1. LUMKA SHIRLEY MGILANE
Occupation Auditor / Accountant
Gender Female
Nationality South African
Ethnic Group Black
Language English, Xhosa, Zulu
Drivers Licence Code 08
Desired job location Durban
Current Employer Transnet Pipelines.
Availability One Month notice
Contact Details
Cell phone +27 83 402 6462
Email lumka.mgilane68@gmail.com
Residential Location Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Professional Profile
A recently qualified Chartered Accountant who has more thatn 12 months of post articles experience, currently
working as a Fixed Asset Controller at Transnet Pipelines. A strong background in Assets capitalisations,
Revaluations, Borrowing costs and Decom calcualations, auditing supply chain industries, involved in statutory
audits of manufacturing, retail, fishing companies as well as attorneys and trusts audits.
Education
2011
University of South Africa
Postgraduate Honours in Accounting (CTA)
2008
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Bachelor of Commerce
2005
Byletts Combined School
Grade 12 (Matric)
*Best Accounting and Business Studies Award
Professional Courses / Training
• Fresher’s Training for Juniors on How to Use CaseWare / Pastel and How to Deal with Clients as a 1st
Year
Training / 10 day course
• Intermediate Training Dealing with Advanced Knowledge on CaseWare / 10 day course
• Seniors Course Training on How to be a Good Leader and Dealing with Clients
Professional Registrations / Memberships
• Admitted into the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) in 2016.
• Completed Part I of CA (SA) qualifying examination (2012) PQE.
Computer Skills
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Pastel Accounting Software
• CaseWare
• SAP
Areas of Expertise
• Advanced knowledge of accounting.
• Preparing financial statements and reporting.
• IFRS.
• Preparing tax returns, VAT, EMP 201.
• Auditing from planning to completion.
• Excellent numerical and verbal skills.
• Above average presentation skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team to undertake a
variety of audit and accountancy tasks for our
diverse client base.
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2. Career History
1. FEBRUARY 2011 – 2014 JANUARY
PKF (PE) Inc.
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
TRAINEE ACCOUNTANT
Responsibilities
• Providing a range of assurance and statutory audit services to a diverse client base ranging from small
businesses and start-ups to substantial international groups in manufacturing, fishing, retail and legal firms.
• Technical:
- Receiving on-the-job training to gain a full understanding of technical aspects of audit and accountancy
and additional financial advisory services.
- Supervising up to 5 staff on an audit.
- Planning, executing, completing and resolving complex issues for intermediates and supervising the
work of juniors.
- Developing an understanding client’s and employer’s businesses.
- Completing audit programmes and forming conclusions on each individual test and section completed.
- Highlighting issues and problems for the attention of senior management.
• Client liaison:
- Engaging with clients at their offices.
- Attending a range of internal training sessions including industry experience and soft skills.
• Professional communication and (self) management:
- Keeping seniors and managers fully informed of any issues and problems, ensuring work is completed
to a level agreed with the manager and recording clearly and concisely all the work done.
- Prioritising tasks whilst monitoring time against budget.
Auditing Profile
• Sternwood Products (Pty) Ltd:
- Sector: Manufacturing.
- Turnover: ±R28 Million.
- Role: Auditor-in-charge of the statutory audit.
- Supervised: 5 staff members.
• Kamassi Group:
- Sector: Fisheries.
- Turnover: ±R10 Million.
- Role: Auditor-in-charge of the statutory audit.
- Supervised: 5 staff members.
2. MAY 2014 – DECEMBER 2014
TRANSNET TPT
Durban, South Africa
DATA CLEANSER
Responsibilities
• A process used to determine inaccurate or incomplete data and then improving the quality through
correction of detected errors and omissions in the fixed asset register.
• Technical:
- The process includes format checks, completeness checks, correctness checks, limit checks, review of
the data to identify outliers (geographic, statistical, temporal or environmental).
- Identify errors, and assessment of data, these processes usually result in flagging, documenting and
subsequent checking and correction of suspect records. Validation checks may also involve checking
for compliance against applicable standards, rules, and conventions.
3. DECEMBER 2014 – PRESENT
TRANSNET PIPELINES
Durban, South Africa
FIXED ASSET CONTROLLER
Responsibilities
• Preparing monthly capitalisation status reports in order to be able to identify assets that needs to be
capitalised.
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3. • Raising accruals for payments that have not been made so that liabilities should not be understated.
• Preparing forecasts for future depreciation based on expected capitalisations.
• Calculation of borrowing costs to be capitalised for the assets and decom provision.
• Capitalisation of finance leases and scrapping of assets.
• Preparing and uploading the information for revaluation of assets.
Voluntary Activities
• Tutoring matric students on Accounting at Mpingane Senior Secondary School, an underprivileged school in
Eastern Cape.
Key Strengths
• Used to working under pressure and meeting strict deadlines.
• Ability to prioritise and deal effectively with a number of tasks simultaneously.
• Able to evaluate complex problems, develop alternatives and consider their impact on the organisation.
• Able to interact with other people at all levels of the organisation and from diverse backgrounds.
• Able to manage, develop and motivate people; a good teacher / mentor.
• Enthusiastic learner, eager to meet challenges.
• Willing to learn and adapt to changing environments.
• Focus on accuracy and attention to detail.
• Able to communicate orally, in writing, or via electronic means, in a manner appropriate to the audience.
References
Available on request.
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