Vinolan Govender

Experience

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  Old Mutual South Africa

  Sept 2008 - Feb 2015

  Financial Accountant
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  Momentum

  Mar 2015 - Aug 2016

  Senior Fund Accountant

  . Fund management of 3rd largest parastatal with +- 38 billion rands under investment, and a back to back fund. Daily monitoring of 5 bank accounts per fund and appropriate funding levels maintained. Overseeing and co-ordinating the audit preparation, which entailed collating information from investments to benefits to present Financial Statements to auditors. Overseeing the audit process, dealing with all queries to resolution. Preparation/review of cashflows, bank recons. Authorisation of all payments foreign and local, all investments disinvestments. Dealing with all queries from all parties regarding funds under portfolio, which include PO, trustees, members. Investigation and resolution of General ledger issues. Dealing with the unitisation team to ensure all records properly accounted for on Funds, and calculation of profit /losses on Fund. Resolve queries from investment team, data team, benefits team.. All monthly reconciliations on Funds, (contributions, investments, benefits, expenses). All adhoc requests received from Fund secretary, Principal officer, ( eg. K48 submissions to Reserve Bank, expense budgets, etc) System Proficiency . caseware. Absa Trade finance, Nedbank banking, ABSA local banking. Benchmark. Great Plains. all Microsoft applications Show less

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  Maitland Financial Services

  Nov 2016 - Apr 2018

  Financial Accountant

   Currently on backlog project and clean up – completion of month end packs, investigations ( unallocated amounts allocations), to this includes monthly deliveries, and control account resolutions. Maintain client relationships, query resolutions via effective communications.  Preparation of reconciliations and investigations thereof Clean up of source funds for audit prep work (general ledger recons and resolution via manual journal entries) Constructing process documents for streamlining process on new templates, and testing Assisting on the caseware preparation and preparation for the annual audit, including caseware completion and Reg 28 prep and output of 6 Funds Assisting on all fronts requiring help, and assisting team with meeting deadlines Moved to Business analyst team to assist with current projects And adhoc stats compilation, H+L billing, statement processing, etc Show less

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  Maitland Financial Services

  Nov 2016 - Apr 2018

  Fund Accountant
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  Sygnia Asset Management

  Oct 2018 - Sept 2019

  Employee Benefits Fund Accountant

   Full fund accounting function for 22 standalone funds (12 terminated funds, 10 active funds). Includes daily unit price authorising, releasing and capturing where necessary investigations and queries thereof with asset houses and investments team.  Expense payments, daily investment and disinvestment requests (for benefit payments, and monthly contributions runs)  Weekly bank recon review and investigation/resolution there of. Monthly EMP201 submissions, EMP501 submissions, SARB reports, quarter management accounts Constructing process documents for streamlining new process on, and testing Preparation of annual financial statements for funds, including backlog of terminated funds AFS, investigation and resolutions thereof, including monthly ALM’s and investigation thereof, ( all completed on Excel) Major aim was to close down terminated Funds, dealing with actuaries, consultants, clients Dealing with queries from all fronts and investigations thereof  Assisting on all fronts requiring help, and assisting team with meeting deadlinesSystem Proficiency Microsoft office Everest (in house administration system for all daily and monthly responsibilities) Excel,  All banking applications including AccurateSkills: Process analysis, change, implementation, and document thereafter Working under extreme pressure, and how to cope, to ensure deadlines are met Fast learning – had to learn monthly new processes ( as each fund operated differently) Relationship building- in order to retrieve requested information Retirement process knowledge Strong computer skills and work arounds. Social committee head. Show less

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  Old Mutual South Africa

  Apr 2020 - Nov 2020

  Assistant Financial Accountant

  Fixed term Maternity Contract Month end processes which included, allocation/reallocation journals passed between balancing entities. Monthly reconciliations – Growth reasonability check, income statement checks, AUM recon, etc, investigation and fix before month close (5 days after month end) 5 day TB Checks to ensure all applicable data inputted, and correct entities used. Inter entity loan account analysis- investigation and rectification of imbalances (via journals) Final Trial balance checks and information updates for high level review Adhoc tasks which included, assist with updating of backlog recons from March 2020 till date. Loan account clearing between entities for years 2015-2019 Asset vs Liabilities investigations of old balances on product codes and suggested fix Assisted with the annual forecasting models for LIP Assisted with queries that came through from greater teams Show less