Rowena Basdev

A qualified Chartered Accountant seeking an opportunity to grow her career. Having the opportunity to have completed her SAICA articles in one of the Big 4 audit firms, she has gained three years of experience in a continuously changing environment due to working at multiple client sites comprising of various industries. As such, and together with their current economic climate, change has helped her understand the need for continuous improvement at all levels to ensure sustainable performance in respect of people, processes, customer delivery, finance, IT, business processes, risk, and compliance.

Understanding these changes has allowed her to enhance her technical, digital and project management skills enabling her to perform and complete tasks at a high-quality standard whilst using innovative new methods. A well-rounded individual, a composite team player but equally comfortable and competent working on her own. With a profound love for the accounting profession, a constant desire to push herself to the next level and the ability to add value to your organisation, she believes she is the individual you seek.

Finance manager/Audit Manager (Accounting, Auditing, Taxation) - Kululu Ginger and Garlic cc

(2026-04)

• Drafting of financial accounts
• Drafting of Management Accounts
• Filing of statutory returns
• VAT & PAYE Calculation
• Review of financials and management accounts
• All audit work required for internal purposes
• Carrying out of any and other accounting work required
• All ad hoc exercises

Chartered Accountant (1 Month Contract) - Quadrant Clothing Co.

(2026-06 - 2026-06)

• Support the Finance Manager by assisting with inventory and production accounting, treasury functions, digitising trim store records, and the development and implementation of a production accounting system
• Manage the Creditors processing function
• Prepare monthly VAT calculations
• Maintain and update the fixed asset register
• Process payroll journals
• Calculate commissions and process journal entries
• Perform GL reconciliations (excluding inventory and production-related accounts)
• Complete intercompany reconciliations
• Assist with: year-end audit preparation and supervision of document extraction, participation in system selection, development, and implementation projects, and improving reporting timelines and assisting with management accounts preparation.

Finance Operations Manager/Senior Finance Accountant (1 Month contract) - Happy Pay

(2026-02 - 2026-03)

• Reconciliations of merchant lists to the Top and Disbursements listings
• Obtain the stitch data and Xero information about top ups.
• Obtain the Meta merchant listing from Meta base and reconcile it with stitch reports
• Obtain payroll reports for audit and all the required listings for audit.
• Calculate Materiality
• Prepare the Risk Assessment Analysis 2025 FY for submission

Assistant Financial Manager / Audit specialist- (Accounting, Auditing, Taxation) - Kululu Ginger and Garlic

(2025-07 - 2026-02)

Reason For Leaving: It’s a family business and I am looking to build on my growth, skills and experience

• Drafting of financial accounts
• Drafting of Management Accounts
• Filing of statutory returns
• VAT & PAYE Calculation
• Review of financials and management accounts
• All audit work required for internal purposes
• Carrying out of any and other accounting work required
• All ad hoc exercises

Consultant (2-week contract) - Bidvest Insurance Limited

(2025-06 - 2025-06)

Reason For Leaving: It was a 2-week contract, a friend was the Financial Manager there, I just did him a favour. So resumed position at Kululu Ginger and garlic.

• Review of the contracts
• Calculation of the fee paid
• Agreeing to the financial statements
• Analytics of Auto F&I Products and consulting

Assistant Financial Manager / Audit specialist - (Accounting, Auditing, Taxation) - Kululu Ginger and Garlic

(2024-06 - 2025-06)

Reason For Leaving: It’s a family business and I am looking to build on my skills and experience

• Drafting of financial accounts
• Drafting of Management Accounts
• Filing of statutory returns
• VAT & PAYE Calculation
• Review of financials and management accounts
• All audit work required for internal purposes
• Carrying out of any and other accounting work required
• All ad hoc exercises

Senior Associate - PwC Gqeberha - Gqeberha

(2023-11 - 2024-05)

