Alma Fleischer (Mba Cgba Cma) Email & Phone Number

Wellington, New Zealand

New Zealand

• Founded in 1973 and has a team of 400+, paid out $1.5B in claims and aims to reimage life insurance and make it more accessible and affordable for New Zealanders.Major Achievements:
• Led the Product response, including creation of all product policies and processes to implement a Fair Conduct Programme under the conduct of financial institutions regime (CoFI).
• Designed and brought to market, an urgent customer offering to lapsed and dishonoured customers that resulted in restatement of 42% of customers.
• Led and negotiated the divestment of a jointly underwritten product as part of strategic decision for product simplification.
• Led and negotiated the recapture and rebrand of 4 legacy products, leading to an improved customer experience.
• Led the response to Westpac’s cheque withdrawal, ensuring that all life insurance collateral, processes and systems across all products were updated, supporting digital transformation.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Westpac Life was sold to Fidelity Life in February 2022. Major achievements listed under the Fidelity Life work experience section.Responsibilities:Development of new products, continue the evolution of the existing.
• Existing Portfolio Evolution and Product Improvement.
• Monitor the performance of the on-sale and legacy product portfolio.
• Undertake product reviews including legacy products and take the lead on any go-to-market activities that arise from reviews to ensure legacy products continue to meet current and future customer expectations and.
• Set up and maintain an overview of the product portfolio including a knowledgebase centre for frontline, liaise with stakeholders and be the subject matter expert.
• Maintain and prepare technical product specifications, documentation, product collateral and product policies in conjunction with stakeholders.Proposition and Product Management

Wellington, New Zealand

• Heritage is one of New Zealand’s largest providers of Residential Aged Care services with 42 Care Homes and 20 small Villages throughout New Zealand, providing a home to over 2,200 people, with 2,400 staff. Major.
• Implemented efficiencies largely through resource re-allocation and organisation, that reduced the email backlog from 6000 unanswered emails to an SLA of 2 working days and 200 unanswered emails.
• Standardised financial processes across 37 care homes, which improved efficiency and consistency in practises and processes.
• Implemented weekly reporting to give greater visibility to management on operational finance key metrics.
• Acted as Product Owner for the implementation of a new charges and billing system, ensuring the new system was fit for purpose.
• Acted as SME for the automation of workflow to improve supplier incidental on-charges to residents, ensuring no on charges were missed and the system is efficient and reduces manual work and human error..

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Rightway is a nationwide with 7 branches offering accounting, bookkeeping, payroll and agri-business support with a focus on practical jargon free advice.Major Achievements:
• Managed all bookkeeping and payroll customers across New Zealand. This included converting customer leads received from accountants into regular monthly contracted bookkeeping customers by making sales calls, providing.
• Due to prior experience as Management Accountant, I became the go-to person in the Wellington office for customers who required monthly Management Accounts.
• Managed the tax and annual accounts of a range of customers across various industries, assigned to me as their primary accountant and main point of contact. Responsibilities:
• Delivered timely and efficient accounting and taxation services to clients, meeting IRD deadlines and budget requirements.
• Built relationships with clients to support small business growth and development

Centurion

• Fox Projects was established in 1998 and emerged as a world-class provider of Agile project management, engineering and consulting capabilities to over 54 mines on the African continent.Major Achievements:
• Led the financial requirements for the new Zambian entity, including ensuring that all Zambian Revenue Authority requirements were met on time. This required me to engage external Auditors in Zambia and set up the.
• Led the implementation of a new Financial Information Management system, that resulted in better automation of tasks and integrated monthly key metrics and Management Accounts across the group.
• Implemented and led Black Economic Empowerment Audits, which provided the company with a competitive edge to compete for tenders and contracts with mining companies.
• Recommended to and initiative to reduce overhead costs. Applied for government funding that resulted in 5 accounting students for 20 hours a week.Responsibilities:
• Managed financial operations for 5 companies within the Fox Group, including payroll, monthly forecasts and cash flow projections and annual budget.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Agility Risk Solutions (formerly Bathabile Holdings) developed award winning technology that is soft coded with Artificial Intelligence and rule-based software, which reduces the dependencies of software developers.
• Implemented and led Black Economic Empowerment Audits for the group ensuring a competitive edge for tenders.
• Led the implementation of a new FMIS (Pastel Evolution and Business Intelligence Centre) as well as a monthly reporting system, that resulted in better automation of tasks and integrated monthly key metrics and.
• Restructured the Finance Department, reduced the team by 40% and implemented changed processes to increase productivity and efficiency in the team.
• Led the finance team through a merger of two teams as result of an acquisition.
• Implemented a document control and storage system. Responsibilities:

Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa

• Datacentrix is a leading hybrid IT systems integrator and managed services provider and competitor to Datacom.Their expert teams leverage the power of technology and support clients throughout their digitalisation.
• Manager for 1 Assistant Accountant.
• Set up monthly stock takes across 35 sites, including the head office, which required change. management as this was not the standard practice at the time.
• Investigate and resolve the fixed asset variances across the 35 sites and head office, which resulted in more accurate management of the assets on sites.
• Implemented a process improvement for the Engineers in the break fix department resulting in better returns of warrantee and a significant saving in the late return of faulty parts still under warrantee by Hewlett.
• Stock and Fixed Assets: Conducting monthly stock counts and investigation of variances

• On the Dot is a South African media supply chain management company that offers distribution solutions for magazines, newspapers, subscriptions, community newspapers, pamphlets, parcels, and FMCG through.
• Restructure and employ the Accounts Payable Team, rebuilding team morale and culture.
• Develop and implement new processes in the department, resulting in increased productivity and a significant improvement in month end deadlines.
• Led the team through digitisation and changing over from Cheque as payment method to Online banking.
• Implemented excel reconciliations to replace the outdated manual reconciliations (using a handheld calculator to sum large volumes of sales transactions) of distributions throughout the various publications, resulting.
• Responsibility: Overall responsible for the complete function for the creditors department and 5 staff members.

Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa

• SICPA is a Swiss company that provides security inks for currencies and sensitive documents, including identity documents, passports, transport and lottery tickets. According to the Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau's.
• Bookkeeping up to Trail Balance including debtors, creditors, stock and fixed asset registers
• Reconciliations and Reporting: Sales reporting for the South African Reserve Bank on purchases of ink per commodity
• Audit: Compiling audit files for all companies and assisting to facilitate audit

Bedforview, Gauteng, South Africa

• Fluidra Waterlinx, now called Fluidra South Africa, is part of the listed Spanish multinational group Fluidra, a global leader in the pool industry.A recent worldwide merger between Fluidra and Zodiac has contributed.
• Bookkeeping up to Trail Balance including debtors, creditors, stock and fixed asset registers for the entity, Sun Command. (Sun Command provides quality solar products.)
• Reconciliations and Reporting: General ledger reconciliations monthly management accounts and reports to management.
• Regular stock takes.
• Assist with external audit file preparation.

Mossel Bay, Gardenroute, South Africa

• La Case Realty was owned by our family and covered not only property sales in the Garden Route, across two real estate agencies but additionally provided permanent and holiday rental services. The group also developed.
• Significant contribution in setting up the second real estate agency in a new location.
• Appointed as Principle for the real estate agencies.
• Set up a digital marketing campaign process for online property sales.Responsibilities:
• Bookkeeping up to Trail Balance, including debtors, creditors, stock and fixed asset registers.
• Reconciliations and Reporting: General ledger reconciliations monthly management accounts and reports to management.

Grade 12, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates, 12 - (Equivalent To New Zealand Yr13)

Activities and Societies: Debate Team, Hockey Team, Choir, School PaperSubjects passed Afrikaans B English A Mathematics A Accounting B.

B Comm Commercii, Accounting , Auditing, Tax And Management Accounting, Equivalent To Nzqa Level 7 & Assessed By Chartered Accountants Australia & New Z

Activities and Societies: Jan 2001- December 2001 Administrative Clerk / Facilitator assisting lecturer ,Mrs. HS Fourie with marking exam.

Level 4, Taxation Toolkit For Accountants, Completed

Activities and Societies:Modules covered ABKN318 – Tax Fundamentals – Introduction ABKN320 – Tax Fundamentals – Income & Deductions.

Certificate In Payroll Adminstration Nz, Payroll, Completed

Certification, Agile, Certification

Agile Certified Professional

Master'S Degree, Accounting And Business/Management, Level 9 Credential

Strategic Cost Management and Strategic Business Analysis

Certified Global Business Analyst

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Accounting And Finance, A+

MBA

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Accounting And Finance, A+