Financial controller / Revenue Accountant
Resume:
Dear Sir / Madam
This is a great opportunity to present myself as a financial professional. Having +/- 15 years working experience in the financial field. I am a flexible person having experience in several fields of work such as Travel & Tourism industry, Advertising, Media, a Car tracking company, a Construction Company and currently a computer ERP Software company and finance remains my main career path. I have done a bit of field work, going out to see customers to show how certain processes work regarding our system and how the modules are use can better the company’s productivity.
I have been placed in a lot of responsible positions such as being H.O.D for the accounts processing department when I worked at Thompsons Travel. At The Firehouse, I ran the full bookkeepers position till trial balance as well as loading of payments and salaries and confidential information about staff. At Probuild Construction Company I had to prepare cheques and have them signed. This also allowed me to see what my strengths are as a leader and my people skills. Currently I am a Financial Controller Manager position, training and mentoring staff and taking over more roles of the financial manager in order to be groomed into a position I would like to fore fill one day.
I support management and the Financial Director when they are closing off month end and year end. I currently do IQ Retail Licence Registrations. I assist with all travel for the company such as flights, car hire and accommodation requests. I also order stock, such as hardware components and software for the company as well as I am a backup for staff that are sick or on leave. I am currently studying Credit Control management.
I see the role as an integral part of my intended future career path, building on my previous experience, and a definite correlation with the practical knowledge and experience. An articulate, self-motivated ‘go-getter’ with a compassionate nature, I work well on my own – or as a team player. I welcome a challenge, and approach tasks with tenacious and positive attitude. I enjoy a dynamic and busy environment and have no reservations when it comes to meeting deadlines, and ‘going the extra mile’. Diligence, logical thinking, dedication, a sense of humour, a will to succeed and a healthy ambitious streak are instinctual.
I greatly appreciate it that you have taken the time to read this letter and hope that I would be the kind of Candidate for your position. Thank you for your time.
Yours faithfully
Sherona Gordon
SHERONA GORDON
FINANCIAL CONTROLLER MANAGER
SURNAME : Gordon
FIRST NAMES : Sherona Margaret
DATE OF BIRTH : 18 May 1982
NATIONALITY : South African
IDENTITY NUMBER : 820**********
MARITAL STATUS : Married
HOME ADDRESS : 67 Simmer Street
Selwyn / Discovery
Roodepoort, 1724
TELEPHONE NUMBERS : Mobile – 082-***-****
EMAIL : adibd3@r.postjobfree.com
HOME LANGUAGE : English
DRIVERS LICENCE : Code 08
Own Transport
NOTICE PERIOD : 2 Months – Due to management position
FORMAL EDUCATION : Florida Park High School – 2000
QUALIFICATIONS : Matric
SUBJECTS PASSED : English, Afrikaans, Mathematics,
Geography, Business Economics & Biology
TERTIARY EDUCATION : Parktown College – 2002 to 2003
QUALIFICATIONS : Travel & Tourism – N4 & N5
SUBJECTS : Travel Office Procedures
: Tourist Destinations
: Travel Communications
: Travel Services
Galileo and Ticketing (Silver certificate – 96%)
BOOKKEEPING : Pastel Accounting Course – 2009
VAT Workshop : Grant Thornton – August 2014
MS Word Very Good
MS Excel Very Good
MS Power Point Average
MS Outlook Very Good
Internet Explorer Very Good
Talisman Very Good
CABS & CAMS Good
Banking Websites Very Good
Pastel Partner Very Good
Lotus Average
Chase (Advertising Package) Good
Nelson Good
Babbage & K8 Very Good – (K8.07 and Babbage)
Galileo Very Good
Unite Good
IQ Retail – Licence Registrations & Enterprise Very Good
Company Name: Kerridge Commercial Systems - SA Branch
(International Company – Head office UK)
Formally part of ADP Car Dealership – Now known as CDK now.
(Kerridge Commercial Systems Demerged from ADP in 2010). Working on Unite – Autoline
Type of Business: CRM – Selling of Software as well and Hardware components
Period: June 2010 to Current – (Book value 100 Million)
January 2018 to Current – (Book value 9 Million)
Positions: Financial Controller Manager / Accountant – Debtors & Creditors reporting to me.
Reason for Leaving: No room for growth or development & need a new challenge
Responsibilities: Promoted to Financial Controller Manager / Assistant Accountant: (2017)
Acquisition of IQ Retail – Now working and assisting with Registrations for just over 11 000 customers and working on IQ Enterprise.
