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Work Background
Protea FinancialAccountant
May. 2025 - Oct. 2025United StatesServed in a fully remote role as a financial accountant with Protea Financial, a California-based firm specialising in accounting services for the winery industry.
- Manage full-cycle accounts payable and receivable, including processing via Bill.com and QuickBooks Online, preparing payment requests to ensure timely vendor payments
- Perform inventory reconciliations, addressing discrepancies between physical counts, system records, and sales data across multiple platforms, requiring detailed investigation and resolution as part of month-end close
- Complete month-end processes, including balance sheet reconciliations, tie-backs to the profit and loss statement and preparation of key journals
- Prepare and present key financial reports to clients, including sales reports, AR/AP summaries and direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales reconciliations
MOORE StellenboschAccountant
Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2025South AfricaExternal Audit Experience
- Planned and scoped external audits by defining objectives and identifying key areas of focus
- Utilised statistical and judgmental sampling techniques to select and test transactions
- Conducted substantive testing and analytical procedures to validate financial data accuracy
- Stayed current with IFRS for SMEs, IRBA standards, and SARS regulations to ensure compliance
- Ensured audit documentation was thorough, accurate, and compliant with established standards
- Managed deadline-driven audits and provided guidance to junior audit staff
- Managed individual productivity and budgets (include completion of timesheets)
Internal Audit Experience
- Conducted risk assessments to identify financial, operational, and compliance risks and recommended solutions.
- Evaluated internal controls and recommended risk mitigation strategies.
- Assessed the effectiveness of risk management processes and provided feedback.
- Performed operational audits to evaluate and improve business process efficiency.
The Finance ManTrainee Accountant
Mar. 2021 - Feb. 2024Accounting & Taxation Experience
- Managed a diverse client portfolio on the accounting platform Xero
- Handled client requests promptly and accurately
- Reconciled accounts on a monthly basis
- Prepared annual trial balances, balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements
- Managed tax reconciliations for sole proprietors, trusts and companies
- Handled VAT, Income Tax, Provisional Tax and Dividend tax retuns
- Addressed ad hoc SARS matters
- Compiled unaudited annual financial statements following IFRS for SMEs
- Perform independent review engagements in accordance with the review standard (ISRE2400)
- Assisted in preparing capital budgets, standard costing and forecasting reports
- Assisted in preparing valuation reports for companies
- Extensive accounting experience: cash book, general ledger, journal entries and reconciliations
- Client consultations
- Trained and mentored junior trainees
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