Experience

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  African Chemicals SA

  • South Africa

  • Finance Manager

    • Dec 2023 - Present
    • South Africa

    Catalyst: Providing the right information at the right time to support business strategy execution. (15%)Developing tactical financial strategies that seek to minimize financial risk while maximizing profitability.•Oversee operations of the finance department, set goals and objectives, and design a framework for these to be met.•Supporting executive management with all capital raising activities to finance both capital and stay-in-business projects.•Sourcing and maintain sufficient working capital as well as allocate it in a manner that drives the greatest value for the organizationDeveloping and document business processes and accounting policies that shall maintain and strengthen internal controls.•Managing external relationship with financial services providers and support appointment accounting and auditing firms.•Maintaining the financial health of the organization.•Managing all accounting operations including billing, A/R, A/P, cost accounting, inventory accounting and revenue recognition.•Collecting, interpreting, and reviewing financial information and ultimately providing financial reports and interpret financial information to managerial staff while recommending further courses of action.•Dealing with working capital management and production of cash flow forecasts.•Analyze costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results and the company’s actual performance compared to the business plans.•Developing trends and projections for the firm’s finances.•Liaising with auditors to ensure appropriate monitoring of company finances is maintained.•Coordinating and directing the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts and report variances.•Ensuring quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting.•Managing and comply with government reporting requirements and tax filings.

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  Ford Motor Company

  • South Africa

  • Finance Manager

    • Jul 2018 - Nov 2023
    • South Africa

    • Group Consolidation Financial Statements • Preparation of annual financial statements• Review of balance sheet accounts• Preparation and alayses of monthly management accounts• BBB-EE Audit management,Full Automotive investment Scheme Management• Managing of auditors’ requirements and queries during interim and year-end• Asset Management.• IFRS Reporting • Inventory control• Exchange hedging Management• Monthly management packs • Facilitating foreign financial processes• Full Treasury Management and reporting• Liquidity, Solvancy and interest Risk Management.• Monthly and weekly Treasury reporting• Budget development• Budget variance analyses• Maintain financial controls• Develop and implement systems controls• Ensuring the integrity of financial information• Payroll journals review• Payroll VIP report review• Quarterly and Monthly Cash flow forcasts Reporting• Staff supervision• Staff recruitment• Stakeholders management • Diagnostic and predictive business analytics for Exco• monitor execution of long-term strategies for Exco• key performance indicators and trends for Exco• Using also hypothesis to harness the the area/item of analytics for Exco

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  REDPATH MINING

  • Pretoria Area, South Africa

  • Financial Controller

    • Mar 2015 - Jun 2018
    • Pretoria Area, South Africa

    • Financial Statements• Quaterly IFRS Reporting for Canada• Fixed Assets Management. • Inter-company Management and reporting • Prepare and Post Monthly Journals• Review reconciliation of VAT and fixed asset recons• Monthly management Account • Overheads reports• Revenue Forecast• Cash outflow forcasts• Budget variance analyses• Weekly cash flow report• Releasing EFT payments• Reconcile Balance Sheet accounts• budgets and forecast• Preparation of the monthly Revenue Reports• Payroll VIP 01 Report• Revaluations (AP, AR, BANKS)• Maintain fixed asset and tax book registers for all fixed assets• Departmental Opex Overheads Variances and forcast and budget adjustments• Monitor compliance to financial procedures, costs, controls and productivities• Inter-Company Recons and Inter-company Management• Staff supervision

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  Woolworths

  • South Africa
  • Retail
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Accountant

    • Dec 2012 - May 2016

    Monitoring current systems and controls related to assets and capital expenditure to ensure compliance with procedures and to raise concerns regarding non-compliance.Provides monthly asset reports and evaluating capex, Ensuring correct capital or revenue allocation are made, Correct rates of wear and tear are applied to capitalized assets, Tax directives are obtained, Ensuring data integrity in the fixed assets register for book and tax values, Transfer, Inter company Assets and sales analyses, preparing budgets, GL recons and reports. Raising and posting Journals, Cash flow, Sars efiling submition and inter-company recons, vat recon, review asset recons, Running Management Packs, Assist with annual financial statements. Payroll salaries recons, Payroll Provisions and Accruals, Releasing EFT payments, Reconcile Balance Sheet accounts, Forex Forecasts, details for forward cover, SARB Reports and Forex Reports, ad-hoc Fin infor, creditors, and cash book teams line manager, Performing age analysis of capex accruals, Clearing out WIP acc, and Establishing SLA with stakeholders, Assist with annual financial statements, Prepare details for forward cover, provisional tax submission, PAYE recon,

  • Accounting Clerk

    • Oct 2011 - Nov 2012

    Suppliers monthly Analyses, suppliers adjustments,tax invoices verification, suppliers queries, trade and non-trade recons,Costings, Riem,suppliers portel, Suppliers payment terms, Coding,Local and international suppliers payments, clearing charges payments, payments of commission invoices ,

  • Finance Clerk

    • Jun 2011 - Sep 2011

    Auditing and Validating Claims for Payment. Disburse cash, recons of petty cash, Record vouchers in general ledger, debtors recon, ledger accounts, debtors queries Creating Trip References