Senior Accountant
GHD Global Pty Ltd
Total years of experience :16 years, 8 Months
Accounts Payable:
• Prepare payments for Suppliers and Staff expense Claims.
• Prepare reconciliation of account payables on regular basis and make necessary adjustment entries
• Obtain confirmation of balances of suppliers.
• Review, code and process A/P check requests. Process and distribute A/P checks.
• Handle inquiries from vendors.
• Maintain A/P system records.
• Close A/P on a monthly basis, review, correct and distribute reports.
• Audit petty cash for reimbursement.
• Audit employee expenses to ensure compliance with corporate policy before paying.
Account Receivable
• Monitor accounts receivable, follow-up for collection
Book Keeping:
• Preparation of general Ledger,
• Preparation of P/L Accounts, Balance Sheet and other yearly/quarterly/half year reports
• Maintenance of Bank reconciliation statements
• Maintenance and up gradation of all accounting related documents
Costing, Budgeting & Forecasts:
• Processing / reviewing of forth nightly pay runs, check and confirm leave balances, sick leave staff, loans, and any other deductions before final pay run.
• Prepare and enter budget details for payroll related accounts
• Cost analysis, Annual budgets
Accounts Analysis
• Maintain records of all financial documents with appropriate supporting material; update records as necessary.
• Preparation of details of liability for outstanding expense, depreciation and prepaid expense for monthly Financial Statements.
• Assist external auditors with preparing schedules, providing explanations of supporting materials and procedures, and preparing any other necessary data.
Purchase and Expenses Accounting.
• Account for purchase of fixed assets after verifying P.Os.
• Account for Project Expenses after verifying P.Os.
• Account for Debit/Credit notes.
Banking
• Account bank charges and interest in Overdraft and loan accounts on daily basis.
• Account for monthly loan installments.
• Account other PDCs as per the alerts.
• Prepare monthly Bank reconciliation statements.
• Liaison with banks for the transactions.
• Update bank on project values for bank facility.
Management of the Finance Department processes;
Management of the Finance Department staff - resourcing, training, line
management and development;
Manage all tasks performed by the Junior Accounting staff;
Monitor the processing of accounts receivable and accounts payable on the financial system;
Check and sign off invoices to be processed;
Manage EFT Payments;
Management of office petty cash;
Check and sign off all monthly check lists;
Reconciliation of ledger and control accounts;
Debtors control;
Authorized signatory for company cheque book and EFT payments;
Fixed assets control;
Processing of year end journals, accruals, prepayments;
Compile audit reports for analysis by internal and external auditors
(KPMG);
Preparing monthly and annual financial reports;
Preparing monthly reports with analysis for review with Departmental
Section;
Heads (cash flow statement, cash flow forecasts, debtors aging report,
work in progress);
Cash flow forecasts;
Billing and invoicing; and
Liaison with the head office and financial departments of the other offices.
Admin Support and Running of the Office: Provide administration support for various divisions and general day to day running of the office;
Monitoring of flexi time, annual leave, sick leave, staff study leave,
bursaries, training of administration and financial staff;
Ensure that administration department operate at a required standard;
Management of 2 finance staff, 5 administration staff, security staff and 4
housekeeping / cleaning staff;
Management of the building maintenance;
Ad hoc payroll duties; and
Head of the social committee.
Reason for leaving: Got married and relocated to Dubai.
January 2005 - February 2006 Glencore UK LTD, London (UK)
Accounting Assistant
Roles and Responsibilities: Control of cheques paid to the company (allocation of cheques);
Management of office petty cash consisting of the following currencies and limits - £25000, US$25000, 15000 Euros, 10000 Swiss Francs and various other currencies;
Booking of annual re-evaluation;
Clear cheques cashed;
Clear currency exchange;
Clear sundry payments;
Approve and pay staff expenses;
Posting of FX transactions and FX bank valuations;
Matching and clearing GCHS FR control account;
Clear GSHS payments control account;
Multi currency reconciling of bank accounts;
Management of payments by cheques;
Dutch Vat and raising back to back invoices;
Processing customer invoices;
Raising Bacs payments;
Expense analysis; and
Month end routines (standard journals, correction journals, prepayments,
accruals, fixed assets)
March 2004 - December 2004 JC Decaux Pty LTD, London (UK)
Accounts Payable
Roles and Responsibilities: Processing supplier invoices on a daily basis;
Reconciling supplier accounts;
Matching purchase orders to suppliers invoices;
Dealing with a large volume of utilities invoices and related queries;
Management of petty cash;
Resolving queries both internally and externally;
Processing Bacs payment runs; and
Month end procedures.
2000 - 2004 VelaVKE Consulting Engineers, South Africa
Senior Bookkeeper
Roles and Responsibilities: Full accounting function up to trial balance;
Month end procedures (standard journals, reconciliations);
Maintaining and reconciling ledger accounts;
Feedback and updates to division heads;
Debtors and creditors control accounts;
Liaising with debtors;
Raising debtors invoices;
Bank reconciliations;
Accruals and prepayments;
Posting and reconciling intercompany accounts; and
Management of office petty cash
November 1993 - September 1999 Thumb Trading, South Africa
Admin/Debtors Clerk
Roles and Responsibilities: Debtors control;
Liaising with debtors;
Processing of daily banking;
Allocation of payments to the respective debtors accounts;
Reconciliation of chain and non-chain stores;
Petty cash control;
Solving debtor queries; and
Investigation of claims
KEY SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE:
Microsoft packages (Excel, Word)
Aggresso
Great Plains Dynamics
Sage Line 500
SAP
CODA
FRX
Oracle support