Wikus Roets, Fcma, Cgma Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg, Gp, Za

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

◼️ Provide leadership and direction to 6 direct reports: Financial Controller, Treasury Manager, Procurement Manager, FP&A Manager, Risk & Compliance Manager, and Transaction Finance Manager.◼️ Key deliverables are to provide financial leadership, resource and transform the finance team, establish MultiChoice ways of working, manage working capital, provide commercial support for the achievement of expansion plans, establish a strong risk & compliance environment, and identify opportunities to optimise current practices.◼️ Achievements include: doubling the finance team to increase capacity and alleviate bottlenecks, revitalising the Procurement function, automating monthly reporting, rolled out first-time adoption of IFRS, providing financial strategic support to the commercial expansion plans in Ethiopia, and strengthening the risk & compliance environment.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

◼️ Provided commercial support to the Head of Corporate Development◼️ Achievements include: evaluating commercial implications of agency agreements in Africa, producing gap analysis on agency commissions versus legal agreements, modeling the financial impact of a product launch throughout Africa

Nairobi, Kenya

◼️ Provide leadership and direction to 2 FP&A staff in supporting MGN North Support Services markets in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Agencies countries in Central, West, and East Africa.◼️ Key deliverables as Business Partner are providing impactful reports, analysis and insights for the Regional RD/FD and Regional Exco based on business-critical financial and operational data.◼️ Act as intermediary between corporate and country, providing input into business targets; go-to market tactics; advising on risks and opportunities; communicating cross-country learnings; best practice harmonization; and facilitating communication/information streams between entities.◼️ Align with group financial models for appraising commercial plans within the region, coordinate the regional rolling forecasts process, and provide input into group processes.

Lagos, Nigeria

◼️ Line management responsibility for 6 Finance Managers performing financial reporting, planning and analysis for 5 separate business units within MultiChoice Nigeria.◼️ Act as Senior Management Accountant to monitor and report internal project / cost centres performance and support scenario building exercises such as competitor analysis, customer behaviour, break-even analysis or evaluating commercial viability of promotional campaigns.◼️ Project managed annual budget and forecasting processes, reviewed month-end results with GM Finance and collaborated on projects including: finding solutions to trapped cash; transfer pricing agreements; consumer protection council (CPC) orders; SAP inventory, billing system and CRM implementation; and MT940 treasury reporting.◼️ Achievements include: change agent for financial transformation process as part of a company-wide business re-engineering process called ‘FutureFit’; improving governance (revising and updating policies, procedures and internal controls); and implementing improvements to the budgeting process.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Member of the closed corporation, responsible for course structure development, competitive strategy, growth and investment decisions, risk management, as well as repositioning and rebranding. Also lectured on the CIMA Performance and Risk Strategy, as well as Final Level Case Study papers.

Johannesburg, South Africa

◼️ Lectured CIMA P3 (Performance & Risk Strategy) syllabus to 4th Year (post-graduate) Financial Management students (c100 p.a. since 2007) and Risk Management to Masters degree (5th year) students in Finance (c20-25 post-graduates).◼️ Successfully supervised 3 Master’s research projects and moderated four Master’s degree projects.◼️ Achievements include: designed and implemented the Financial Management Department’s risk register and co-ordinated the production of the Faculty’s risk register, consolidating submissions from four different departments into single faculty-wide register.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Managing director and member in practice, from setting up and registering the company to developing and operating the business model.

South Africa

◼️ Head of management accounting department and line manager to two employees producing weekly management reporting to the regional head office in Dubai◼️ Project managed Country annual budget production, quarterly forecast process and annual transfer pricing process (‘Vitalite’)◼️ Management accountant user test expert for migration of entire financial and management accounting system to SAP Accounting◼️ Achievements include: secondment to India, Middle-East and Africa (IMEA) regional head office in Dubai during 2006; and implemented budgeting, forecasting and reporting best practice upon return to South African operations, based on Dubai secondment experience

Fellow

Education record

M Comm, Financial Management

Associate

B Comm (Hons)(Financial Management)