Fawzia Cassim

I have the leadership qualities, technical knowledge and a strategic finesse to 
manage the key areas of finance and business. I can create, add and deliver 
value in a business. 
 I can manage and control performance of a team. I am a team player and 
always willing to empower my team to increase productivity, efficiencies and 
effectiveness. 
I am a valuable asset to a business by striving to always assisting in driving a 
business forward whether being in digitalisation or achieving the mission and 
vision of the business.

Company Name : STRATOSAT DATACOM AND
SCHAUENBURG INTERNATIONAL
Line of Service : 1. Satellite and Telecommunications
2. Turnkey mining safety solutions and
management including development of new
products
Duration : April 2017 to current
Position : Group Financial Controller
Reporting line Directly to CEO and to CFO. 2IC to CFO.
Responsibilities
1. Management of all Finance including internal control systems, compliance with
IFRS and all related regulations, Companies Act, taxation and operational
requirements for 8 entities: Stratosat Datacom Pty, Stratosat Datacom SA,
Stratosat Datacom DRC, Stratosat Datacom Mozambique, Stratosat Datacom
West Africa (Nigeria), Schauenburg Pty, Schauenburg Systems, Stonewade
Properties.
2. Group Financial Controller for the Stratosat and Schauenburg Group.
3. Direct management of Group Financial Manager and Group Treasury.
4. Indirect reports of 3 Accountants, 3 creditor clerks, 3 debtor controllers and 2
finance administrators.
5. Indirect management of the operational team in South Africa, Nigeria, DRC and
Mozambique.
6. Reviewing reconciliations of all entities produced by the accountants and
resolving queries.
7. Liaising with consultants in local and foreign countries to ensure in country
regulations are complied and regulatory submissions done timeously.
8. Reviewing debtors, creditors, stock, fixed assets and all general ledger accounts
9. for all 8 entities to ensure accuracy.
10. Liaising with foreign and local country auditors to ensure that all audit
requirements are met.
11. Verifying and releasing payments for all entities.
12. Resolving both financial and operational queries daily
13. Approving of purchase requisitions for all entities to ensure operating expenses
and capital expenditure in line with budget.
14. Reviewing monthly reporting to Germany for all entities.
15. Preparing consolidated monthly reporting to load onto the German Lucanet
system.
16. Presenting monthly management reports for 8 entities to the German
shareholders and local EXCO.
17. Reviewing, analysing and presenting the annual budget to the shareholders
from Germany.
18. Revising the forecast quarterly for all entities.
19. Controlling of the audit for all entities.
20. Preparing and presenting AGM presentations for all entities.
21. Preparing audit packs for German consolidation and ensuring sign off trial
balance by auditors.
22. Preparing intercompany confirmations and schedules across the group.
23. Reviewing and approving payroll and related expense claims from employees.
24. Assisting with HR matters.
25. Managing the project accounting on major projects in all entities.
26. Driving processes and procedures with procurement, shipping, projects teams
and sales to ensure that all processes and procedures are adhered to.
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27. Preparing costing of bigger projects with the operational team.
28. Custodian of the accounting system to ensure it is working at its optimum.
Generating new reports to ensure ease of reporting.
29. Implementation of new modules on the accounting system.
30. Implementation together with BI controller on the new and upgrade of
accounting system.
31. Training both local and foreign staff on policies and procedures.
32. Training accountants on IFRS.
33. Collaboration with shareholders, CEO and CFO with costing and analysis of
any projects and strategy.
34. Documenting formal policies and procedures.
35. Ensuring that the Finance and operational team is performing as required.
36. Assist with cashflow management and debt collection.
37. Approval for lawyers to take the next step in the debt collection process.
38. Sign off credit terms for new customers using information from Experian.
39. Review and consolidate the budget templates and presentations for the group,
for sign off by Shareholders.
40. Consideration of the foreign exchange between source and functional
currencies on revaluations and foreign payments.
41. Prepare and pay provisional tax for the South African entities on SARS e-filing.
42. Review of tax packs for tax return submission
43. Reviewing and submitting the final tax returns (IT14SD) for a financial year on
SARS e-filing.
