Lerato Thamae

A highly motivated and ambitious graduate in BBA with more than 10 years of working experience in finance and always willing to gain more exposure. I am a highly focused self starter who is comfortable using initiatives yet equally effective working as a part of a wider team. I am highly disciplined and able to remain calm even under difficult situations and being able to maintain and regain my composure if upset.

Accounts Payable Clerk - PPC CEMENT SOUTH AFRICA

(2024-11 - 2025-09)

• Creditors Recons
• Payment Preparations
• Invocie Capturing
• Following up on creditors quires
• Clearing of GRIR
• Ad hoc

Cashbook Administrator - Komatsu Southern Africa

(2019-01 - 2024-07)

• Liase with treasury on availability of funds before making payment
• Creditors recociliation
• Raising accruals at month end
• Month end journals
• Overview of general ledger at month end on major accounts
• Working on GRIR report on monthly basis
• Clearing of all and payments of vendor payments
• Ensuring that payments are allocated to correct general ledger accounts
• Supporting costing department on budget allocaion
• Supporting Ariba custodian by assisting customers on how to use Ariba and provide training where necessary
• Ensuring that all non- purchases order customers migrate to ariba system
• Supporting procurement department and costing department on customer payment terms
• Adhock

Accounts Payable Creditors Clerk - Komatsu Southern Africa

(2018-07 - 2019-01)

• Invoice capturing
• Follow up on all outstanding quiries
• Creditors recon
• Creditors payment proposal
• Sending remittances to suppliers
• Raising creditors accruals at month end
• Analysing of creditors payment movement at month end and giving feedback to Finance Manager

Accounts Payable consultant - Volvo Group Southern Africa

(2017-07 - 2017-10)

• Clearing of age analysis
• Liaising with customers about migration of accounts to India
• Weekly report to senior management in both South Africa and India
• Supporting creditors clerks with payments and payment proposals
• Updating of creditors profile on SAP

Contract - Botswana Investment and Trade Center

(2016-08 - 2016-12)

• Bank Recons
• South Africa budget review on weekly basis
• Loading of creditors payments to the bank and running EFT
• Loading of South African salaries

Consultant - TUMS Utilities

(2016-04 - 2016-07)

• Bank Recons vs Sales Report
• Loading of bank statement
• Working on suspense account
• Amounts mismatch
• Duplicated payment
• Unidentified payment
• Daily journals

Senior Inventory Controller Bookkeeper - NHLS

(2009-01 - 2012-06)

(Contract)

• Process corrective and recurring journals as required by NHLS financial procedures
• Prepares monthly general ledger reconc to ensure accuray of finance
• Assets reconciliation: fixed assists register to general ledger
• Inventory recons: subledger to general ledger
• Calculating of inventory days on monthly basis
• Monitoring of general ledger transactions and query any unusual movement to the GL
• Interrogate budget and income statement
• Liaising with data management on stock related issues where queries arise to ensure accuracy
• Extract reports relating to stock take and ensure accurate reporting to management
• Liaise with assets stores on adjustment figures after stock stake
• Reconcile related reports: expected reports, Open purchases
• Follow up on expired stock to ensure accurate reporting
• Follow up on stratus of open orders, standard orders, planned purchased orders in preparation of accurate reporting.
• Identification of (IT CAPEX) from inventory accounts
• Tranferring of IT CAPEX to relevant general ledger account Inventory score cards
• Develop standard operation process
• Updating of Inventory Policy
• Assist financial accountant with ad-hoc to faciliate month-end and year end processes and procedures
• Opening new assets stores and expense sored as required by NHLS business needs
• Preparation of audit at year end and quaterly audit

General Ledger Reconciliation - NHLS (National Health Laboratory Services)

(2008-09 - 2008-12)

(Contract)

• General Ledger reconciliation
• Clearing of miscellaneous sales account
• Proposing new accounts to beopened for re-allocation of transactions sitting on miscellaneous account

Accounts Administrator - SAB (South African Brewery) Sandton

(2007-06 - 2007-11)

(Contract)

• Banking of cash and cheques, clearing of banking to various cost centers, general ledger and debtors accounts Clearing of exports accounts
• Ensuring that all accounts have been paid as per age analysis report
• Clearing of dinners & Standard bank cards
• Sending statements and invoices on weekly basis

Business Administrator - Siemens Real Estate Management

(2005-07 - 2006-06)

(Temp)

• Capturing on invoices
• Registrations of invoices on an excel spreadsheet
• Creating of good received numbers for different vendors
• Creditors payment
• Follow up on creditors payments
• Filling for ease of reference
• Creditors reconciliation

Post Graduate Diploma - Management - University of Natal Pietermaritzburg (2003 - 2003)

Bachelor in Business Administration - BBA - New Port University (1997 - 2000)

Certificate - Business Studies - Commercial Training Institute (1995 - 1997)

High School Diploma - Mabahoana High School (1989 - 1994) Lesotho