Licencing and renewals and annual increases
Registrations of New Licences / terminals being purchased
Security details in order to process documentation. This is given from the BP’s (business partners).
Re-Registrations / Add workstations/ terminals and Version upgrades
Registrations of Demo systems as well as Annual demo’s for Business Partners / BP’s.
Pending and Rejections of licence requests – if no documents.
Final Registrations once client / customer has been on a Demo for a month.
Banking for two companies currently. Using HSBC Bank and Standard Bank. (consist of 9 bank accounts and x2 cash petty cash accounts).
Variance analysis of Automotive, Commercial and General & Admin Business
Preparation of Inter-Company transactions and foreign exchange revaluations
Consolidation of reporting company accounts and uploading of data
Variance analysis of Automotive, Commercial and General & Admin Business;
Signing off Creditors and Debtors month end reports
Assisting with the merge of the new company we just purchased
Processing month end and year end journals
Month end budgets and forecasts
Loading VAT and SARS E-filing submissions
Upkeep of inter-company loan accounts
Licencing and renewals and annual increases
Taking on another 5000 customers to add them onto our contracts / recurring system which is my main priority
Preparation and presentation of monthly Financial Reports to HQ in UK
Foreign exchange revaluations and Inter-Company transactions
Tracking of sales forecasts in order to achieve monthly revenue targets
Supervision and analysis of month-end accounts, adjusting journal entries
Assistance with Annual Financial Statements
Overseeing month end and procedures and pre-paid and accruals journals are done
Month-end and year end closing of accounts
Cash flow management
Variance analysis of Actual revenue and expenditure against Forecast and Budge
Supervision and assistance with Financial Year End external audit.
Debtors Manager:
Doing daily bookkeeper duties for the company up to trial balance
Daily bank reconciliations of current, call, three foreign bank accounts and two international bank accounts
Receiving remittances from customers and allocating payments
Preparing onetime sales invoices and the upkeep and an accurate filing system
Contract invoices done on a monthly, quarterly, Biannual and annual basis. This is done the first week of every month,
Adding new customers to our data base with all their details, allocating customer account numbers to each and filing of BEE certificates
Adding new users (licences purchased), Kprint servers and Oracle licences to our system for customers daily
Sending out statements to all customers every month, scanning, emailing and filing these documents.
Reconciling petty cash at the end of every week and with drawing funds for float
Reconciling three Pay DNA cards which are used for the visiting staff from our head office in the UK
Preparing monthly general journals in preparation to close off month end
Every Monday morning various reports for senior management are prepared using V-lookups and pivot tables.
Debtor’s Bi-weekly reports are prepared – To follow up with customers that are 60days – 120days and more.
Cash flow report for the financial forecast for the company done on a weekly-bases.
Debt collections - Chasing customers with outstanding accounts and sending warning letters for long outstanding debt.
Preparing GBP payments and invoicing for the UK office
Setting procedures in place and creating forms for management
Raising quotes for customers instructed by the sales people
Converting these quotes to a sale / invoice at a later stage once customer has signed quote
Do travel request for local staff as well as staff from the UK coming to visit the SA office. This includes flights, car hire, accommodation and transfers to and from the airport.
Raising travel invoices – weather it is at the company’s cost or if it will be re-billed back to the customer.
Contract module – Cleaning up redundant contracts list with incorrect termination dates as well as creating new contracts from the contract buffer.
Align prices for each customer on the contract maintenance schedule
Creating Proforma invoices for customers outside of South Africa who cannot claim VAT
Creating Deposit invoices for customers in South Africa including VAT but to encourage customers to pay for the setting up of the system as the customer is on a payment plan agreement.
Maintenance of the billing schedule / Recons for proforma and deposit invoicing
Deferred Revenue reconciliation for contracts
Monthly contract accrual report to for SAAS and Hosted journals to be posted correctly.
Preparing journals for deferred revenue as well as assisting for month end closure
Assisting FM with audit and financial year end journals
Loading new beneficiaries, staff expense claims and supplier payments on bank for accountant to authorise
Closing off month end by making sure all postings have been done to the correct cost centres and that final journals can be done to close off month end
Creditor’s administrator’s duties:
Responsibilities:
Chasing suppliers for statements and invoices that need to be paid
Preparing payment reports for weekly and monthly payments.
Get quotations from suppliers when purchasing stock for our customers
Do purchase orders and action requisitions for orders to take place
Once orders are finalized, send suppliers purchase orders so that we can be invoiced
Capture expense claims for staff which will be paid weekly
Bring in stock that has been purchased for customers as well as for the company
Check purchase control and see what orders need to be converted to sales invoices
Reception and logging calls.