44. Instrumental in the changeover process on the implementation of Syspro.
45. Review financial performance of operating companies and investigate deviation
from budgets and forecasts.
46. Interpret and analyze financial performance.
47. Troubleshoot problems identified to determine root cause of issue and
recommend corrective action.
48. Preparation of year-end reporting packages to the auditors and to Germany
49. Preparation of financial statement workings for financial statement preparation.
50. Review of engineering project costing (IP development costing), comparison to
capex budget and product feasibility study
51. Financial advice and commercial support to other departments and colleagues
to enable them to make sound business decisions.
52. Assist in internal controls and procedures reviews and changes, to ensure
efficient and proper controls.
53. Review and evaluations of cost-reductions opportunities.
Reason for leaving: Career advancement limited at my current place of employ. A
position that will progress my career to the next level.

PREVIOUS
Company Name : FRASER ALEXANDER
Line of Service : Mining and Construction Services
Duration : March 2016 to March 2017
Position : Group Reporting Accountant and
Treasury Manager
Responsibilities
1. Preparing the monthly flash or quick results at month end to see the status of
the results per division on a local and foreign split.
2. Process consolidation journal entries and consolidate all divisional trial
balances to produce a consolidated set of statements. Review the consolidated
monthly, year to date and forecasted 12 month results by analyzing and
reviewing the divisional accountants reporting packs.
3. Calculate the utilization of the HP facility to be disclosed in monthly reports
supplied to CFO.
4. Calculate debtor and creditor days per division and calculate the consolidated
debtor and creditor days.
5. Reconcile the consolidated Fixed assets to the divisional fixed asset registers.
6. Calculate the debt covenants for each banking institute to determine if we have
not breached the covenants as stipulated in the facility letters.
7. Collate the guarantees Fraser has with different institutes on a monthly basis.
8. Prepare the reporting pack for the CFO including the statement of profit and
loss, statement of financial position and the statement of cash flow.
9. A report with a table containing various ratios and current and previous period
month, year to date and forecast results and preparing various graphs on a
monthly for the CFO to include in his monthly board report.
10. Mapping and uploading the consolidated trial balance on the template on TM1.
11. Prepare the variance analysis figures and explanations on the variances
between budget and actuals required by the holding company, MOGS, on a
monthly basis. All additional reporting required by MOGS on a monthly basis.
12. Complete the Capex schedule disclosures required by the CFO.
13. Prepare an overhead comparison between budget and actuals on a monthly
basis.
14. Compile a high level dashboard with key information required by CFO to
present to the board as a snapshot of the finances of the company.
15. Compile ad hoc presentations for the CFO as need be, example a presentation
to the AMCU union.
16. Managing the daily treasury requirements of the business. Example by
transferring funds from the call account into the business current account as
need arises based on cashflow.
17. Generating a 6 month cashflow template on a weekly basis for the divisional
accountants to complete for their respective division.
18. Consolidate the divisional cashflow templates into a group cashflow and
summarise the cashflow for the CFO to establish our forecasted 6 monthly cash
position.
19. Keeping user profiles up to date by adding new and removing users that have
left.
20. Instructing the company secretary’s office to draw new resolutions on
authorized signatories on various facilities, if need be.
21. Add or change user profiles as requests arise.
22. Provide information to finance information when credit risk analysis is being
done on Fraser to increase or create new facility.
23. All treasury requirements of all division and Group.
24. Preparing all mappings and all sets of Annual Financial Statements for Fraser
Alexander.
25. Assisting the auditors with queries during the audit.
26. Assisting the divisional accountant with the compliance with IFRS.
Reason for leaving: s189- retrenchments initiated. Require stability.
PREVIOUS
Company Name : BABCOCK EQUIPMENT
Line of Service : Retail of Heavy Machinery
Duration : April 2014 to February 2016
Position : Promoted to Management Accountant
Responsibilities
1. Management of the driver and Wage Officer:
 Ensure that the driver complies with company policy.
