Van Den Financial Administrator

Location:

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Salary:

17000-20000

Posted:

September 18, 2021

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SUREKA RAMBUGGAN

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** ******** ********, *********, *** 21, Randburg

083-***-****

Surname: Rambuggan

First Name: Sureka

Nationality Indian

Languages English, Afrikaans and Hindi

Date of Birth 1972-05-01

Age: 49

SYNOPSIS

I am an experienced professional with a successful career in banking, business development and administration. I have NQ Level 4 in Banking. I started my banking career in 1 February 1990 till 28 February 2007. From 1ST April 2010 till 31 Jan 2013 worked on temporary assignments for First National Bank. I am FAIS and FICA compliant. From 29 April 2014, Accounts Payable Specialist with Uti/DSV. From 29 Dec 2016 till 08 August 2018 Cash Management Specialist

EDUCATION

Topaz Secondary – Matric 1989

Qualification: Senior Certificate Matric

English

Afrikaans

Biology

History

Accounting

Business Economics

Post Matric courses and qualifications

Bookkeeping and Pastel Diploma – Quest Computer School

Module 1 18th August 2017, Module 2 9th December 2017, Module 3 23th February 2018

Institution School of Therapy Lenasia (18th International with City & Guilds)

19 December 2009. Qualification: Hot Stone Therapy Level 1, Level 2, Level 3

Computer Literacy:

Hogan, CRM Siebel, Oracle, Excalibur, CIS – First National Bank

MS Office – MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and Internet - Uti/DSV / Pastel Premier - SICPA

Courses

Investments

One Account

Business and Individual Mandates

Conflict Management

Security and Fraud

Service Consultant

In-House Training

E-Bucks, Investment Product House

Instant Accounting Merchant Services

PayPal

CRM Siebel Workflow

Account Opening

Upgrading of Business Accounts

Other

Hot Stone Therapy

WORK EXPERIENCE

SICPA SA

Type of Industry: Manufacturing – 01 July 2019 - 30th September 2020

1.Sales Administration

Review all customer invoices prepared by the Sales Administrator for accuracy.

Monitor the customer orders, tracking. Schedule for accuracy, unfulfilled orders, and batch

Tracking and control.

Process store transfers, job cards and requisitions.

Prepare and issue customer specific reports.

Prepare selling price calculations for OVI, OVMI and Photonitor.Prepare delivery notes and labels

for OVI, OVMI and Photoinitator. Capture quarterly price lists on the ERP system.

2. Local and Foreign Petty Cash

Responsible for issuing, reconciling and safeguarding of local and foreign petty cash.

Prepare and submit documents for foreign cash purchases.

Revalue the foreign petty cash on a monthly basis.

3. Office Administration

Responsible for local stock, services and stationery purchases.

Purchase and control office groceries.

Responsible for the office consumable and stationery stores.

Maintains a list of all access cards and gate remotes issued to employees.

Update the electronic building access system with the employee/card changes.

Arrange catering for meetings.

Update noticeboards with personnel and other data.

Update internal extension list and communicating changes to staff.

Obtain quotations for office equipment and maintenance thereof.

Responsible for ensuring office is tidy and clean and delegating cleaning duties to

the office cleaner.

Act – ad – liaison on with cell service provider (upgrades, queries, and changes) for the cell

phone business account.

4. Receptionist

Responsible for answering incoming phone calls, either directing the calls or taking messages.

Responsible for receiving packages and arranging with couriers for the collection of packages.

Responsible for greeting visitors and directing them appropriately.

Notify relevant parties of guest arrival.

Preparing refreshments for visitors.

5.Compliance

Prepare the monthly, quarterly and annual ISO statistics.

Compile the BNEI reports.

Complete the monthly statistics South African questionnaire.

6. General

Act as backup for the Sales Administrator.

Take part in the quarterly stock take.

Prepare ado documents requested by Group Finance.

Reason for leaving: Retrenched by company

UTI/DSV Shared Services Johannesburg

Type of Industry: Logistics – April 2014 – August 2018

Cash Management Specialist – Jan 2017 to 08 August 2018

Duties

Bank Clearance

5300 Vendors and Book value of R30 + million.

Worked in collaboration with team(credit controllers)

Track unknown incoming deposits

Reason for leaving: Retrenched by company

Accounts Payable Specialist April 2014- Dec 2016

Prepping and processing for 23 entities which include Netherlands, Belgium, France, South Africa Freight Forwarding, Germany, etc.

Previous Duties

Review all invoices for appropriate documentation and approval prior to payment

Sort and distribute incoming mail

Respond to all vendor queries

Reconcile vendor statements, research and correct discrepancies

Assist in month end closing using Pivot Tables.

Maintain files and documentation with company policy and accepted accounting

practices.

Prepare and process Weekly Payments (check, wire)

Ability to collaborate with Manufacturing and Outsourcing Departments.

Assist with other general accounting tasks and projects as assigned.

Check Purchase Orders are matching with invoices, if not contact person responsible for matching PO’s.

Working on Oracle, to check if invoices were processed, Excel to reconcile vendor statements and DMS to view invoices.

01 June 2016 UTI merged with DSV

First National Bank Brand Johannesburg

Type of Industry: Banking Institution

Financial Administrator February 2012 - January 2013

Check if invoices.have been received is correct for reconciliation.

Allocate invoices

Financial admin experience

Filing of invoices

Recon done on Excel

Reason for leaving Temporary Assignment Company did not renew contract

First National Bank - Commercial Johannesburg

Service Specialist – Business Banker Level, September 2010 - August 2011

Issuing of business cards

Upgrading Business Accounts according to their personal profiles.

