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Nairobi, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya

Kampala, Uganda

Restructuring of business and ensure profitability of company business lines. Responsible for overall operations, creating budgets and cash flow. Develop and submit daily weekly and monthly performance reports. Engage at all levels with company customers, finance providers and shareholders.• Managing budgeting and cash flow to ensure projects come in below cost and adequate funding is available until completion. Debtors and Creditors management and working with local banks to provide project funding. Analysis and recommendations to stakeholders.• Produced monthly management accounts and ensured integrity, reliability and relevance of financial information and reports in accordance with appropriate accounting and information standards. Communicate daily (written and verbal) with stakeholders to ensure full understanding of activities. • Led a team of ~70 employees. Demonstrated the ability to take initiative, learn quickly and strive for results. Trained and motivated accounting staff in the use of ERP system. Showed competency, accountability, dependability and self-sufficiency throughout company restructuring.

Nairobi, Kenya

Develop new business and ensure profitability of company. Responsible for overall operations, recruiting staff and creating budgets. Develop and submit weekly, monthly and quarterly performance reports.• Management of 45 full time employees, 100 sales agents and 12 branches, identifying staff requirements in a rapidly expanding business. Interviewing, recruiting, training and motivating staff. Ensuring a positive values driven environment. Going the extra mile to meet targets and objectives.• Meeting of all group deadlines and sales targets on a monthly basis. Member of EXCO responsible for monthly reporting pack and quarterly live board presentation of results. Responsible for sales, collections and expense budgets. Daily communication in resolving challenges faced.• Ability to multi task roles and strong problem solving skills combined with an established work ethic. Oversee collections of ~$10 million loan book and address emerging problems quickly. Prioritize problems and take action in a focused problem-solving manner..

Kenya

Responsible for the finances of the company. Maintenance all financial information on the ERP system. Provide management with information and analytics required to evaluate business performance.• Implemented internal controls for 12 branches and head office, managed general ledger posting for 2 countries, budgeted cash flow $400K per month, in charge of year-end audit liaising with local and group auditors, tax calculation and statutory compliance, VIP Payroll. • Analyzing monthly general ledger in detailed audit file, answering month end queries from group CFO, addressing client statement queries, preparation cash flow forecast and communicating to head office finance requirements, reconciliation of loan book to general ledger.• Maintaining accounting records on Pastel Evolution ERP ~30,000 entries, Querying loan book MS SQL database and extracting in Excel Pivot Tables, advising and testing changes on front end and liaising with development team on the ERP system impact. Training staff on advanced Excel and ERP use

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Bachelor Of Commerce Honours (B.Com.Hons), Accounting, Auditing & Taxation

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting, Auditing & Taxation, Distinction In Accounting, Management Accounting And Statistics; Dean'S List