Head up the finance department with the aim of maintaining good financial controls, credit management, management reporting, budgetting and forecasting, with five reports.

Utilities company specialising in car park management throughout Britain.Responsibilities:• Preparation and issue of landlord statement of accounts per contract.• Raise charges and accruals for monthly expenses• Reconcile balance sheet accounts for control and holding accounts• Management reporting and analysis• Supervising 4 members of staff

Medical Waste Management company operating in South Africa with a R250M TurnoverResponsibilities:• Entire finance function ensuring compliance with all local and international regulatory requirements, company policy and maintenance of sound internal controls.• Preparation of Budgets and Forecasts.• Variance analysis.• Asset and Cash management.• Review and presentation of monthly management reports.• Set, monitor and review of Key Performance Indicators which drive business performance. • Price and cost analysis, by customer and product for Tender and Contract customer reviews.• Manage nine staff comprising debtors clerks, accounts payable clerks, treasury clerks and assistant accountants.Major Achievements:• Successfully drove the process from recommendation to implementation of SAP B1 to replace the out-dated financial system within the company. Due to the insistence of running parallel ran over by 1 month and was within 5% of the budget.• Co-ordinated subsequent projects to integrate add-on applications to effectively automate the route planning, tracking and billing function.• Although the systems changes did not reduce heads, it allowed the business to sustain the incremental growth experienced without the need of taking on additional heads.• Mentored, trained and developed a trainee graduate to become an accomplished SAP systems development expert.• Developed Budget models for Heads of Departments to prepare their annual budgets and incorporated these into the Consolidated Company Budget.

• Review and set prices for the Private Sector contract and non-contract business. Incorporating both price lists and ad-hoc quotations. • Maintain and enhance reporting tools with the objective of automating processes where viable.• Supply the technical support for models such as Budgets, Tenders and Base Drivers as well as review of integrity.• Set Buying policies and manage the price increase and discount / rebates of the major suppliers.• Cost analysis and review for projects or tenders.

Responsibilities: • Development and support of the weekly sales reports and commission process.• Successful implementation of several new commission schemes. • Maintain and enhance Budget and Forecast models and consolidation process.• Managed two members of staffMajor Achievements:• Due to changes in the global contract market a restructuring of company business model was required in order to attract new business and shift to alternative markets. This introduced a change in remuneration to the predominately IT development sales team, needed attention to detail, careful checking and a timely roll-out, followed by the patience to deal with the largely frustrated sales team.• Revision of Budget models to include the Finance and HR recruitment divisions that were newly formed to adapt from the shift from IT development. Including the support and guidance provided to the new team members.

Responsibilities: • Completed and implemented a sales reporting and commission model (advanced Excel model using macros and links to Access in order to extract data from Tempaid payroll and Pegasus finance system). • Offered a permanent role and developed a management reporting team.• Facilitated the implementation of revised commission schemes• Managed one member of staff Major Achievements:• The critical success factor was the use of macro buttons in Excel models to perform a series of routine functions to import data from the payroll database via MS Access to generate the required sales reports by technical area and sales person. This was then also used to calculate the commission using the applicable rules.

• Produced several routine and ad-hoc sales, marketing and financial reports by means of integrating information from various systems (mfg-pro, Cognos, excel and assisted with the introduction of F9 – enhanced financial reporting). Plus maintained category product and sales hierarchies.• Supported the snack marketing team, plus reported to the group management accountant.• Performed an analyst role regarding ad hoc costings / profitability of products (using mfg-pro and excel)• Implement an EVA incentive scheme• Managed one member of staff.

• Managed the production of the monthly accounts for submission to the group FD. Included issuing reports to the department heads, allocation of costs, prepayments and accruals, payment of creditors, control of fixed assets etc.• Managed four members of staff.

• Assisted the Financial Accountant to produce the Income statement and Balance Sheet as well as reconcile various GL. accounts.• Oversee three members of staff (Asset Register, Cash Book and Petty Cash).