Reason For Leaving: Contract ended

• Electrical Industry Kwa Zulu Natal Pension Fund
• Distell Retirement Fund Audit 2023
• Accelerated Provident Fund Audit 2023
• Clifcor Pension Fund 2023 Audit
• UCL Provident fund 2023
• Bank Medical Scheme Audit 2023
• Joint Municipal Pension Fund 2023 Audit
• Saffrican Insurance Company Limited 2023 Audit Includes the African Rainbow Life Limited 2023 Audit
• Accelerated Provident Fund Audit 2023 – HQ
• Northwood Entities 2023 - HQ
• Includes NW 90 LA Limited - Group Reporting and, and Five Acres REIT co Ltd
• SECQUAERO RE (GUERNSEY) ICC Ltd
• Secquaero Entities - Audit December 2023-HQ Includes:
• Secquaero Re Silo IC Limited, Secquaero Re Amaral IC Limited, Secquaero Re Arvine IC Limited, Secquaero Re Cloudy Bay IC Limited, Secquaero Re Melnik IC Limited, Secquaero Re Rivaner IC Limited, Secquaero Re Regent IC Limited, Secquaero Re Solaris IC Limited, Secquaero Re Vinyard IC Limited, Secquaero Re Corvina IC Limited
• Tsogo Sun Group Medical Scheme Audit 2023 – HQ
• Empowerment Capital Investment Partners (Pty) Ltd - Audit 2024
• Brolink (Pty) Ltd
• Bryte Insurance Company Limited SASRIA March 2024
• Bryte Africa Group Limited 2023 Audit
• Gained international experience due to the various number of clients worked on.

Project Manager - Kululu Ginger and Garlic cc

(2022-04 - 2023-11)

Reason For Leaving: Contract ended

• Creditors management
• Conduct rotational reviews of creditor account reconciliations
• Review processes across to drive timing and accuracy of payments
• Follow through to ensure that quality and productivity standards of work are consistently and accurately maintained
• Perform rotational reviews of vendor balances across all Accounts Payables to ensure key controls are adhered to and challenges in Vendor accounts are resolved
• Gained experience in credit

Senior Associate – Gqeberha - PWC SA - Gqeberha

(2022-01 - 2022-02)

Remote Secondment Model- currently performing work for Channel Islands, Australia, Switzerland, and Cayman & Bermuda Islands Key client: Commonwealth Bank of Australia — Australian multinational bank; Provider of business and institutional banking

Senior Associate – Durban - PWC SA - Durban

(2020-11 - 2021-12)

Reason For Leaving: Contract ended

• Lead engagement senior on all client engagements
• Project management including preparing team budgets, monitoring costs, resourcing staff, developing timelines, setting review, and coaching time
• Providing regular feedback to audit managers and partners regarding the status of the audit
• Responsible for supervision and review of work performed by junior team members and remote service centres, including problem resolution
• Providing on the job coaching to team members to upskill them and provide relevant client knowledge
• Responsible for performing all planning activities including obtaining an in-depth understanding of the client's environment, performing related risk and fraud assessments and financial statement analysis
• Obtaining a thorough understanding of the client's business processes and operations
• Managing client expectations and timelines
• Key client contact facilitating communication between the client and audit team
• Performance of technical assessments and liaison with senior technical staff on complex accounting, auditing, and valuation issues
• Performance of consolidations in line with IFRS 10 requirements for the prepare and presentation of consolidated financial statements
• Performance and evaluation of IFRS 16 adoption principles, initial measurements, and subsequent accounting
• Evaluation of IFRS 9 applications, initial measurement and subsequent measurement including impairment and recoverability assessments
• Going concern analysis and evaluation of solvency and liquidity on engagements
• Responsible for providing feedback upon data testing for the Actuarial team
• Responsible for providing feedback upon the preparation of Financial Statements and the accounting policies therein
• Responsible for completion and wrap up of the audit including preparation of final audit deliverables and performance feedback.
• Responsible for guiding the junior auditors on the team and guiding them to meet their competencies

Associate – Durban - PWC SA - Durban

(2019-01 - 2020-10)

Reason For Leaving: Contract ended

• Responsible for performing fieldwork in the execute stage of the audit
• Assisting her seniors on more complex sections and completion of the audit.

Postgraduate Diploma - Accounting - University of KwaZulu-Natal (2018 - 2018)

Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting), cum laude - Accounting - University of KwaZulu-Natal (2015 - 2017)

Matric - Dr A D Lazarus Secondary School (2014 - 2014)