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South Africa

Durban Area, South Africa

• Establishing, implementing and overseeing effective systems, processes and controls• Participating in the formulation and implementation of the national strategy, based on a five-year view of requirements, ensuring agreed strategic objectives are implemented through team targets• Managing contracts with key clients including Rainbow Chicken, McCain and Siqalo Foods• Building strong working relationships and effective communication channels with key stakeholders• Producing various reports, presentations, analyses, correspondence and other documentation• Preparing annual revenue budgets and expense forecasts• Calculating and presenting fee increases• Analysing and presenting monthly customer profitability results• Performing as a strong leader of a cohesive team with strict enforcement of statutory regulations, quality standards, governance processes and compliance requirements

Durban Area, South Africa

• Overseeing administrative and financial functions, including month end processes• Supervising, coaching and supporting regional administrative assistants• Managing the creation of new profit centres, ensuring the implementation of necessary BW reporting changes• Preparing monthly results, board packs and presentations• Performing comparative analyses of monthly and year to date results to budget, forecast and last year • Preparing detailed operating cost- and revenue analyses by business area and customer• Preparing revenue forecasts and budgets• Overseeing capex budget, submitting capex requests, relevant motivation and payback calculations • Calculating and presenting fee increases

Durban Area, South Africa

• Performing a range of financial tasks such as preparing month end reporting packs and journals• Ensuring all finance activities are completed within agreed deadlines• Reviewing and signing off on monthly balance sheet reconciliations• Preparing monthly general ledger to payroll reconciliation, following up and clearing variances• Providing assistance and resolution for branch finance related issues• Managing internal and external audit requests• Processing various statutory payments, including tax• Managing the annual renewal of tax clearance certificates and letters of good standing • Checking and releasing EFT payment runs• Signing all cheques, reviewing authority levels and GL account allocations • Creating and maintaining user profiles for online banking• Reviewing monthly sundry principal debtors reconciliations, petty cash reconciliations and reimbursement requests• Managing and reconciling accounts, including inter company loan account • Producing various reports, presentations, analyses and other finance documentation

Durban Area, South Africa

• Responsible for financial tasks including general ledger and taxation• Managing finance staff at head office and multiple branches, including providing support to all finance related enquiries from twenty-five franchisees• Supervising, coaching, training, motivating and mentoring personnel, setting clear goals and expectations, providing relevant feedback and discipline as required• Establishing, implementing and overseeing effective systems, processes and controls• Finalising trial balance and preparing monthly management accounts• Overseeing bookkeeping function including reviewing and authorising all reconciliations, schedules and invoices • Preparing monthly balance sheet and income statement reconciliations• Preparing and managing year-end external audit • Processing various statutory returns and reconciliations, including tax• Reviewing and authorising all journals• Signing creditor reconciliations and payment requisitions • Managing fixed asset register• Performing as a strong member of a cohesive team with strict adherence to statutory regulations, service level agreements, quality standards, governance processes and compliance requirements

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Project managing audit engagements including identifying risks and planning procedures, working in accordance with IFRS• Client liaison, building strong working relationships with key audit clients such as Nestle South Africa (Pty) Ltd, SA Airlink (Pty) Ltd, Score Supermarkets, Glenrand MIB, Liquid Automation Systems (Pty) Ltd, Spartan and Guild Cottage and Guild Cottage Trust• Preparing financial statements for clients• Supervising junior team members and providing development points for future growth• Performing stock counts• Ensuring compliance with statutory and other requirements

Honours With Cta, Bcom Acc Honours

Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcom), Accounting

Activities and Societies: Deans commendation, golden key honour society. victor daiz bursary, study trust bursary

Education record

Activities and Societies: leadership training