Lorna Padayachee has over 20 years of experience in financial management and accounting in both public and private sectors. She currently serves as the Deputy Director of Financial Management at the Co-operative Banks Development Agency, overseeing financial management, accounting, risk management, and salary administration. Prior to this role, she held several senior financial management positions including Senior Manager at the Education Labour Relations Council and Finance Manager for the ELRC's Prevention Care Treatment and Access program. She possesses relevant financial qualifications and certificates and has experience in strategic planning, compliance, budgeting, and internal controls.
1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Loganayagie (Lorna) Padayachee
Unit No: 83, Parklands, Wren Road, Centurion
012 406 9080 / 0718827350
lornapadayachee@gmail.com / Lorna.Padayachee@treasury.gov.za
PERSONAL PROFILE
Lorna Padayachee has over twenty years of experience working in the financial and accounting environment. Her
strong financial knowledge and skills within public entities entail not only producing financial statements but also
dealing with internal control, financial policies, processes and procedures. Lorna has five years managerial
experience as a senior manager and is currently part of the senior management team at CBDA. She furthermore
gained experience in mentoring through the internship programme for junior bookkeepers which she currently
manages. She works in a multi-cultural environment and adapts to change easily. She is a team player and is
also effective in participating in a team leader role. Lorna’s discipline and sense of work ethic is one of her strong
attributes. She possess appropriate financial qualifications and certificates that underpins and enhance her ability
to perform at a senior level.
EXPERIENCE
Current: Deputy Director: Financial Management, Co-operative Banks
Development Agency (CBDA)
Responsibilities: Financial Management and Accounting
Compliance to PFMA and Treasury Regulation
Risk Management
Salary Management and Reporting
1 September 2009 to 15 March 2013: Senior Manager: Corporate Services, Education Labour
1 October 2005 to 31 December 2008: Relations Council (ELRC)
Responsibilities: Strategic and Operational Planning
Financial Management and Accounting
Compliance to PFMA and Treasury Regulation
Supply Chain Management
Human Resource Management
Major Achievement: Deliver a speech in behalf of the General Secretary to NATU trade union
on the role of the ELRC in education.
Attended and coordinated the delegation to the 2006 International
Industrial Relations Association (IIRA) conference in Peru
1 January 2009 to 31 August 2009: Finance Manager – Secondment, ELRC – Prevention Care
Treatment and Access (PCTA)
Responsibilities: Strategic and Operational Planning
Financial Management and Accounting
General Management
Compliance to US Government Regulation
Major Achievement: In 2009 addressed NATU educators in Escourt on the role of PCTA and
the importance of getting tested for HIV/AID.
Part of the PCTA project management team for the hosting and
conceptualizing the theme for the evening dinner of the Education
Summit.
1 November 2000 to 30 September 2005: Administrator: Corporate Services, ELRC
Responsibilities Financial Management
Payroll Administration
Provisioning/Procurement
Building Administration
Major Achievement: In 2002 was appointed treasurer of the Education Convention held in
Port Elizabeth with a budget of 5, 2 million.
1 July 2000 to October 2000: Senior Bookkeeper, Ebden and Templar CA
Responsibilities: Debtors and Creditors Management
Management reports
Budgeting and Cash Flow Projections
2. 1 February 1999 to 30 June 2000: Assistant Financial Manager, Nkobi Holding (Pty) Ltd
Responsibilities: Debtors and Creditors Management
Payroll Administration
Provisioning/Procurement
1 August 1998 to 31 January 1999: Accounts Clerk, Medicross Healthcare Group
Responsibilities: Creditors Management
Payment Management
1 August 1994 to 31 July 1998: Senior Bookkeeper, Kishnore Ragunadan & Company
Responsibilities: Management Accounts for Clients
Debtors and Creditors Management of 3 companies
Improve and implement effective and efficient internal control systems for
clients
Tax Administration
Major Achievement: In 1996 was given an opportunity to go to Botswana by a client to
implement an accounting system.
Was part of the team in 1998 to produce a quality management system
for a client resulting in ISO9002 registration.
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
1989: Matriculated, Meadowland Secondary, Chatsworth, Durban
1992: Diploma in Internal Auditing, M.L Sultan Technikon, Durban
1998: Bachelor of Technology in Internal Auditing, M.L Sultan Technikon, Durban
2015: Programme in Risk Management, UNISA, Pretoria
ADDITIONAL COURSES/PROGRAMMES
2004: Skills Development Facilitation, Services SETA, Johannesburg
Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), Pro-active College, Pretoria
2005: SAIM in Business Management, UNISA, Pretoria
2007: Management Development Programme (MDP), UNISA Graduate School of Business Leadership, Pretoria
2010: Higher Certificate in Management, Foundation for Professional Development (FDP), Pretoria
2011: Programme in Public Procurement and Supply Management, UNISA, Pretoria
Pastel Certified Administrator, Pastel Payroll, Pretoria
2014: Microsoft Excel 2010 Advance Formulas, Bytes People Solution, Pretoria
2015: Effective Business Writing Skills, Stratexec Praesto, Pretoria
Managing for Results, Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)-University of Pretoria,
Johannesburg
COMPUTER SKILLS
Software Packages: Microsoft Office and Excel, Powerpoint, XP
Accounting Packages: AccPAC, Pastel
Payroll Packages: VIP and Pastel Payroll
Banking Systems: Cash Focus (ABSA), Nedexe and Nedinform (Nedbank) and FNB
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: 15 April 1972
ID: 7204150080084
Driver’s Licence: Code 08
Marital Status: Single
Gender: Female
REFERENCES
References are available upon request.