Experience

Catholic Medical Mission Board - Zambia
• Board Member

  • May 2023 - Present


Zambeef Products PLC

• Zambia
• Food Production
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Group Head Treasury and Cost Optimisation

  • Dec 2022 - Present

• Group Finance Manager - Cost optimisation and Payroll

  • Jan 2022 - Dec 2022



BAT

• Tobacco Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Commecial Finance Manager: Operations Finance

  • Sep 2018 - Jan 2022

  Senior management role with responsibility for South Africa and other markets in East and Southern Africa; reporting to the East and southern Africa Operations Finance Controller. Key Accountabilities include Product Costing and Transfer Pricing; Cost of Sales Reporting and Management, Working Capital Management and Finance Business Partnership for operations functions and other related production finance roles. • Work closely with the heads of department for the various areas in operations to compile the business risk register for East and Southern Africa markets. This includes preparing the risk register with the mapping of risks as well as computing the value of the exposure for the risks, as well as and performing bi-annual updates to show how risk mitigations are tracking vs targets and presenting this to the leadership team. • Product costing for the South Africa factory and export markets. This involves ensuring that all costing inputs and bill of materials that feed into the product costing process are accurately maintained and costed and that all variances on product costs, month on month and between forecast and actual are explained. This includes identifying and quantifying sensitivities around product costs and reporting them to senior management to drive decisions around materials planning and procurement. • Computation of transfer prices for export markets, incorporating forecast costings, exchange rate projections and changes in logistics costs. This is done in close conjunction with supply chain team to assess changes in routes/ loads to calculate optimal pricing for the various routes/ transportation modes. Show less



Zambian Breweries Plc

• Zambia
• Food and Beverage Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Country Head of Finance

  • Mar 2018 - Jun 2018

  Executive position, reporting to the Southern African Business Unit Finance Director and the Country Director; also, a member of the local executive committee and an executive board member. Accountabilities include overall responsibility to drive the overall Finance Strategy, Performance Management, Working Capital Management, Compliance (Internal Controls/ Audits and Regulatory Reporting), Tax Management and Forecasting/ Planning.• As a senior member of the business, I support the business with the primary focus of my role being to provide leadership and direction on the finance functions ensuring that the financial reports generated are in accordance with Local and international financial reporting standards and Group Guidelines. This is for monthly and quarterly management reporting, annual statutory reporting and regulatory reporting• Implementation of policies and operating procedures to ensure that the business runs on a robust internal controls framework. This includes monthly sox compliance reporting and meeting of annual compliance targets that are part of the business targets.• Accountable for driving financial performance and cost management in the business by close monitoring and control to ensure that KPI’s and performance metrics for the company are managed and achieved• Leading the monthly business cycle by providing input and ensuring that forecasts are done accurately and timely for submission to the local management committee and regional team• Providing key financial inputs that assist the commercial team/ executive committee to make key decisions on pricing, costing, capital expenditure business cases, promotions and other business models• Managing the tax compliance process including maintaining key relationships with the ZRA/ Regional tax team and local consultants; keeping the business up to date with tax changes and assessing the impact of tax changes on the business Show less

• Group Finance Manager

  • Jun 2016 - Feb 2018

  Executive position, reporting to the Finance Director and encompasses Financial Management, Compliance and Tax Management, Internal and External Reporting, Treasury and Operational Accounting (Account’s Receivables and Payables). My team comprised of 17 direct reports.• Ensuring that the monthly financial reporting to the regional headquarters is done in a timely manner and that all reporting deliverables are accurately completed. This involves coordinating the month-end reporting cycle, reviewing the reports, review and preparation of results commentaries, presenting the results to the finance director and ensuring that the reporting deadlines are adhered to.• Ensuring that the KPI’s for the various functions in finance are computed and compared against the benchmarks on a routine basis and that action is taking where these are not being met• Working jointly with the HR department to build assumptions and prepare the People budget including performing sensitivities on increments and forecast redundancies/ vacancies.• Managing the statutory reporting process including the external audit, review of the financial statements, agreement of the management letter points and providing input to the annual report for results publication• Preparation of the quarterly board packs for the entities and half yearly results publication for the press• Management of the company foreign exchange risk through planning for foreign exchange payments and planning for ensuring that payments are made during the approved payments period.• Ensuring that the finance team upholds compliance by operating in line with documented Standard operating procedures and the Delegation of Authority for each section. I am also accountable for performing the internal control review and giving feedback to the internal control team on areas which are deemed to fall below the compliance standards as well as coming up with mitigating measures to regain full compliance. Show less


Kalumbila Town Development Corporation
• Business Support Controller

  • Mar 2015 - Jun 2016

Zambian Towers
• Finance Manager

  • Jan 2014 - Mar 2015


Puma Energy

• Singapore
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Accountant

  • Jun 2011 - Dec 2013

• Acting Finance Manager (Country Head of Finance)

  • Sep 2012 - Dec 2012



bp

• France
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Manager Finance

  • Jun 2008 - Aug 2011

• Final Reporting Accountant

  • Dec 2007 - Jun 2008


Unilever
• United Kingdom
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee
• Management Accountant

  • Dec 2004 - Dec 2007

PwC
• Professional Services
• 700 & Above Employee
• Audit Associate – Assurance

  • Dec 2002 - Dec 2004