Andre Slabbert Ca(Sa) Email & Phone Number

Cayman Islands

The provision of an independent director to Corporate Structures, Private Funds, Hedge Funds and SPVs. In addition to director services, is specialise in the provision of a Independant Investment Professional to conduct Conflict Reviews for Investment Advisors for their Affiliated Trade or Originating trades. Finally provide Voluntary Liquidation services for Cayman companies.I am focused on a client focused service model both with large, sophisticated managers and advisors across Europe and the Americas, but also provide a white glove service with smaller managers, who needs a higher touch involvement and guidance to help them navigate and prepare for the ever-changing environment.

Cayman Islands

Act as an Independent Non-Executive Director to a limited number of Funds, securitisation and corporate structures. In addition to directorships, oversee the provision of accounting services and preparation of financial statements in accordance with IFRS, as well as the provision of liquidation services in accordance with Cayman legal and regulatory requirements. Heads up the FATCA/CRS reporting and compliance obligations of client company CLO’s, Funds and SPV’s. Managing of a portfolio of Conflict Review Clients, which independently review trade price data and providing consent as appropriate. Acted as the designated DMLRO for structured finance vehicles and fund structures. Managing the smooth running of this Directorship Services offering as a whole.Achieving the establishment of a centralised Corporate Governance team, covering the general servicing and/or oversight of all client structures and their adherence to applicable laws and regulations, as well as the establishment and significant growth of the AML Officer Services and the Economic Substance Services to offer client solutions for the local requirements.

Cayman Islands

Act as an Independent Non-Executive Director to a limited number of Funds, securitisation and corporate structures. In addition to directorships, involved in the provision of accounting services and preparation of financial statements in accordance with IFRS, as well as the provision of liquidation services in accordance with Cayman legal and regulatory requirements. Oversees the FATCA compliance and reporting obligations for fiduciary clients.Achieving the establishment and significant growth of the Voluntary Liquidations Service, the FATCA & CRS Services, Independent Investment Professional (Conflict Review) Services to complement the Directorship Services or as a stand-alone service. General Responsibilities:• Provision of Non-Executive Independent Directors.• Overseeing the FATCA/CRS reporting to CLO’s, Funds and SPV’s.• Implementing processes, systems and controls in relation to FATCA/CRS reporting and compliance, managing supporting staff.• Managing of a portfolio of Conflict Review Clients, reviewing trade price data and providing signoff as appropriate.• Oversight of the Liquidation Services business line and providing liquidation and CIMA deregistration services to Cayman Islands corporates and partnerships in accordance with Cayman Islands law.• Preparing financial statements and supporting schedules for a book of CLO clients, Funds and Corporate structures in accordance with IFRS, liaising with external auditors accordingly.• Ensuring the Directorship Services team within the Estera Trust (Cayman) Limited office meets client deadlines and producing fee proposals for client services enquiries.• Preparing monthly reports for the Directors.• Assisting with client interface and portfolio management and supporting the directors of securitisation vehicles, investment fund structures and other companies.• Assisting the Corporate Services staff responsible for the companies along with other service providers where required.

Ensured successful completion of assigned audit engagements, from start to finish. Report to senior management. Manage and direct daily activities during an engagement. Applies risk and control concepts to scenarios encountered and identify any potential issues. Communicate identified issues with senior management to ensure any potential concerns are addressed in a timely and effective manner. • Identify and communicate issues identified and offering recommended solutions relevant to the business and risk profile.• Ensure audit conclusions are based on a complete understanding of the processes, circumstances, and risk.• Develop audit programs and testing procedures relevant to risk and test objectives.• Obtain and review evidence to ensure audit conclusions are well-documented.• Ensure adherence to all applicable department and professional standards.• Communicate assigned tasks to the engagement team in a manner that is clear and concise to quality, accurate, and efficient results.• Evaluate the client's internal controls, prepare an audit program outlining the extent of sampling required, schedule the engagement, and document for approval by the Engagement Partner.• Review working papers for accuracy and completion, review financial statements for suitability of presentation and adequacy of disclosures.• Summarize engagement outcomes, prepare points for the next year, prepare management letters, draft reports, and prepare routine client correspondence.• Follow the progress of the engagement, aid in clearing points, and resolve auditing and accounting problems.• Specific to Captives: Perform procedures on claims handing, provision for outstanding loss reserves and actuarial reports, collateral requirements, risk transfers and reinsurance.

Maintaining strong working relationships with key business decision makers throughout the year to communicate value and inform them of the firm's scope of services. Provide guidance and participate in the performance of audit procedures, especially focusing on complex and/or specialized. Collaborate to plan objectives and determine an audit strategy that complied with professional standards and appropriately addresses risk. Demonstrate a deep understanding the client’s industry and recognize key performance drivers, business trends, and emerging technical and industry developments. Develop people by encouraging individuals to think for themselves and take responsibility for their contributions to the team and successfully delegate to all levels of staff. Conduct performance reviews, serve as a positive leader and mentor, foster teamwork and lead by example. Maintain cooperative relationships with other engagement teams and monitor the engagement team's progress against the plan and alter it when needed. • Planning of audit and reviewing of audit files prepared.• Supervision of up to 10 staff simultaneously.• Managing audits and meeting with clients.• Review of Financial Statements and tax computations.• Quality Control committee• Dealing with staff issues, training and monitoring of progress.

