Mbiki Shabangu

PROJECT MANAGEMENT | PMO & BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION EXPERT

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PretoriaMember since October 24, 2026

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Forward-thinking, Analytical and detail orientated Project Management and Finance Business Transformation Professional. I have over 13 years of verifiable project management experience and 15 years’ experience in senior financial management roles. Known for engineering cost-saving business process improvements and business transformation projects utilizing established methodologies including Six Sigma, PMBOK and Prince2.

I am a leader who is adept at conceptualizing and driving actionable improvements, including program/projects planning, business re-engineering, business turn around strategies, projects governance processes, projects execution monitoring and reporting. Demonstrated ability to operate from idea generation, strategy development through detailed implementation and results delivery. Excellent interpersonal, stakeholders’ management and communication skills with proven ability to work effectively at all organisational levels, including having experience in presenting complex solutions to all levels of leadership.

Experience

Project manager: Finance projects - Solugrowth (Barloworld)

(2023-12)

ERP projects & Finance improvement projects

Lead finance workstream in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 project
Plan, monitor and control all finance related activities of the MS Dynamics projects.
Define workstream scope and produce work activities schedule required for workstream tracking
Review and maintain scope, Functional requirements documents
Plan & execute change and stakeholders management for the work-stream and departmental IT projects (SAP TRM, OneStream)
Manage the planning and execution of strategic projects by ensuring the existence of an efficient process for the definition, measurement, and analysis of problem statement prior to project scoping
Act as key finance SME for all data migration related activities
Develop Finance PMO framework and execute weekly tracking of agreed activities
Defines and implements the Cutover strategy and develops the cutover process
Lead the Finance Projects steering committee and issue periodic steering committee reports
Supports project team with stakeholders’ management and resolution of blockers/issues
Supports Quality Assurance with testing requirements

Short term consulting assignments - Various employers

(2020-06 - 2023-06)

Projects process, system and governance development
Projects monitoring & reporting

PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE MANAGER (PMO) - Bridgestone South Africa (Pty) Ltd. - Midrand, Gauteng.

(2018-05 - 2020-05)

Program /Project planning and scoping. Based on agreed business goals develops annual /periodic plans for the total portfolio of projects.

Support business to develop business cases required for approval of projects.
Support the planning and execution of strategic projects by ensuring the existence of an efficient process for the definition, measurement, and analysis of problem statement prior to project scoping
Identify the relevant policies and framework which are applicable to the project & impacts the project as to ensure that the project deliverables are meet the governing the policies framework
Develop projects governance framework, which incorporates projects quality, project assurance process, risk management, stakeholder’s management and communications management process. Develop and implement necessary project tools, including reviewing project feasibility studies.
Define viable parameters (ROI etc) for projects business cases and review project charter documents.
Monitoring all projects plans/ work break-down schedules (WBS) during the execution phase.
Ongoing monitor/ reviewing of Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies (RAID) for all key projects.
Utilize high level project charter to develop comprehensive WBS.
Ongoing management & review of issues (request for change, off specification & problem) & configuration items
Make submissions to Change advisory board (CAB)
Oversee and review project accounting and budget allocation function.
Monthly reporting on projects portfolio’s relating to costs, RAID and scheduling performance.
Monthly projects reporting and presentation to leadership team through strategic projects steercom forum
Act as secretary for the projects strategic steercom meeting and follow up on Steerco sanctioned actions
Provide leadership to the projects leads and teams
Support procurement department with tendering process, with FIDIC, NEC contract management process.
Manage vendor/client relationships, aligning scope, delivery timelines and issues resolution.
Define contract deliverables, timelines, associated technical and commercial terms execution.
Reason for leaving: Retrenchment

Partner | Analysis and Improvement Projects / Business Turnaround Consulting - Alchetech (Pty) Ltd

(2021-01 - 2023-06)

Prev stint was Jan 2017 to Apr 2018

Alchetech (Pty) Ltd - Pretoria, Gauteng.

