Refilwe Belebesi

SAICA Trainee Accountant

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Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan MunicipalityMember since 11 January 2023

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About

Dear Sir/Madam

My name is Refilwe Belebesi. I have 20 years’ experience spanning across business banking, private banking, development financing, private equity, SME transaction advisory, investment packaging and capital raising.

I am experienced in leading investments through the entire investment cycle (origination, due diligence, execution, participating in investment committees, post-transaction portfolio management and value creation).

My professional goal is to complete a journey I had started by obtaining my professional qualification as a Chartered Accountant. Whilst pursuing this goal, I wish to build the requisite competency to demonstrate the ability to render, manage and oversee financial services at the highest level. Furthermore, I wish to improve my skills, knowledge, expertise and professional standards.

I am truly a valuable addition to a high-performance organization with aligned values.

Below I listed some of my professional accomplishments

Co-establishing an award-winning corporate fund for South Africa’s largest food manufacturer
Moved a previously underperforming business unit to top performing unit
Managed a R300 million SME Debt Fund and fully disbursed over a four-year period
Successfully led a highly-motivated investment team of 10 professionals to achieve targets
Two members of an investment team I coached were awarded top-performers by CEO
Promoted by CEO to serve as the Executive Head of the Investment unit
Selected, participated and graduated in the inaugural Southern African Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SAVCA) led fund manager development programme
Awarded a scholarship for the development of a Financial Innovations for Emerging Economies.

Hope this letter and CV finds your favourable consideration.

Experience

EXPERTISE

20 years’ experience in banking, SME development financing and private equity (5 years in private equity, 9 years in development finance institution and 5 years in banking institutions0.
Start-up stage, Early-stage and Growth-stage SME financing and development.
Acquisition of high-value SME clients and portfolio growth.
Corporate governance, strategy development, business model development and operationalization.
Management of diverse stakeholder interest groups.
Risk management (Enterprise-Wide Risk and Credit Risk), credit policy development, implementation, monitoring and reporting.
Private equity fund establishment and management, SME banking, private banking, development financing and impact investing.
Enterprise and supplier development strategies, SME transaction structuring and advisory, packaging and capital raising.