Experience

Mediology

• South Africa
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Group Finance Manager

  • Jun 2019 - Present

  Managing, coaching, training and developing the Finance team of 2 All Accounts Receivable activities, from Quote to follow up on overdue payments (O2C to the value of ±R150m pa) All Accounts Payable activities, from sending PO’s to Suppliers, Creditor reconciliations to payment of Suppliers (P2P to the value of ±R130m pa), and payment of monthly Overhead Invoices All Banking activities, from processing bank entries in finance system to bank reconciliations (including Building Loan and Credit Cards) All General Ledger activities, from processing of journals in finance system to general ledger reconciliations (R2R) All Fixed Assets activities, from updating the Fixed Assets Register, depreciation calculation to FAR reconciliation to GL Intercompany and Loan Account reconciliations Analysis of Revenue to Pre-bill account, ensuring all revenue has been recognised in correct period Analysis of Cost of Sales to Provision account, ensuring cost is matching revenue Handling of all queries related to the above Year-end adjustments Financial statements Implementation of new buying, marketing and finance systems Analysis and enhancement of end to end finance and accounting workflow and processes, by deep diving to find root causes. Entities included in the above: Mediology (Pty) Ltd, including Mediology Digital Division Candid Bay Shamballah Tea House Show less


Self employed
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Consultant

  • Jan 2016 - Jun 2019


Anglo American EMEA Shared Services PTY Ltd,

• South Africa
• Accounting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Finance Manager - Payroll Recons

  • Jul 2012 - Jan 2016

  Managed the Balance Sheet Payroll account reconciliations and team of 15 distributed in various locations (Payroll to the value of ±R700m per month)Managed the drive down of overdue line items on the recons.Analysed and enhanced the end to end payroll process and system (HR to recon), identifying and correcting burning points that effect the recons and improved the process.Managed people, including analysing their skills and development.Built relationships with key stakeholders to enhance collaboration that contributed to the improvement of the end to end process.Managed and improved risk, policies and procedures.Developed process enhancement documents and training manuals.Assisted internal and external auditors with queries.Monthly reporting on health of reconciliations to clients, which included Anglo America Platinum, Anglo American Coal, Kumba, Anglo Operations Ltd and Anglo American EMEA Shared Services. Show less

• Service Analysis Manager

  • Jul 2010 - Jul 2012

  Monthly and quarterly reporting of all service lines' KPI's, measures and management information.Maintain Service Level Agreements with all clients, which included Anglo American Coal, Anglo American Platinun, Kumba Iron Ore, Anglo Operations Ltd, Anglo American PLC (London and Luxembourg).Enhancememt of KPI's and measures from quantitative to qualitative.Incident report management.

• Finance Manager - Fixed Assets

  • Oct 2009 - Jul 2010

  Responsible for the transition of fixed asset SAP system capturing processes from various Anglo EMEA region companies to the Shared Services office.Managed the team of 3 that captured fixed asset acquisitions, changes and terminations on SAP.Managed the monthly depreciation run for all EMEA region Anglo American companies.Managed the monthly Fixed Assets Register reconciliation to the Finance System.Manually calculated the Unit of Production depreciation for Anglo American Platinum.Developed process and training documents.Implemented Winshuttle to ensure speedy, and accurate bulk processing in SAP and enhancement of the process.Managed employee development and skills enhancement.Monthly calculation of the KPI stats.Managed internal and external auditor queries. Show less



Anglo Platinum Management Services (Proprietary) Limited

• South Africa
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Finance Manager

  • Apr 2006 - Oct 2009

  Managed a Financial Accounting team responsible for the following areas for Anglo American Platinum - Rustenburg Section: - Non-order Accounts Payable - Sundry Accounts Receivable - Intercompany transactions - Bank reconciliations - Company Car Administration - Fixed Assets and depreciation - General Ledger entries and Reconciliatíons, including processing of provisions and year-end adjustments - Month end procedures and finalisation up to trial balance - Yearly and half-yearly Balance Sheet and Income Statement Assisted Head Office, Internal and External Auditor wirh queries Show less



Anglo Platinum

• Mining
• 700 & Above Employee

• Finance Manager

  • 2003 - 2006

  Managed a Financial Accounting team responsible for the following areas for Anglo American Platinum - Rustenburg Section:- Non-order Accounts Payable- Sundry Accounts Receivable- Intercompany transactions- Bank reconciliations- Company Car Administration- Fixed Assets and depreciation- General Ledger entries and Reconciliatíons, including processing of provisions and year-end adjustments- Month end procedures and finalisation up to trial balance- Yearly and half-yearly Balance Sheet and Income StatementAssisted Head Office, Internal and External Auditor wirh queries Show less

• Management Accountant

  • 2001 - 2003

  Responsibilities for the shaft included:- 5 Year budget preparations- 5 Year capital expentitue forecast- Weekly and montly budget vs forecast vs actual reporting, including statistics and comments- Daily approval of reqisitions based on budget and forecast- Monthly and year-end provision and accrual calculations and journalisation- Management and reporting of capital expenditure to forecast- Capitalisation of capital expenditure to fixed assets register- Annual fixed assets useful life review- Assisted the Finance team and Head Office with month end queries- Assisted Internal and External Auditors with queries Show less


CBET
• Mexico
• Gambling Facilities and Casinos
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Financial Training Facilitator

  • 1998 - 2001

Goldfields Mining
• South Africa
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Financial Training Facilitator

  • 1997 - 1998

Impala Platinum
• Netherlands
• Mining
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Financial Accountant

  • 1991 - 1997