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Cape Town, Wc, Za

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Accomplishments - Standardisation of audit and reporting schedules across companies / sub-groups within Spin Group and driving standardisation in other Groups.- Improvement to processes to increase control and efficiency.Role Description- Responsible for the financial management of the Spin Group.- Review of monthly management accounts including income statement and variance analysis, balance sheet and related reconciliations.- Provide summaries of all highlights to the Senior Finance Manager for income statement, balance sheet and open items.- Review of all statutory calculations and returns including income tax, Gaming tax, Gaming VAT, Corporate Tax, annual returns, statutory reports etc. for all gaming entities.- Manage on-boarding of new Gaming entities, Regions and Products (all accounting and reporting), and that all Regulatory requirements are being met. Ensure that the Project team is aware and understands all Finance and Gaming‐related requirements.- Review and approve weekly payments, ensuring that the correct amounts and suppliers are paid, as well as ensuring timeous supplier and intergroup payments.- Ensure any systems development has been capitalized in the accounting records on the go live date and appropriate amortization has been applied.- Review of internal and external audit files and working with the Statutory Team Lead to drive audits through to completion.- Management of direct and indirect team members, ensuring regular communication, setting performance objectives, assessing development needs, arranging / providing training.- Ensure all standardization of reporting and schedules across all entities.- Implementing improvements to enhance accuracy and increase automation and control of reporting processes and associated data models.- Ensure that Navision, Cognos TM1 and other systems operate effectively and efficiently for responsible companies.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Accomplishments - Achieved a ‘Successful’ performance rating in first year of employment.- Achieved ‘Outstanding’ performance ratings in two subsequent years of employment.Role Description- Responsible for the financial control of Tullow companies and associated oil exploration licences in Africa, South America and Greenland.- Performing financial due diligence for new country entries, new licence acquisitions, licence farm-ins and farm-outs.- Facilitating and implementing new processes and system setups for new country entries, new licences, licence farm-ins/outs.- Facilitating licence and country exits.- Managing ongoing compliance for Statutory, Branch, Production Sharing Contract, Joint Operating Agreement, Central Bank and Tax reporting.- Planning, facilitation, preparation, submission and presentation of the annual Budgets and regular Forecasts.- Actively assisting budget holders with cost control of their licences, local office and corporate costs.- Spearhead the financial management of Well Drilling campaigns, ensuring best practice financial controls, adequate SAP training, effective cost tracking and efficient finalisation of Well costs post-drilling. - Preparation and presentation of various licence financial updates at Operational Committee Meetings with external joint venture partners and at Business Review Meetings with internal stakeholders.- Preparation of / input into group trading statement, analytical reviews, transparency reports, social investment reports. - Management of direct and indirect team members, ensuring regular communication, setting performance objectives, assessing development needs, arranging / providing training.- Managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including resolution of queries.- Global process owner for SAP Joint Venture Accounting, providing support across Tullow Group, resolving system / user issues and driving system improvements / changes.

London, United Kingdom

Accomplishments:− Achieved a High Performance Rating against yearly objectives.Role Description:− Monthly Operating Expenditure and Full Time Employee (FTE) control for Human Resources (HR), Information Technology (IT) Operations, Chief Information Officer (CIO) and EDF Energy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) areas to ensure their financial positions are accurately reflected.− Liaising with Corporate business units to provide financial decision support and ensuring adequate cost control.− Producing monthly HR, IT Operations and Corporate Steering Function (CSF) performance reports for review with senior management with explanations of variances to plans, risks and opportunities for full year out-turn and tracking of key initiatives.− Planning, preparation, submission and presentation of the 5 year Medium Term Plan, annual Budgets and Forecasts.− Implementing improvements to enhance accuracy and increase automation and control of reporting processes and associated data models.− Maintenance and operation of the company wide charging model for recharge of corporate overheads to EDF Energy business units.− Producing and presenting finance dashboards for CIO and Corporate projects.

London, United Kingdom

Accomplishments:− Achieved a High Performance Rating against yearly objectives.− Automated various processes which enabled reduction of one full time staff resource requirement.Role Description:− Monthly Gross Margin (GM) and Operating Expenditure (Opex) control involving preparation and review of tax packs, intercompany recharges, journals, light forecasts, commentary and reporting to Optimisation Senior Leadership Team and Finance Director.− Implemented and agreed initial recharge and associated methodology of Optimisation GM and Opex to Business Unit Finance teams.− Planning, preparation, submission and presentation of GM, Opex and FTE bi-annual forecasts, annual budget and 5 year Medium Term Plan. Liaising with Optimisation senior management and the Customer’s Planning team to ensure Optimisation figures are accurate and robust. − Production of Optimisation’s Performance pack including review and challenge of content.− Bi-annual review, including verification, of Optimisation Fixed Assets. − Engaged with senior management on the financial reporting process improvements and the impact on their relevant activities.− Creation of improvement log and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) dashboard to track progress.− Managing finance graduates including setting performance objectives, work planning, training, supervising and reviewing work produced.

