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South Africa

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South Africa

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Responsible for Africa Operations, Technology and Separation from Barclays for 10 banks on the continent. The Barclays decoupling was one of the world’s largest change programs run from June 2017 until June 2020. Some key Separation highlights are as follows:▪ Core banking lift and drop for 6 Africa countries which included 293 server builds, 2363 firewalls implemented, 14100 file transfers, 85 interfaces configured and tested and 1365 test cases executed with zero call centre complaints related to this migration.▪ The Digital channels migration included all 10 countries. We built 180 servers, total number of services migrated was 520, 1.75TB of data moved and 13,105 total calls received that weekend of which 22 were complaints.▪ Our card programme has seen us completely replace 14 applications with 3. After 15 years on Base24 Switch we moved to the PowerCard Switch and we use Powercard for the Acquiring business for our 12 781 merchants and 18 701 POS machines. ▪ We also migrated 935 ATM’s off the Barclays PLC domain, with an upgrade to the Sparrow hub from v84.04 to v84.07. We built 93 servers and implemented 3451 firewall changes and achieved an average uptime post migration of 94%.▪ A critical success has also been the complete rewrite of our Teller application covering 52 processes writing over 200 000 lines of code and training 2463 users across 6 countries. ▪ Other activities have been the migration of a further 105 applications and 10609 users and devices off the Barclays PLC domain, which also included the replacement of every desktop and laptop in the Africa estate.▪ We also completed the rebranding of every branch, ATM, forms, stationery, uniforms and applications from Barclays to Absa in February 2020.▪ Our final project is the upgrade of our Card Issuing application and migration from the Barclays Plc data centre to the Fiserv Frankfurt data centre scheduled for 26 June 2020.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

The Project Executive role is largely to focus on a few key and material client relationships with the relevant CEOs and CIOs driving value for both BCX and the client . I assist with Account strategy and direction from an ICT perspective including roadmaps and innovation. In addition to this, I assist the account teams with all material proposals in terms of content and pricing. Key to this is relationships with large OEM's and other partners.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

The Deputy CEO role included group strategy, acquisitions, marketing, transformation and culture. During this time, a colleague and I successfully concluded the Business Connexion and Telkom SA SOC Limited acquisition, on 25 August 2015. The Marketing team and I launched the new Business Connexion Group website in November 2015. The digital era is here and how the customer interacts with a business is forcing organisations to completely rethink how they engage in an appealing and relevant way. If you think that your existing website presence, using old technology that was developed three years ago, is still going to drive proper sales leads, then you can eliminate a critical channel for growth for your organisation.I was the chair for the Business Connexion Transformation Committee Chair from September 2014 date until April 2016. During this time, we were able to achieve some highlights mentioned below: Business Connexion won the Gender Mainstream Champion Award in 2015, which I was instrumental in driving along with my colleagues in HR. Adding to this triumph, Business Connexion won the accolade presented in the category “Women on Boards” in 2015.  Black representation increased significantly as follows: o Senior Management: from 24% in 2014 to 36% in 2015o Middle Management: from 23% in 2014 to 30% in 2015o Junior Management: from 47% in 2014 to 52% in 2015  Business Connexion introduced the Disability Internship Programme in April 2016 Business Connexion signed up eight Enterprise and Supplier Development partners.

Midrand, Johannesburg

Deputy CEO and Group Executive - Services DivisionAs the Deputy CEO and Group Executive for the Services Division, the largest and most profitable division of Business Connexion I was responsible for a turnover of R2, 1 billion and 2 500 employees. I had an executive committee of 15 heads reporting directly into me, covering all the service lines and geographies within South Africa. My responsibilities included setting and driving strategy for the Services Division, managing key client relationships within the public and private sector, driving and managing operational performance and overseeing operational functions. In addition, I was responsible for sustaining the 65% outsource annuity revenue business, which was accomplished by the re-signing of large outsourcing contracts up for renewal and acquiring new clients. Furthermore, the division’s regional footprint was expanded by driving increased business in the Western Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal. I was also instrumental in building a new dynamic Application Development team and enhancing the Cloud services business. My role also required inspiring people whilst unlocking the talent and potential of people within the context of South Africa, rest of Africa and the World.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

I was the Chief Financial Officer for the Group. Within a year, I was responsible for all of Shared Services (Including Finance, HR, Internal IT, Commercial and Logistics). During this time I was responsible with a team for the consolidation of shared services to save the company in the order of R100 million, which was achieved. Board memberMember of Group EXCOCFO - All financial reporting - Internal and ExternalResponsible for: HR, Legal, Internal IT, Commerical and Logistics, Group Secretarial

My role within Standard Bank as Financial Director for Africa included leading, providing and driving the implementation of the strategic direction to all 16 Africa country Finance functions and a Head Office Finance team. Furthermore, it was critical to provide clear and concise guidance on performance requirements for the year, expectations and acceptable performance standards across the continent. It was also key to have an appreciation and a good understanding of macroeconomics and external factors affecting the business strategies adopted by, and markets serviced by the Standard Bank Group and its competitors.A prerequisite in this role was also to have excellent interpersonal skills in order to liaise with people at different levels and cultures throughout the Bank and across the continent. A key strength of mine was building relationships with all key customers - internal and external and always resolving customer issues timeously. My experience also included two significant mergers in Nigeria and Kenya and covered due diligence reporting from a financial accounting perspective, merger accounting (end to end), integration of teams and co-ordination of audits. I was also involved in start-up business plans.A large focus was also on systems and reporting and I was involved is some key initiatives listed below: Reconfiguration of the core banking system upon re denomination in Zimbabwe of their currency Merger of two different system platforms in respect of new acquisitions in Nigeria and Kenya Planning, training and implementation of SAP Financials and new applications in 13 of the 16 African countriesMember of Gloabl PBB EXCOMember of Africa Exco and other decision making bodies/forums

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Key skills acquired  IFRS reporting Multi-currency consolidations Banking knowledge Report writing Negotiation skills Business awareness People management Relationship management Problem solving

London, United Kingdom

Key skills acquired  UK and US GAAP Life and general insurance experience Change management Issues resolution management Problem solving

Greater Chicago Area

Obtained CPA in USAObtained Life Insurance Qualifications with LOMAKey skills acquired  US GAAP Life & general insurance experience Banking & finance experienceTwo major clients in my portfolio whilst in the USA were: Allstate Insurance Corporation - Largest publicly owned provider of personal insurance in the USA Safeway Insurance Company - Specialises in non-standard automobile insurance

Durban Area, South Africa

Completed Article in Durban, Kwa Zulu NatalWorked on numerous different cients from Medical aids to Manufacturing clients

Insurance, Insurance

Life Management Institute Program (United States of America) - Life Office Management Association (LOMA) May 2001

Cpa, Accounting And Related Services

Certified Public Accountant (United States of America) llinois Certified Public Accountants Society November 2000

Higher Diploman Intaxation, Taxation

Higher Diploma in Taxation University of South Africa March 1998

Ca (Sa), Accoutning

Higher Diploma In Accounting, Rhodes University

Higher Diploma in Accounting - Rhodes University- December 1994 Bachelor of Commerce -Rhodes University - December 1993

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting

Matric, Maths, Accounting, Science And Biology

Matriculation (with exemption) Eshowe High School December 1990