1. Curriculam Vitae
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: Gonasagrie Pather (Known as Cooksie)
Address: Unit 8
50 Grey Street
Kensington B
2194
Contact Numbers: (W) 011 – 879 0415
Cell: 082 829 5745
Identity Number: 6510050078080
Sex: Female
Marital Status: Divorced
Nationality: South African
Home Language: English
Health: Excellent
Drivers Licence: Code 08
Criminal Offences: None

2. EDUCATIONAL DETAILS
TERTIARY EDUCATION
Completed Qualification: Bcompt degree
Specialised in Accounting Sciences (Auditing, Accounting & Taxation)
Current: Studying towards my CIMA
Subjects passed: P1 – Performance operations
Certificates :
Course in Comunication skills (Dale Carnegie)
Certificate in Negotiation Skills
Advanced Excel
Certifificate on 2007 Microsoft Excel skills
Certificate in Credit Management
Certificate: Management skills training (DYNA)
Certificate : Cognos Training
SECONDARY EDUCATION
TONGAAT SECONDARY SCHOOL
1983 Matriculation
SUBJECTS:
English Physical Science
Afrikaans Biology
Mathematics Accounting

3. COMPUTER LITERACY
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Word
Hyperion(3years)
Pastel (1 year)
VIP
Sap
Oracle (23 Years)
Prologic (21 Years)
Accpac (8 months)
Cognos Planning
Cognos Analyst
Hyperion
Work Experience
Current Employment:
September 2010 – To Date
Name of Business: Regent Insurance
Position: Budget & MIS Manager
Key Functions:
- Buildingthe groupBudgetingapplicationonCognos
- Producingthe GroupBudgets& Forecasts
- Group profitabilityanalysis
- Liaisingwiththe businessunitstodetermine specificrequirements
- Ensuringthat all relevantusersare giventhe correctlevel of access
- Maintainingarollingforecastmodel =actualsplusrevisedbudgeton
a quarterlybasis
- Reviewandanalysisof forecaststobudgetsand actual
- Ensuringthat the 5 yearplanis deliveredtoIHwithindeadlines
- ProducingBoard/Excobudget
presentations -
- ProducingBoard/Excoreportingforrolling
forecasts
- Guidingstakeholderswiththe allocationof costs
- ManagementAccounts – Income statementper
businessunit. - - -
- Release payments

4. Previous Employment:
April 2010 – 30 August
Name of Business: Regent Insurance
Position: Head Office Accountant
Key Functions:
- Manage Creditors payments
- Manage the banking process
- Produce the budget versus actual for all expenses
- Explanations given for all variances
- Sign off on all reconciliations
- Sign off on all journals
- Release payments
Previous Employment:
January 2009 – January 2010
Name of Business: Trudon (Pty)Ltd
Position: Manager (Bills Receivable)
Key Functions:
- Reconcile Telkom billing tapes (debit and credit and rejections ) to Telkom payments
and clear reconciling items
- Reconcile Telkom GL account and Government pages GL account to Telkom’s
- Sign off All Telkom recons and Telkom accounts receivable documents
- Manage both TDS and Telkom Billing,
- Manage collections for VIPs’, Agencies (Collection and Advertising)
- Set up procedures to manage invoices
- Reconcile invoices
- Manage incorrect billing
- Mange contract billings cut off date
- Attend to AR audit requirements
- Distribute tax invoices and statements
- Set up procedures to ensure that collections is monitored effectively

5. - Ensure that collectors are monitored effectively
- Set up procedures to write off bad debts from collections or to go Legal and
interrupt prescription timeously,
- Set up procedures to meet set collection targets,
- Set up procedures to investigate and resolve disputes and liaise with Customer
Services and Legal Departments to elicit data
- Manage related expenses
- Ensure that exceptions are reported
- Develop and maintain billing rules and sign off rules,
- Setting up of procedures e.g. policy development for billing
- Staff management (developing work methods, setting standards and managing
performance
Previous Employment
Nov 2006 – Dec 2008
Name of Business: Edcon (Head Office)
Position: Assistant Financial Accountant/Systems Manager
Key Functions:
- Completion of Stats SA forms to Statistics SA and Reserve Bank
- Completions of RLC report and indentification and resolution of reclassifications to
RLC.
- Completion of Gross Profit analysis for all Chains within the Group ie (Edgars, Jet
and C N A)
- Reconciliation of all Group Level recons ie(Share Capital, Share Premium,
Intercompany and Fixed Assets)
- Completion of Fixed Assets schedule for the Management Book
- Development of TOPPs – supervise and explain all tasks
- Completion of 3 subsidiaries financials for the auditor at Year end.
- Completion of the Yearly Forecast which is done monthly for the Group
(Distributed to all Executives and board members)
- Assisting with the development od a new system (Budget and Reporting system)
- Control of cost centre allocation throughout the Group
- Procedures and Policies of Fixed Assets are adhered to throughout the Group
- Reconciliation of fixed assets by company and resposibility
- Ensure Fixed assets data are compliant with IFRS

6. 2004 – 2006
Name of Business: Edcon Manufacturing
Position: Project Controller
Key Functions:
- Monitoring and Achieving all projects
- Assisted Merchandising in achieving their targets and profit margins
- Audit of all recons in the company
- Assisting mangement with decision making
1986 – 2004
Name of Business: Edcon Manufacturing
Position: Various Positions (Management Accountant, Supervisor and Clerk)
Key Functions:
- Completion of the Yearly Forecast which is done monthly and submitted to the
Group
- Completion of Budgets – submitted to the Group
- Completion of Financials monthly – submitted to the Group
- Variance analysis
- Reconciliations of Recons
- Journals – created for corrections and allocations
- Managing the stock department
- Stock recons and reporting done monthly
- Stock takes dones every quarter- out of line situations reported and resolution
immediately done.
- Managing the payroll department
- Ensure the staff are paid on time
- Validate the exceptions and compare month on month reporting
- Costing verification – detail costing of garments
- Releasing of Payments
- Payments to : Creditors
Payroll
Forex

7. References
- Pat Grimbeek
Company: Edcon Manufacturing
Contact: 082 929 8009
Deon Naidoo (General Manager)
Company : Regent Insurance
011 879 2056
Manny Lazera (General Manager)
Company : Regent Insurance
0762366041
Achievements at Edcon
 Compiled policies and procedures for fixed assets
 Assisted IT with testing and creating the final structure for the income statement
and balance sheet.
 I was given the monthly management booklet to do in just 1 day for the first time
and I worked from 4pm to 11pm to complete the booklet. My manager
complimented me on my achievement.
 I was given the revaluation of fixed assets and to the amazement of my manager it
was done to perfection.
Achievements at Trudon
 Management reports for the Credit Department were created by me e.g.
Collections by month, Age Analysis by month, Debtors days by month, Ledger by
comments.
 Calculation of debtors’ days done by me for the first time this year.
 Increased collections compared to previous years
 Set targets for the Collection Team
 Monitor the progress twice a day.
 Send emails and sms to clients on amounts owing.
Achievements at Regent
 Worked on a new system Cognos for the first time
 Saved the company R300k to R500k on consulting fees.

8.  Worked on the system on my own without the use of a Consultant
 Compile the entire companies’ budget and meet all deadlines.