(2017-01 - 2018-04)

Small to medium business development and support through implementation of employee development, process and system development.
Performing of a detailed business analysis, highlighting challenges and developing/proposing strategic solutions within a project plan process.
Execution of a “business clean up” process in order to facilitate the resolution of business challenges acting as a barrier to entry.

Senior Specialist: Finance Business Excellence - Vodacom Group Limited. - Vodacom (Midrand)

(2012-04 - 2017-10)

Deliverables: Functional Business Process Analysis and Finance Process Improvement Projects:

Preparation of finance transformation project plans, facilitating the execution of deliverables in relation to accounting requirements on the date of system implementation.
Produce project definition document/ project charter with scope/technical specification, risk and work breakdown structure.
Assist with compilation of business cases detailing the both the qualitative and quantitative (cost, budget) benefits of agreed projects.
Identify the relevant policies and framework which are applicable & impacts the project/ assignment
Utilise Six Sigma DMAIC methodology to execute business process re-engineering and business improvement project.
Undertake business analysis exercises for business improvement projects/initiatives
Monitor and track scope, time and cost/budget performance of resources allocated to the project.
Compile and execute communications, risk, and stakeholder management plan for the agreed projects.
Define and submit solutions for functional processes and update policies documents.
Assist the system design team in developing technical solution.
Review design and functional input submitted by IT/system consultants.
Co-ordinate user acceptance and regression and testing of the system for all new system upgrades.
Define and measure KPI’s and performance statistics of finance processes and revenue streams.
Prepare monthly KPI process performance report measuring targeted vs actual performance.
Review and supervise finance policies/Sox documentation process and procedure development.
Develop processes and system manuals.
Ensure that the agreed quality & project assurance KPI’s are met for each project
Reason for leaving: Career growth

FINANCIAL MANAGER: CAPEX & Fixed assets - Vodacom Group Limited. - Midrand, Gauteng.

(2007-08 - 2012-03)

Implementation and review of policies to ensure compliance to IAS16,23 &38
Ensuring the correct routing of at all purchases for both capex and apex items are correctly routed.
Analysis of monthly depreciation and costs charges.
Fixed assets register capitalisation review and approval
Review and approval of balance sheet assets cost accounts reconciliations
Review of Income statements analysis report to determine actual versus budget
Manage the budget to actuals reporting and variances analysis
Attend to audit queries
Performance management of sub-ordinates with regards to set targets/ goals and developing of the capacity to achieve set targets.
Reason for leaving: Career growth

FINANCE MANAGER: COSTING | MANAGEMENT LEVEL - Frys Metals | Division of the Zimco Group - Johannesburg, Gauteng.

(2001 - 2007-09)

Reconciling capital expenditure with budget.
Financial valuation of viability on all capex projects (NPV &IRR)
Production of capital commitment and expenditure report on a monthly basis
Management Accounts, Cost accounting & Inventories
Monthly variance analysis and explanations of actuals versus budgets.
Preparing of production and operating areas cost reports
Preparation of annual budgets and forecasts
Monthly forecast /flash reports (estimates) on operating expenditure and production costs.
Factory projects costing & administration
Reason for leaving: Career growth

Cost Analyst - FORD SA - Pretoria

(1998-04 - 2001-10)

Material /production Costing & inventories

Completely built (CBU) &completely knocked down ( CKD) materials production costing.
CBU, CKD & local purchases inventory accounting & reporting.
Development of periodic standard costs for CKD & CBU vehicles
FIFO variances to cost of sales accounts
Monthly production usage calculations
Cost of sales calculation for CBU units
Variance analysis
Projects costing & admin
Monthly reconciliation of inventory accounts
Development & maintenance of Bills of materials (BOM) for various locally built cars
Preparation of annual budgets & periodic forecasts
Reason for leaving: Career growth

FINANCIAL Officer - Sasol Coal - Secunda, Gauteng.

(1995-06 - 1998-03)