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Boart Longyear is the world’s leading provider of drilling services, drilling equipment and performance tooling for mining and drilling companies. It also has a substantial presence in aftermarket parts and service, energy, mine de-watering, oil sands exploration, production drilling, and down-hole instrumentation.

Hyde Park, Johannesburg

Interpark is a subsidiary of Excellerate Holdings and South Africa’s market leader in revenue collection, access control and parking management with a widely recognised brand associated with quality parking facilities and service. Interpark has more than 225 operational sites and over 2,000 staff members. As Head of Finance I manage approximately R1.2 Billion Rand p.a. of Customer Revenue and R200 Million in Annual Turnover.Reporting directly to the Board of Directors of Excellerate Holdings and the CEO of Interpark, lead a financial team consisting of Accountants, Internal Auditors, Debtors, Creditors, Human Resource Officers and Payroll Administrators.Basic Function: I am accountable for the administrative, financial, and risk management operations of the company, including the development of a financial and operational strategy, metrics tied to that strategy, and the ongoing development and monitoring of control systems designed to preserve our company assets and report accurate financial results.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Evolution Group imports and distributes goods, trading with premium brand bicycles,cycling equipment, hardware, toys and furniture. Raleigh SA, one of the subsidiariesof Evolution Group, distributes to national retailers such as Macro, Shoprite andGame. I was the Group Finance Manager of seven companies within the EvolutionGroup. I reported directly to the CFO and CEO and I had two accountants and adebtor manager who reported to me.

Centurion

The Protea Coin Group, a subsidiary of Bidvest, is a leading provider of security services to the South African market. Due to my exceptional performance as Senior Accountant, I was promoted after a year and a half to Financial Manager managing four divisions: Estate Protection, Aviation Air-wing, Aviation Airports and Reaction Unit. This role reported directly to the Chief Financial Officer and the Divisional Executive.Key responsibilities:• Management of accountants and administrative staff• Liaising with branch managers on a weekly basis• Preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts• Processing monthly journals and consolidation of inter-group transactions for month-end and year-end finalisation.• Checking and signing off of divisional salaries• Design and implementation of enhanced control structures• Authorise payments, bank transfers and orders (overhead expense control)• Managed customer and supplier relationships• Ensured the improvement and control of debtors and creditors• Assisted in half-year and year-end auditsSpecial Achievements:During my time as Financial Manager, I also managed the project of selling the Armed Response Division of the Protea Coin Group to ADT. It was a multi-million rand deal that was concluded successfully.

Centurion

The Protea Coin Group, a subsidiary of Bidvest, is a leading provider of security services to the South African market. As Senior Accountant: Armed Response & Reaction Unit, I reported to the Financial Manager and as part of my duties I assisted with the creation of monthly reports on income, expenses and financial position. I was responsible for posting monthly journals for month-end procedures and assisted with the year-end audit and implementation of controls.

Sandton

As an Article Clerk, I handled article work involving all aspects of Case Ware, worked on trusts and estates planning and combined internal auditing with in-house company financials. I was furthermore responsible for external client audits as well as working with clients, assisting them with basic accounting tasks, tax and other relating issues and finally the compilation of written reports.

Currently Busy With Strategic Level

Professional Accountant (S.A.)

B.Com Financial Accounting, Financial Accounting

Activities and Societies: Member of the North West University Karate Team for the National Student Championships, 2003 - 2006. Financial.