Assistant Finance and Administration Manager
Black Mamba Backpackers
Total years of experience :3 years, 10 Months
• Creation of the backpacker’s business systems and control from vision statement to actual implementation and evaluation of the strategies employed. I assisted in the creation of the brand and its policies.
• I created business plans for continual analysis and forecasting which assisted to give guidance as to where the business was and how it would get to where its mission stipulates. The business plans were also used as tool in the proposition for loan financing of several of the business’ activities.
• Costing of products; such as meals, services; such as tours, various types of accommodation, as well as job costing; which I personally assisted my senior in his specialist contracting company.
• Management accounts, from the book keeping aspect to the analysis of the accounts and data, to reporting and adjustment of necessary variances. In addition to this, I worked hand in hand with two independent, qualified public accountants in reconciling the accounts which I later managed.
• I did the local stocking, and purchasing of the firms stock.
• Took full responsibility of debt and credit control, from collection to payouts and adjusting reconciliation and the appropriate important ledger accounts, as well as continually trying to improve the departmental processes and procedures. Negotiations with suppliers and customers.
• Liaison with municipal corporations and government departments, the electricity department, water and telephone departments.
• Organizing company management as well as ledger accounts, working with Turbo cash and Pastel.
• Hands on supervision of services - full management support to all employees. Co-ordination, maintenance of computers and networking. Arranging presentations, organizing meetings, travel arrangement. Receiving and sending emails and faxes. Maintaining confidential files.
• Marketing; e-marketing, e-selling, designing, market planning, advertising, and all other promotional activities necessitated by the situation
• Responsible for the procurement and supply chain management. Procuring the best quality at cost stock, stocking factoring the life expectancy of the products, processing / preparation of meals and service delivery, and the selling (packaging and service), and making appropriate adjustments through feed back.
• I created budgets for the different functional departments; the restaurant (kitchen and dinning), bar, staffing and marketing.
• All administrative and organizational functions for MD of Industry, harmonization, fixing meetings for Executives of Industries, Conferences, meetings, Tour arrangements, Receiving & Sending emails and
• Deciding which methods to adopt so as to maintain ingenuous stock levels (JIT/JIC); stock taking on a daily basis.
• Developed and utilized negotiating skills, which I used in dealing with our customers (internal and external customers).
• I kept the firm as competitive as possible through efficient production and operation methods, meeting customer requirements by responding to their grievances thus entailing customer satisfaction.
• Faxes, maintaining Confidential Files, handling Accounts on a Tally, Housekeeping, reporting to Managing Director.
• Procurement - from customs clearance to warehousing to sales of agro-chemicals, water guard, vehicle oils and lubricants and other home detergents and chemicals.
• Accounting package usage (sys-pro, sage line50)
• Daily book keeping, sales and banking.
• All administrative work for Company, Buying of agency stationeries etc..
I was on the Deans list for 5 semesters. My dissertation was based on outsourcing importance and dependency as opposed to in-sourcing. Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Major Concentrates: Finance Management, Investment management, Business policy & decision making, Operations management (supply chain mgmt), Business law, Cost & Managerial accounting, Management & organizational behaviour, Business communication, Human resources management, Management information systems, Economics, Statistics, Money & banking, Human behaviour in organizations, Risk management, Marketing, International management, Psychology, Philosophy and Sociology. (With an uncompleted Minor in Accounting). Graduated with Cum Laude. South African Qualifications Authority certified, as Level 6 NLAP / NQF (work and study in finance)