Director of Administration
SAS
Total des années d'expérience :22 years, 3 Mois
AZIMUT
This a company involved in the manufacture of office furniture and has subsidiaries involved in the Retail
business.
SUMM-IT MAURITIUS LTD.
This is a company involved in the BPO sector and has its main Office
THE RESIDENCE-MAURITIUS.
A five Star Hotel of 171 Rooms owned by a Foreign Group Bonvests Holdings
of Singapore.
My main responsibilities included among others the preparation of The Management Accounts of the six
companies forming part of the Group.
Other Duties were, the supervision of the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable persons, , managing the
work of the stock controller, purchasing officer and accounting staff.
Responsible for maintaining the General Ledgers of all six companies and preparing the salary of staff.
Acting as the Controller with regard to the food processing unit.I was responsible also for administration of the
companies with regard to dealing with local authorities with regard to rates, taxes and matters concerning the
staff and workers.I was also dealing with the tax authorities and with auditors regarding the audit of all
companies accounts.
Group Accountant at Joonas Industries Group
I was the head person of the Finance department of this Group.The Group main company deals with
manufacturing office equipments andfurnitures.Its first subsidiary deals in selling stationeries and hardwares
and the third one deals with renting office space to local companies.
My responsibilities among others were:
1.Supervising the Invoicing function:
It was part of my duty to supervise the job of the persons raising daily Sales Invoices (the Salesmen) and
assuring myself that money were being collected for all cash and credit sales(the Accounts Receivable officer’s
job)
2.Supervising the Purchase and Payable function:
I was also for ensuring that all Purchases were approved by myself and that invoices were properly recorded in
our computerised system and that payment were being made on time and cheques sent as per our cash flow
situation.
3.Managing the Cash Flow situation:
I was responsible for monitoring the collection of all cheques from our local and foreign debtors and for making
payment to our creditors.I used to prepare a weekly cash flow in order to monitor our cash situation.Tight
control were made on issue of cheques and continuous chasing were being made from all outstanding debtors.
4.Maintaining of Books of Accounts:
At the start of my employment with this Group, all the books of accounts were being manually kept.I was
responsible for ensuring that all entries were being properly made by my assistants and I personally kept the
Cash book and the General Ledger.After some time, we decided to computerise the whole manufacturing
, invoicing and accounting process and we bought the Navision system.I was responsible for leading the team
and liaise with ERP company for the computerisation process.The whole process was done in a few months.
5.Preparing the Monthly Management Accounts:
I was responsible for preparing the Management accounts of the main companies and its two subsidiaries.My
job entails giving the monthly results and the Balance sheets of these companies at the end of each
months.The job entails verifying all entries made, reconciling sales with cash and credit sales, reconciling
purchases, issues and physical stocks, maintaining the cash books and making bank reconciliations and
preparing journal entries.
6.Supervising the Monthly Stock Counts:
I was responsible for ensuring that stocks were being counted and reconciled at the end of each month.Any
discrepancies had to be reconciled and explained.
7.Preparing the Monthly payroll for staff and workers.
I was responsible for preparing the salaries of staff and the wages of the factory workers.It entails having good
knowledge of local laws with regard to salary and wages.In the beginning, the calculation were being done
manually and after some time, the payroll system was fully computerised.
8.Control over cost and expenses:
My duties included also the control aspect of any organisation.I was the person who was in charge of putting
control measures and writing procedures with regard to wastages, theft and pilferage.Control was made to
ensure that all purchases actually went to the Stores and that any items for sale were delivered only after the
proper documentations were shown to the Store persons.This ensured that no items of stock for sale were
being taken out of store without a proper sales invoice.A physical check was also made when the lorry drivers
would depart from the factory to make deliveries.
Head of the Accounting Section at Summ-IT Accounting(Mtuis) Ltd.
The company is new in Mauritius and has opened Office in January 2003.it started with doing
Payroll Services for UK Companies.I was recruited in August 2003, with a view to supervising a
Team of Accountants and to offer Accountancy and Consultancy Services.My position was that of Senior
Accountant.My duties among others were:-
1. Preparing Monthly Accounts for Summ-IT Accounting (Mtuis) Ltd and Summ-IT Accounting Solutions
Ltd(Head Office based in UK) together with Consolidated Accounts for the Group.
3. Preparing Monthly Accounts for Clients Companies in UK.
4. Preparing Forecasts for Client Companies in UK.
5. Running the Accounting Department of Clients Companies in UK, together with Staff working at the UK Office.
6. We offered Consultancy Services to Companies in UK, on how to maximise their profits and to run their
business efficiently.
7. We ran the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable modules of Clients Companies.
courses: Associate Member of The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA
courses: Administrators(ICSA)of England. Dec-89- Completed Part three of ( ICSA ) Jun-89- Attempted Part two of ( ICSA
courses: - Passed Part two of ( ICSA
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