leema nair, Accountant

leema nair

Accountant

Tyrejoint CC

Location
South Africa
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accounting
Experience
25 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :25 years, 2 Months

Accountant at Tyrejoint CC
  • South Africa
  • My current job since May 2018
Accountant at SAP
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since April 2017

Debtors:
•Supervise and manage the revenue clerk providing on the job support and mentoring for development
•Supervise the complete billing process ensuring accurate and completness.
•Revenue & Billing Clerk functions if required
•Oversee entire Debtor book, management of aging and cash collection
•Management and Administration of Customer Database on

Accountant at Toyota Boshoku
  • South Africa
  • September 2016 to February 2016

REASON FOR LEAVING : End of Contract

DUTIES:
Reconciliation AP to GL
AP Ageing Local report
AP Ageing - All unmatched items
Authorising and Checking AP recons and Payments
Loan Accounts Recons
Balance Sheet Recons
Cashflow Projections
Cashflow Forecast
Casflow Variance report
Payroll reconciliations
Cashbook Recons
Payments Local
Payments Foreign
VAT Reconciling VAT Accounts to Modules
Bank Recons
Allocation of all Payments
Allocation of All Receipts
Checking Daily Cashbook Payments
Wages Journal
Salaries Journal
Prepayments Reconciling
Prepayments Journal
Prepayments Schedule
Checking Accruals and Journal

Accountant at Energywise
  • South Africa
  • October 2015 to September 2015

REASON FOR LEAVING : End of Contract

Financial Accountant at Tak
  • South Africa
  • November 2014 to August 2014

REASON FOR LEAVING : Retrenched due to restructuring

Regional Accountant at Waltons Stationery (Bidvest Group)
  • December 2007 to August 2010

REASON FOR LEAVING : Better Prospects - Joined UEC

DUTIES
•Supervise and control processing of financial information to final TB on a monthly basis
•Financial Planning and budgeting
•Implement and sustain effective financial systems and control
•Implement Internal Audit controls
•Adhere to external audit requirements
•Authorize EFT and cheque payments
•Secure company assets.

First Core Activity:-
•Supervise and control processing of financial information to final TB on a monthly basis
•Set reasonable timelines for finance department to ensure Bidvest deadlines is met.
•Guide, train, couch and discipline staff to ensure required level of performance, accuracy and productivity required is achieved.
•Approve and sign all journals processed in the general ledger.
•Check Trail Balance for relevance and accuracy.
•Check Expenses monthly to budget and last year. Investigate abnormal items and implement corrective action. Report abnormal or suspicious entries to Financial Director
•Submit accurate and relevant information to Waltons head office as per Bidvest deadlines.

Second Core Activity:-
•Financial Planning and budgeting
•Analyse previous results and set budgets for future periods in consultation with branch financial director and managing director

Third Core Activity:-
•Monitoring budget performance
•Check regions performance against budget on a monthly basis and investigate and resolve variances.

Fourth Core Activity:-
•Implement and sustain effective financial systems and control
•Ensure that effective financial systems and controls in implemented and those new systems are developed to prevent risk and fraud to the company.


Fifth Core Activity:-
•Implement Internal Audit controls
•All Internal Audit controls set by Bidvest need to be implemented and enforced at head office
•Training need to be provided to staff on the implementation of theses audit controls. Random Internal Audits need to be done to ensure comply.

Sixth Core Activity
•Adhere to external audit requirements
•Ensure that the company are always compliant with external audit requirements.

Seventh Core Activity
•Authorize EFT and cheque payments
•Authorize cheque and EFT payments.
•Ensure that all relevant VAT documentation is attached and authorized by line management.
•All payments are reconciled to the supplier statement.
•Only original documentations is authorised for payment and documents are stamped paid to prevent duplicate payments on documents.

