Experience

Tsebo Facilities Solutions

• South Africa
• Facilities Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Financial Controller

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Key Duties o Ensuring all the bank receipts are processed daily, and correct transactions are being processed and posted to correct client’s account. o Managing and assisting bookkeepers with their day activities and up skilling them. o Monitoring daily, weekly, and monthly administration. o Managing debtors on a day, weekly and monthly ensuring that we collect what’s due to the company. o Weekly checking of the income statements from the bookkeepers to ensure we uncover issues sooner and able to drive the business in the right direction o Ensuring accurate reporting of income for the business unit o Processing the bank daily and reporting the funds received to assist with budgeting and forecasting. o Signing off with the operators and bookkeepers monthly to ensure that what is reported on the income statement is accurate and correctly reflects the activities of each unit. o Processing inter-company journals, to ensure income is reported in the correct regions. o Processing monthly income and expenses as well as prepaid expenses. o Assisting bookkeepers to better manage their clients’ portfolios, ensure correct and accurate billing as well as statements sent to our clients on time. Show less



Mondise Chartered Accountants

• South Africa

• Accounting Bookkeeper

  • Jun 2020 - Jul 2022

  Key Duties o Maintaining accurate financial information through, recording and allocation of transactions following IFRS for our clients. o Payroll using Sage system o Reconciliation of the bank statement debits and credits against source documents to ensure accurate and correct transactions are being processed. o Monitoring daily, weekly, and monthly administration. o Cross reference documentary evidence to our clients’ creditors paid to ensure no fictitious payments have been processed. o SARS submissions for our clients MP201. o Vat Advisory services and VAT registration for clients and as well doing monthly submissions to SARS to ensure compliance. o Providing monthly management accounts for our clients within the required timeframe. o Ensure that all transactions are recorded in the correct amount, period, classification, allocation and are valid in the financial records o Review balance sheet amounts to ensure the values are well supported and explained. o Review processes and procedures for our clients and make recommendations on the areas that need improvement. Achievements o I improved turnaround time to ensure that clients deliverables were met. o I improved the working relationship between the business and clients by implementing site visits where I can gain firsthand experience on what our clients’ needs are and understanding their business better to align our product offerings. o Increased the number of clients by bringing new business to the company. o I insured that a website for the business was created. Show less



Absa Group

• South Africa
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Manager

  • Jul 2018 - Nov 2019

  Dutieso Supporting and reviewing processes and initiatives to achieve business strategy and financial goalso Manage my team to deliver daily, weekly, and monthly expected targets.o Explore different opportunities to improve business processes by identifying and making recommendations on the effective ways to operate to ensure decrease in cost and increase in profitability as well to add value to the business.o Enhance the financial flows for our business unit, to ensure clarity and accurate financial reportingo Review the actual results against budgeted to identify variances. For all unfavorable results, suggest improvements.o Ensuring annual pricing review is done and that internal costing of products is accurate.o Budgeting and forecasting for all products per unit and the expected revenue.o Analysing data from trusted sources internally and externally to aid the creation of products that meets client’s needs.o Ensure compliance within the team by staying up to date with banking policies and procedures. Identify non-compliance and take necessary corrective measures.o Ensure daily, weekly, and monthly performance dashboard and reporting is done for all our products for the business unit.o Support achievement of the business strategy and ensure objectives are aligned to business values.o Share industry trends and research findings from the market share with the team and stakeholders during interactions.Achievements o Started reporting on the market share from the data received from SARB, which previously had not been reportedo Championing the relationship with management information team as there was a gap. Started a daily tracker on our product offeringo Provided product insights over the years to assist with planning better on campaigns using prior successes.o Being involved in the process of payments and checking the financial flows, I discovered that income was not reporting all under cost center and this resulted in the recovery of R 4 million. Show less

