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Acting Manager: Financial Administration
Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South AfricaActing Manager: Financial Administration
Jun. 2024 - Aug. 2024Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa Cost containment for the division  Produce and deliver daily, weekly, monthly and ad hoc reports  Improved service delivery of the Financial Administration Team  Assisted with the SLA insourcing and with the queries that arose from the insourcing  Assisting with the preparation of the notes for the Annual Financial Statements  Preparing & reviewing of performance contracts with staff.  Human Resources management  Assisting in compiling the budgets.  Compiling, capturing & posting of journals.  Approving of journals and EFT’s  Balancing and/or verifying of General Ledger Accounts.  Helping Provisional Offices with GL Queries  Helping Auditors with GL Queries  Reconciling of other GL Accounts  Posting to cash books and General Ledger  Communicating with Branches to help solve problems  Management the financial information systems of the Bank to ensures data integrity and business continuity for the Bank.  Ensuring that internal financial controls (financial administration) are in place and are adhered to.  Assisting with the calculation and submission of the VAT for Land Bank  Assisting with the submission of the IT12E for Land Bank  Assisting Payroll with the reconciliations and ensuring that all statutory vendors are paid on time
Manager: Financial Administration
Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South AfricaManager: Financial Administration
Feb. 2010 - Mar. 2024Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa Cost containment for the division  Produce and deliver daily, weekly, monthly and ad hoc reports  Improved service delivery of the Financial Administration Team  Assisted with the SLA insourcing and with the queries that arose from the insourcing  Assisting with the preparation of the notes for the Annual Financial Statements  Preparing & reviewing of performance contracts with staff.  Human Resources management  Assisting in compiling the budgets.  Compiling, capturing & posting of journals.  Approving of journals and EFT’s  Balancing and/or verifying of General Ledger Accounts.  Helping Provisional Offices with GL Queries  Helping Auditors with GL Queries  Reconciling of other GL Accounts  Posting to cash books and General Ledger  Communicating with Branches to help solve problems  Management the financial information systems of the Bank to ensures data integrity and business continuity for the Bank.  Ensuring that internal financial controls (financial administration) are in place and are adhered to.  Assisting with the calculation and submission of the VAT for Land Bank  Assisting with the submission of the IT12E for Land Bank  Assisting Payroll with the reconciliations and ensuring that all statutory vendors are paid on time
Specialist: Financial Accountant
Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South AfricaSpecialist: Financial Accountant
Jan. 2008 - Jan. 2010Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa Preparation of detailed monthly and summary income statements  Preparation of monthly income statement roll-forward reconciliation  Preparation of monthly Maturity Profile Analysis report  Preparation of General Ledger interest reconciliation & graphs to discuss with Head of Treasury and CFO  Preparation of Balance sheet & Cash Flow Statements  Preparation of various PeopleSoft queries  Analysis of loan book data  Member of year end steering committee  Preparation of various General Ledger account reconciliations & “T” accounts  Control over adjusting entries posted  Assisting CFO with financial reports and liaising with external auditors  Provide advice and recommendations on all relating accounting issues  Provide excel spreadsheet templates and solutions  Arrange pre-implementation testing  Prepare training material and distribute to users  Attending to and completing all ad hoc tasks allocated by CFO & other Managers  Attend finance related meetings  Participation in assigned projects  Provide assistance to Budget team  Preparation of forecast income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statements for various time frames  Gathering of accruals information  Preparation of month end accrual summaries and posting of accrual journals  Assisting with the calculation and submission of the VAT for Land Bank
Specialist: Financial System Administrator
Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South AfricaSpecialist: Financial System Administrator
Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2007Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa Running month-end for Finance  General Ledger Maintenance  Accounts receivable/loans maintenance  Reporting  Supervisor to 3 Senior Regional Clerks and 12 Junior Clerks in the cash office  Ensure that sufficient staffs with the necessary skills and competencies are able to deliver a high standard of work.  Provide advice to clerks when problems arise and decide on what actions to take on all problems highlighted by clerks.  Assigns responsibilities to clerks & acts on any arising problems  Resolves problems, if possible using own knowledge of the Accounting system  Testing of the SAP HR system  Helping with the running of payroll. Running month-end for Finance  General Ledger Maintenance  Accounts receivable/loans maintenance  Reporting  Supervisor to 3 Senior Regional Clerks and 12 Junior Clerks in the cash office  Ensure that sufficient staffs with the necessary skills and competencies are able to deliver a high standard of work.  Provide advice to clerks when problems arise and decide on what actions to take on all problems highlighted by clerks.  Assigns responsibilities to clerks & acts on any arising problems  Resolves problems, if possible using own knowledge of the Accounting system  Testing of the SAP HR system  Helping with the running of payroll.
Specialist: Cash & Bank
Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South AfricaSpecialist: Cash & Bank
Apr. 2004 - Dec. 2006Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Supervisor to 1 Assistant Specialist Cash And Bank, 1 Cashier & 1 EFT Clerk  Verify the in & outflow of cash in Head Office as well Branches and verifying their Bank reconciliations  Balancing and/or verifying of Branch General Ledger Accounts.  Helping Branches with GL Queries  Helping Auditors with GL Queries  Reconciling of other GL Accounts  Posting to cash books and General Ledger  Communicating with Branches to help solve problems  Ensure total accuracy and high standard of work done by the cashiers and data capturer  Supply Financial Analyst with up-to-date information on bank balances  Compile Cash Flow Statement for different commercial Banks  Prepare schedules, based on General Ledger extracts, on Spreadsheet before sending them to the Financial Accountant  Check that interest received and paid has been correctly calculated by the commercial banks  Compiling, capturing & posting of journals.  Approving of EFT’s  Ordering, safe keeping & issuing of cheque books & receipt books countrywide with special emphasis on security.  Preparing & reviewing of performance contracts with staff.  Internal controls are met  Human Resources management  Assisting in compiling the budgets.
Assistant Specialist: Cash & Bank
Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South AfricaAssistant Specialist: Cash & Bank
Apr. 2002 - Mar. 2004Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Verify the in & outflow of cash in Head Office as well Branches and verifying their Bank reconciliations  Balancing and/or verifying of Branch General Ledger Accounts.  Helping Branches with GL Queries  Helping Auditors with GL Queries  Reconciling of other GL Accounts  Posting to cash books and General Ledger  Compile Cash Flow Statement for different commercial Banks  Prepare schedules, based on General Ledger extracts, on Spreadsheet before sending them to the Financial Accountant  Check that interest received and paid has been correctly calculated by the commercial banks  Compiling, capturing & posting of journals.  Approving of EFT’s
Cashier – Head Office
Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South AfricaCashier – Head Office
Apr. 2000 - Mar. 2002Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Posting to cash books and General Ledger  Reconciling of other GL Accounts  Reconciliation of bank accounts  Liasing with the commercial banks  Check that interest received and paid has been correctly calculated by the commercial banks  Ordering, safe keeping & issuing of cheque books & receipt books countrywide with special emphasis on security.  Liasing with Internal and External Auditors  Planning the audit and arranging for the team’s visit at the client
Cashier – Polokwane Branch
Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South AfricaCashier – Polokwane Branch
Nov. 1996 - Mar. 2000Polokwane, Limpopo, South Africa Posting to cash books and General Ledger  Reconciling of other GL Accounts  Reconciliation of bank accounts  Liasing with the commercial banks  Check that interest received and paid has been correctly calculated by the commercial banks  Ordering, safe keeping & issuing of cheque books & receipt books countrywide with special emphasis on security.  Liaising with Internal and External Auditors

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