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Zernia  Smith

Zernia Smith

13 A Maclean Street, Wallaceville, Upper Hutt, Wellington,WGN

Summary

Dedicated Internal Auditor, have a strong financial background in my career journey. I hold a Btech: Internal Auditing degree and seven years of professional financial experience within the Public sector. My work has consistently been to the highest standards and my peers have complimented my contributions. I have a keen eye for detail and spotting errors. I am resourceful, ambitious and eager to take on a role that offers me greater autonomy and responsibilities and allows me to challenge myself more.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Accounts Assistant

NZ Police - Based at Royal New Zealand Police College
04.2025 - Current

Cash Management

-Monitor Department, Crown and Trust Bank Accounts.

-Prepare daily, weekly, monthly and annual cash forecasts for Crown and Departmental accounts.

-Operate the Corporate Online banking, ensuring payments are made in a timely manner.

-Arrange and process all overseas payments and foreign exchange cover.

-Upload the daily bank statement into the Police FMIS.

-Process cash drops.

-Identify, research and report on options for improving cash payments and receipts and associated processes within Police.

-Maintain bank signatories, including Trust Accounts signatories.

Reconciliations

-Reconcile all bank accounts monthly, promptly cleaning all reconciling items including miscellaneous credit, dishonoured cheques and returned payments.

-Follow up with Districts outstanding items in the following Balance Sheet accounts: Staff Travel Advances, Repayments, Unpaid items (dishonours), Petty cash advances, Payroll advances and overpayment, Unclaimed salary and wages, bank accounts.

-Reconcile all Departmental and Crown bank accounts.

-Clear reconciling items in Department and Crown bank accounts including miscellaneous credits, dishonored cheques and returned payments.

-Reconcile and prepare the accounting transactional required to account for Police overseas bank accounts.

-Reconcile the MasterCard Balance Sheet account and follow up outstanding items.

Forecasting

-Provide accurate and reliable Crown revenue forecasts for the current financial year.

-Complete cashflow forecast in order to maintain a reasonable cash position for NZ Police.

-Arrange for cash drawdown from NZ DMO as and when required.

Other Key Responsibilities

-Maintain the Westpac Trust MasterCard database.

-Manage the issue and collection of Police credit and prepay cards

-Complete all daily banking journals.

-Assist with the month end processing.

Senior State Accountant

Western Cape Provincial Government - South Africa (Head Office) Department of Health
10.2022 - 06.2024

-Monitoring electronic pay overs, the clearing of the adjustment accounts by

compiling manual pay overs at month end

-To clear ledger account within the relevant accounting month.

-Compile Finn 448’s and distribute to relevant Institutions.

-Ensure that beneficiaries are registered (new)/ maintained on PERSAL on

request from HR offices.

-Compile Annexure G for payments over R5 million for signature and submission

to Provincial Treasury (directly after PERSAL pay group closing dates).

-Monitoring institutions budgets for over spending and checking for irregularities

payments.

-Making budgets available for institutions if there is a demand.

-Visiting institutions to distinguish if compliance is adhere to the financial

instructions.

-Clearing Persal exceptions after every Persal run before the closing of the

applicable accounting month.

-Dealing with written and verbal queries from HR offices as well as the clearing of

the relevant ledger account.

-Verifying and checking of Cellphone claims where after processed on PERSAL.

Senior State Accountant

Western Cape Provincial Government (Head Office) Department of Health
03.2019 - 09.2022

-Attend to written queries which includes corrections on the Persal and Bas

systems

-Ensure journals compiled correct, relevant supporting documentation attached

and correct tax calculated.

-Return incorrect journal to relevant institution with clear instructions indicating

how to rectify incorrect journal.

-Authorize journals on BAS received from institution.

Amend tax certificates (IRP5) of journals received and process the journals.

-Compile monthly tax reconciliation Persal reports VS BAS reports.

-Request BAS report, compile the payment and submit it to SARS by EFT.

