Kevin Davis Ca(Sa) Email & Phone Number

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Lumos 365 offers Operators and Non-Operators of capital-intensive businesses in the Upstream Oil and Gas, Mining, Renewables, EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) sectors the ability to deploy a fully integrated ERP system at a fraction of the cost and deployment time of other ERP solutions.The TechnologyLumos 365 provides a cloud based.

Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Pietermaritzburg

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Recently relocated to South Africa and am open to consulting, permanent and contract roles in South Africa, UK or remote working opportunities. Consulting assignments to date include:
• Assisting a software development company design, develop and test a joint venture accounting and ERP software solution based on MS Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Developing financial models in Excel and dashboards in Power BI for Stonefield Advisory Limited.

Kenya

• Tullow Kenya is a multi-billion dollar project develop the first oil production in Kenya. The role was a fixed term expat assignment to develop high quality budgeting, management reporting, and financial control.
• Co-ordinated annual budget cycle, receiving positive feedback from… Show more Tullow Kenya is a multi-billion dollar project develop the first oil production in Kenya. The role was a fixed term expat assignment to.
• Co-ordinated annual budget cycle, receiving positive feedback from partners on the quality of the submission, resulting in timely budget approval for the first time in years.
• Twice earned letters of merit from the Group COO for improving standards in budgeting; technical excellence in reporting and implementing controls that allowed the business unit to operate within budget.
• Developed reports, processes and controls, contributing to a significant (number withheld) reduction in annual overheads.
• Transformed accounting procedures enabling cost control within budget for 4 consecutive years.

London, United Kingdom

• I was the finance lead for a group wide project to implement a front-end management reporting and budgeting solution for SAP ERP using Cognos BI and TM1 to coincide with the global implementation of SAP and migration.
• Delivering the project on time and within budget, using AGILE SCRUM project management and JIRA software.
• Collaborating with SAP consultants and internal stakeholders to deliver functional design, user acceptance testing, preparation of training material and training of end users.
• Ensuring ongoing and uninterrupted delivery of Business-as-usual group management reporting, forecasting and budgeting in legacy models and during cut-over to new system. Show less

London, United Kingdom

My role was to Co-ordinate preparation of group management reporting, cash flow forecasts and budgeting, providing analysis and support to business units. Initially in Excel, but also to lead the finance functional design and implementation of Cognos planning and BI to replace Excel for reporting, forecasting and budgeting. In Oct 2012, I was promoted to.

United Kingdom

• Between permanent assignments I did consulting work to:
• Deliver the inaugural budget for Consumer Focus, a consumer rights group based in London.
• Develop a pricing model for City of Westminster in the UK to pilot dynamic pricing for its parking, which received newspaper coverage and which was implemented by Zeag.

London, United Kingdom

• Contract role responsible for designing BI solution and process improvements to streamline the annual planning processes of the newly formed ministry and its previously independent Courts, Tribunals and Prisons.
• A multitude of disparate processes and excel models for planning, budgeting and reporting… Show more Contract role responsible for designing BI solution and process improvements to streamline the annual planning.
• A multitude of disparate processes and excel models for planning, budgeting and reporting, not only between Prisons, Courts and Tribunal Services, but within regions and areas of these organisations.
• Many stakeholders spread across the UK some of whom were resistance to change.Successes include:
• Improving the planning and fund allocation process, convincing stakeholders with vastly different legacy processes to agree to a streamlined solution
• Compiling a report of financial processes improvements to the Director General of Finance, who immediately implemented all recommendations.

London, United Kingdom

• Contact role responsible for forecasting, budgeting, planning and management reporting. Contract ended as I was awarded a lead planning design role in a Financial BI project for the Ministry of Justice.
• Developed and maintained a forecast model;
• Supported projects in preparing and consolidating quarterly financial plans;
• Reviewed programme business cases; Supported reporting and planning, ensuring Green Book compliance

London, United Kingdom

Servista was an outsourced IT service provider offering CRM and billing services for companies wishing to sell telephony and insurance products to their customers. It had approximately 100 employees. This was a contract role to provide budgeting, reporting and financial modelling for decision support. My contract was extended once and then I left at the.

London, United Kingdom

• easyGroup is a business incubator operated by easyJet founder, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, to find an launch new businesses in industries that were ripe for disruption and could benefit from the same dynamic pricing model.
• Developing and operating a bespoke dynamic price management system for the easyCinema start-up
• Negotiating new alternative pricing structures with film studios, to fit in with a dynamic pricing model for easyCinema
• Buying films; scheduling screenings for easyCinema
• Building a system to automate revenue reporting using Cognos, SQL and VBA for easyCinema
• Identifying and championing point to point bus services as a suitable idea for further investigation; providing financial modelling to support cost reduction ideas and the investment case, which resulted in the launch.

London, United Kingdom

• Management reporting and forecasting role for easyCar and easyInternetCafe. Contract ended when I was offered permanent role as New Projects Manager.
• Prepared financial forecasts monthly management reports; board pack presentations
• Developed and maintained financial reporting systems

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Built a pricing model that allowed Daimler Chrysler's fleet management arm, Debis, to secure a R5bn fleet management contract with Telkom
• Conducted business valuations; due diligence; financial modelling; stock exchange compliance

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Statutory audit supervision; tax compliance; staff supervision, audit methods training

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Bachelor Of Accounting (Hons) (Cta), Accounting And Finance

Bachelor Of Commerce (Accounting)