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Senior Finance Executive ► Strategic Insights | Corporate Governance | Stakeholder Relations | Acquisitions | Multinational Taxation | Group Finance | Mining | Change Management | Team Building and Leadership | Digital InnovationAs a senior executive/ Chief Financial Officer with extensive career across multiple industries and countries, I deliver strategic insights and implement financial systems and controls that assure corporate governance, optimize tax strategy, innovate and grow Group Finance capabilities. Highly adept at overseeing multinational multi-cultural finance operations where financial discipline, due diligence in acquisitions, performance and costs savings are key priorities (including via digital transformations and team building).Leveraging my outstanding performance in my earlier career at a Big 4 accounting firm, as an audit and tax manager advising diverse multinational businesses, I progressed to a long-term finance executive career in the mining sector and continued to influence and deliver solid financial results and growth. My interim financial career included as an entrepreneur setting up my own business, before being the group corporate accounting manager for a national financial services wealth management company. Well balanced between interpersonal and authoritative, as well as strategic and tactical, my CORE PROFESSIONAL STRENGTHS include:📈 strategic insights 📈 board and executive reporting📈 change management📈 mergers and acquisitions📈 multinational taxation planning and strategy📈 group finance📈 team leadership📈 stakeholder relations and engagement📈 project management📈 cost-saving initiatives📈 forecasts & modellingFurthermore, some of my MOST NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS are:✔ Initiating changes and improvements that enable more robust, timely and reliable financial output, whether overseeing digital advancements or building a high-performance finance team/function✔ Empowering board and other executive decision-making, via due diligence and other strategic insights that validate and/or redirect key considerations (e.g. proposed mergers and acquisitions; funding structures)✔ Conducting cost-beneficial change management activities, from restructuring multinational taxation and funding frameworks, to building internal capabilities to reduce need for external contractors✔ Establishing solid, resourceful stakeholder relations as a finance executive that actively engages with all parties, including, boards and audit committees, auditors and regulators, and expert consultants