Self Employed

•Empower Accounting professionals by enhancing their communication and writing skills in Business English as a second language.
•Level up their language proficiency, building confidence and establishing lasting relationships with English-speaking stakeholders and finance professionals.
•Follow a structured approach in the English program to achieve specific goals.
•Focus on developing confidence and fluency in the English language.
•Enhance vocabulary for discussing financial topics and engaging effectively with colleagues and stakeholders.
•Prepare clients for various real-life situations such as meetings and presentations in an English-speaking environment.
•Practice writing skills to ensure proficiency and adaptability in professional contexts.

Business English Coach for Accounting Professionals

Langu

● Evaluating students’ English CEFR levels
● Designing lesson plans tailored to students’ needs based on needs analysis
● Teaching English Vocabulary to beginner levels
● Improving students’ pronunciation through continuous practice
● Strengthening students’ understanding of English Grammar
● Facilitating and teaching receptive skills: Listening and Reading
● Facilitating and teaching productive skills: Speaking and Writing
● Effectively managing the classroom
● Using Resources effectively when Teaching English as a Foreign Language
● Develop a good working relationship with students to create an environment conducive
to learning

English Second Language Teacher

Private

● Designing lesson plans suitable for students’ needs based on needs analysis
● Subjects taught: English, Mathematics, Afrikaans
● Improving students’ grades in assessments of various subjects
● Facilitating and teaching receptive skills: Listening and Reading
● Facilitating and teaching productive skills: Speaking and Writing
● Establishing and improving students’ grasp of Mathematics
● Designing innovative ways to test concepts previously taught
● Develop a good working relationship with students to create an environment conducive
to learning

Dynamic Tutor

Ascendis Health

Delivering an accurate and high-quality reporting to inform weekly cash flow for both local and forex payments. Weekly ensuring intercompany accounts are balanced and all charges from a head office level is charged to the relevant business. Reviewing of the creditor’s reconciliation and daily payments. Ensuring deadlines are met with accurate, precise reports. Reconciliation of all head office bank accounts, including forex bank accounts. To ensure all Balance sheet ERP accounts are reconciled and reported on the reporting system.
	Refined the bank reconciliation process.
	Formed strong relationships with major customers; enhanced the customer experience.
	Successfully implemented processes to ensure reporting is completed with the necessary timeframe.

Accountant

City & Suburbs Realty

Preparation of monthly management accounts and ensuring the monthly owner’s statements are prepared and sent to owners. Accurately billing tenants for monthly charges, municipal accounts, adhoc cost, etc. Ensuring tenant statements are accurate. Reconciliations of GL accounts. Effectively resolving queries between tenants and owners. Ensuring filing system is kept up to date and petty cash is reconciled daily.

Rand Merchant Bank

Delivered comprehensive financial guidance across various support functions. Critically appraised financial procedures. Controlled all financial, regulatory, and compliance requirements. Analyzed balance sheet and cash flow, presented data to emphasize key drivers and variances. Reviewed statistics, developed financial forecasts and budgets. Generated reports, including management account reporting. Posted journals, including accruals and pre-payments. Analyzed general ledger, identified and resolved anomalies. Reconciled bank accounts and statements. Supported the year end audit process. Consolidated and reported IT costs.
	Provided oversight across several functions, including RMB Cost, Client Engagement, IT and Coverage, Finance, MIS, Human Capital, Project Management, Change Management, Data Management and Chief Risk; achieved results on time and within budget.
	Collaborated with stakeholders, shared ideas and best practice; improved the ability to meet financial and business targets.


	Partnered with multiple business areas, offered solutions and recommended improvements to meet the Support Budget Timeline; amended SLA recoveries in line with budgetary changes.
	Successfully automated IT reporting; reduced timescales required to deliver stakeholder reports from 2 weeks to 3 days.
	Managed internal costs for Corporate Banking; effectively managed banking requirements valued at R500M.
	Received award nomination for the automation of correct allocation of internal cost; improved efficiency and profitability.

Financial Manager

Safmarine

Redirections of shipments and liaising with clients -- both external and internal.
Submitting manifest for customs purposes
Ensuring the shipments details are of a high standard to ensure correct deliveries and billing to customers
Issuing Arrival Notifications

Voyage controller

Allocating and auditing of revenue, and managing 45% of the Safmarine Johannesburg Import cash portfolio. 
Liaising and meeting directly with clients to resolve outstanding freight accounts.

Finance – Revenue Controller (Accounts Receivable)

Specializing in bookings & quotes
Management of all export shipments for the Middle east, Far east, Australia and New Zealand trades
Monitoring stack dates, vessel departures and the recociling of bookings made within the various trades

Export Customer service agent

Data quality
Data capturing
Data monitoring
Internal audit of regional reports

Documentation Clerk

🎯I Help Accountants Elevate & Advance Their English Communication Skills | 12 Years Accounting Experience & Certified English Teacher | Let's Connect!

Let me share a bit of my story with you. 

After over a decade in the banking, pharma, and shipping industries, I felt a calling beyond the numbers. 

This led me to the world of teaching, where I've been passionately helping accountants like you excel in the language of finance. 📊🌐

If you have any of the following challenges:

🌐 Collaboration with International Teams:
-Limited ability to seamlessly communicate with global teams or clients.
-Hindered project coordination due to language barriers.

💬 Participation in Global Meetings:
-Challenges actively engaging in discussions conducted in English.
-Fear of missing out on key insights and decisions during meetings.

