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New learning stages

Always against time, monthly clients books not in good order, fixing mistakes of people that left! I did learn payrolll here which is a new skill to me. Everything becomes urgent a day or 2 before its due, but management is aware of this months ago! Since monthly clients are messed up I have no time to complie more annual financial statements. At my level I need to be doing more annual financial statements compilations. I do the payroll for 1 of our biggest clients, more than 250 staff. Just wish there where segration of duties to make our department work. Some financials are done on word and excel, these are challenging as its harder to balance. I deal with an array of clients so I have different experiences with the sectors. We do not have enough staff so we are overworked and stressed, working overtime and have no quality of life.

Pros: payroll skill obtained
Cons: working long hours

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Accountant

Main activities – Accounting Outsourcing for a large Hotel Chain • Senior over 3 junior staff members • Setup new Navision administrations/entities and accounting systems • Capturing/reviewing invoices and book invoices into Navision • Creditor and Debtor reconciliations and control on weekly basis • Prepare and maintain annual budgets • Capture bank transactions and perform reconciliation of cashbooks • Book journal entries • Calculation and submission of VAT (NL, UK, FR) • Month-end and quarter-end reporting • Intercompany loan reconciliations and current account recharges • Create and maintain working programs for daily/monthly tasks • Prepare and supply clients with weekly payment advice/files. • Assist auditors with annual audit • FX – Calculate exchange rates and post exchange rate updates in NAV

Pros: Great opportunity
Cons: Abroad

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Corporate tax manager

Offer consulting advice on different client industry. Assist external audit with tax review and opinion writing. Continuous learning as one meet different client with different fact requiring application of the same tax Act. Due to changes in the legislation and the economy, one is required to be on alert to ensure relevance in servicing client. Client relationship is of importance. Work not routine. I wok well with a team both senior and sub ordinate. Work deadline driven.

Pros: Different client profile and application of tax legislation
Cons: Will now prefer corporate and not consulting

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Excellent Service line structure and implementation

End user Desktop Support using System Centre Service Manager, Resseting passwords, office support aswell as asset management support included First Line Network support is provided

Pros: Exposure to learning
Cons: Limited opportunities for growth

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Exposure to a new industry

My branch is rather small compared to the Jhb branch. I manage a staff compliment of 94 in the Pretoria region. Typycal work day would include general queries (leave,resignations ect), it is a highly specialised invironment in a competetive industry, so I am always looking for talent. I work very closesly with the Audit Department, especially the trainee accountants, the rest of the staff are very much independent and dependable. What I love the most about the Accounting Industry is that the careers are mapped out. You can predict based on qualification and experience which position one should be and what salary benchmark they should be. That way room for unfairness becomes smaller. Whats challanging is the red tape that comes with ensuring that the trainees get their core hours and competencies to become future Accountants.

Pros: working in a specialised professional environment
Cons: too rigid sometimes

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Good learning curve and building a solid foundation in my tax career.

BDO recently merged with Grant thornton where I started in the tax compliance department and moved to the tax consulting division after 3 years. I have built up my tax technical skills throughout this time dealing with corporate tax and maintaining a vast portfolio of clients. The job is taxing and challenging and the most difficult part is juggling different projects while trying to maintain a high standard of service. We sell our time but the time in a day is never enough.

Pros: Good base for learning and developing in tax.
Cons: Not compensated adequately. No bonuses in a tough economic market.

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Problem Management

One the best aspects of my current role is how I'm the go between the business and IT. We've developed manier projects for the different departments tailor made for their workflows. Within IT as well, the different specializations often collaborated to resolve Problems/Incidents.

Pros: Career growth - grew my business acumen
Cons: Long hours and repetitive

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Great company and well structured

A healthy working environment. Great corporate structure. The company gives young students the opportunity to be employed by them. working at BDO makes you want to work harder and succeed within the working industry.

Pros: pays well
Cons: hotdesk set up

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A definite challenge

Working at BDO has been a definite challenge for me as I came from Multichoice, a media company which is totally different. Working for BDO has it daily challenges with constant deadline driven work. It has taught me a lot and helped me grow as an individual

Pros: Great opportunity for growth
Cons: Only growth in audit

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Smaller firm so good exposure to many sectors

Auditing is demanding by its nature due to the deadlines, but it also provides for a good learning environment. The fellow trainees are the best part of the job as you get to meet many different people from different backgrounds. The greatest skill learnt is how to run an audit and work with a team in order to achieve a common goal. The best part of the job was learning from so many different individuals. The work hours and deadlines are the most challenging

Pros: Diversity and great learning curve
Cons: Strict deadlines

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