Liziwe M.
✨ Newly AddedA short way to describe your primary role at Christine Valmy is: Accounts Payable Coordinator: Managed vendor invoices, processed payments, reconciled vendor statements, maintained accurate financial records, and supported month-end closing activities.
Notable Highlight
The candidate demonstrated extensive experience in end-to-end bookkeeping and accounts payable functions, including invoice processing, cashbook management, bank reconciliations, creditor and debtor management, journal processing, and financial reporting.
Experience Summary
The candidate brings more than 12 years of progressive accounting and bookkeeping experience across media, fleet management, mining services, funeral services, education, and government. In the current role as Cashbook/Creditors Clerk at PM, they process cashbooks, creditor payments, purchase orders, vendor onboarding, GL allocations, reconciliations, petty cash, and support audit compliance. Previous experience encompasses full bookkeeping responsibilities, debtor and creditor management, payroll processing, VAT and PAYE submissions, fixed asset management, intercompany journals, management accounts, and financial reporting using Pastel, Sage, and Microsoft Dynamics GP.
Key Achievements
The candidate held accounting positions with increasing responsibility over a 12-year career, gaining broad exposure to bookkeeping, accounts payable, payroll, taxation, and financial reporting. In their current role, they contributed to maintaining audit compliance and supporting the company's BBBEE audit requirements while ensuring accurate processing of creditor transactions and reconciliations. They managed complete bookkeeping functions, prepared management accounts, processed statutory submissions including VAT and PAYE, and maintained financial records across multiple business entities.
Skills
Skilled in accounts payable management, vendor reconciliations, QuickBooks, and Advanced Excel.
Work Experience
Cashbook/Creditors Clerk
PM · Johannesburg, Gauteng · Jul 2022 – Present
- Assist in securing Provantage level 1 BBBEE when required and during audit.
- Process transactions to cashbooks daily.
- Maintain and reconcile cashbooks to bank statements daily; investigate and resolve unallocated cash in a timely manner.
- Assist in preparation of cost/profit center reports by maintaining and providing analytical assistance.
- Ensure a clean audit report by complying with all relevant laws and regulations.
- Conduct vendor application documentation checks and load new suppliers on NAV.
- Confirm the validity of tax invoices and credit notes; ensure they have been duly approved.
- Process all transactions to correct division, GL account, and authorized according to management DLAs.
- Create purchase orders and process creditor invoices for payment.
- Process petty cash expense journals monthly with accurate reconciliations and proper cash counts; escalate discrepancies to management.
- Check aging on a monthly basis; follow up on long outstanding items and differences.
Bookkeeper
FDT · Johannesburg, Gauteng · Jan 2018 – Jun 2022
- Load debtors and creditors on the system.
- Capture company cashbook, process journals, and prepare management accounts.
- Process invoices, receipts, and payments using Pastel Evolution System.
- Reconcile and consolidate accounts for a group of companies.
- Process intercompany journals.
- Conduct debtors and creditors age analysis; follow up on overdue debt and debt collection.
- Process payroll on Pastel Partner Payroll.
- Process vehicle rental customer refunds.
- Verify customer documents.
- Process traffic fines.
- Liaise with insurance companies regarding accident claims.
- Liaise with branch managers regarding sales reports and branch profit and loss statements.
- Prepare and submit VAT, IT14, and PAYE returns.
- Maintain fixed assets register.
- Assist with administration of financial portfolio.
Bookkeeper
MASS · Johannesburg, Gauteng · Oct 2016 – Dec 2017
- Perform daily cash-up as cashier.
- Capture documents, invoices, receipts, and payments using Pastel Accounting System (Debtors).
- Reconcile bank statements, cash books, and Excel spreadsheets; send monthly statements to debtors.
- Reconcile documents according to information in files and system.
- Pass journals to adjust debtors accounts, petty cash, and age analysis.
- Follow up on overdue debt and debt collection (inbound and outbound).
- Manage creditors and debtors accounts.
- Capture company cashbook, process journals, and prepare management accounts using Pastel Accounting Software.
Accounting Clerk
BFS · Johannesburg, Gauteng · Oct 2015 – Sep 2016
- Process transactions for creditors, debtors, and cash book.
- Perform bank reconciliation.
- Process financial journals.
- Prepare management accounts and annual financial statements.
Debtors Clerk
LTC · East London, Eastern Cape · Sep 2013 – Sep 2015
- Capture documents, invoices, receipts, and payments using Pastel Accounting System (Debtors).
- Reconcile bank statements, cash books, and Excel spreadsheets.
- Reconcile documents according to information in files and system.
- Pass journals to adjust debtors accounts and conduct age analysis.
- Follow up on overdue debt and debt collection.
- Prepare payments and salaries using Pastel Payroll 2016.
- Capture employee master file contracts.
- Process payslips.
- Print and distribute payslips to registry.
- Print IRP5 using Easy File Employer.
- Prepare salaries, reconciliations, and tax payments.
- Reconcile SDL, UIF, and PAYE tax.
Trainee Finance (Salaries and Payments)
DOEEC · Eastern Cape · Mar 2012 – Aug 2013
- Update and capture employee master files, garnishee orders, leave gratuity, and long-term service records.
- Cancel stop orders and policies.
- Prepare payments.