Steyn Schneider

Experience

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  RSM South Africa

  Mar 2006 - Aug 2009

  • Supervision of staff on audits and managing audit teams• Reviewing work of junior staff members• Ensuring that worked performed by junior staff complies with IFRS and ISA• Assisting staff on questions • Assisting on various administrative tasks• Interacting with clients and planning audit and relevant staff Job Description and responsibilities:Assisting on the audit of various entities, including the following industries: • Import and export of goods • Manufacturing of goods • Investment companies • Property holding companies • Farming and related activities • Consolidation of complex group entities • Services company• Trusts • Foreign companies Completion of three year training contract.

  • Audit supervisor

    Mar 2009 - Aug 2009

  • Audit trainee

    Mar 2006 - Feb 2009
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  RSM Tenon now RSM UK

  Feb 2009 - Apr 2009

  Audit senior

  Secondment program from South Africa to the UK.

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  Newton Johnson

  Aug 2009 - Oct 2010

  Financial manager

  • Supervision of accounting and admin department and accounting staff • Responsible for the accounts of three companies • Producing management accounts on a monthly basis• Producing statutory financial statements for the yearly audit• Preparation of the audit packs• Liaising with the auditors and ensuring the audit of the group companies is completed within the allotted timeframe.• Managing the foreign exchange exposure as well as converting foreign currency to ZAR at the appropriate time• Stock management• Costing of stock items• Maintaining suspense accounts• Ensuring that all statutory returns are completed and submitted timeously• Authorising payments• Review reconciliations (creditors, bank etc.) and month end procedures• Paying salaries• Assisting with tax planning• Ensuring that controls and systems are in force to mitigate risks• Liaising with the bank• Cash flow management• Assisting on various administrative and general management tasks• Consolidation of the group entities• Keeping a schedule of the group balances ensuring that they balance at all times. Show less

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  Baker Tilly BVI

  Nov 2010 - Jul 2012

  Audit Associate level II

  • Liaising with clients regarding deadlines and various queries• Auditing of Mutual funds and Investment companies • Auditing of Investment managers • Auditing of Trust companies • Auditing of various financial services entities• Planning, performing and finalisation of audits• Compiling the financial statements according to IFRS• Implementing IFRS for SMEs and thus saving costs and time in completing the audit• Consolidation of group entities, ensuring that all foreign entities are translated to the reporting currency and thus ensuring the correct treatment of the FCTR. Ensuring that all intercompany transactions and balances are eliminated on consolidation.• Assisting in the Insolvency department:o Preparation of various insolvency documentso Filing the documents on the Registry’s electronic systemo Assisting in the administration of various clientso Start and completion of Members Voluntary Liquidations (MVL’s)o Liaising with the registered agents regarding liquidations and timelines. Show less

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  KPMG in the Crown Dependencies

  Oct 2012 - Feb 2015

  Audit Supervisor

  Job Description and responsibilities: • Liaising with clients regarding deadlines and various queries• Auditing exposure to the following types of clients: o Mutual funds and Investment companies o Captive insurance companieso Travel agentso Venture capital companieso New York entitieso Software companieso AIM and JSE listed entitieso Investment property companieso Consolidation of group entities in various different currencies• Reviewing work of junior staff members• Ensuring that worked performed by junior staff complies with IFRS and ISA• Assisting on various administrative tasks• Supporting staff on queries with the Audit software and resolving errors• Training junior staff on accounting and audit principles (KPMG Audit Methodology)• IPO’s and Public offering of various companies. Show less

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  Schneider Consolidated Inc.

  Mar 2015 - now

  Business Owner

  Schneider Consolidated is a chartered accounting and business consultation practice that is registered with the South Africa Institute of Chartered Accountants.Our vision is to assist every entrepreneur in tailoring their ideas into profitable businesses, to foster close business relationships with our clients and provide tailor-made solutions for their individual needs, albeit accounting, taxation, business advice etc. We will provide you with relevant business advice, quality accounting services and up-to-date tax services to assist you in to growing their business and assisting you in making meaningful decisions.Being CA(SA) and Tax Practitioner we function as a outsourced CFO to our clients. In addition to providing the normal IFRS compliant financial accounting, tax and payroll services, we also assist our clients with the following:- Business process improvements and implementing financial and operational systems that are efficient and effective- Analyse the business risks and implementing systems and procedure to minimise the risks- Budgeting and projections- All statutory compliance and entity structuring- Ownership structures- Assessing and implementing relevant financial and internal controls- Complex tax matters and ensuring that all exemptions and deductions in terms of the various tax acts are utilised- Estate and Trust planning, also the administration of their deceased estates- Various other ad hoc services that my clients may needWe also stay up to date on the latest laws and regulations to ensure that proactive with these new changes and ready for their implementation Show less