Experience

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  Cresta Hotels

  • South Africa
  • Hospitality
  • 400 - 500 Employee

  • Strategic Executive Assistant to the MD

    • Jan 2020 - Present

  • Finance Director

    • Oct 2019 - Present

  • Head Of Finance

    • Feb 2018 - Sep 2019

    - Central to the Group Strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation working closely with the CEO and the Board.- Structuring corporate finance deals encompassing investment capital raising, investment appraisals and return on investment management.- Chairman of the Monthly Operations Review Committee which is tasked with analysing and sustainably impacting productivity, profitability and growth of the individual hotels. - Supporting the CEO in the planning, monitoring and evaluation of expansion projects both organic and inorganic. - Overseeing the Group compliance matters including taxation, internal controls, IFRS, Companies Act and corporate governance. - Superintending over Enterprise Risk Management and Central Procurement function of the Group. - Playing the first line of defense role on preservation of shareholder value and driving big-data informed value creation and enhancement. - Other traditional CFO roles like treasury management, reporting, assets management, budgeting, cost control etc.

  • Group Finance Manager

    • Jun 2014 - Feb 2018

    - Preparing consolidated statutory financial statements to ensure that they are in accordance with the IFRS and Companies Act.- Preparing consolidated monthly management accounts, ensuring that these are produced timely to enable quick and effective decision making.- Preparing monthly analysis of revenue, cost of sales and operational expenses against prior year and budget, providing commentaries, identifying areas of operational improvement and cost reductions to help increase the profitability of the company. - Analysing financial performance against key performance indicators and document significant financial highlights that will enable management to determine progress against budgets.- Performing the treasury and working capital management function, ensuring that the company is liquid at all times to be able to discharge its critical obligations. This includes involvement in approvals of customer credit rating and collections of cash from accounts receivables.- Guiding the teams through the budgeting process by providing the budgeting template, guidelines, consolidating the budgets and presenting them to the shareholder. The budgeting guidelines are prepared for the approval of the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) before they are communicated to the teams.- Assisting the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the CFO in capital budgeting process and the financing thereof, evaluating the viability and feasibility of projects.- Reviewing the internal controls of the group regularly to ensure that they are adequate and relevant to the changing business processes at all times. - Safeguarding of company assets including cash. - Enforcing group compliance to the taxation laws and regulations. - Reviewing audit files every month.- Identifying training needs of the finance team and either train them or organise external training to ensure that the team skills are at the appropriate level at all times.

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  Ernst & Young

  • Assistant Manager

    • Sep 2009 - May 2014

    External Audit duties involve:- Engagement management activities that involved planning, execution of fieldwork (test of controls, analytical review procedures and substantive testing), conclusion and reporting all within agreed timelines.- On the job coaching and development of junior audit pers...