Jacobus W Nel Email & Phone Number

Winnipeg, Mb, Ca

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Financial reporting - review periodic results, compared to budget, prior period and same period prior year and investigate variances.• Collaborate with business units and financial leads to develop annual and periodic forecasts, as well as establishing new budgets.• Host periodic meetings with business leads to present and review the financial results of the period.• Support period-end and year-end financial close processes, including cost allocations and accruals.• Perform complex financial analysis on large data sets utilizing advance excel skills and other tools to provide the business with insightful reports.• Hosted a successful 2-day networking event across four different offices and 30+ attendees. • Took in new work from other teams within the business• Improved the quality of reconciliations and resolved old outstanding issues• Completed the People Leader Development Certificate• Encouraged my team to in continued learning opportunities, resulting in new skills learned and a more efficient team.• Part of the mentorship team and helped coach colleague to achieve career progress• Manage the PC Optimum loyalty accounting process and liaise with our business partners to account for issuance and redemption of points

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

• Managed the occupancy accounting team responsible for 3,500 property accounts for the prepaid property accounts, including, base rent, common area maintenance and property taxes.• Review periodic results, compared to budget, prior period and same period prior year and investigate variances.• Worked with the real estate division to forecast revenues for their business units.• Completed statistical data reporting to government agencies.• Led a successful change management effort by merging three teams across five locations and reducing headcount by 20%.• Fostered an excellent team environment, reflected in high engagement scores from staff.• Advocated Six Sigma and Lean training, to drive efficiencies, as well as implemented cross-training initiatives to ensure team depth.• Change management - Merge three teams, from 5 different geografical locations into one• Create an excellent team environment, reflected by my TIAII scores (Qualtrics tool to measure team engagement) • Cross train team members between the teams to ensure there is depth in the team• Identified and converted accounts to Open Item Managed account to increase the efficiency of reconciliations• Cleared old balance sheet accounts to accounts receivable sub ledger, tidy up accounts/resolve old issues

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Cash and Sales Accounting manager – being the gatekeeper for the majority of Loblaw’s $52 billion in revenue, ensuring the sales are complete and ensuring tender will be received by the bank. • Manage the cash management and sales audit activities for 500+ corporate stores and 500+ franchise stores, ensuring proper controls are in place, reconciliations are kept current, and issues are dealt with in a timely manner • Change management -Amalgamated the cash management and sales audit teams, eliminated most of the entry-level roles• Be the main point of contact for any questions that the business units may have, working with my team to ensure issues are dealt with in a timely manner and providing constant communication to the business• Collaborate with other teams in different areas of the business to automate and optimize current processes to drive efficiencies, identify process gaps and manual work, this included working with stores, Loblaw Digital, Joe Fresh and Financial Service Product Development team• Delivered the following successful projects, PCXpress, PC Marketplace, Joe Fresh Ship from store, PhotoLab, Home & Entertainment and Dietician online• Performance management of staff – evaluate staff, provide feedback and assist with implementing corrective measures with regards to staff’s performance objectives • Presented projects and initiatives to our SVP`s, to drive efficiencies and generate additional revenue• Maintaining good relationships with external services providers, like merchant service providers and bank• Part of the mentorship program, supporting the colleagues assigned to me in their growth and development• Part of the Loblaw Finance communication work stream, providing updates and insights to the business and building relationships with a variety of senior finance leaders

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Accounts Payable manager for the largest retailer in Canada, servicing more than 3000 vendors, paying out more than a $1Bn per period• Managed the vendor services department, my team resolved vendor inquiries, ranging from unpaid invoices, costing errors and short receiving’s.• Develop metrics and KPIs to measure vendor service team's performance and track progress towards service level agreement goals.• Help setup a new team to handle new work intake from the Shoppers Drugmart acquisition.

- Buying and selling land in GA, CO and FL- Educating myself in all aspects of real estate- Coordinating deals with title companies- Obtaining information from various departments in counties in the USA- Working with real estate agents to sell properties- Building relationships with owners to purchase properties- Invest in notes, create amortization tables for loans, collect payments, etc.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

The business of www.ptynow.co.za is the online registration of companies, amendments to companies, VAT registrations, PAYE and UIF registrations, Workman’s Compensation registrations & Letters of Good Standing, the provision of Tax Clearance Certificates, BEE Certificates and ancillary services to the public and businesses.• Was responsible for the business development of the company, forging business to business relationships resulting in more than doubling sales every year for 4 years in a row.• Developed systems and processes in the business and franchised the business to create additional revenue.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Was part of a team who raised more than a CAD $100 million from a group of 400 investors. During the time, we registered 400 credit provider businesses to operate on our platform. At the end of the project, we amalgamated 350 businesses into a public company and transferred more than 300,000 debtor contracts.• Registered credit provider business with the company’s office, as well as the National Credit Regulator (NCR).• Developed reporting to streamline the submitting of statistical reports to the credit regulator, this was used by more than 400 businesses and saved weeks of work.• Analyzed processes and identified systemic issues to support business departments and facilitate business requirements between business departments and IT department• Completed Management Development Skills Program – 6-month program covering various topics including: soft skills, staff development, conflict management, communication, development of operational plans, critical thinking and time management• Developed and implemented improvement plans that included process and technology enhancements for credit provider business unit• Responsible for User Interface Testing for new system roll-outs for the credit provider department• Selected to be part of the Innovation Forum to improve processes in the company• Project Manager for initiatives to improve credit provider systems and operations• Recruited, trained and motivated staff members as well as handling disciplinary action• Performance management of staff – evaluated staff, provided feedback and assisted with implementing corrective measures with regards to staff’s performance objectives.

Pretoria Area, South Africa

• Performance management of 22 staff – evaluated staff, provided feedback and assisted with implementing corrective measures with regards to staff’s performance objectives• Reviewed and updated monthly financial statements for presentation to the CFO• Presented financial information to 50 – 100 investors quarterly on investor meetings• Prepared and managed budgets for different business units• Formulated financial reports using the operational system to help credit providers with their monthly accounting• Reconciliation of financial data of operational systems• Migrated data from outdated system to new loan management platform

Stellenbosch

• Responsible for the preparation of audit files, the compilation of financialstatements and the handling of tax matters for both individuals and companies

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Migration of pension funds from old administration platforms to a new platform developed by Coris Capital• Gathered data from the last year end of the pension fund to the relevant date on which the pension fund would migrate to the new platform

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Conducted on the job training, developed and supervised junior members of staff• Involved in planning of audits, identification of risks and developing plans to address these risks• Drafted budgets, monitored and reported on variances from budgets• Perform audits, assist in tax planning and present financial statements to clients• Attended various continued professional development courses (CPD)• Learned to manipulate large volumes of data by using various tools, including lookups, pivot tables and “if” formulas

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Assisted the accounting department, with data for their year end audit

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Chartered Accountancy

My subjects included: - Auditing - Financial Accounting - Management Accounting - Taxation

Senior Certificate, General

Activities and Societies: Rugby, Athletics