Driving the standardization, simplification and automation of Global Planning and Forecasting process through selection of industry leading tool, creation of best-in-class process, development of global roll-out template and implementation across Markets. Owning and driving the implementation for South Africa.

Part of leadership team that turned around hygiene business in West Africa from a double-digit decline to a double-digit growth and delivered exceptional P&L results through optimal Pricing Strategy in price sensitive markets of Nigeria and Ghana (contributing 11% improvement in Gross Profit).▪ Transformed the East Africa Finance team over a year, post internal re-organization. Hired for potential in a protective labour environment. Successfully developed a high-performance team… Show more Part of leadership team that turned around hygiene business in West Africa from a double-digit decline to a double-digit growth and delivered exceptional P&L results through optimal Pricing Strategy in price sensitive markets of Nigeria and Ghana (contributing 11% improvement in Gross Profit).▪ Transformed the East Africa Finance team over a year, post internal re-organization. Hired for potential in a protective labour environment. Successfully developed a high-performance team accelerating the team’s focus on business partnership and building foundational finance capabilities.▪ Worked with cross functional team to formulate and implement a wholistic solution for a strategic supplier (70% of supplies) that improved Gross Profit by 3% and safeguarded the business against supplier non-performance due to working capital challenges and non-payment to RPM suppliers. Show less

 Led transformational finance projects to implement Centres of Excellence in Commercial and Financial Controlling by leveraging regional structure and outsourced services delivering 15% savings in Fixed Costs. Transactional activities related to Vendor Management, P2P and R2R process were outsourced to leverage scale and improve efficiency. While Planning and Commercial Controlling activities were managed regionally to drive bigger and better projects. The Improved planning and… Show more  Led transformational finance projects to implement Centres of Excellence in Commercial and Financial Controlling by leveraging regional structure and outsourced services delivering 15% savings in Fixed Costs. Transactional activities related to Vendor Management, P2P and R2R process were outsourced to leverage scale and improve efficiency. While Planning and Commercial Controlling activities were managed regionally to drive bigger and better projects. The Improved planning and forecasting for Africa through risk adjustment based on historical forecasting accuracy and zero-based budget planning. Reduced forecast error from 30% to 10%. Show less

Part of leadership team that turned around business in East Africa from decline to double digit growth and delivered exceptional financial results across all KPIs. Awarded the Best Performing Business in AMEA (Africa, Middle East and South East Asia) for 2018. The results were achieved through; Co-partnering with strategic business partner (Distributor contributing 90% of revenue) through one-business one-success mindset and focus on performance-based margin structure to improve DB… Show more Part of leadership team that turned around business in East Africa from decline to double digit growth and delivered exceptional financial results across all KPIs. Awarded the Best Performing Business in AMEA (Africa, Middle East and South East Asia) for 2018. The results were achieved through; Co-partnering with strategic business partner (Distributor contributing 90% of revenue) through one-business one-success mindset and focus on performance-based margin structure to improve DB profitability and drive exceptional business results while optimizing DB expenses with benchmark against Best in Class. In addition, incorporated Paid-On-Time criteria to improve DSO (reduced by 37%).  Drove actionable insights in trade spend through pre/post reviews to optimize channel, customer and spend mechanics that resulted in return improvement of circa 50%, pricing strategy interventions (inter-size price discount and laddering) and end to end analysis of value chain to improve Gross Profit by 4%. Acted as Country Manager for 3 months. Show less

 Regional lead (North Africa, Middle East, Turkey & Pakistan) for ‘Global Financial Controls Framework’. Recognised as one of the Top Regions in Global Controllership Meeting and awarded RB Values award for ‘Ownership’.  By leveraging banking relationships arranged GBP 5m distributor financing facility to support rapid business growth and improve working capital through injection of credit at 1/3rd the rate available to DB.

 Led the transformation of manufacturing organization into an end to end value focused team connected with strong innovation program to improve consumer experience and business results. Delivered 12% Gross Profit improvement over two years, while enabling investment increase to penetration drive and brand building.

In the backdrop of manufacturing consolidation, negotiated and finalized the biennial union agreement involving a Golden Handshake resulting in the reduction of 45% workforce and savings of GBP 1.5m. Responsible for computation and pay out of dues in 2-3 working days in partnership with Bank and Compensation team.

Ideation and implementation of disruptive and transformative investment of GBP 3m in the leaf procurement model from Cured to Green buying. As the Finance business partner, I led the internal consensus building with Regional stakeholder as well as operational and process development.

 Control assurance and process reviews of key business processes identified through Group risk assessment. At the Regional Finance Shared Service Centre, identified areas for improvements in procure-to-pay process related to verification and upkeep of authorization levels resulting in improved controls and service quality.

Designed and identified investments for petrochemical and energy sector funds worth GBP 300m.

Automated and digitized the core decision making process to improve throughput and making it paperless.

Optimized, streamlined and implemented operational workflows for a multiple international client leveraging the Business Workflow Automation Suite developed by the company.