London, United Kingdom

Accomplishments:− Achieved a High Performance Rating against yearly objectives.− Awarded Finance Great IDEA award for performing monthly Opex process outside the remit of Business Support responsibilities due to resource constraint in Financial Reporting team.Role Description:− Producing Optimisation Board and Performance packs, Optimisation Executive Committee Reports and Optimisation Newsletter, including review and challenge of content.− Producing and analysing monthly Collateral Forecast for EDF Paris Group Risk Team.− Producing the monthly nomination financial authorisation document for sign-off by Director of Optimisation and Managing Director Energy Sourcing & Customer Supply (ESCS) division. Facilitating monthly ESCS nomination meetings.− Producing and presenting the Energy Output Trading Committee (EOTC) report to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).− Optimisation Business Continuity (BC) representative on the ESCS BC Forum, facilitating BC tests, communicating BC updates to stakeholders and maintaining Optimisation's BC plan.− Initiated and implemented monthly reviews of Financial Authority Limits (FALs) and Corporate Card holders to enhance governance and provided support to Optimisation staff on issues.− Coordination of the quarterly risk register review process and providing guidance to Tier 3 managers on assessment of risks. − Implementing improvements to enhance accuracy and increase automation and control of internal reporting processes and associated data models.− Engaged with senior management on the impact of process improvements to ensure risks were mitigated and adequate controls implemented.− Providing training and supervising team members to perform business support activities.

London, United Kingdom

Accomplishments:− Achieved a High Performance Rating against yearly objectives.− Produced the first detailed Energy Sourcing & Customer Supply (ESCS) wide Enterprise Risk & Control (ERC) Tool guidance document.Role Description:− Enterprise Risk & Control (ERC) Tool lead. Ensuring consistent approach to Risk & Control activities across business units within EDF Energy via the ERC Forum.− Piloted and implemented EDF’s Improving Controls Improving Performance (ICIP) guidance within ESCS, including documentation of processes, identification and assessment of risks and controls and process maturity assessments, creation of risk and control assessment templates, facilitated training sessions for rollout of ICIP to wider business.− Preparing Internal Assurance Reports and presenting findings and recommendations to senior management within ESCS Finance.− Reviewing suitability and implementation of action plans for Management Letter Points raised by Deloitte.− Reviewing and providing assurance on the new Customer billing system, Company Incentive Plan results and the British Energy Direct Limited transfer.− Performed the first audit of Feed-In-Tariffs as required by the Office of Gas & Electricity Markets (OFGEM), within prescribed deadlines and received positive feedback from OFGEM.

United Kingdom

Accomplishments:− Redesigned and subsequently implemented the monthly consolidation and reconciliation processes for intercompany accounts, grants, income, prepayments and gift aid, including introduction of control mechanisms to ensure outputs are accurate and robust.Role Description:− Monthly consolidation and reconciliation processes for intercompany accounts, grants, income, prepayments and gift aid.

London, United Kingdom

Accomplishments:− High quality output and successful completion of all tasks within prescribed audit deadlines, which led to successful renewal of contract in 2008 and 2009.Role Description:− Performing internal control systems audit, identifying weaknesses and risk areas and providing recommendations to management.− Performing substantive audit procedures and variance analysis on statutory Statements of Accounts.− Audit and certification of Government Claims.− Providing audit training to junior staff.− Leading interviews with client staff and management.− Presentation of reported findings to audit managers and client senior management.

South Africa

Accomplishments:− Placed in charge of audits within first year of training contract.− Involved with the audit of government motor transport for two years.Role Description:− Bookkeeping, preparing year end statutory accounts and consolidation of group financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).− Preparing and monitoring budgets, client billing, staff resource allocations, delegation and review of audit work.− External and internal financial audit assignments in a project management capacity as audit senior.− Supervision and development of junior and intermediate audit team members.− Audit planning based on internal control, fraud and business risk assessments in accordance with International Standards of Auditing (ISA).− Internal controls testing, substantive testing and variance analysis on all components of financial statements in accordance with ISA.− Preparation and presentation of audit reports, management reports and internal control reports to audit managers, partners and client's management.

South Africa

Accomplishments:− Appointed lead auditor within the first week of contract due to high level of understanding displayed on area being audited.Role Description:− Lead auditor in forensic audit of educators’ leave at Department of Education. − Delegated work to and supervised other auditors, summarising and consolidation of audit findings and consulting on potential issues identified.

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