-Distribute tax certificates (IRP5) to relevant institution.

-Final recalculation on Persal system and indicating debt with added interest on

the Z102.

-Clearing tax exception report to request and correct the relevant report on a

quarterly basis.

-Finalizing and safe-keeping of monthly document control.

Senior State Accountant

Western Cape Provincial Government (Head Office) Department of Health
11.2017 - 02.2019

-Compile and capture general journals on BAS.

-Compile and capture special journals on BAS.

-Compile and capture sundry payments on BAS.

-Compile and capture debt take-on on BAS.

-Capture and pre-authorise payments on Logis.

-Safe custodian, petty cashier reliever & management of ledger accounts.

-Filling of source documents at the end of the month in a lockable cabinet.

-Draw invoice age analysis report (RR101).

-Draw stock issue and buyout reports (RM009 & RM011).

-Check the correctness of documents.

-Reconciling supplier’s statements.

-Reporting on Debtors monthly.

State Accountant

Western Cape Provincial Government (Head Office) Department of Health
11.2016 - 11.2017

-Draw matching report iro Inter Responsibility account daily

-Identify balances on report for implementation of claim

-Ensure all supporting documentation is correct as per financial instruction

G52/2011

-Incorrect documentation to be reversed to institutions

-Compile and capture journals to appropriate receivable account

-Compile claims (Z59) and submit to supervisor for sign-off

-Make copy of claims instated for office

-Maintain claims register (to be check weekly by supervisor).

-Registration of losses on the Central Loss Control System.

-Maintain and update Loss Control Register with the relevant central loss number

-Inform institution with the central loss number.

-Save keeping of documents.

-Keep spreadsheet of submission received from institutions in respect of write-off.

Accountant Intern

Western Cape Provincial Government - Worcester Hospital
10.2015 - 02.2016

-Capturing suppliers payments on Logis system

-Reconciliation of suppliers statements

-Enquiries on suppliers outstanding orders

-Sitting on vetting committee compiling minutes

-Checking on suppliers payments orders

-Maintaining a filing system by reconciling the payment number on the report

-Clearing of asset and liabilities accounts (inter responsibility, medscheme, salary

reverse, salary tax debt, debt suspense, pension recoverable)

-Compiling documentation and capturing all services on logis (konica Minolta) on a monthly basis

-Capturing payment of services rendered to on BAS (Basic Accounting System)

-BAS payments (salary related payments)

-Monthly utility payments

-Capturing journals

-Compiling tax recall journals

-Register entity on Bas

-Claims to other institution (hospitals)

-Engineering claims

-Kept payments on database.

-Debts take on, debts follow us, debt write-off and handing over to Vericredit.

-Keeping debt files in a save and secure environment

-Submitting of debt reporting to region

-Cashier: receiving of monies eg: patients monies.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Internal Auditing

Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Cape Town, South Africa
12.2016

Skills

    Computer Skills:

    Microsoft Access, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excell, Microsoft Powerpoint, Internet, Intranet, Pastel Accounting Version 5, Logis, Basic Accounting System (BAS), SAP, Persal

Languages

English
Full Professional
Afrikaans
Full Professional

Timeline

Accounts Assistant

NZ Police - Based at Royal New Zealand Police College
04.2025 - Current

Senior State Accountant

Western Cape Provincial Government - South Africa (Head Office) Department of Health
10.2022 - 06.2024

Senior State Accountant

Western Cape Provincial Government (Head Office) Department of Health
03.2019 - 09.2022

Senior State Accountant

Western Cape Provincial Government (Head Office) Department of Health
11.2017 - 02.2019

State Accountant

Western Cape Provincial Government (Head Office) Department of Health
11.2016 - 11.2017

Accountant Intern

Western Cape Provincial Government - Worcester Hospital
10.2015 - 02.2016

Bachelor of Science - Internal Auditing

Cape Peninsula University of Technology
Zernia Smith