Specialist- Accounting Control Process Executor - Absa
(2025-06)
Key responsibilities
- Accountability: Manage financial information completion process
- Act as a process executor for completion of financial information, including the accountability for the following key processes: Journals and Month-End close, Reconciliations, Completion of Supplementary information, Accounting Functions and Tax
- Preparation of Annual Financial Statements
- Support to Subject Matter Experts (SME) on processes, resolution of issues and ad hoc requests from stakeholders
- HFM Quarterly reporting
- Provide feedback to stakeholders on results reflected in the financial accounting system, as well as issues identified where there are potential risks to numbers
- Special projects- planning, management and delivery of projects
- Constantly review, improve and maintain own activities to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of processes
- Identify activity-specific risks and work with Process Owner / Process Architect to mitigate risks
- Maintain awareness of own activities and the impact thereof on related / interdependent activities
- Provide support to other process executors through motivation and employee engagement
Manager - AFA: Accounting and Financial Advisory
(2023-03 - 2025-05)
Clients include: ABSA- Accounting Control (July 2023-May 2025). Key responsibilities:
- Accountability: Manage financial information completion process
- Act as a process executor for completion of financial information, including the accountability for the following key processes: Journals and Month-End close, Reconciliations, Completion of Supplementary information, Accounting Functions and Tax
- Preparation of Annual Financial Statements
- Support to Subject Matter Experts (SME) on processes, resolution of issues and ad hoc requests from stakeholders
- HFM Quarterly reporting
- Provide feedback to stakeholders on results reflected in the financial accounting system, as well as issues identified where there are potential risks to numbers
- Special projects- planning, management and delivery of projects
- Constantly review, improve and maintain own activities to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of processes
- Identify activity-specific risks and work with Process Owner / Process Architect to mitigate risks
- Maintain awareness of own activities and the impact thereof on related / interdependent activities
- Provide support to other process executors through motivation and employee engagement
Manager (AFA: Accounting and Financial Advisory) - Cambridge Food
(2023-03 - 2023-04)
Key responsibilities
- Month-end reporting journals
- Preparation of reconciliations
- Special projects- planning, management and delivery of projects
Financial Manager - FNB
(2022-06 - 2023-02)
Key responsibilities
- Risk management and internal control
- Management of team (7 direct reports)
- Cost accounting and management
- Business planning for budgeting
- Special projects planning and delivery
Africa special project manager- Finance - Deloitte
(2021-04 - 2022-05)
Provide strategic and operations support on Special projects within the Africa Finance function. The special projects are required to be executed to achieve the Finance purpose statement. This includes establishing a world class function that supports the strategic objectives of Deloitte Africa and in support of the office of the Deloitte Africa COO (chief operating officer).
Manager - AFA: Accounting and Financial Advisory
(2020-01 - 2021-03)
Client: ABSA Fund Management. Plan, manage and monitor the implementation of fund accounting activities and processes to deliver an approved operational plan in an effective and efficient way. This includes:
- Money market daily payments: Processing and capturing of client's redemptions from their money market accounts and /or unit trusts
- Unit trust financials: Preparations of financials for unit trust financials
- Month end reporting (journals)
Audit Quality Manager - Deloitte SA
(2019-05 - 2019-12)
Key responsibilities: Systems of Quality control - Evaluation of the Africa firm Systems of Quality Control through application of a risk-based approach ensuring firm wide efficiency and effectiveness through assessing the following elements:
- Implementation/ adherence of firm wide policies and procedures, quality standards, and if applicable legal/ regulatory requirements
- Performance of detail walkthroughs to develop an understanding of business processes, identifying risks, control gaps and opportunities for improvement
- Maintenance of Findings and Corrective Action Plan Register for the Africa Member Firm
- Performing Causal factor analysis/ Root cause analysis on Systems of Quality Control findings
- Assessment of the Design and Operating effectiveness of applicable controls
- Acts as point of consultation for practitioners from the Africa Audit practice
- Uses experience, research and other Deloitte methodologies to develop solutions to practitioner issues
- Acts as a manager liaison with RI panel and engagement teams on RI consultations in terms of S45 of Audit profession act
- Use and applies research (i.e. regulatory and governance research) to develop solutions for RI consultations to engagement teams
Assistant Audit Manager (Secondment) - Deloitte UK - Scotland, UK
(2018-12 - 2019-03)
Audit client: BlackRock Asset Management. Key responsibilities included:
- Project liaison with Deloitte USI and engagement client to ensure that all queries and outstanding items were appropriately addressed
- Weekly liaisons with senior financial management
- Leading both internal and client meetings
- Overall project management of the audit
- Comprehensive review of financial statements
- Assisting with substantive audit fieldwork and reporting thereon
CA(SA) Audit Trainee - Deloitte
(2016-01 - 2018-11)
Audit clients: Nedbank Head office, RMB Foreign Treasury, E Squared investments, MIFA pension fund. Key responsibilities included:
- Coaching and reviewing junior team members
- Leading both internal and client meetings
- Managing client audit deliverables
- Liaising with experts and specialists (including but not limited to IT, internal audit, valuation experts)
- Overall project management of audit
