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Tatenda Govere

@tatendagovere

Management Accountant at Simbisa Brands, owning the Corporate Division ledger and building product-level margin analysis at Oven Art.

Zimbabwe

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What I'm looking for

I'm targeting a Management Accountant role where I can combine reporting discipline, commercial analysis, costing, process improvement and practical systems experience.

At Simbisa Brands Limited, I own the Corporate Division general ledger, excluding Pastino, and prepare monthly management accounts and flash reports. I also reconstructed the Marketing Fund position, identifying approximately US$300K of understated spend and liabilities.

At Oven Art, I owned the general ledger and month-end close in an artisan-bakery manufacturing environment. I built an Excel model to analyze product profitability and led the finance and inventory workstream for the migration from QuickBooks and SOS Inventory to Predictiv.

My earlier work at Matanuska included cash-allocation plans and bank, POS and accounts-payable reconciliations. I hold the ACCA Diploma in Accounting and Business (RQF Level 4) and am progressing through ACCA Applied Skills.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Finance Assistant - Corporate Division Accounting

Current

Simbisa Brands Limited

Aug 2023 - Present (3 years 3 months)

• Own the Corporate Division general ledger end to end, excluding Pastino, and prepare monthly management accounts, flash reports and Corporate Green Packs for Group consolidation.
• Manage month-end close from journals, accruals and prepayments through flash reporting, balance-sheet substantiation, account analysis and variance commentary.
• Perform intercompany, control-account, payroll-provider

Assistant Accountant

Oven Art (Pvt) Ltd

Sep 2021 - Jul 2023 (1 year 10 months)

• Owned the end-to-end general ledger, month-end close, flash reporting and management accounts in an artisan-bakery manufacturing environment.
• Produced flash reports by the third of the following month with approximately 99% of transactions captured, keeping revenue and cost of sales closely aligned to final accounts.
• Built an Excel product-profitability model analysing waste, input-price, re

Assistant Accountant - Treasury

Matanuska

Dec 2017 - May 2019 (1 year 5 months)

• Prepared weekly cash-allocation plans across Marketing, Head Office, Transport and Operations using opening liquidity, expected inflows and planned obligations.
• Submitted allocation recommendations to the Finance Director and later exercised delegated discretion to prioritise urgent operating payments when cash was constrained.
• Prepared daily bank and cash positions, processed payments and r

Bookkeeper

National Tested Seeds and FarmShop

Jan 2014 - Nov 2017 (3 years 10 months)

• Earned two promotions from Till Operator to Branch Administrator and then Head Office Bookkeeper through performance, systems knowledge and control capability.
• Managed branch cash, banking, sales reporting, GRVs, stock ordering and transfers and supervised the till and stores functions across a diverse agricultural, veterinary and hardware inventory.
• Identified reliance on a single Till Oper