Experience

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  CaseWare Africa - South Africa

  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

  • Product manager

    • Apr 2008 - Present
    • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

    As the product manager that heads up the Public Sector market at Caseware Africa (a division of Adapt IT Ltd), I focus on listening to clients and making sure our products meet their requirements, as well as ensuring products are updated with ever-changing compliance requirements whilst taking the latest innovation in technology into consideration.I had the privilege of leading the teams that conceptualized, planned, developed, and marketed the below products:1. GRAP Financial Statement product - desktop2. IPSAS Financial Statements product - desktop3. MCS Financial Statements product (used by National and Provincial Departments) - desktop4. mSCOA Statutory Reporting product for local government - desktop5. Audit Working Papers product based on INTOSAI standards - desktop6. Audit preparation Pack - CloudI am proud to say these product suites have made CaseWare Africa a dominant software provider in the financial reporting space in the Public Sector. This also translated in revenue growth where our annual budget is 20 times the annual budget when we started this journey 15 years back.However, maintaining and growing the market share we gained, requires innovation in pricing strategies, re-organizing teams (implemented Scaled agile framework), building and maintaining strategic business partners, redoing current product design, and venturing into new infrastructure platforms. Doing this requires sound planning (using Aha and Jira) and collaboration with all stakeholders.

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  Auditor General of South Africa

  • Pretoria Area, South Africa

  • Audit manager

    • Jan 2004 - Apr 2008
    • Pretoria Area, South Africa

    The AGSA is where my journey in the public sector space started.As an audit manager, my focus was to complete multiple external audits of public sector entities in accordance with International Auditing Standards. My portfolio of clients used various accounting frameworks (IFRS, GRAP & MCS), which required me to understand and audit these frameworks.This requires managing of different teams working on various audits at once. During this time I also qualified as a learning assessor with SAICA. My biggest achievement in this time was that for the 4 years running my audits all passed the external quality reviews done by the Independent Regulator Board of Auditors.Second, to the above were that my team was able to outperform our revenue budgets, which meant we were able to always get our performance awards over the 4 years.

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  EY

  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

  • Financial Reporting Manager

    • Apr 2004 - Dec 2004
    • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

    I was outsourced by Ernst&Young to be the Financial Manager of an Investment Holding Company, as well as acting Financial director for one of its subsidiaries. These roles required me to:- Liaise with external auditors to conclude audits of all the subsidiaries- Perform the monthly accounting duties, which include monthly management accounts- Implement new BBEEE requirements- Investigate shareholding changesEven though this was a short assignment, I learned a lot and got exposure to new industries.

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  MacRobert Inc

  • Pretoria Area, South Africa

  • Financial manager

    • Jan 2000 - Mar 2004
    • Pretoria Area, South Africa

    As the financial manager, I was responsible for managing the accounting department consisting of 13 staff members. The role required me to:- Prepare monthly management accounts- Oversee all the controls in the finance department and HR department- Implement a new creditor control system- Liaise with external auditors- Managing the annual budget process- Managing all the directors' interestWhat stood out at this time was how to manage a team and continuously improve the system as well. I also have the privilege to see how the firms' revenue doubled our the 4 years.

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  Equifin Incorporated

  • South Africa

  • Accounting Trainee

    • Jan 1998 - Dec 2000
    • South Africa

    As an accounting Trainee, I was responsible for dealing with various clients' accounting, auditing, tax, and management reporting requirements.Being a trainee accountant at an audit firm exposed me to the fundamentals of accounting and auditing. Also what it means to provide high-quality services to clients.