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Mpho Setume

P.O. Box **** ABG, Gaborone, Botswana Cell +267-******** ad49lv@r.postjobfree.com

PERSONAL SUMMARY

A highly skilled Certified Professional Accountant with approximately eight years of experience in accounting, finance, auditing, and financial projections, including four years of experience delivering exceptional results for clients in consulting services. I have a proven ability to analyze complex business problems, develop effective solutions, and build strong relationships with clients in accounting, auditing, business advisory, and finance. I have amassed advanced knowledge of accounting principles and standards, including but not limited to International Financial Reporting Standards, International Accounting Standards, International Standards on Auditing, US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and US Generally Accepted Auditing Standards. MAIN SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

Excellent Interpersonal and communication skills

Solution orientated with a knack for solving problems.

Excellent Team worker who is able to collaborate with others.

Very good organizational and time management skills

Leader who is quality and excellence orientation

Financial reporting, planning and analysis expert INTERESTS LANGUAGES

Corporate Excellence

Health and Fitness

Sports

Reading and Travelling

English

Setswana

QUALIFICATIONS EDUCATION

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

(ACCA)

Bachelors Honors Degree in Accounting and

Finance

Botswana Accountancy College – ACCA, July

2018

Botswana Accountancy College – BA Hons

Accounting & Finance, May 2016

OTHER CERTIFICATIONS

Reading Financial Statements

Accounting and Excel Fundamentals – Formulas for Finance

Corporate Finance Fundamentals

Supervisory, Exploration, Education and Knowledge Training COMPUTER SKILLS & SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE

Microsoft office - Advanced (Word, Excel, Power-point, Project, Access, Teams)

Sage ACCPAC/Pastel Evolution, CaseWare

PeopleSoft, Power BI and IDEA Sampling Software

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WORK EXPERIENCE

BOTSWANA FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION – JUN 2023 to CURRENT DATE Position Held: Head of Finance and Administration

Accomplished financial and strategic leader with a proven track record of orchestrating precise financial operations and driving organizational growth. Expertly coordinates annual budgets, analyzes variances, and contributes to strategic development, aligning financial systems to optimize profitability. Adept at producing accurate financial statements, resolving queries, and ensuring payroll accuracy. Proficient in compliance, cash flow management, and tax submissions

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

Coordinates annual budget preparation and monitors targets. Analyzes variances and reports to executives periodically.

Contributes to organizational strategy development and implementation. Plans and monitors financial systems to control costs and boost profitability.

Produces accurate and timely financial statements and reports. Resolves queries on financial statements and management accounts.

Verifies and manages payroll, ensuring authorization and accuracy.

Ensures compliance with donor requirements. Prepares weekly cash flow statements for financial stability.

Ensures accurate accounting entries and payroll processing.

Manages tax returns and statutory submissions.

Manages human capital for strategic goal achievement. Oversees employee relations, safety, welfare, and benefits.

Manages organizational development aligned with strategy. Implemented a performance management system.

Developed accurate procurement and asset disposal systems.

Manages supply needs and procurement in line with regulations. Cultivates positive supplier relations.

Developed IT strategy supporting overall organizational goals.

Enforced IT system management standards and procedures. Implemented business continuity and disaster recovery solutions. Maintained server environments for smooth operations.

Ensured cybersecurity and protection against threats. Achievements

Developed and implemented effective cost-center departmental budgets, overseeing the entire budget lifecycle. Conducted thorough budget versus actual expenditure analyses, providing comprehensive variance reports to drive informed financial decisions.

Formulated and implemented robust finance policies, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and enhancing overall financial governance.

Developed and instituted procurement policies, streamlining processes and promoting cost-effective purchasing practices in accordance with industry best practices.

Implemented and enforced strict adherence to monthly deadlines for critical financial activities, including bank reconciliations, BURS filing, month-end accounts, management accounts, and payroll processing.

Executed the archival of physical files, optimizing document storage and retrieval efficiency. Further collaborated with IT to establish a network folder server, enhancing overall information management capabilities and ensuring seamless accessibility.

BOTSWANA ENERGY REGULATORY AUTHORITY – JAN 2023 to JUNE 2023 Position Held: Senior Finance Consultant

Responsible for the accounting & finance department, working hand in hand with the finance manager and reporting directly to the Finance Director. I play a critical role in providing financial insights for informed decision- making, managing the organization's financial resources and ensuring efficient utilization of funds. I am further responsible for financial analysis and reporting, cash flow management, financial compliance and risk management, working with a team of 3 accounting staff providing them with on-the-job training and mentorship. 3

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

Manage account reconciliation, including debtors, creditors, control accounts, and trial balance, and prepare necessary journal entries for approval.