Eighth Core Activity:-
•Secure company assets.
•Ensure that all fixed assets are accounted for.
•Accounts payable is controlled and discount and rebates accounted for.
•Control of cash flow and bank accounts. Ensure that petty cash, floats and POS cash are secured in branches at all times

Financial Accountant at Altech UEC (Pty)Ltd
  • September 2010 to August 2010
Financial Manager at Everest Flexibles
  • November 2003 to November 2007

REASON FOR LEAVING : Better Prospects - Joined Waltons

DUTIES
•Verifying creditors in excess of R6 000 000.00
•Maintaining and co-ordinating book debt in excess R25 000 000.00
•Verifying debtors recons and debtors credit notes
•Overseeing and verifying salaries
•Authorising salary transfers
•Calculating salary packages
•Handling petty cash
•Filing petty cash vouchers
•Authorizing direct payments and creditors transfers
•Analysing management accounts
•Finalising year-end audit work
•Verifying daily bank statements
•Assisting with collections
•Verifying and submitting yearly IRP 5 and IT 3 recons to SARS
•Submitting workmen’s compensation calculations
•Signing office requirement requisitions
•Authorised signatory for orders valued at R25 000.00
•Signing credit application
•Approving customer credit applications
•Verifying VAT recons and payments monthly
•Verifying JSB, PAYE, UIF and skills development monthly schedules
•Approving customer orders
•Approving opening debtors accounts
•Verifying commissions and payments
•Issuing all Directors personal cheque payments
•Year-end audit preparations and recons
•Large cash banking and withdrawals
•Attending to computer and program errors
•Obtaining foreign exchange rates and purchasing foreign exchange
•Attending auctions and purchasing furniture and equipment
•Authorised cheque signatory
•Authorized EFT user
•Attending ISO 9001
•-ISO 9001 Internal auditor
•TASK Grading Committee member
•Staff discipline and training
•Maintaining system backups
•Implementing new systems
•Overseeing insurance claims
•Compiling monthly board pack
•Financial reports
•Cashflow projections
•Debtors and creditors reports
•Import costing
•Rep breakeven analysis
•Tonnage analysis
•Credit note analysis
•Physical stock verification
•Controlling safe and cash
•Invoicing
•Collections
•Reconciliation’s
•Paying staff and accounts
•Arrangement of Travel Facilities through agents
•Full HR and IRD responsibility
•Full IT Responsibility

Accountant at Plastics
  • Saudi Arabia
  • January 2002 to May 2003

REASON FOR LEAVING : Retrenched

DUTIES
•Full accounting function
•Processing salaries on Multidata and Payslip
•Managing UNIX system
•Treasury Function
•Foreign Payments (Germany, Italy, UK & Austria)
•Liaising with suppliers to procure raw materials
•Processing Contracts/ LC's
•Clearing and Forwarding
•Working with Reichmans, Trade Wind Shipping and GDM International
•Supervision of Staff
•Daily cash flow and management reports
•Full HR and IRD function

Accounts Clerk at SA Sugar Association
  • June 1999 to January 2003
Assistant Accountant at Citibank
  • United Arab Emirates
  • March 2001 to January 2002

Daily Banking
•Petty Cash
•Supervision of staff - Creditors Clerk, Cashbook Clerk, Payroll
•General Ledger reconciliation’s
•Daily cashflow management and reports
•Treasury management for Banks
•Checking bank balance and transferring funds - inter-bank transfers
•Forex - liaising with banks for rates and currency conversion of funds received via

Accounts Clerk at SAS
  • United Arab Emirates
  • June 1999 to March 2001

Cashbook - reconciliation’s, complete with month end procedures
•Accounts payable - supervise and maintain Creditors system when necessary
•Ensuring month end procedures, reconciliation and integration are accurately completed and balanced
•Preparation and processing of General Ledger journals
•Processing integration entries from other modules
•Maintaining controls
•Printing and distributing monthly General Ledger and management reports
•Producing monthly Trail Balance and reconciliation
•Conducting year-end procedures and Audit requirements
•Preparation of monthly variance reports for finance and services
•Preparing Annual Budgets for finance and service for review by Heads of Department
•Preparation of VAT returns for

Accounts Clerk at Tongaat Hulett Group
  • December 1991 to February 1999
  • to

Payable - Invoice Entry, Payment Entry, Posting to GL, Reconciling Module to Trial Balance
•Accounts Receivable - Invoice Entry - Stock and Non Stock Payment, Entry Posting to GL, Reconciling Module to Trial Balance
•Cashbook - Payment Entry, Receipt Entry, Posting to GL, Reconciling Module to Trial Balance
•W.I.P. - Bills of Material Entry, Costing Analysis, Posting to GL, Reconciling Module to Trial Balance
•Inventory Control - Stocktake Capture, Approval, Inventory Item setup, Purchase Order Entry, GRN entry and clearing, Invoice Entry, Payment Entry, Posting to GL, Reconciling Module to Trial Balance
•General Ledger - Journal Entry, Posting all sub ledgers, Posting all Journals, Trial Balance, Editing GL Batches
•Report Writer - Write various reports, Edit and Print to PDF
•Fixed Assets - Asset Entry, Depreciation Calculations, Posting to GL, Reconciling Module to Trial Balance

