• Manage and coordinate service delivery activities and lead commercial team.• Meet and improve business performance objectives.• Identify business risks and plan for contingencies to ensure continuous delivery.• Prepare annual budget and monthly forecast on all financial statements.• Ensure SOA control requirements are met.• Act as first level escalation instance• Supervise the negotiation of and the adherence to service level agreements• Contribute to the improvement of internal tools and processes• Ensure implementation of corporate standards / reporting guidelines within area of responsibility.• Supervise and guide commercial team to achieve PMP KPI’s

Reconcile regional business units financials to global report. These include but is not limited to, the income statement; balance sheet, free cash flow statement and headcount.Calculate and form sector debtor’s provisions monthly for both local and cross-border accounts. Run monthly SAP reports on jobs (completed contract method) and check for sanity and logic and liaise with business units to correct as required.Prepare annual budget and monthly forecast and perform cost control on the management cost centre.Allocate headcount utilisation (Full Time Equivalent) to business segments and reconcile employee numbers to human resource records.Assist business unit managers in creating productivity measures for potential gaps in budgeted profit and follow through to materialization.Assist business unit managers with monthly forecast accuracy on income statement, balance sheet and free cash flow.Approve general ledger journal vouchers, check for required supporting documentation and signatures.Consolidate business unit quarterly forecasts and present the same to sector management for review and discussion.Prepare consolidated financial reports and distribute to the financial director of customer service.Prepare variance analysis with comments for the metals business and furnish to the external auditors for further review.Coordinate and consolidate orders on hand reconciliations for the sector.Complete and furnish divisionally approved ADSTAR forms to accounting and controlling department.

Worked within the communications department, Radio Networks and reported directly to the Commercial Head of Sales Support.Prepared a business case for the head of management accounting on transfer pricingAssisted three pricing managers in developing pricing modelsManaged, controlled and prioritized solution pricing requests from the business units.Assisted and guided pricing managers with price negotiations.Was the Bid Manager for site build tenders / RFQ's.Applications used - SAP, Livelink, MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint

Prepare and control network operations expenditure budget for central operations.Control capital expenditure budget of R300 million.Procure local and foreign equipment.Facilitate and manage payment of suppliers invoices.Applications used - Oracle Financials

Designed and maintained a system to keep record of all costs incurred on various projects and to track billable and non-billable items.Controlled and furnished monthly report on the departmental operational expenditure budget.Prepared a monthly report on debtors analysis.Calculated and reported on production recovery costs for the test lab.Checked time sheets for sanity, logic, correct project allocations and appropraite authorizations.Updated and published latest forecast on project costing.Reconciled GL travel debtor accounts (monthly). Oversaw accounts payable, account receivable, petty cash and cash book functions.Applications used - Smartstream Financial Accounting, Lotus 1-2-3

Prepared and distributed a monthly management report on the actual costs of producing tea, coffee, wet and dry foods with a detailed variance analysis on production variances.Prepared an annual factory budget for direct and indirect costs and did cost control of the same.Calculated the standard unit price of manufacturing wet foods.Monitored stock movements and furnished monthly reports to management on the same.Facilitated and managed quarterly stock counts.Responsible for reporting on and forming provisions for all obsolete stock items.Prepared debit / credit notes for all stock transfers between the regions.Applications used - Hewlett Packard Financial Accounting