Oversee monthly payroll, ensuring accurate deductions, and collaborate with third parties for deduction-related matters.

Handle bank account management to ensure sufficient cash flow for short-term liquidity needs.

Manage fund and levy accounting to ensure accurate accounts and appropriate separation.

Resolve accounting queries with banks, suppliers, etc., safeguarding Authority's interests.

Prepare trial balances, draft management accounts, and authorize payments within delegated authority.

Contribute to quarterly financial statements, reports, annual budgets, and accounts preparation.

Enhance efficiency and transparency by suggesting improvements to accounting processes.

Maintain fixed asset register, reconcile with general ledger monthly for accurate reporting.

Assess financial data for energy license applications, recommend improvements for compliance.

Ensure compliance with IFRS while preparing financial statements and maintaining accounting standards.

Review and ensure accuracy of financial data provided by the accounting team for reporting.

Coordinate departmental budgeting, cost control, and subvention processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.

Prepare audit files, reconciling schedules with GL and providing evidence for external auditors. Achievements

Successfully Resolved all Fixed Assets ready for audit; o Conducted a 100% physical verification of assets, which enabled the revision and reconciliation of the fixed asset register for Botswana Energy Regulatory Authority with the General Ledger. o Identified and corrected depreciation journals that had been inaccurately calculated. o Adjusted deferred income and capital grants accounts to reflect the impact of profit or loss on disposal. o Detected and remedied an overstatement in the asset register that was caused by lost and unrecorded assets that had not been disposed of from the company records.

Developed a tool for Financial Assessment of Licencees BDO United States (Through SAPRO Consulting) – FEB 2022 to JAN 2023 Position Held: SENIOR EXTERNAL AUDIT CONSULTANT

Providing timely, high-quality deliverables covering complex sections, with a reasonable number of workpaper comments. Facilitates fieldwork, coordinate deliverables from multiple team members and collaborate with the Audit Manager to guide associates, interns and monitor productivity and workplan schedule. Demonstrating depth of knowledge of methodology, relevant standards, and systems and proactively addressing client concerns, escalates issues as they arise. Interacting with clients and engagement teams to help ensure the information flow from the client to the team is efficient.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Providing timely, high-quality deliverables covering complex sections.

Facilitating fieldwork and coordinating deliverables from multiple team members.

Demonstrating depth of knowledge of firm methodology, relevant standards, systems, laws, and regulations.

Collaborating with Audit Manager to guide associates, interns and monitor productivity and work plan schedule.

Proactively addressing client concerns and escalating issues as they arise.

Interacting with clients and engagement teams to help ensure the information flow from the client to the team is efficient.

Going concern analysis, including (but not limited to) the review of cash flow projections and evaluation of subsequent events.

Demonstrating (through application) in-depth knowledge of US GAAP and US GAAS.

Planning audit engagements, including identifying and assessing risks of material misstatement.

Demonstrating an understanding of the flow of business processes for different audit clients.

Testing the operating effectiveness of controls through tests of controls and substantive procedures. Achievements

Identified high-value audit findings that enhanced operations efficiency by 37% while maintaining the integrity of financial data.

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Identified and rectified material misstatements, which enhanced the clarity and accuracy of the client’s financial statements thus ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements. By improving the quality and transparency of their financial reporting, my team and I contributed to increased stakeholder confidence.

FOODS BOTSWANA (PTY) LTD – MAR 2020 to JAN 2022

Position Held: Head of Accounting

Maintaining accurate financial records and ensuring compliance with accounting standards, overseeing the day-to- day accounting operations, including financial reporting, budgeting, and cost control. Responsible for managing a team of accountants, providing financial analysis and insights to support strategic decision-making, and collaborating with other departments to optimize financial performance. I played a key role in ensuring financial transparency, mitigating risks, and driving the company's financial success. MAIN RESPONSIBILTIES

Implemented internal controls and safeguards for receipt of revenue, costs, budgets and expenditures.

Handled cash controls, implemented payment authority practices & approval of chart of accounts.

Reviewed regulations & guidelines to confirm business accounting practices adhered to IFRS standards.

Assessed operational efficiencies and made recommendations for improvement.

