Senior Bookkeeper/Credit Controller
Resume:
PERSONAL INFORMATION
NAME
Louise Jean Cole
DATE OF BIRTH 20 October 1955
IDENTITY NUMBER 551***-****-***
ADDRESS ** *******, ** ********* *****, Umhlanga rocks, Kwa-Zulu Natal MARITAL STATUS Single
NO. OF DEPENDENTS NIL
MOTOR VECHILES Yes
LICENCE code 8
NATIONALITY South African
LANGUAGES English-Speak-Read-Write
Afrikaans-Speak-Read-Write
STRENGTHS Well spoken; Confident; Hard-Working; Reliable; Trustworthy; Self-managed, Solution solving, flexible; Team Player
WEAKNESSESS Can be impatient; too meticulous
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
METRIC 1972 Northlands Girls High
CIS (Incomplete) Damelin College JHB-Chartered Secretaries of Southern Africa OTHER Pastel Accounting-Pastel Payroll; Microsoft Excel; Microsoft Work and Credit Control POSITIONS HELD
COMPANY Camjet (Pty) Ltd
PERIOD EMPLOYED 07 October 2019 – 13 December 2019 Short Term Contract POSITION Bookkeeper—on Quickbooks
REASPONSIBILITES Creditors-Invoicing, Reconciliations and payment remittances-Age Analysis Debtors-collecting of monies outstanding
Job Costings
Salaries-the checking of Salaries Schedules
REASON FOR LEAVING Short Term Contract to help the Financial Manager get books up to date
REPORTED TO Financial Manager – Irene Crawshaw 082-***-**** COMPANY Tongaat Hulett Acucareira de Xinavane SA – a subsidiary of Tongaat Hulett Sugar Ltd SA PERIOD EMPLOYED 07 May 2008 – 31 May 2019
POSITION Senior Credit controller
RESPONSIBILITIES -Management of 2 assistant Credit Controllers and 3 Creditor’s clerks
-The administration and payment of accounts of 400 Mozambican Suppliers and 150 South African Suppliers
-My responsibilities included the tracking of orders from all departments as well as ensuring that all accounts were paid correctly and timeously
-Departments associated with Tongaat Hulett Aucareira de Xanavane: that fell under my responsibility:
Agriculture Department (growing of cane), Factory (crushing and production of sugar), Transport Department (maintenance of all vehicles and machinery), Training, Safety and Security, HR Department, Administration and accounts. As a result of these various departments as many as 3 000 invoices were processed monthly through the Creditors department.
-In 2018 The Refinery was built at Xanavane increasing the number of payments to foreign accounts
COMPANY Ushaka Marine World-Theme Park
PERIOD EMPLOYED 9 October 2007- 15 February 2008
POSITION - Having fiduciary responsibility for the safekeeping and sue of all funds and assets of the com
- Planning and directing systems of accounting
- Solely responsible for the Revenue Control Operations
- Management –Cash Control Operations
- Cost of Sale management and controls
REASON FOR LEAVING -I was offered the opportunity to work for a larger company in a foreign country and felt that this could only broaden and increase my knowledge in the financial sector. COMPANY Umhlanga Signs-Manufacturers of Signs, Banners & Badges PERIOD EMPLOYED 01 April 2007 – 05 October 2007
POSITION- Bookkeeper
RESPONSIBILITIES - Books to audit level
- Debtors & Creditors
- Weekly and Monthly Salaries
- Statutory Returns
-I joined the company at a time of crisis due to an unfortunate experience they had with their previous Bookkeeper. Scrutinized their prior financial year’s books and corrected all necessary entries to audit level as well as correcting the current year’s books according to accounting practices
REASON FOR LEAVING This is a small company and once I had corrected the Financial Accounts there just not enough work to keep my busy
COMPANY Evolving Management solutions (Pty) Ltd
Darkstar consultancy Services (Pty) Ltd
Biotrace Trading 433 (Pty) Ltd
Software Technologies Alliance (Pty) Ltd
Touchstone Securities (Pty) Ltd
DATE EMPLOYED 06 August 2003 – 15 October 2008
POSITION Accountant to all 5 Companies
RESPONSIBILITIES - Statuary Returns for all 5 Companies
- Intercompany Loans
- Debtors and Creditors
- Management systems of Internal operations and financial controls
-Cash flows
- Budgets
- Books to audit level
- Management and administration of human resources functions
- companies Insurance and Fixed Assets
REASON FOR LEAVING Relocated to Durban
COMPANY Yired (Pty) Ltd – YFM Radio Station
DATE EMPLOYED September 1997 – November 2002
CONTACT PERSON Greg Maloka-Radio Station Manager
POSITION Manager finance
RESPONSIBILITIES All Accounting Functions
- Debtors and Creditors
- Salaries x 51
- Statutory Returns
- Insurance and fixed asset register
- Shareholders loans
- Intercompany Loans
- Monthly Reports to Manager, Directors and Shareholders
- Half Yearly Budgets and Cash flows
- Books to Balance sheet and audit Level
In 2000, Yired (Pty) Ltd opened subsidiary companies: Y Magazine
Y Generation and in 2002 Y Shop was opened
- Managed all accounting functions as described above for these 3 additional companies REASON FOR LEAVING Decided to move away from the broadcasting environment COMPANY RCI
PERIOD EMPLOYED September 1995 to September 1997
CONTACT PERSON Gary Knowles-Finance Manager
POSITION HELD Credit Controller
RESPONSIBILITIES - Reconciled Durban & Johannesburg Cash Books
- Reconciled all the Travel Agents’ commissions, Air tickets sold on a monthly basis and managed
- RCI’s annual membership fees.
REASON FOR LEAVING Moved with the previous Financial Manager to Yired (Pty) Ltd COMPANY Stannic Corporate Finance Head Office
PERIOD EMPLOYED February 1985 to April 1995
CONTACT PERSON David Seed-Manager Corporate Finance POSITION HELD Assistant Accountant
RESPONSIBILITIES - Ensuring both funded and non-funded income reports were completed correctly and entries passed accurately and timeously on a monthly basis. Ensuring that the Namibia deals were accurate & submitted timeously by performing the necessary actions required as to meet the customers’ needs. Ensuring correctness and accuracy of tax- based reports. Verifying System generated earnings adjustments by checking computer runs . REASON FOR LEAVING Decided to move from the Financial Banking houses. NEDBANK I spent 7 years with Nedbank, as a bank teller and the training of staff as bank tellers, Investment Advisor and also did Forex
STANDARD BANK I spent my first 5 with Standard Bank where I commenced my commercial bank training.
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