Finance Manager
Current- Automated the Project Billing/Invoicing Process: significantly increased the earning capacity and profitability of the firm by 8% by automating and streamline the billing process. The process is now seamless, reduced duplication of work and required follow-ups to a single click, allows for transparency in reporting and enables credit extensions conversations at an executive level.- Developed Credit Card Usage & Requisition Process: identified high waste usage and theft from the company credit cards. Developed and implemented a requisition process that requires 3 quotations to be submitted and sign-off. Process eliminated the negligent use.- Fleet Card Management: designed a register for the sign-out of fleet cards for monitoring and tracking of expenses and movement associated with all 16 vehicles in the fleet. Monitoring and tracking system reduced over bloated petrol costs by 15% per month.- Initiated Clean-up and revaluating of company Insurance: identified that a comprehensive assessment of the company insurance had not been performed since 2011; risk of being under or over-insured. Initiated a reassessment of all assets including properties and vehicles – a 6 month exercise that required travel across all branches, Kimberly, Welkom, Polokwane and Johannesburg. Resulting in the realignment and replacement value of assets to current market value saving more than 15% on monthly premiums on the fleet alone.- Produced Asset Register: developed the first Asset Register for the company.- Staff Career Development: advocate for the facilitation of career coaching and training for junior staff members