 Review the wage hours captured by the wage officer is accurate.
 Ensure that the wage officer submits wages timeously for payment to be made.
2. Monthly machine Forecast compiled and submitted to directors and line
managers on a weekly basis.
3. Parts Report compiled with actual versus budget figures on a weekly and
communicated to directors and line managers.
4. Workshop Reports compiled with actual versus budget figures on a weekly basis
and communicated to directors Manage the jobs on work in progress in the
workshop on SAP and report these jobs to the foreman and workshop
managers.
5. Review accuracy of workshop jobs and release the jobs on SAP.
6. Assist with errors and with queries on jobs nationally.
7. Perform a due diligence on commissions before being paid to salesman.
8. Manage the general ledgers by opening new branches, cost centres and general
ledger accounts on SAP.
9. Look at cost adjustments on machine stock and reallocate into the correct
accounts.
10. Manage the extended warranty on machines and ensure that the provision and
revenue is recognized correctly.
11. Perform month end procedures to close off the workshop modules on SAP.
12. Reconcile sales and cost of sales from the general ledger to the SAP sales
reports on a monthly basis
13. Reconcile and compile a list of Goods in Transit and accrue for the stock and
creditor in SAP on a monthly basis.
14. Reconcile salaries, wages and subcontractors and upload in SAP.
15. Reconcile and generate and monthly workshop report in SAP to the general
ledger with actual versus budget results on a monthly basis.
16. Generate a monthly report displaying parts budget versus actual results on a
monthly basis.
17. Generate a monthly report for Top 20 parts customers.
18. Review service agreements and ensure that the provision and cost are
accurately recognized.
19. Generate a monthly report of actual machine units sold and machine sales
versus budget.
20. Report on the Top 20 customers machines were sold to.
21. Reconcile machine sales as per the ledger to the sales reports on a monthly
basis.
22. Generate a monthly Stock Ageing report.
23. A monthly ageing and per customer work in progress report is generated.
24. Complete the staff report on a monthly basis. Reconcile the salaries and wages
staff numbers from the payroll reports to the staff report generated monthly for
the management reporting pack.
25. Generating the Top 30 creditor report. Accurately generate the Top 30 creditors
report to insert in the management reporting pack on a monthly basis
26. Compile all monthly reports from Cognos and all reports generated above in a
bound book for the directors and Group CFO and CEO.
27. Perform monthly general ledger reconciliations. Accurately reconcile the
balance sheet accounts as per SAP to supporting schedules for review by the
Financial Manager.
28. Generate ad hoc reports to assist directors with decision making.
29. Manage the Budgeting process:
 Circulate the 30 budget templates to the commercial managers around
the country.
 Ensure that all templates are returned by managers by the deadline.
 Review all the returned budget templates for reasonability and
accuracy.
 Communicate corrections to be made by the managers.
 Consolidate the individual budget templates into regions and into a
combined company.
 Organize the budget meeting with all the directors, commercial
managers, sales managers and workshop managers to discuss
reasonability of the budgets.
 Adjust budgets with director’s suggestions and comments.
 Finalise budgets with directors.
 Input the budgeted figures in the Cognos budget pack to be submitted
to the UK.
Reason for leaving: Had been with the company for more than 5 years. No further
career growth.
Company Name : BABCOCK EQUIPMENT
Line of Service : Retail of Heavy Machinery
Duration : October 2011 to March 2014
Position : Financial Accountant
Responsibilities
1. Managing staff comprising of 3 creditor clerks, a senior creditor clerk, a creditor
supervisor, a cashbook clerk and a financial assistant.
2. Instrumental in restructuring the finance department by making temporary staff
permanent and creating new positions to ensure a successful shared finance
support centre.
3. Implementation of change management and take on of SAP in all African
subsidiaries.
4. Responsibilities in respect of the creditors department:
 Review of the local creditor reconciliations on a monthly basis. Ensure the
statement and creditor ledger balances on the reconciliation balances and all
information on the supporting documentation is complete and accurate.
