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City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Review of financial management and operational processes and reporting for growing businesses in the Events Management and Financial Services industries. Identification of enabling technologies and business case preparation. Advisory on governance and project management processes to enable leadership to delegate execution of strategic projects.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Product costing stream lead in a large Finance Transformation project for Naspers Video Entertainment division, including Multichoice (SA and Africa), SuperSport and MNet. The role requires a review of the product costing principles, policies, processes and systems: what product costing is being used for in the business, how users'​ needs can be met, how processes and systems be standardised across multiple business units and geographies to obtain comparable and usable information for decision-making purposes, and how the organisation can be structured to take advantage of a shared services environment.

Kramerville, Sandton, South Africa

Supplier Development ManagementNew Product DevelopmentSkills Development project managementCustom Programme ImplementationFinance and Entrepreneurial Learning facilitationRaizcorp is an internationally recognised for-profit small-business incubator.Supplier Development Management involves bridging the gaps between the capabilities of the emerging businesses being developed and the requirements of corporate clients. This requires an ability to navigate the corporate client’s organisational structures and policies and set achievable expectations between the client and the emerging business to ensure a successful supplier relationship.  New Product Development requires creating and implementing end-to-end internal processes, materials and training to launch a new product in the business. This includes identifying and describing the potential market and sales approach, developing sales materials and training sales staff, developing internal processes and materials, training all departments impacted in the business and launching the product to the business internally.Skills Development product design originates from the Skills Development Scorecard in the BBBEE Revised Codes of Conduct and translates how the opportunities can be realised in an Entrepreneurial environment. Custom Programme Implementation is required when an Entrepreneurial programme has been designed for a specific cohort of Entrepreneurs based on industry or client-specific requirements. Implementation starts following the signing of the contract with the client to sourcing Entrepreneurs, design and implement programme changes in impacted departments, set up programme delivery to meet client deliverables and direct liaison with the client until the all programme nuances are operational.Finance and Entrepreneurial Learning combines technical training and personal development in a financial context and delivers this to Entrepreneurs in facilitated face-to-face classes and workshops.

Finance process mapping.Council Induction Training project management.Financial reporting systems consolidation project management.The SAICA TVET Project was a collaborative programme between SAICA and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) to stabilise the financial management of 50 Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges across the country. I was the Stream Lead for standardising finance processes across the 50 FET Colleges and Project Manager for the delivery of executive and non-executive Councillor Induction Training for the newly constituted Councils of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges.

In the past three years I have performed the following major roles: Business case lead on a Credit Transformation program at a leading bank (Financial Services) Project manager on a SAP Programme and Shared Services transformation project. The role involved planning and managing finance team activities to build business capabilities and processes for a SAP implementation and implementation of enabling technologies to support the restructured finance function in the shared service. Business case tracking lead on Shared Services transformation project. The role required design and implementation of consolidated functional cost reporting across 14 business units and design and presentation of business case tracking reports. The role required engagement of senior Finance management and Executive leadership on implementation of reporting processes and business case tracking results. Design and implementation of accounts payable processes for shared services transformation Presentation of thought leadership on Sustainability Performance Management and Integrated Reporting Design of risk engine rules for South African Revenue Services Current state analysis of specialised accounting departments governance and processes Internal chargeability target management of all finance-aligned management consultants

I performed two main roles in Client Financial Management, being a12 month tenure on a complex global ERP (SAP) implementation project and a 14-month tenure dedicated to the Financial Services Industry division.Project accountant, Complex global SAP implementation for a Global Brewer (May 2009 - May 2010)The main purpose of this role was management of the project accounting on the R300m South African roll-out of a global SAP implementation. This was a challenging role due to the size of the project and the complexities of the accounting structure. I was involved in designing, building and implementing financial management tools in addition to monthly project management accounting.Management accountant, Financial Services operating group (March 2008 to April 2009)The main purpose of this role was management of the sales, revenue and margin of the Financial Services operating group.Responsibilities included: Preparation and analysis of rolling forecasts Analysis of variances from budgets and forecasts Management of project financials within the operating group, including revenue recognition (US gaap, IFRS), cost management, margin control and early warning of possible deviations against deal economics; Reporting on significant items discovered during monthly review of project financials Inventory management – receivables, non-billable expenditure and unbilled cost Consultation with project managers to review project financials and forecasts Ad-hoc reporting on performance against individual performance targets Management and training of an analyst-level staff members to assist in managing project accounting for the smaller projects in the operating groupInternal controls compliance and audit preparation

The company performs audit and financial services to a diverse client base of small and medium enterprises, mostly in the manufacturing sector. I was employed in the Audit division. The main purpose of this role was to audit and prepare financial statements and tax returns during the fulfillment of my SAICA training contract.

Professional Qualifying Examination (Parts 1 & 2), Financial Reporting, Management Accounting, Auditing, Taxation

Board Exams

Bcompt Honours, Accounting And Finance

BCompt, BComptHons

Matric, Mathematics, Science

High School

Ca (Sa), Chartered Accounting

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