing guidance to resolve audit issues.
• Prepared thorough accounts and associated reports, identifying issues and improvement areas for continued growth.
• Preparing and presenting the audit plan memorandum to the client, audit committee, and board of directors.
• Providing status updates and audit matters to the client, CFO, and management.
• Worked closely with audit teams to meet tight deadlines, ensuring timely completion of audit assignments.
• Assisted in the training and mentoring of junior audit staff, contributing to their professional development and team performance.
• Performed rigorous risk assessments using clear and compelling reporting framework.
• Led audit teams through planning, execution, and completion phases, fostering collaboration and ensuring timely delivery of audit reports.
• Reviewing tender documents for supply chain management.
• Monitoring the efficiency of the audit team in preparing the audit work and ensuring that the support teams within the entity provide deliverables on time.
• Played a key role in annual audit planning activities, identifying key risk areas and allocating resources efficiently.
• Performing property, plant, and equipment impairment tests from an internal control review perspective to ensure that the fixed asset register is maintained accurately and correctly.
• Performing physical asset verifications to confirm the existence and conditional assessment of the assets.
• Performing inventory counts.
• Testing of leases.
• Reviewing the intercompany matrix and reperforming the journal entries that eliminate intercompany transactions at the consolidation level.

Trainee Auditor - AUDITOR GENERAL OF SOUTH AFRICA - Pretoria, South Africa

(2021-06 - 2023-07)

• Performing property, plant, and equipment impairment tests from an internal control review perspective to ensure that the fixed asset register is maintained accurately and correctly.
• Performing physical asset verifications to confirm the existence and conditional assessment of the assets.
• Performing inventory counts.
• Testing of leases.
• Reviewing the intercompany matrix and reperforming the journal entries that eliminate intercompany transactions at the consolidation level.

Trainee Accountant - SIZWE NTSALUBA GOBODO GRANT THORNTON - Woodmead Johannesburg, South Africa

(2020-02 - 2021-05)

• Performing walkthroughs in different accounting systems (CaseWare, SAP, Accpac, HFM Oracle, Workday, etc.) as part of the test of control procedures.
• Reviewing and performing analysis on management accounts to understand the behaviour of cash flow movements, and the performance of the client to understand the client's balance sheet status.
• Performing the journal testing from the business process point of view, ensuring that internal controls assigned to journal entries are adhered to, and confirming that all the journal entries passed to the accounting system have proper support, and testing the rationale of the journal.
• Re-performing the payroll tax, VAT, and income tax calculations, and reviewing compliance with the relevant tax act.
• Performing annual financial statement tie-ups and ticking to ensure that all the amounts in the financial statements are recorded correctly, and disclosure notes are prepared correctly as per the requirements of the financial reporting standards.
• Performing financial ratio analysis to understand debt management, liquidity, solvency, and profitability.
• Testing of compliance with laws and regulations (contract management, competitive bidding, and quotations).
• Performing testing of predetermined objections.
• Preparing and drafting reports such as the management report, the audit report, and others.
• Stakeholder engagements.

Post Graduate Diploma - Accounting - UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA (2020-01 - 2020-01)

Bachelor of Accounting Sciences - Accounting Sciences - WALTER SISULU UNIVERSITY (2018-01 - 2018-01)