 Analyse the creditor’s ageing and the Goods Received Not invoiced. Follow up with
creditors department on items greater than 60 days on these reports.
 Review the foreign reconciliations. Foreign creditor invoices to be signed off my
management and paid timeously.
5. Management of cashbook.:
 All responsibilities and tasks performed by the cashbook to be completed
accurately, efficiently and timeously.
 Review all payments loaded on the online banking system. Review the accuracy of
account allocation of the payment and the valid authorisation obtained.
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 Review the guesthouses, Vodacom and Nashua allocations. Review the accuracy
of account allocation on these accounts.
 Bank balances as per the bank statement matches the general ledgers on SAP and
all cashbook accounts cleared at month end. All correct bank allocations have been
performed accurately at month end.
 Track the rental and electricity payments. Use a schedule to track which rentals and
electricity payments that have not been paid and follow up with cashbook for
payment.
 Releasing banking details on the online banking system. Match the banking details
as per the cancelled cheque or letter from the bank to the details on the online
banking system before releasing the payments.
 An alternate “B” signatory on the online banking system. Verify documents and
payments before releasing the payment on the online banking system.
 Release foreign funds received. Obtain accurate information from debtors to
release foreign funds received by the bank.
6. Management of the Financial Assistant:
 All responsibilities and tasks performed by the financial assistant to be completed
accurately, efficiently and timeously.
 Review of Capex submitted for approval and the Capex budget monthly report.
 Ensure all the details completed on the electronic Capex is accurate before being
released for the Financial Manager’s approval. Review the accuracy and neatness
of the monthly Capex budget report before being compiled in the management
reporting pack.
 Review all staff expenses and petty cash before payment. Review the allocations
and authorisations on all staff expenses and petty cash before payment and
posting.
7. Perform weekly cashflow. Balance the weekly cashflow to the actual bank
balances. Assist in forecasting weekly payments.
8. Monthly Stannic allocations. Allocate all petrol, maintenance and Vat allocations as
per the Stannic report. Post the general journal in SAP balancing to the monthly
Stannic report.
9. Monthly Netstar allocations. Allocate all Netstar allocations balancing to the
Netstar invoices
10. Resolving creditor, cashbook, the financial assistance’s queries and general
finance queries. Finding effective solutions to all queries that remain unresolved
due to the complexity.
11. Process general journals to fix incorrect allocations. Review general ledger
accounts and process journals to fix the errors in the general ledger.
12. Processing trade ins on machines. Accurately process the trade ins on machines
and ensure that they offset against debtors or payments are made to customers
timeously.
13. Processing ad hoc unallocated debtors. Accurately allocate the ad hoc receipts
from the unallocated debtors account to the correct general ledger account.
14. Upload monthly Vat return on SARS e-filing.. Reconcile the Vat in SAP to the
Sales reports and the import documents for review by the Financial Manager.
Upload Vat return on SARS e-filing within the required deadline.
15. Run month end procedures. Perform all month end procedures accurately on SAP
at month end and run all relevant reports used to produce monthly results.
16. Update Foreign exchange rates on SAP. Update the foreign exchange rates using
a reputable website’s rates on month end so foreign creditors are accurately
revalued at month end.
17. Revalue foreign petty cash on hand. Revalue and post the revaluation of foreign
petty cash on hand to equal the foreign exchange rates at month end.
18. Update the lease schedule on a monthly basis for the lease smoothing calculation.
Update the lease smoothing calculation with the accurate rental amounts and the
current lease agreements. Calculate the lease smoothing journal and process the
journal in SAP before the close of the financial period.
19. Perform the reallocation of interest on machines and the IAS 18 calculation.
Accurately update the calculation with all new machines and rental agreements to
obtain the correct value to update at month end.
20. Calculate the IFRS FEC adjustment on a monthly basis. Update the schedules
with all the new machines purchased and sold, creditor payments and FEC MTM
sheet to accurately calculate the IFRS journals on a monthly basis.