📞 Effective Communication with English-Speaking Clients:
-Limited ability to convey complex financial information to English-speaking clients.
-Struggling to build strong client relationships due to language barriers.

📝 Writing Comprehensive Reports in English:
-Difficulty articulating complex financial analyses in written English.
-Challenges in creating clear and coherent reports for stakeholders.

Working with me, together we can achieve the following in just a few months:

🌐 Collaboration with International Teams:
-Improved understanding of team members' ideas and contributions.
-Enhanced ability to express thoughts clearly in English.
-Increased project efficiency through improved communication.

💬 Participation in Global Meetings:
-Increased contribution to discussions with valuable insights.
Improved comprehension of meeting content and decisions.
Enhanced ability to express opinions confidently during meetings.

📞 Effective Communication with English-Speaking Clients:
-Clear understanding of client needs and expectations.
-Improved conveyance of complex financial information in a comprehensible manner.
-Strengthened client trust through articulate communication.

📝 Writing Comprehensive Reports in English:
-Reports are easily understood by a global audience.
-Enhanced clarity and coherence in articulating financial analyses.
-Improved conveyance of insights and recommendations in written form.

Ready to break language barriers, elevate your finance game, and shape the narrative of every business decision? 🚀💼 Let's connect! 

Drop me a DM, and let's start this transformative journey together. 📩✨

Nancy Ambrose

Roem Limited

For almost two decades I worked as an independent OpenText training consultant for various global companies, developing and delivering onsite document and records management (EDRMS) training programmes in 23 countries across five continents. 

In March 2020 I decided to concentrate on my Microsoft Office courses. One of my delegates, Ros Nightingale, wrote "What Karen doesn't know about Microsoft isn't worth knowing." (Posted with her permission.)

◾ Develop and deliver ever-growing list of bite-size webinars, packed with practical tips 
◾ Market, plan, develop and deliver one-to-one and group training courses 
◾ Develop custom-made software training and roll-out programmes for large companies and universities
◾Test, write and share easy to understand and time-saving tips (sharing for free since 2003)
◾ Write for Executive Support Magazine (https://executivesupportmagazine.com/author/karen.roem/)

2001 – 2020  independent OpenText (Livelink) training consultant for various global companies
◾ Design and deliver tailor-made electronic document and records management training 
◾ Deliver onsite training programmes in 23 countries across five continents
◾ Write end user guides and storyboards for training videos
◾ Prepare and deliver dedicated webinars for support teams and end users
◾ Perform testing of OpenText Extended ECM platform
◾ Create and run Train the Trainer workshops

Founder & principal trainer

OpenText

◾ Perform testing of OpenText Extended ECM Smart View user interface 
◾ Write end user guides and storyboards for training videos
◾ Review, update and streamline existing training material
◾ Prepare and deliver dedicated webinars for support teams and end users

Functional support and documentation services

Roem @ European Central Bank

Develop, implement, consolidate and run in-house electronic document and records management (EDRMS) training using OpenText products. I was also involved in change management and communication related activities.

I carefully selected a small team of four accomplished associates, who worked alongside me to deliver the training and help develop training materials.

Consultant and lead trainer

Pryor Learning | Fred Pryor Seminars | CareerTrack

Deliver public seminars throughout the UK:
◾ The Exceptional Assistant
◾ High Impact Communication Skills for Women
◾ How to Supervise People

Trainer certification, Kansas City, USA (multi-level screening and audition process)

Seminar leader 

University of Cambridge

◾ Develop and deliver hands-on software training on various levels of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access, dealing with international course participants ranging from College porters and secretaries to students and professors
◾ Plan and develop a series of training modules specifically for Assistant Staff, focusing on their needs, encouraging and motivating them to use their software more effectively.

Support & training coordinator

Shell

Service Desk Coordinator (1990-93)
◾ Manage the Service Centre, supervising 5 Service Desk Analysts
◾ Analyse computer problems and trends, reporting to Management Teams

Service Desk Analyst (1988-90)
◾ Support local help desks and individual clients

Information Technology Help Desk Support

◾ Senior recruitment assistant (1985-88)
◾ Course administrator (1984-85)
◾ Administrative assistant (1981-84)
◾ Junior secretary (1980-81)

Administrative Professional

"What Karen doesn't know about Microsoft isn't worth knowing."
Ros Nightingale, Virtual Cabinet, Cambridge

Microsoft continuously introduces new features, which means you may not be using the Office applications to its full potential. Although you probably know there are easier ways to use the Apps, you simply don't have the time or energy to sift through and find what’s new yourself. 

Stop wasting your time and let me help .... From 1-hour webinars and one-to-one IT coaching sessions to onsite training to conference talks, I guarantee you will discover hidden features to tackle your time-consuming and frustrating day-to-day tasks in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. 

Although based in Cambridge (UK), where courses are run regularly, I often work with diverse organisations and businesses across East Anglia, London and the Home Counties. But I’m happy to travel further afield, and frequently do so. (I have successfully delivered on-site training in 23 countries across five continents.)

I also share what I know for free. Simply follow #CleverClogsTipTime or give the bell on my profile a ring, so LinkedIn will notify you each time I post. Check out my website where I’ve been publishing my tips for over twenty years.

It may be a cliché, but you don't know what you don't know! 


☎ +44(0)1223 214177 
📧 karen@roem.co.uk 
🌐 www.roem.co.uk

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