New York, New York

Audit secondment, New York City. During my time here, I worked in the financial services division of the audit practice reporting directly with the respective director.Responsibilities included:- Planning and performance of audit engagements of various hedge funds and private equity funds.- Audit and recalculation of the capital movements and allocations of administration fees and incentive fees based on the fund rules.- Reconciliation between broker statements and client records on the investments held.- Re-performance of financial highlights and comparing statement of investments schedule to Bloomberg figures included in the footnotes.- Performing audit completion procedures including disclosure checklists and audit programs.

Ensures successful completion of assigned audit engagements, from start to finish, inclusive of preplanning and wrap up activities. Reports to senior management. Manages and directs daily activities during an engagement. Applies risk and control concepts to scenarios encountered and identifies any potential issues. Communicates identified issues with senior management to ensure any potential concerns are addressed in a timely and effective manner. • Identifies and communicates issues raised, offering recommended solutions relevant to business and risk.• Ensures audit conclusions are based on a complete understanding of the process, circumstances, and risk.• Develops audit programs and testing procedures relevant to risk and test objectives.• Obtains and reviews evidence ensuring audit conclusions are well-documented.• Ensures adherence at all times to all applicable department and professional standards.• Communicates assigned tasks to engagement team in a manner that is clear and concise ensuring high quality, accurate, and efficient results.• Evaluate the client's internal controls, prepare an audit program outlining the extent of sampling required, schedule the engagement, and document approval by the Engagement Partner.• Review working papers for accuracy and completion, financial statements for suitability of presentation and adequacy of disclosures and documentation of discussions with clients.• Summarize engagement, make planning points for the next year, prepare management letters, draft reports, and prepare routine client correspondence.• Performing budgets and agreeing to actuals to meet deadlines and budget targets• Team management, planning, performing and completion of engagements.• Compiling Annual Financial Statements in accordance with IFRS or reviewing thereof.• Completing and reviewing of taxation.

Reconciliations of fleet contracts and problem solver.

(Johannesburg) Sa

Vacation work. During my time here, I worked in the accounting division of the manufacturing company reporting directly to the financial manager.• Daily cash flow , Cash book, Sales ledger, Accounts payable, Transaction input• Internet banking/transfer, Deposits as receipts, Bank reconciliation

(Liverpool Street) England

Duties: • Working at this software company to help in their year-end audit because their financial statements weren’t fairly presented because of accounting policy change from monthly income recognition to daily recognition.• Extracting information from In-house packages on intranet from UK figures and USA figures.• Using these data and formulating spreadsheets on MS Excel and reconciling from year to year, backdating four years.• Changing figures from monthly accounting to daily accounting and analyzing to compare previous recognized income and new policy recognition on new data.• Amendments to be used by PWC auditors for year-end adjustments.• Work handed over to head of finances and auditors after comparing to previously stated income.• In conjunction with the Financial Manager and auditors from PWC we came to an acceptable figure extracted from the information I worked out, which was used as a year-end adjustment on the Financial Statements.

(Oxford Circus) England

• Extracting information from receipts and payments on Sage and generating Accumulative Producer Royalties Statements on Excel for year-end.• Using cask book receipts to allocate receipts to stated programs.• Reconciling debits and allocating the cost to various accounts.• Reconciling credits and if applicable writing it off to net profit for year end.• Allocating necessary cost from variable rates (e.g. different terms to all the country’s) to producer statements.• Journal entries and corrections.• Interpreting contracts and working alongside it to insure the right monetary values are used for the license fees or royalties according to contract.• Geographical revenue allocation of year end. • Using Sage Line 50 and MS Excel• Management accounts• Analyzing historic figures for forecasting.

(White City) England

My main role is to interpret setup and maintain audio/books contracts and payment details on our CASPAR royalty calculator system, as well as the following duties:Duties: • Tracking completeness of contractual information for released product to ensure that all royalty obligations have been addressed and are in CASPAR.• Planning and forecasting workload in accordance with BBC Worldwide release schedules.• Statement run • Payments to contributors• Ensuring deadlines for advance payments on product release are met. Flagging potential delays at the earliest opportunity to the Publishing Royalties Supervisor and CRD.• Liaising with CRD to ensure that all legal documentation and correspondence in relation to each Book and Audio release is passed onto the Group Royalty Department on a timely and complete basis.• Liaising with BBC Audio/Video Commercial Rights Department (CRD) to ensure that Group Royalties Department is aware of upcoming audio and video releases.• Responding to internal queries in relation to contractual terms with talent on audio/books product.• Flagging potential delays at the earliest opportunity to the Publishing Royalties Supervisor and CRD.• Involvement in the MCPS audit, collecting all the information, taking responsibilities on organizing and allocating work. Reporting direct to the Royalties controller and auditor.

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Bachelor'S Accounting, Accounting And Finance