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Godwin ndemera

Godwin ndemera

TULLAMORE,Co. Offaly

Summary

Accounting professional versed in internal controls, taxation and business accounting practices. Focused on helping improve financial solvency with optimised systems and accurate forecasting. Diligent about auditing records and maintaining compliance standards.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work history

Bookkeeper

Universal Floral Dublin
Dublin, Leinster
08.2022 - Current
  • Processing sales invoices, receipts and payments entering data into SAGE Accounting software
  • Reconciling bank accounts and double-checking financial records to ensure everything adds up
  • Managing payroll, accounts payable, and accounts receivable
  • Dealing with financial paperwork and filing
  • Ensuring all invoices are sent out, and payments are collected
  • Preparing and Filing PAYE , VAT returns , Intrastat and Vies on ROS website
  • Balance general ledger by preparing a trial balance; reconciling entries
  • Managing the company’s Accounts mailbox, responding to queries in a timely manner and ensuring all items are fully followed up

Bookkeeper

Elite Accountants
Mullingar
05.2022 - 06.2022
  • Preparation of financial statements for sole traders, partnerships and companies
  • Preparation of monthly and quarterly management accounts for clients
  • Liaising directly with clients
  • Audit preparation
  • Processing Accounts Payable Invoices and reconciliation of creditors balances to statements
  • Sending debtors statements and follow up of outstanding debtors by phone and email
  • Process all returns and payments for RCT, VAT, PAYE & RDT, ensuring all revenue requirements are met and on-time
  • File the weekly PAYE Submissions on ROS and paying monthly statement of account.

ACCOUNTANT

BLIND SA
Johannesburg, Gauteng
01.2012 - 04.2021
  • Budgeting & Financial Management
  • Co-ordinated the annual budgeting process and consolidated the annual budgets for all departments and Governance
  • Ensured that approved budgets are accurately and timeously uploaded onto the financial system and that controls are in place to ensure that expenditure is valid, authorized and does not exceed the budget
  • Processed and/or reviewed journals for monthly processing
  • Reviewed and released all purchase requisitions ensuring that expenditure is correctly allocated and that a budget exists for the expenditure
  • Prepared and submitted statutory returns
  • Financial Reporting
  • Ensured that all financial entries that were processed into the general ledger were valid, accurate and processed timeously for operational and capital projects expenditure
  • Preparation and submission of annual financial statements and monthly management accounts
  • Reviewed all expenditure to ensure accurate allocation of costs
  • Analyzed and report on monthly variances on expenditure and implemented measures for cost containment
  • Regularly provided information to departmental managers and management so that they are cognizant of their expenditure
  • Preparation of payroll reconciliations to ensure that all personnel charges are correctly allocated
  • Ensured that all capital expenditure is capitalized
  • Accounts Payable
  • Reviewed invoices received for payments and ensured that these were authorized for payments and that cost center and cost element allocations were accurate
  • Managed the daily cash flow and reviewed the reconciliation of bank accounts to ensure that there were sufficient funds available for all Creditors payment runs
  • Prepared bank account reconciliations to ensure validity of all bank transactions
  • Reviewed invoices on the payment's proposal for the payment run
  • Authorized payments to vendors on
  • Ensured that creditors' ageing was followed up on and cleared timeously
  • Prepared monthly accruals for all valid expenditure that had not been recognized at month end
  • Asset Management
  • Capitalization of assets to the Asset Register timeously and accurately when assets were purchased
  • Reviewed and maintained the Asset Register periodically and ensured that all assets accurately reflected, and that all assets were still valid and in use
  • Reviewed the Depreciation calculation and ensured that it was accurate, and all assets were depreciated correctly
  • Prepared monthly general ledger reconciliations for assets and prepared the fixed asset notes to the Annual Financial Statements
  • Conducted physical verifications of Assets, obtaining of relevant information to ensure accuracy and integrity of data
  • Preparation of the fixed assets notes for the financial statements
  • Compliance & Governance
  • Assisted with the internal and external audits and ensured that all findings raised were addressed and recommendations made were implemented
  • Compiled comprehensive audit assistance working papers
  • Implemented corrective measures resulting from the audit reports
  • Ensured that adequate internal controls were in place and consistently complied with
  • Regularly reviewed and improved internal controls and maintained records to safeguard the company's assets
  • Ensured compliance to the requirements of the Companies Act, International Financial Reporting Standards, Public Finance
  • Management Act and Company policy
  • Regularly review existing policies and procedures in order to determine whether an update is required to these documents in order to adequately address current business conditions.

