African Group Lubricants is a distribution and local blending company for lubricants. It is a subsidiary of enX Group Ltd.

Promoted to Financial Director of the Lubricants division within the enX Group.

Core Overview:Spearheads overall reporting of financial results of the Group and all entities within the Group.Establishes and executes internal controls over Group accounting and financial procedures.Deeply involved in operational finance reporting and resolving daily queries from Finance Manager at the mine, new Corporate Tax & Finance Manager, and all Accountants reporting to them. Manages processes where FMs’ outputs are used as inputs for external, internal and stakeholder reporting, even though their direct reporting line is to the CFO.Duties & Responsibilities:Assumes overall accountability for financial accounts and consolidation of Group and all entities within Group, including high-level review.Prepares consolidated and separate quarterly interim financial statements for management discussion and analysis for publication.Performs diligent monthly analyses of cost vs. budget results, reviewing information and compiling operational finance reports sent to the Board of Directors.Ensures complete compliance with IFRS reporting requirements, Companies Act, Canadian reporting requirements and reporting requirements from stakeholders – including banks and investors.Plans and monitors all financial processes, including month-end reporting, statutory audit, budgeting and Group quarterly reports.Liaises with financial and tax managers, company secretary, finance team members, international accounting service providers and external consultants.Manages and directs relationship with auditors and SLA management.Spearheads systems implementation and acts as systems owner of comprehensive, Web-based Hyperion application to deliver global financial consolidation, reporting and analysis in a single, highly scalable software solution.Attends to ad hoc requests from CFO and CEO for assistance and advisory services, as needed.

Core Overview:Facilitated cross-border nature of global transactions with entities within the Sub-Saharan region and to advise clients accordingly from an SSA perspective.Oversaw day-to-day management of intercompany and accounts payable process for SSA operations.Duties & Responsibilities:Compiled and reported on global intercompany and accounts payable and unbilled activities across all levels of the organisation for the SSA region, directly reporting to SSA Regional Financial Controller.Acted as central contact for communication between in-country financial controllers, regional personnel, corporate head office in the United States, service providers and procurement personnel relating to activities in SSA region.Spearheaded local and corporate month-end reporting activities and balance sheet reconciliation reviews.Designed, set up and monitored clean-up projects relating to subsystems, offsets, AP accrued, unbilled, logged vouchers and supplier reconciliations.Assisted with internal and external auditors, year-end disclosures and withholding tax reporting.Directed internal control assessment and improvement | Provided training to regional personnel.Mapped business processes across all functions of the SSA operations.Staff management: Led divisional accounting teams, in-country financial controllers with respect to work products required for intercompany and accounts payable regional reporting, and service providers situated in Manila.Trained, coached and mentored staff members | Supervised performance evaluations for direct reports.

Core Overview:Working within audit firm registered with Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), assisted UK clients with significant cross-border business and the extent of more intricate public interest matters due to globalisation.Expressed useful outside perspectives and views on regulation, business and public service.Duties & Responsibilities:Planned audit staff members and liaised with client contacts | Supervised entire audit process and team.Developed audit plan / approach | Reviewed audit working papers and annual financial statements.Finalised audits, reporting on SOX controls compliance.Discussed and resolved audit and accounting issues with client and audit partners.Staff management: Managed audit team, reviewing quality of work | Trained, coached and mentored staff members | Prepared and officiated staff performance evaluations.

Core Overview: Helped organisations to achieve cost efficiencies in internal audit functions by way of regulatory and procedural compliance review and procedure efficiency evaluations. | Provided innovative ideas and advisory support, greater technology enablement and broad subject matter experience in complex areas.Duties & Responsibilities: Applied integrated perspectives on all aspects of organisational risk | Reviewed financial risk and controls | Provided advisory services on governance, compliance and enterprise risk management | Worked closely with clients of all sizes and across many sectors in adding knowledge and experience to every engagement.

Core Overview: Spent three years on training contract – successfully completed in February 2009.Duties & Responsibilities: As member of Assurance team, made technical contributions to audit engagements and internal projects | Actively established internal and external relationships, identifying and escalating business opportunities on existing engagements | Anticipated and recognised risks, escalating issues as appropriate | Delivered high quality, next level reviewed work to clients.