Buyer
  • to

Purchasing of 21 Brick N Tile Centres
•Negotiating contracts
•Quoting for assets
•Contract buying
•Expediting

Accounts Clerk
  • to

Assisting in preparation of monthly operating statements and detailed performance reports
•Assisting in the compilation of annual Budgets and periodic forecasts and variance analysis
•Providing input for monthly financial schedules for inclusion in the divisional board papers
•Assisting with bookkeeping function of the Zimbali Estate Management Association
•Assisting in the preparation of Annual financials
•Assisting in feasibility and forecast reports
•Manual and Computerized payment of Creditors
•Balancing of Creditors Ledger
•Trial Balance
•Manual and computerized payment of Debtors up to balancing ledger and trial balance
•Processing and reconciliation of cashbook
•Reconciliation of bank statement to Trial balance
•Reconciliation of General Ledger
•Reconciliation and payment of monthly VAT and JSB levies
•Daily Banking
•Printing of Debtors statements
•Closing of all modules Debtors, Creditors, cashbook and general ledger

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT at IDP
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

Advise on the medical incapacity process
•Conduct, assist and participate in disciplinary hearings
•Establish communication and feedback channels
•Formulate tasks and functions for employees in area of responsibility
•Implement and support strategic labour related actions and interventions
•Initiate and manage staff retrenchment exercises
•Manage automation projects and strategies
•Manage conflict situations
•Oversee the succession candidate development process
•Oversee transfers and promotions
•Participates and support the staff recruitment, resignations and staff survey processes
•Provide assistance with CCMA cases

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT - OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
•Ensure adherence to safety acts, policies, procedures, processes and agreements
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT - PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
•Conduct performance appraisals as per company agreements
•Create a conducive context for optimal performance
•Develop and provide assistance to individual development plans (

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT
  • to

Meet expectations of external and internal customers
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT - FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
•Adhere to company financial management system practise
•Approve and ensure adherence to budgets
•Conduct financial forecasting
•Draft and ensure compilation of financial data packs
•Draft and manage budgets
•Enforce cost reduction exercises to ensure compliance to budgets
•Ensure ROI predictions prior to purchasing assets
•Ensure sound financial status of company
•Manage fixed and variable costs
•Manage the rebate process

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT at ASSET MANAGEMENT
  • United States
  • to

ADMINISTRATION
•Act as departmental spokesperson
•Conduct and attend meetings
•Design, prepare and present presentations
•Draft and approve legal documentation
•Manage and adhere to electronic communication methods and systems
•Manage and maintain records, files and daily planners
•Prepare, submit, study and interpret reports
•Support and adhere to access control policies
•Support human resource administration
•Support payroll and financial administration

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTANT -

Sales at Third party
  • to

Imports into Accpac
Daily printing of invoices and credit notes
Remittance advise for payment received
Remittance advise for payment received loaded and matched to invoices
Customer rejection notifications/ Payless's loaded
Price queries per logbook resolved
Credit notes / Debit notes relating to price queries loaded
Posting of daily sales imports
Posting of manual adjustments (Credit / Debit notes)
Posting of all E-invoices
Posting of receipts
Posting of matched items
MIDP declaration

AR Normal & Intercompany
All E-Invoices completed
All E-Invoices loaded on Accpac
Provision for Scrap Sales done
Reversal of prior month sales provisions

Sales at Third party
  • to

Credit notes / Debit notes relating to price queries loaded
Posting of daily sales imports
Posting of manual adjustments (Credit / Debit notes)
Posting of all E-invoices
Posting of receipts
Posting of matched items
MIDP declaration

AR Normal & Intercompany

Assistant Accountant
  • to

Payment of Creditors manually and computerized
•Balancing of Creditors ledger and Trail Balances
•Payment of Debtors manually and computerized
•Petty Cash re-imbursements
•JSB Levies and VAT payment
•General Ledger reconciliation’s
•Bank reconciliation’s

Education

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at Mount View Secondary SchoolChartered Institute of Management Accountants
  • January 1987

Specialties & Skills

ACCOUNTANCY
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
BANK RECONCILIATION
BANKING
BUDGETING
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
FINANCE
FINANCIAL

Languages

Afrikaans
Expert
English
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