Bookkeeper

Bookmaster
Johannesburg
01.2011 - 12.2011
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Prepared Annual Financial Statements from information provided by clients
  • Trial Balances based on guidelines and recommendations as embodied in the IFRS, IAS and GAAP
  • Wrote up books of accounts, journalized entries pertaining to bad debts, asset disposals and finalized financials from documents supplied by clients
  • Bank statements, sales, and supplier invoices
  • Submitted SARS statutory returns
  • VAT, Income Tax, PAYE, UIF, IRP5s and SDL
  • Prepared schedules and documents supporting the financial statements
  • Subordination agreements in the event of insolvency, instalment sale agreements, finance leases, loan certificates, trade, and other receivables/ (payables), fixed asset registers
  • Emphasize accounting standards
  • IAS1:
  • Presentation of Financial statements: Notes to the Financials statements, Tax computations and supporting schedules
  • Repairs and maintenance; interest paid as required by SARS
  • Attended to clients under my portfolio regarding anything they may need
  • Prepared ad hoc reports as per Partner's request
  • Management accounts, Analytical review
  • Software implementation
  • Company administration

Audit Clerk

Mazhandu Charted Accountants
Harare
05.2002 - 06.2009
  • Reason for leaving: Relocated to South Africa
  • Key Responsibilities:
  • Prepared annual financial statements for companies, trusts, sole proprietors, close corporations and nonprofit making organizations
  • Reviewed the work of junior staff
  • Assisted the audit partner to manage assignments
  • Financial reporting and the analysis of the trial balance, Statement of Comprehensive Income, statement of financial position, statement of cash flow and statement of changes in equity according to IFRS, GAAP and Companies Act
  • Monthly management Accounts for clients
  • Internal and External Audits
  • Conducted risk-based audit assignments
  • Document information and transaction flows
  • Executed audit procedures and document findings
  • Prepared and referenced working papers
  • Conducted follow up audits and report to the partner
  • Prepare statutory audits
  • Draft working papers (process flows, sample sheets, in line with standards
  • Followed up on outstanding audit issues
  • Audit planning
  • Prepared Lead Schedules
  • Preparation of management and Accountant reports
  • Presentation of Audit Findings

Education

Chartered Management Accountants - CIMA -

CIMA

Higher National Diploma - Accountancy

Harare Polytechnic

Diploma - Accountancy

Harare Polytechnic

Certificate - Business Studies

Harare Polytechnic

Skills

  • Sage expertise
  • VAT return processing
  • Transactional accounting
  • Problem solving strength
  • MS Office expert
  • Account reconciliation
  • General ledger accounting expertise
  • Records management
  • Effective time management
  • Accounts payable specialist
  • Interpersonal communication skills
  • PAYE knowledge

Languages

English
Fluent

Timeline

Bookkeeper

Universal Floral Dublin
08.2022 - Current

Bookkeeper

Elite Accountants
05.2022 - 06.2022

ACCOUNTANT

BLIND SA
01.2012 - 04.2021

Bookkeeper

Bookmaster
01.2011 - 12.2011

Audit Clerk

Mazhandu Charted Accountants
05.2002 - 06.2009

Chartered Management Accountants - CIMA -

CIMA

Higher National Diploma - Accountancy

Harare Polytechnic

Diploma - Accountancy

Harare Polytechnic

Certificate - Business Studies

Harare Polytechnic

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