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Head-hunted to rebuild the finance team, directly supporting both the CEO and senior leadership team. I led the restructuring of the finance team including recruiting new hires, re-dressing historic back-log issues and helping to create a forward thinking, responsive finance team that supports the exciting growth trajectory of this leading conservation.

The CABC www.cabc.org.za tracks mis and disinformation across social media platforms. As CFO I lead the finance team and am responsible for all aspects of creating, implementing and maintaining financial control and planning systems for this fast growth social entrepreneurial tech start-up. This includes strategic finance support to the senior leadership.

Remote

I am usually approached by organisations in transition - for example, a recovery or growth phase. They need their finance team to be ready to support their growth forecast and/or impact outcomes. My clients rely on me to embed strong financial control and financial planning systems into their organisations. Current clients include:*VillageReach.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

We set up The Trust Connection because mental resilience and emotional intelligence capabilities are now part of the core skill set of any person wanting to excel and make a lasting contribution. As Director and Lead Coach, having trained with some of the world’s leading NLP & Generative Change trainers I use a range of behavioural change approaches to.

Cape Town

As Head of Finance of this growing, private non-profit University, within a 2 year period, I supported the CEO and leadership team in stream-lining the organisation (30% reduction in cost base) and putting in place a three year sustainability plan. My role also included recruiting a new finance team, initiating and managing a change-over to a new financial.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Together with a founding donor, we set up and established this successful philanthropic incubator, grant-making organisation that provides funding and long-term coaching to many hundreds of growing non-profit organisations in South Africa. This involved finding 'below the radar' After School support organisations, and working closely with their leaders to.

London, England, United Kingdom

As a senior corporate finance deal-maker, I project managed complex transactions from start to finish in multiple countries around the world. This involved anticipating the strategic opportunities for growing businesses, and working closely with management teams to successfully translate these into realised value. I advised both corporate (private and.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

I worked in various small specialist teams, focused on generating value for the owners of small and mid-cap business. While most of this work was focused on activity within the United Kingdom, I also played a key role in business development internationally.

London, England, United Kingdom

Working as part of a core, critical financial control team, I signed off on and set up a series of accounting transactions that generated monthly payroll and accrued compensation payments for 1000’s of bank employees.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

I was responsible for all aspects of these audit processes, including managing my teams and working closely with the Chief Financial Officers in each company. Besides needing to understand the financial risk trajectory of each client, we also provided strategic recommendations to senior management on how they might improve their financial risk control.

Ca(Sa), Business/Commerce, General

Bachelor Of Business Science Honours (Economics And Law) And Bachelor Of Commerce Honours