Working on Siebel.

Inbound and Outbound calls.

Account Opening

Assisting clients with Business Credit Card, Business Loans and Business

Overdraft Applications, Switch to FNB.

Business Mandates

Cross selling business products.

Creating ZOB (internet access) for business clients.

KYC. Assisting with CCD lists.

Reason for leaving: Temporary Assignment Company did not renew contract.

FNB Global Transactional Services Corporate and Investment Banking Johannesburg

Client Services Representative, August - September 2010

First tier resolution of all service requests according to agreed standard Including tracking and following through on service queries to other arrears until fully auctioned and closed.

Co-ordination of all activities for Opening and Closing of DDA Accounts and mandate updates. Ensuring they meet “fit for processing requirements” prior to routing to operations.

Maintaining agreed service standards

Ensuring that all client queries are dealt with in efficient manner and within agreed SLA

Reason for leaving: Temporary Assignment. Company did not renew contract

Norman Bissett and Associates Johannesburg

Type of Industry: Legal Services and Debt Collection

Resolution Agent Jun –Jul 2010

Assist with closure of debtor accounts when requested (adhoc-sequestration, deceased, settled)

Prepare and provide information/correspondence in required format (fax, e-mail or letter)

Settlement letters, handover breakdowns, balance breakdowns, contracts, banking detail. Ensure correspondence is prepared accurate and is as per company standards.

Record actions on Excalibur and add to debtor correspondence log

Liaise with both the company’s clients and debtors with the objective to resolve queries, provide accurate feedback, advising payment profile updates

Effective management of internal and external relationships. Develop and maintain positive working relationship with co-workers and external stakeholders.

Deliver on deadline to ensure accuracy of information. Understand the client business rules prior to auctioning the account

Reason for leaving: Company relocated offices

Firmenich (Pty) Ltd Johannesburg

Type of Industry: Flavours & Fragrances

Finance Assistant, October 2008 – December 2008

Debtors control-book value 50 million for periods 30,60,90 days

Petty cash- R5000 per week

Capturing credit card payments

Printing of statements via the STD Bank internet system reflecting receipt of payments from debtors

Contacting customers telephonically regarding overdue payments

Liaising with our debtors responsible for African countries regarding overdue accounts

Follow up on queries

Relieved on switchboard

Trained Human Resources person on debtors

Reason for leaving: Contract not renewed by company

First National Bank Johannesburg

Customer Service Representative- Commercial, September 2005– Mar 2007

Opening and Closing accounts for business accounts on Hogan

Doing ITC checks on customers and CIPRO for companies

Issuing of ATM, business and cheque cards for customers

Visiting business customers once a month to see how to improve our services to them

Checking business and individual mandates are in order

Assisting on investments, contacting treasury for rates and acting on instructions from diary cards

Relieving on switchboard

Assist customers with cellphone banking and internet banking

Advising customers on bank products

Updating KYC

Sales target driven position

Reason for leaving : Husband company relocated offices.

First Rand Bank (Group Treasury Payments and Swift Services Johannesburg

Customer Service Representative- Commercial, October 2003– August 2005

Updating daily recons on Excel

Checking for funds on Hogan, processing entries on Branch Automation and balancing on Excel.

Receiving instructions from SWIFT department and acting on it

Responsible for balancing of General Ledger and other relevant accounts

Shut down of Branch Automation

Reason for leaving: Company relocated offices

First National Bank Johannesburg

Customer Service Specialist, June 1998- September 2003

I began my time with FNB first as enquiries clerk and then as a DDA Product Specialist and later as customer Service Specialist.

In the various roles I was responsible for a number of important areas of work.

These included:

oVerifying signatures on mandates

oOrdering encoded deposit books for companies

oIssuing cheque books to customers and other branches

oAssisting of tellers

oVerifying signatures and checking for fraud on cheques

oAdvance aspects, authorizing customers who are over their credit limits

oContacting manager for account to override funds

oGenerating and e-mailing statements to customers with reconciled accounts

oCollecting cheques from Central Depot within CAS department.

oSending of fax/e-mail document

Reason for leaving: Growth Purposes. Better opportunities

HBZ Bank Limited Fordsburg

Teller, Jan 1997- September 1997

Taking in deposits and dealing with cash withdrawals

Reason for leaving: Company Restructure

Standard Bank of SA Johannesburg

Foreign Exchange Clerk, February 1990- January 1997

I began banking career with Standard Bank as a Waste Operator, Swift Clerk and then a Foreign Exchange Clerk.

In the various roles I was responsible for a number of important areas of work.

These included:

Attended to signed and verifying signatures

oCompletion of forms of extensions for customer’s shipment documents,

oe.g. waybill, different types of currencies involved.

oAttending to surrenders, check due date for customers and process entries for different currencies with the rates.

oQuoting customers on spot rates and booking rates

oWorking on swops, whereby they want to extend payment after due date

oWorking on MT 196- original instruction of customer, MT 199 – instructions of funds to be forwarded to correct bank, MT 202- Relay message to swift dept.

oMT 206 – Confirmation payment has been processed.

oProviding excellent administrative assistance to the branch.

oWorking on cables and swift department

oPrinting and receiving of messages via swift system, sorting out, relaying to other branches and delivering to various departments

oFiling and keeping daily record of them

Reason for leaving: Growth purposes and better opportunities

References

1. Sicpa SA

Nicolene Van Den Berg

Financial Controller

011 201 -4504

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