21. Complete the Cognos reporting pack on a monthly basis. Balance the income
statement and balance sheet and complete all the supporting schedules in the
workbook before uploading onto the Cognos system by midday on the
Wednesday after month end.
22. Complete the staff report on a monthly basis. Reconcile the salaries and
wages staff numbers from the payroll reports to the staff report generated
monthly for the management reporting pack.
23. Complete the FEC schedule and Foreign Exchange schedules on a monthly
basis. Accurately complete the FEC schedule and Foreign Exchange
schedules agreeing to the FEC MTM sheet and the foreign vendor accounts
on SAP. This is then submitted to head office.
24. Generating the Top 30 creditor report. Accurately generate the Top 30
creditors report to insert in the management reporting pack on a monthly
basis.
25. Perform monthly general ledger reconciliations. Accurately reconcile the
balance sheet accounts as per SAP to supporting schedules for review by the
Financial Manager.
26. Reconcile the Volvo Sweden account. Ensure that all invoices are processed
on the Volvo Sweden creditor’s ledger. Reconcile from the statement to the
creditor ledger. Resolve all queries on the account.
27. Submit cell phone deductions to payroll. Reconcile the cell phone deductions
for sign off by the financial director. Submit the deductions to payroll by the 7th
of every month.
28. Information to be submitted to the Reserve Bank. Compile accurate
information that is submitted on the Reserve bank disclosure.
29. Compile information for the tax pack. Accurately complete sections of the tax
pack for submission to head office.
30. Involvement in satisfying audit requirements and samples required by the
auditors. Timeously submit documents to the auditors and ensure that
complete, accurate and valid information is given to the auditors.
31. Instrumental in the mapping and implementation of improved reporting on
SAP.
32. Assist with compliance with the ISO standards. Providing accurate and
detailed information on the finance processes being performed.
PREVIOUS
Company Name : PG BISON LTD
Line of Service : Manufacturing
Duration : January 2010 to September 2011
Position : Financial Accountant
Responsibilities
1. Manage group costs such as Canon, Tracker and Fleet costs.
2. Update the fleet information with Wesbank and on the PG BISON ERP system.
3. Liaise with Wesbank on reviewing the monthly exception reports.
4. Report Wesbank exceptions to the respective drivers to obtain explanations.
5. Upload journals for Canon, Tracker and Wesbank into the different costs centres
and operating units.
6. Implement modifications to the PG BISON ERP system to assist in managing the
business effectively and efficiently.
7. Report car allowance figures to the payroll department.
8. Review monthly creditor’s reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness.
9. Administrator on the Online banking system.
10. Authorise once off and batch payments on the online banking system.
11. Assist in managing the daily cashflow and to Deal on a daily basis to borrow or
repay PG BISON loan facilities to save interest.
12. Revalue the foreign accounts on a monthly basis recording the foreign exchange
gain or loss.
13. Do reconciliation for certain balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis.
14. Generate intercompany invoicing on a monthly basis.
15. Prepare and effect intercompany payments on a monthly basis.
16. Post the intercompany journals on a monthly basis to the integrated intercompany
accounts.
17. Perform the intercompany loan, debtor and creditor reconciliations.
18. Obtain explanations and correct the intercompany accounts which are not
balanced.
19. Compile an intercompany schedule containing intercompany sales, debtors and
creditors to eliminate from the Steinhoff International accounting reporting pack.
20. Preparing and compilation of the signed intercompany confirmations for audit
purposes.
21. Analyse the internet banking profiles to ensure segregation of duties.
22. Compiled the creditor reconciliation template to ensure uniformity of
reconciliations.
23. Assisting in resolving audit issues by implementing controls.
24. Updating the company accounting policies.
25. Assisting in completing the quarterly and annual reporting packs including the
financial statements and the relevant disclosures.
26. Completing the relevant disclosure schedules for all the companies to be filled in
the reporting packs such as the provision schedules.
27. Compiled a mapping tool to insert the trial balance and map the accounts into the
different categories in the Statement of comprehensive income, Statement of
Financial Position and related disclosures.
