Candidate Summary:

A dedicated and diligent professional with experience in accounting and auditing. The candidate is committed to continuous growth and development, and is confident in multi-tasking and prioritisation. They have advanced Excel knowledge, alongside Agresso, SAP, Oracle and Open Accounts. . They are also CIMA qualified, with a Bachelor of Commerce, Honours (Accounting), a Diploma in Accounting Sciences, and a Bachelor of Commerce.

Employment: Senior Management Accountant

2018 - Present

Worked within a wider Finance Team of 5, reporting to a Finance Manager. They partnered with internal and external stakeholders to ensure projects, queries, and month end were managed from start to completion. They were responsible for month-end preparation and reporting to strict deadlines. They also had revenue duties, IFRS16 preparation of journals, and monthly and quarterly reporting to shareholders. 

Achievements included:

Finance lead on 10-person project to design and implement internal controls for the IFRS16 information that was obtained from 3rd party and included in accounts monthly.

Responsible for improving month end deadline from over 5 days to less than 3 days

Solely responsible for the design, development, testing, integration, and ongoing management of the new revenue invoicing process, which moved the revenue processing in house therefore ensuring that invoices were raised within the SLA deadlines for customers

Management Accountant

2015 - 2018

Worked within a Team of 3 reporting to the Financial Controller. Responsible for month-end report, fixed asset management, business partnering across finance and operational teams, and business partnering with external auditors for annual statutory audit. 

Achievements included:

Pivotal member of the finance team for the Data migration from Sage 50 to Open Accounts, this involved multiple meetings with key stakeholders in the finance team, Warehouse Mangers and data users and the Head of IT

Finance lead to improve the fixed asset register of the intellectual property rights held

Financial Accountant

2014 - 2015

Responsible for month-end reporting, liaising with international finance teams and transactional shared service centre for various legal entities, fixed asset management, and responsibility for statutory audit, tax and regulatory compliance for various legal entities. They also supported annual and periodic budgeting and reforecasting process, and provided ad-hoc financial analysis and support.

Audit Supervisor

2013

Planned engagements, supervised, and reviewed junior staff audit work, performed fieldwork, and project management. They also had oversight of SAICA training contracts and review of trainee performance, and were responsible for drafting and review of executive reports and financial statements.

Audit Supervisor (Training contract)

2010 - 2013

Education:

CIMA Qualified 2019 - CIMA Strategic Level ACMA, CGMA

Bachelor of Commerce, Honours (Accounting)

Diploma in Accounting Sciences

Bachelor of Commerce

Skills:

Confident in multi-tasking and prioritisation

Excel Knowledge: Advanced - Pivot tables, VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH, IF, SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, nested formulas, financial modelling, and large data volumes in excess of 100K lines.

Prior knowledge of Agresso, SAP, Oracle, Open Accounts

High level of computer literacy: good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Edge, Word