Accountancy and chartered lifestyle

Whitney Moncho is currently employed at Seapride foods Namibia, as a cash book accountant. She is responsible for data verification, reconciliation, and bank statement processing, ensuring the accurate and timely administration and completion of the accounting process in line with company policies and procedures and reporting to the financial manager as part of her job description.

Moncho elaborates that it requires critical and analytical thinking. Much of the work performed by accountants is detail-oriented, that need to maintain thoroughness and precision in most of the work throughout the day. Additionally, “I work closely with my colleagues, deliver expertise, opinions, and reporting to other members of the organisation. This requires me to be well-versed in the principles of accounting, and able to translate complex, technical topics into language that can easily be understood by those who are less familiar with the accounting world.”

Alternatively, her role as a coach within branches and departments is to make life easier, with assistance, advice and communicate for the management team in our location, helping to administer many Deep Catch Service Success processes. “As a coach we have an important role in briefing the people survey process and ensure that all employees complete survey, we are also tasked with OFI coordinator and OFI process as well as maintaining employee recognition scheme. In addition, we are responsible for green area meeting, newsletter, facilitators QI team ad co-ordinating training.”

Before her employment at Seapride, in December 2013 Moncho was employed by Trustco as a sales representative. In August 2014 she was promoted as a procurement officer at Trustco Group and after a year in August 2015 got promoted to a cashbook administrator for Trustco Group International until she eventually joined Seapride in 2018.

Along with the years of experience and gains come several challenges and obstacles in every industry, individually how you deal with challenges aids your growth and progress moving forward. According to Moncho the obstacles and challenges she has faced have not been that significant but, “as cash book accountants we have tight deadlines and accurate financials to deal with, as a result to overcome the challenge I have learned to plan ahead for each month and that has proven to work in my favour thus far,”

Apart from a monthly salary Moncho tells Careers that she has two beautiful daughters that drive her to get up and do her best every day. She explains that every new day comes with new thoughts and new strengths, about achieving something that is meaningful to her daughters. Furthermore, Moncho encourages to, “have fun in the journey through life and learn from mistakes. Don’t expect to see change if you don’t make one, take personal reasonability, take risks, communicate with great simplicity and honesty and, make and keep commitments.”