Followed all IFRS & IAS standards while complying with all relevant regulations when setting up accounts, ledgers and reporting systems in Pastel Sage Evolution.

Analyzed data and presented reports on financial statuses.

Created detailed financial reports based on financial statuses and data using Pastel Sage Evolution.

Reviewed organization's adherence to regulatory guidelines applicable to specific activities and practices. Achievements

I was able to deliver minimal wastage of stock through implementation of stringent internal controls such as regular inventory counts, economic order quantity, automated reorder points and standard operating procedures. As a result, the company managed to cut down stock wastage and ultimately maximizing shareholder wealth.

Attained a Supervisory, Exploration, Education and Knowledge Training Award from Growth Point Training and Development program in 2021.

GRANT THORNTON, BOTSWANA – APR 2016 to FEB 2020

Position Held: SENIOR AUDITOR IN-CHARGE

Gathering audit evidence, allocating tasks & resources based on the team budget, supervising juniors and reporting to the audit manager daily. Understanding the policies & procedures that management needs to adhere to as per board instruction and extensive review of the operations of the entity to ensure satisfactory compliance to organizational policies.

Performing tests of controls and effectiveness evaluation of client systems in response to risks identified in the risk assessment process. Analyzed financial statements and compiled a report of the analysis in accordance with the relative accounting framework.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Performed strategic planning, execution and finalization of audits.

Developed auditing program to address risks and evaluate regulatory requirements.

Identified audit risks, prepared budgets and coordinated with management & audit team in preparing related reports.

Reviewed the preparation of financial statements in accordance with relevant IAS & IFRS using Case Ware software in liaison with the accounts department for technical support.

Analyzed accounting systems for efficiency and effectiveness.

Produced and reviewed audit reports for submission to audit partner and advised the audit partner on audit recommendations and internal controls.

Cultivated mutually beneficial relationships with clients and company financial officers to facilitate 5

improved business operations.

Trained and mentored department staff on policies and procedures to establish a strong foundation for client development and service activities.

Conducted strategic and technical reviews to verify compliance with quality control standards, schedule constraints and budget parameters.

Identified management control weaknesses and provided value added suggestions for remediation.

Maintained professional knowledge by attending ISA Proficiency Series Level 1-5 online courses. Achievements

Planning, execution and completion of relatively small owner-managed company audit with very limited resources in 2018

Uncovered misappropriation of assets deemed as a fraudulent activity by my team from using various audit procedures, analytical tools, and investigative techniques to identify red flags. This helped protect the interests of stakeholders and promote ethical business practices. JOHHNY JALAPENOS – MAY 2015 to OCT 2015

Position Held: ACCOUNTS CLERK

Making payments, reconciling accounts receivables and payables, assisting with payroll, performing monthly bank reconciliations, preparing adjusting entries and schedules, maintaining petty cash and performs other related duties as required.

MAIN RESPOSIBILITIES

Applied proper codes to invoices, files and receipts to keep records organized and easily accessible.

Reconciled system accounts to bank statements monthly

Reconciling accounts receivables and payables monthly

Applied mathematical abilities on daily basis to ensure arithmetic accuracy of company records.

Provided clerical support to department, such as filing, copying and restocking supplies. REFEREES

NAME ORGANIZATION DESIGNATION CONTACT EMAIL

Keene

Manyothwane

Botswana Football

Association

Head of Legal &

Compliance -

Acting HR Manager

+267-**-***-*** ad49lv@r.postjobfree.com

Chawada

Machacha-

Kebonang

Botswana Energy

Regulatory

Authority

Finance Director +267-**-***-*** ad49lv@r.postjobfree.com James Andrus BDO USA, Salt

Lake City Office

Audit & Assurance

Partner

+1-801-***-**** ad49lv@r.postjobfree.com

Rebecca Zhu BDO USA,

Atalanta

Office

Audit &

Assurance

Manager

+1-404-***-**** ad49lv@r.postjobfree.com

Kaone

Rabatshabeng

Grant Thornton,

Botswana

Senior Audit

Manager

+267-**-***-*** ad49lv@r.postjobfree.com

Keitumetse

Mkelvey

Food Botswana

(Pty) Ltd

Human Resources

Manager

+267-**-***-*** ad49lv@r.postjobfree.com

Collie

Setswamokwena

Johnny Jalapenos General Manager +267-**-***-*** / 77 109 877

ad49lv@r.postjobfree.com

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