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Finance Manager Long-Term

Location:
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Posted:
August 03, 2025

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JOEL DERERA

Pretoria, South Africa

062-*******

**********@*****.***

Motivated accounting professional ready to build long-term career with growing team. Focused on maintaining accurate, compliant records and controls responsive to dynamic operating conditions. Detail-oriented and methodical with excellent mathematical skills, GAAP expertise and IFRS knowledge. 07/2018 to Current

GMR FREIGHTS

Accountant

Preparations of Cashbooks - Botswana, Swaziland and South Africa Creditors payments and Reconciliations - Botswana, Swazi and SA Invoicing in Freight ware

Sending POD'S and statements

Fuel reconciliations and Petty cash reconciliations Payroll preparation - Sage Pastel Payroll

Raising of cheques for - Swaziland, Botswana and SA Banking

Supervising of loading of trucks

Capturing of invoices - waybills, printing labels Reports.

02/2017 to 07/2018

RUBISPAN HOLDINGS

Finance Manager

Preparation of financial statements

Preparation of budgets

Preparation of Payroll - Sage Pastel Payroll

Debtors and Creditors reconciliations

Preparation of tax returns

Fixed Assets management

Payroll reconciliations

Invoicing, Creditors processing, Quotations and Purchase Orders. 03/2013 to 06/2016

STAR GROUP SA

Bookkeeper/Accountant

Preparation of Payroll - Sage Pastel Payroll

Debtors and creditors reconciliations

Invoicing - Pastel Evolution

Creditors processing - capturing supplier invoices in Pastel Preparation of payments - Bank transfer and cheque/cash payments Debtors age analysis and liaising with clients for payments Tax computations and preparation of VAT schedules

Clocking machine reconciliations

Payroll reconciliations

Preparation of quotations and purchase orders

Capturing receipts in the cash book/Bank reconciliations 06/2011 to 12/2012

COVERT SECURITY SERVICES

Finance and Administration Manager

I competently carried out several tasks, mentioned below are the main duties: Preparation of financial statements

Administration of company assets

Preparation of payroll (Belina Hr and Paynet)

Preparation of statutory returns

Preparation of budgets

Attending Board Meetings

Tax Computations

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

EXPERIENCE

05/2007 to 05/2011

CHEMCO HOLDINGS

Finance and Administration Manager

Ensuring that records of transactions undertaken by Chemco Holdings are kept in order to prepare financial statements

To produce profit and loss statements, balance sheet, cashflow statement and income statements, monthly, cumulative figures for the preceding months and comparison against budget, current estimate and previous year where applicable

Making the above statements available to the board on or as soon as possible after 5th of each month and also forwarding to the Financial Director of Chemco Holdings and Financial Director of TSL by the 10th of each month

Tracking of stock movements and stock control

Paying regular attention to the asset register and ensuring that it is kept up to date reflecting sale of assets and current assets

Maintenance of investment accounts

To order inputs, track fuel and motor vehicle expenses by staff according to the budget in liaison with the Operations Manager

In charge of departmental fleet

Preparation of payroll (PAYDAY)

Selection and Recruitment

Attending to labour issues

To supervise bookkeepers, Sales Clerk and Accounts Clerks Attending the board meetings monthly

Submission of statutory returns i.e., VAT, QPD's

In charge of finance and administration

04/2002 to 04/2007

MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS, NATIONAL ARCHIVES

Assistant Accountant

Super user of SAP - Systems application products

Training end users of SAP in all provinces

Management of the budget that is reporting on balances and any variances Preparation of Advance Travelling and Subsistence Travel Expenses Management of Trust Fund Accounts and Retention Funds Preparation of the cashbooks of Trust Funds and Retention Funds 08/1999 to 03/2002

CFI

Cash Book Clerk/Creditors Clerk and Debtors Clerk

Bank reconciliations and balancing

Budget forecasting expertise

Full-cycle accounting

A/P and A/R reconciliations

Effective time management

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Budgeting

Payroll processing

UK GAAP standards

Financial planning

Financial statement analysis

Bookkeeping

Report generation and statistics

Compliance testing knowledge

Financial management

Financial auditing

Accounting and bookkeeping

Computer skills:

Microsoft Word.

Microsoft Excel, Power point, MS Access.

Pastel Evolution.

Peresoft cash book package.

ACCPAC - Accounts receivable and payable.

SAP - Systems Application Products.

Microsoft Business Solutions - NAVISION 4.0

Payday payroll, QuickBooks.

Pastel Payroll.

BCOM ACCOUNTING DEGREE: ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE 2010 ZIMBABWE OPEN UNIVERSITY, HARARE ZIMBABWE

ICSA DIPLOMA 2005

Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, Harare, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, UK HUMAN RESOURCES DIPLOMA: HUMAN RESOURCES 2005

Zimbabwe Institute of Personal Management, Harare, Zimbabwe BOOKKEEPING AND ACCOUNTS DIPLOMA 1999

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION

PITMAN - UK, HARARE ZIMBABWE

REFERENCES: 1. Mr S. Sakala GMR Freights Cell No: 061-***-**** 2. Mr Davidson Chirawu Star Group SA

(Stand 444, Martin Crescent, Edenvale) Tel: 078-***-**** 3. Mr Donald Chipanga 114 Shad Road, Wadeville, Ext 2 Tel: 083-***-****

English & Shona

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