28. Mapping and completing the intercompany schedules on all the company’s
reporting packs.
29. Completing the foreign company reporting packs which includes the financial
statements.
30. Prepare Vat schedules and calculate Vat to submit Vat returns for all companies
on e-filing.
31. Assisting auditors with compiling information for the audit.
Reason for leaving: Head hunted by same recruiter for a more senior position at a
multinational company.
PREVIOUS
Company Name : PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc.
Line of Service : Assurance (Auditing)
Duration : January 2007 to December 2009
Position : Accountant 4
Reference : Zaheera Surtee (Manager)
SAICA Articles completed and signed off : 31 December 2009
The following clients have been audited in my portfolio:
Pharmaceuticals
1. sanofi-aventis south Africa.
2. Glaxosmithkline.
Manufacturing and Engineering
3. NECSA (Government Organisation).
4. Tenova Pyromet (Pty) Ltd (Engineering and Construction)
5. Fifer Bakery (Pty) Ltd.
6. Caterpillar Africa.
7. MSA Africa (Pty) Ltd.
8. KHS Manufacturing.
9. Eriez Magnetics (Pty) Ltd
Retail and Service Providers
10. Heidelberg Graphics.
11. PSG Konsult Insurance.
12. Educor Holdings (Education).
13. Medhold Medical.
14. Swissport (Pty) Ltd (Airport services)
15. Kwa-Zulu Natal Medical Aid
16. Anglo American Properties.
17. Puregas (Pty) Ltd.
18. Sizwe Medical Aid.
19. Cheiron Health Medical Aid.
20. Lexmark International SA
Banks
21. ABSA
I have applied my financial accounting, management accounting, tax and auditing
knowledge at these clients to ensure compliance of the
a. International Financial Reporting Standards,
b. Companies Act,
c. Income Tax Act,
d. Vat Act and
e. International Auditing Standards
f. Reconciling management accounts to the general ledger.
g. Applying analytical procedures in analyzing management accounts.
Reason for leaving: End of trainee contract. SAICA articles signed off

SECONDARY EDUCATION
School Attended : Queensburgh Girls High
Highest Standard Passed : Matric Exemption with Distinction
Year : 1998 – 2002
Subjects : English (HG) A
Afrikaans (HG) A
Mathematics (HG) A
Biology (HG) A
Physical Science (HG) B
Accounting (HG) A
Computer Studies (HG) B
TERTIARY EDUCATION
Completed
University : University of KwaZulu - Natal
Faculty : Management Studies
Degree : Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting
Subjects completed for 1st year : Accounting I
Economics I
Commercial Law I
Information Systems & Technology
Maths C
Stats C
Achievement : Deans Commendation
Subjects completed for 2nd year : Accounting II
Economics II
Commercial Law II
Accounting Information Systems II
Organisation and Management
Achievement : Deans Commendation
Subjects completed in 3rd year : Accounting III
Managerial Accounting and Finance III
Taxation III
Auditing III

University : UNISA
Postgraduate : BCompt (Honours): Honours in Financial
Accounting and Management Accounting
Subjects Completed : Auditing 4
Managerial Accounting and Finance 4
Taxation 4
Financial Accounting 4
PROFESSIONAL BODY
Articles with PwC completed and signed off with SAICA.
Registered with SAICA as an AGA(SA). Membership number 09114141.
I am a Commissioner of Oaths.
CHARTERED GLOBAL MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT QUALIFICATION
CURRENT STUDIES
CIMA: Strategic Level
E3: Strategic Management
P3: Risk Management
F3: Financial Strategy
Strategic Case Study
2020 Completed
CIMA: Management Level
E2: Managing Performance
P2: Advanced Management Accounting
F2: Advanced Financial Accounting
Management Case Study
Qualification achieved: Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting (CIMA Adv
Dip MA)
2019 Completed
CIMA: Operational Level
E1: Organizational Management
P1: Management Accounting
F1: Financial Accounting
Operational Case Study
Qualification achieved: Diploma in Management Accounting (CIMA Dip MA)