Wayne Wides Email & Phone Number

Brisbane City, QLD, AU

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Milton, Queensland, Australia

Eight Mile Plains, Queensland, Australia

• Reporting to the Finance Manager. The role included the managerial and financial reporting of the implementation, subscription, vehicle tracking and other revenue streams across countries. This included both accruals.
• Creation of and maintenance of Power BI revenue model, in both DAX and M, with multi-dimensional analysis and cloud SaaS reporting at a granular level of all subscription customers revenues.
• Detailed calculations of forecast and budget revenues with identification of deviations against actual performance.
• Preparation of implementation revenue reports that allowed for identification of bottlenecks or weakness in implementations.
• Month end processes related to revenue reporting, including some commissions calculations.

Brisbane, Australia

• Part of News Corp AustraliaThe role included maintenance of the planning, budgeting and forecasting software of TM1, as well as distribution of technical reports for financial and other departments.
• Assisting in maintaining TM1 v10 Cubes and troubleshooting issues. Compilation of reports and uploading of data.
• Built, maintained and supported customised Excel templates that use Advanced VBA to aid end users across financial operations perform forecasting and budgeting to TM1.
• Preparation and distribution of reports via TM1 with customised Excel VBA to automate functions. Also improving on existing ones by enhancing performance and layout. Involvement in adjusting SQL to meet business.
• Documenting end user requirements and building of ad-hoc or specialised reports, including advertising revenue.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Reporting to the Head of Financial Reporting & Back End Processes, the role of Manager: Finance MIS was to oversee the data mining and financial modelling capability as required by the reporting team, as well as manage.
• Developed accurate and reliable multi-dimensional financial performance and position reports beyond traditional reporting and financial analysis for advanced insights.
• Produced a monthly Finance Management Information System reporting pack, tracking financial performance, budgets, position and key metrics.
• Financial steward behind the extraction of data from the data warehouse and core banking system while jointly building a dedicated 1TB finance database within data warehouse systems for enhanced financial reporting.
• Built a multi-dimensional Revenue and Bad Debt Charge budget model that provided advance warning of limitations to desired revenue position and was used by the Financial Director in key decision making.
• Tested and identified deficiencies within core banking data impacting on the General Ledger. Worked closely with programming teams on the resolution, change control, UAT, regression and final testing of system changes.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Value-add role that focused on delivering improvements to existing reporting capability and in the introduction of new accounting/reporting principles, with reporting lines to the Special Projects Senior Manager.
• Played a pivotal role in lifting reporting and data management used for budgeting processes, allocation of costs overheads, financial modelling of performance, and expediting consolidation processes.
• Maximised usage of SAP BW modules to produce high level reporting for Retail Banking products and segments, investment banking reporting, cost allocation reporting, and budget consultations per country/per product.
• Introduced Activity Based Costing models and principles to allocate costs to business units, products and segments.
• Collaborated with Financial Directors for each African country to obtain input on methodology for cost allocation and/or budget calculations. Also Commercial and Retail Banking Heads, Segment Heads, Product House Heads.
• Managed the production of Annual budgets for Africa divisions and deviation follow-ups; these insights were then utilised for the planning of groups activities and actions in various African countries.

Johannesburg

• This was a short-term contract support the Southern Sun Africa Financial Manager and Director with implementing reporting standards relating to IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards) and IAS (International.
• Assessed the compliance with International Accounting Standard (IAS) 16's requirements for the depreciation or de-recognition of hotel property, plant and equipment under the component approach. Confirmed IAS 16.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Reported to the Finance Manager with responsibility for overseeing monthly and annual reporting, data integrity management, month end completion, reporting standards, cost allocations, and staff management.
• Responsibility for producing financial statements, monthly income statement, WIP reports, Goods Received-Invoices Received outstanding (GRIR), Management analysis (deviations), and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) reports.
• Project managed the roll-out of Caseware for producing Annual Financial Statements; reduced time and effort on compliance with IFRS standards and ensured a properly balanced cash flow statement
• Cleared GRIR (Goods Received-Invoices Received) outstanding accounts of unreconciled invoices and reduced goods received notes down from 120 days to under 30 days with the combined effort of AP Manager and clerks.
• Resolved errors and unjustified balances in Balance Sheet accounts in General Ledger to allow Ericsson South Africa to receive an unqualified audit opinion from external auditors following threats of qualification due.
• Provided leadership and direction to a team of 3 FTEs, with a focus that continuously upscaled and developed the team, whilst managing the team to ensure key reporting objectives and goals were met.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Consultant to Global Trader (2006), and worked with the business on correcting accounts payable and international inter-company reconciliations.
• Lecturer at Varsity College (2005 & 2006) on Accounting I, Managerial Finance I & II, Internal Auditing II, External Auditing II, and Investment Management III modules.
• Consultant to Paxsal, Kelly Group (2005), reconstructed Fixed Asset Register improperly maintained by others.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• The role of Financial Operations Manager was responsible for the reporting process for all entities as well as automating and improving the closing process with effective controls and timelines that facilitated the.
• Managed the PayAccSys department responsible for Electronic Fund Transfers (EFTs) of internal and external payrolls for $300m+ a year. Managed all aspects of month end and associated reporting tasks, including clean-ups.
• Implemented controls around data, formalised end user manual for the accounting module of the ERP system

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

The role of Senior Audit Clerk was to manage and complete audits across various industries including that of Industrial, Building and Construction, Retail, I.T, Finance, FMCG, Healthcare, Publishing and NGO's..Compiled working papers and GAAP compliant Annual Financial Statements. Performed risk assessments on audits while performing discovery and.

Mcom (Cum Laude), Masters In Computer Auditing

Graduated on the 18th of December 2007. Cum Laude's obtained in both the research essay and coursework components.

Certificate: T-Sql, T-Sql

Learnt SQL for application in role.

Diploma, Project Management

Introduction to Project Management.

Ca(Sa), Chartered Accountant

Audit Specialism Course, Auditing

Audit Specialism Course requirement to be allowed to write Board Part II for the CA(SA) qualification.

Bacc, Honours In Accounting

Activities and Societies: Commerce Students Council Subjects majored in included Financial Accounting IV, Auditing IV, Taxation IV and.

Education record