Act in a consultant capacity assisting with technological aspects of annual financial statement preparation and growing the investor network.

• Manage and lead the accounting & finance department and establish regular communication and reporting between the Executive, Property Management and Asset Management teams, and other third parties (such as investors, lenders).• Manage, develop and continuously improve departmental processes and procedures to ensure accurate, clean, timely and efficient preparation of corporate and property level books and financial statements.• Ensure investor distributions are completed on time and each quarter, and related reports are developed and distributed.• Manage and lead all financial functions, including Financial Reporting, Budgeting, Planning.• Analysis, cash management, profit management, payroll, banking, and audit activities.• Develop and enhance a financial foundation with appropriate talent, processes, and technology that will allow thebusiness to grow effectively year over year.• Develop, oversee and ensure timely execution quarterly and year-end financial statements.• Ensure proper configuration and mappings of financials, properties, accounts and interfaces within Appfolio• Understanding of all corporate and property level financial agreements, including, partnership, management, and loan agreements, vendor contracts and other relevant agreements to ensure financial compliance with the same.• Ensure the accurate on-boarding of acquisitions and off-boarding of dispositions in the accounting system• Review legal agreements from an accounting perspective.• Track loan covenant compliance.

Providing technology solutions to the real estate industry

Serve as the technical bridge in the company between real estate operations and accounting functions. Involve in building technology and data management capabilities for the company. Facilitate the design and build of a comprehensive investor reporting solution.• Play an integral role in building the capability to consolidate extremely complex ownership structures for financial reporting.• Provide technical leadership for all software product development, including existing and new products and services.• Manage the full product lifecycle to ensure that, over time, the needs of customers/users continue to be met and that financial and other benefits are achieved.• Responsible for the production of financial analyses of real estate transactions and what-if scenario planning.• Successfully build tools and databases of information and manage to get buy-in to implement a new accounting system.

Drove the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) tactical solution for large multi-jurisdiction South African based bank. Facilitated development of the tactical design for group FATCA solution. Ensured engagement with all jurisdictions related to FATCA implementation.• Directed the development of rules for IGA and non-IGA FATCA reporting and focused on the analysis of data requirements for the FATCA solution.• Served an essential role in the development and build of a complete tactical FATCA engine for status and classification determination. Built core competency of compliance regulation consultancy within the company.• Maintained key relationships with the client and made them one of the key revenue generators for the company.• Managed, trained and mentored a team of consultants to enable project delivery.• Initiated and leveraged engagement with key executive stakeholders (CFO & Head of Compliance) for each country.• Acted as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) – rolled out of FATCA compliance into 17 countries.

Spearheaded the startup of business from initial idea to running a business. Created and executed a clear strategic vision that leads and drives the accomplishment of business objectives and successful realization of the vision.• Planned, defined, directed, and led the execution to open the center for business.• Managed the day-to-day operations of the center including tenanting, accounting, marketing, client relations, management and staffing within the organization.

• Management of team of quantitative analysts, developers and consultants responsible for the implementation of Trading Risk Management System for Nedbank Capital Investment Bank. I was primarily responsible for the design and implementation of a completely new implementation of the enterprise trading risk management software platform to enable effective risk management of trading risk across the bank. I was responsible for recruiting the team of specialist consultants and management of the implementation project to deliver a working risk management system. Under my management the system was successfully implemented and is still being actively used to manage the trading risk for the bank.• In order to successfully perform in the position, I was required to utilize the following skills and experience: o The knowledge and experience in Risk Management System technology, specifically Algorithmics RiskWatch was required.o The relevant quantitative financial modeling and analytical experience to correctly model and value financial instruments within software.o The experience and knowledge in managing the configuration of financial models and the data requirements needed for the models within the software.o An understanding of trading risk management that allow for the management of the team to ensure correct implementation of software.o The problem-solving ability and set of analysis skills needed to manage the team to successful implementation of the project.o The ability to build and verify financial models using Microsoft Excel/Access and Visual Basic for Applications to compare results to RiskWatch results.o SQL/Oracle experience to manage the database components of the software implementation.o An understanding of the bank’s trading system environment to build the relevant interfaces to existing trading systems within the banko Management of the procurement of the necessary hardware and software for the system and managed the project budget effectively.

I was key member of team involved in the evaluation and procurement of an enterprise wide trading system for the bank. During the implementation of the system I was responsible for the integration of the system into the I.T. Architecture and for streamlining the many systems that were in operation in the bank.

Responsible for the design and building of the market risk management systems for the bank including pricing models, relevant data repositories and full market risk and limit reporting. My job duties and responsibilities included, but were not limited to, the following: 1. Building risk management, quantitative financial analysis tools and financial models for the analysis and valuation of financial instruments using Visual Basic, Microsoft Access / Excel and Visual Basic for Applications.2. Building a risk management framework and valuation engine to perform stress testing and Value-At-Risk calculations.3. Calculation and sourcing of Risk Management, financial accounting, investment performance tracking and reporting results information4. Building a database of Risk Management, financial accounting, investment performance tracking and reporting results information using Microsoft SQL Server.5. Integration of databases to facilitate the transfer of information to and from the corporate data warehouse.6. Evaluation of enterprise-wide trading systems, including the integration to accounting systems, for all the trading operations within the bank.