• Analyst Business Performance

  • Apr 2016 - Jul 2018

  Key Duties o Regularly monitoring business performance and generate performance reports for the management daily, weekly, and monthly.o Collect data from trusted internal and external sources to provide detailed analysis of the business and make recommendation where necessaryo Responsible for identification of business problems root cause and recommend actions to be taken.o Responsible for the development and implementation of performance metrics to provide efficient business operational.Achievementso Provided a clear pricing view between physical and virtual channels. Cut pricing to entice customers and saw growth on digital products take up.o Provided migration analysis on the customers. The results proved that customers were using both branch and digital platforms/channels.o Provided an alignment with financial performance and data mart as there were discrepancies and resulted in a clear view for direction. Show less

• Administrator Finance & Product Control

  • Apr 2015 - Apr 2016

  Key Duties o Prepare monthly reconciliations on the income account received per branch for payments processed.o Manage day to day transactions for income and expenses accounts daily.o Improve the financial controls within the department by finding effective ways to do work.o Draw up the monthly budgets based on the requirements of the department.o Process invoice payments for external stakeholders.o Participate and assistance in preparations for audits and act on audit recommendations.o Producing financial forecasts on our productso Maintain an accurate and updated asset register.Achievements o Implemented a control process to avoid misuse of accounts used in branches for non-Absa clients who wants to purchase products, and didn’t have an Absa account, we use an Absa internal account to facilitate transactions, after branches were required to ask for authorization first before using this account.o Improved daily and weekly financial reporting by sending a daily report to branch for misallocated cost or revenue, this process assisted in less time spend on month end report.o Improved daily and weekly financial reporting by sending a daily report to branch for misallocated cost or revenue, this process assisted in less time spend on month end report.o Incentive account was not reconciled for years, and it became a risk to the business unit. This account had lot of funds, I managed to reallocate and reconcile the funds.o Check daily and monthly, to minimize risks for the business unit. Show less

• Supervisor International banking

  • Mar 2014 - Apr 2015

  Key Dutieso Review and authorised/verify transfers outward paymentso Oversee the selling and buying of foreign banknoteso Providing compliance in capturing of Outwards paymentso Ensuring all policies and procedures are applied as per South African Reserve Bank and Absa.o Participate and assist in audit process.o Reconcile Nostro (settlement) accounts to ensure settlement was done to a third party. If there were any payment rejection, necessary correction will be doneo Resolve client queries and ensure all queries are resolved within acceptable time.o Identify areas of improvement and continuous motivate the team to meet targets and how to effectively process of payments on time with less errors and risk minimised.o Assist the management with Ad hoc task from time to time, as per when required.o Coordinating with different supervisors within our zone to share experiences and push each other to deliver high quality customer service and increase zone in performance.Achievements o Branches where working in isolation and not sharing information, I started daily tracking dashboard with the three branches that was linked to our hub which resulted in an increase in sales, because of the competition between these three branches.o Complaints were Increasing due to the waiting period for travel collection, which was caused by the security safe taking too long to open. To resolve this, I arranged with the branch manager for the bulk teller to keep certain amounts under his float daily to speed up the process. Show less

• Consultant International Banking

  • Apr 2011 - Mar 2014

  Key Duties o Capturing outwards payment o Branches where working in isolation and not sharing information, I started daily tracking dashboard with the three branches that was linked to our hub which resulted in an increase in sales, because of the competition between these three branches.o Complaints were Increasing due to the waiting period for travel collection, which was caused by the security safe taking too long to open. To resolve this, I arranged with the branch manager for the bulk teller to keep certain amounts under his float daily to speed up the process.o Process Exchange Control Application (ECA) to SARB for special payment to be made by our clients.o Selling and buying foreign banknotes.Achievements o Implemented weekly huddles looking at queries and how to best resolve them and share best practice, which led less complaints going to the supervisor.o I facilitated created a share file where we can save all documented process to avoid delays when colleagues were absent.o Implemented weekly product knowledge sharing session to assist each other as colleagues to be able to service customer end to end without call for a supervisor for assistance. Show less