• Accountable for the enterprise-wide ICT environment, ensuring overall ICT systems and network availability/performance, coupled with continuous improvement;• Establish information security, risk management and compliance frameworks and standards;• Engage with business stakeholders and steering committees to define and implement a comprehensive ICT strategy and roadmap that aligns with business goals & objectives;• Ensure ICT investments and future projects are made in accordance with the broader ICT strategy;• Responsible for all ICT vendor relationships and contracts, as well as oversee all ICT application and infrastructure solution selection processes; and• Manage ICT budget at an opportunity cost level, including planning and forecasting ICT spend;• Understanding regulation, legislation and company best practices affecting the ICT environment as applicable to credit rating agencies; • Chairman of the GCR Ratings Group management risk committee, with onward presentation to the company board risk committee.

• Regularly assess, create or invest in processes to improve efficiency in line with the company’s strategic objectives; • Represent the ICT segment of the organization on various risk committees, with the pinnacle being the Board Risk Committee; • Research and coordinate with multiple vendors to complete ICT special projects; and • Responsible for technology investment, risk (regulatory, perceived and actual) & control assessments and corresponding budget.Accomplishments:- Member of the management team to apply for accreditation as a credit rating agency under the South African Credit Rating Act, 2012, as well as an external credit assessment institution under the South African Reserve Bank. - Developed and documented the company’s Disaster Recover and Business Continuity Framework. - Built and launched a PHP based company intranet with a focus on document warehousing. - Developed and implemented the system to produce the company’s transition and default metrics. - Drafted the ICT Risk Assessment document for presentation at Board Risk Committee, as well as the associated supporting policies.- Responsible for the development and management of the company’s primary workflow database.

Participated as the lead analyst in over 30 national scale local authority rating transactions, principally for South African municipalities, as well as being responsible for several Insurance, Medical Scheme, Banking and Corporate rating assessments, including industry bulletins, located in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda. Conducted rating missions across several African countries in the local government arena, as well as for several power and water utilities. In addition to the above, participated in the credit assessment for several debt issuance programmes, largely relating to the Nigeria State Governments. Specifications of being a lead analyst include;• being responsible for managing a credit rating portfolio;• collating market, economic and company information;• analysing key quantitative and qualitative factors;• conducting onsite meetings with company management;• writing and publishing research and rating reports;• communicating ratings and rating rationale to senior management of client companies;• finalising reports for distribution;• managing and mentoring of junior staff together with Head of Sector.Accomplishments:- Development of the annual South African local authority bulletin. - Enhancement of the South African annual life insurance and short-term insurance bulletin.- Compilation, conversion and storage of the Financial Service Sector (now know as the FSCA) short-term star returns into the company format for internal assessment purposes (for either rating assessments or the compilation of industry statistics).- Credit assessment information – summary of ratings and movements of ratings across sectors and years, as well as reports relating to the management of the company (i.e. volumes per analyst, country and sector).- Enhancement of the company billing programme, providing a more efficient means on distributing invoices concerning outstanding client fees.

Responsible for the resolution of corporate merchant financial queries, with a strong focus on new and large merchant groups. Further, tasked with the creation, implementation and presentation of systems delivering key company day-to-day performance metrics. Systems evolved from adept use in the Microsoft Office suite of programs, as well as coding.Accomplishments:- Merchant information systems for Performance Evaluation & Departmental Management – All information concerning day to day information is captured onto various information systems created, and are used to combine all information to create reports which detail the daily business activity per day/week/month/Year;- Interest Calculation program – Calculates interest payable within a defined period @ an applicable compounded rate.- Information Comparisons – Analytical Comparison between required data fields to obtain specified results- Business Analysis Reports– Creation of Statistical reports, representing an overview of the daily performance of a specified business unit.- Merchant Reconciliation system – Used for daily reconciliation between revenue and settlement figures.- Financial Operation Reports – Summary of monthly financial activities relating to trade volume versus revenue.