• Defined the Finance and Operations Strategy• Implemented Business Intelligence Dahsboards, Rolling Forecast and Benchmark Reporting• Negotiated Finance Solutions in near bankruptcy context• Redesign and Overseeing of Purchase, Logistics, IT and Regulatory Affairs departments• Ensure performance and customer experience based on best practices and benchmark

• Staff and Resources Allocation Optimization; Optimize processes and procedures; Operational Risk Management• Ensure performance and customer experience based on best practices and benchmark on Cognos• Define and Implement Staff Planning Approach on Kronos• Continuously develop resource allocation and operations processes to ensure a smooth efficient service that meets the expectations and needs of customers and clients.

Strategic Orientation based on the Beyond Budget Model;Manage the capital request and budgeting processes;Report financial results to the board;Negotiate competitive financial solutions to support the growth model of the group’s companies;Oversee the Finance, Administrative, Legal and Shared Services;Represent the Group with stakeholders such as shareholders, banks, clients, suppliers, internal and external auditors, IT and Payroll providers.

Strategic Planning based on the Beyond Budget Model;Negotiate competitive financial solutions to support the growth model of the group’s companies;Develop KPI’s to support and monitor the KVD’s for each Business Unit;Supervise monthly reporting process and analyze trends; Elaborate Deep Dives and create Investment/Major Activities Plan and Impacts;

Leading the creation of strategic direction that promotes the adoption of standard global processes that provide maximum financial benefit to the company by evaluating industry Best Practices, driving innovation through continuous process improvement and developing a highly-effective, cost competitive organization.Building, maintaining and leveraging relationships with internal and external business partners that will enable identification of customer needs and facilitate solutions via process and systems expertise, and through the continuous evaluation of service alternatives to provide optimal value.Update operational procedures and processes that meet unique business requirements and are optimized based on “right" practice standardization and compliance with generally accepted accounting principles, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and company’s internal controls, policies and procedures.Interact with other stakeholders, including but not necessarily limited to internal and external auditors, payroll service providers and other technology service providers.Establish key performance metrics to measure the cost and quality of major shared service activities

Overseer for the Accounts Receivable department for Shared Services to all the group companiesin Angola.Credit Risk Management and Hedging; Develop guidelines for new customer creation; Estabilish periodic credit reviews of existing accounts; Conduct credit investigation and collection of delinquent customer accounts;Supervise Business and After-Sales Collections Teams; Improve response time in credit decisions; Coordinate the collections effort and effectiveness.Responsible for Administrative Support and Procedures.High-level negotiation. Liaise with top customers. Develop credit networking on the country and market industry.

Coordinate the annual operations plan and budget;Finance Control and Reporting; Ensure an accounting system that provides quick access to financial information;Marketing and Sales overseeing; Logistics and Stocks management;HR management and Procurement;Sales increase of over 40%/year.

Manage the financial information flow, the Group's financial process, ensuring accounting policies, routines and internal control systems operate effectively.SAP ERP Implementation and Roll Out.Ensure management and financial accounts information for all group departments is accurate, complies with best accounting practice and is produced on a timely basis.Ensure that internal controls for all departments are operating effectively and are appropriate to the business and its needs.Preparation of annual budgets and forecasts, and controlling them pro-actively.

Choose and decide the forms of acceptable credit cover, and amount of creditexposure for a given credit rating;Monitoring of the existing portfolio for credit exposure and compliance withcredit limits; Ongoing review of counterpart credit worthiness;Managing margining agreements and calculation of collateral requirements;Developing new client relationships and where appropriate performingclient visits;Developing credit exposure methodologies and risk analytic systems;Optimizing credit allocation;Analysis and preparation of credit applications; maintaining credit contract documentation.

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