Responsibilities:
This duty is done from 7:30am to 9:00am as the receptionist only starts at 9:00am and the agreement with the customers is we will start logging call and answering the phone from 7:30am.
Customers log calls telephonically or send emails for support or error calls regarding the K8 system and its functionalities.
Calls are then logged for the support team and placed in a queue
Once the support team have established and resolved the call, they normally bill the customer for the time spent on the call and the work that has been done
The support team will then ask me for a quotation for their hours or days.
They review the quote and then if happy they will advise to convert the quote to a sales order and invoice to the customer.
Company Name: The Firehouse – (An Advertising Agency)
Period: From October 2008 to February 2010
Position: Creditors Clerk / Bookkeeper
Reason for Leaving: Company went into Liquidation
Responsibilities:
I did a full function bookkeeper – Debtors and creditors
Bank reconciliations done daily
Suppliers reconciliations done on a weekly basis
Invoicing for customers as well as intercompany billing was done
Cashbooks and banking done for four companies.
Every second week I would check purchase orders to see what needs to be invoiced.
Sending statements to customers and remittances to the suppliers
General admin and filing was done as well as PA to the financial manager
Capturing confidential information of staff – example salaries, banking details etc…
Company Name: PROBUILD CONTRUCTION GROUP – (A Construction Company)
Period: From March 2008 to September 2008
Position: Creditor’s Clerk and admin
Reason for Leaving: A Family owned business and mother was to leave but then ended working half day.
Responsibilities:
Preparing all sub-contractors payments
Make sure I received all site instructions and progress reports are signed off
Load payment on payment list
Prepare cheques with payment advice, ready for collection
General admin and filing
Company Name: CARTRACK – (A Car Tracking Company)
Period: From June 2007 to February 2008 - (Book value 8 Million)
Position: Creditors & Debtors clerk
Reason for Leaving: Received a better offer
Responsibilities:
Make sure I received statements and invoices each month and prepare for payment
Balancing reconciliations for Franchises
Capturing invoices for 13 Franchises (Fitment centres)
Bank reconciliations done daily
Cash flow report done every morning
I also raised invoices and made sure that invoices and statements were sent to customers
Chased payment on a weekly basis
Run and balancing monthly recovery reports for management
Preparing payment batches and loading payments on Bank for manager to authorise
Writing out company cheques to pay suppliers
Invoicing monthly royalties and monthly retainers for the company
Company Name: THOMPSONS TOURS
Period: April 2004 to May 2007
Position: Started in the processing department. 2004
Worked as a Creditors & Debtors clerk – Promoted a year later as H.O.D. of Processing department
Reason for Leaving: Needed a change and growth – Agreed with managers
Responsibilities:
Receipting of cash payments and card payments that customers made to update the system
Bank reconciliations every morning
Following up with unallocated receipts
Handling queries from customers as well as with creditors regarding invoices
H.O.D. for the Payments & Processing
Department – 2005 to May 2007.
I was appointed the H.O.D of the payments and processing department
Overseeing four other staff members which reported to me
Banking reconciliation was done every morning
Balancing of credits card payments every day
Receipting payments that were banked the previous day to update the system
Was given foreign customers to deal with – Indian Ocean Islands
Receiving statements and invoices on a daily basis
Close to month end I would reconcile and prepare payment that needs to be made
Called the bank to make arrangements for foreign currency and rate of exchange
Load payments for financial manager for him to authorise
From 2002 to the end of 2003 studied at Parktown College – Travel and Tourism
SUBJECTS : Travel Office Procedures
: Tourist Destinations
: Travel Communications
: Travel Services
Galileo and Ticketing (Silver certificate – 96%)
Company Name: MULTI CHOICE
Period: 2001 – Full year
Position: Worked as an admin clerk in a printing company
Within Multichoice
Reason for Leaving: Undecided as to what I wanted to do after school
Studied Travel & Tourism
Responsibilities:
General admin and filing
Scanning, printing and binding for Multichoice as well as for people not part of the company
We also do the hard copies for the DSTV magazines
Sizing images for magazine and press releases
Printing and binding manuals and presentation booklets for meetings
REFERENCES: Thompsons Tours
Rashid Ismail - Financial Manager
Cartrack
Colleen Kearney – Boss / Financial Manager – (No longer there)
Probuild Construction
Nick – Boss / Owner
The Firehouse – Business went into liquidation
Marice Bell – Finance manager
Multichoice
Belinda Cole – Boss
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