Farming, Agro Value Chain Solutions, Agro Services, Irrigation & Water Solutions, Agro Structures, Solar Power Solutions, Supply Chain Solutions

Minning, Farming, Engineering and Petroleum Products

Providing decision support to the Board of Directors and support departments; leading the business’ product and revenue growth initiatives; overseeing procurement, product development, marketing and promotions, customer development, bid/tender preparation and pricing. Developed a manual (excel based) accounting package, leading the fiscalisation process; overseeing the treasury and statutory functions, product/project costing and pricing, bookkeeping, budgeting, management and financial reporting.

Providing decision support to the Board of Directors and support departments. Developed a manual (excel based) accounting package, leading the fiscalisation process and the migration to SAP; handling the treasury and statutory functions, product/project costing and pricing, bookkeeping, budgeting, management and financial reporting. Overseeing logistics, relations and registrations with regulators (e.g MCAZ, CropLife, EMA), bid/tender preparation and pricing.

• Overseeing the bookkeeping, accounting and financial reporting • Monitoring and implementing internal financial controls• Developing of financial forecasts • Analysing financial data and ensuring profitability is maximised• Monitoring and optimising the cashflow• Monitoring the credit status of all debtors and creditors• Decision support to Senior management. • Performing all statutory requirements and liaison with banks, suppliers and customers• Preparing tax computations.• Lead during the statutory audit• Recruiting, training and developing subordinates

• Preparing all financial forecasts• Preparing management accounts• Reviewing and analyzing financial data to aid senior management on decisions• Decision support on projects• Being the hub and source for all financial data • Recruiting, training and developing subordinates

• Product costing and pricing.• Determining the ideal sales mix to achieve the desired financial results with focus on maximizing profit and turnover.• Reviewing and analyzing gross margin movements • Reviewing and analyzing of value chains with focus on product or raw material sourcing, thus, optimizing its cost and maximizing profitability • Decision support on all innovation and product formulation changes• Preparing all business cases for the entity

• Reviewing and analyzing of management accounts, margin reports and variance reports• Preparing costing schedules and product pricing• Co-ordinating financial forecasts formulation and monitoring all spending against forecast• Ensuring that all physical stock counts are done timeously, variances fully explained• Project Accountant for all the region’s major projects• Co-ordinating period-end processes for the region including review and authorization of journals• Consolidation of the region’s financial reports• Reviewing and presenting financial reports to senior management• Preparing tax computation • Ensuring all control account reconciliations are done timeously with all variances fully explained• Balance sheet review• Review of the control environment for adequacy and ensure implementation all controls• Liaison with banks• Regional lead during the statutory audit• Recruiting, training and developing subordinates

Freight and Engineering entity. Was head of Operations and Finance reporting to the Board of Directors.

• Supervision of audit engagements – audit timing, staffing, audit budget (preparation and management), meetings with client, review of work done by juniors to ensure compliance with set quality control standards, managing subordinates expectations and development needs on the audits & delegating work to them according to their abilities and developmental needs• Office Administration – maintaining high morale with the audit teams, reviewing staff development every 6 months & attending to any other assignments from the audit partners.• Planning the audit engagement – assessing engagement risk & control environment, understanding and documenting the client’s accounting process, developing an audit plan, holding pre-audit meetings and determining the audit materiality.• Performing the audit engagement based on the developed audit plan with consideration to the assessed risk, control environment and audit materiality. This also involved testing and documenting the design and implementation of the controls at the client.• Reporting and Finalisation – Review of clients’ reporting and consolidation packages, year-end financial accounts and annual reports, tax and deferred tax computations and preparation of auditor’s report to management