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My experience includes over 10 years in auditing, beginning with my apprenticeship to become a Chartered Accountant, as an External Auditor at Price Waterhouse. It also includes over 4 years of Financial, Operational and Computer Audit at the prestigious Anglo American Corporation. This experience, especially, centered on the development and execution of Methodologies to ensure management objectives were met, problems were specifically and accurately identified, and corrective action sanctioned by management was directed at the root cause of any failures / weakness. Following this, I embarked on the leadership of various Company's Financial Operations; including, for instance as Controller for Gemini Consulting, and CFO of Infinity Technologies that, through 5 mergers and acquisitions, formed a group to list on the Stock Exchange. It also includes being CFO of a Billion Dollar steel company, a subsidiary of a listed Company. In addition to my responsibilities for Accounting, Management & Statutory Reporting, Internal Controls, Liaising with Vendors, Treasury, Company Secretarial, Corporate Governance; I served on several Company Boards and as Trustee for Company Retirement and Medical Funds. My work included several fraud investigations, including assisting with prosecution, and establishing banking policy for preventing check fraud. I see my core competence in the following key performance areas: > Insightful financial modeling & analysis → sound strategy & great decisions. > Clear & concise financial reporting → know & grow your business. > Trained & motivated teams → efficient & effective finance management and accounting. > Effective problem solving → optimal systems, processes and internal controls. > Initiatives to drive bottom line and improve balance sheet → Improved financial performance. Interesting Facts > I was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. > My enthusiasm for Business and Finance started in the tenth grade; I excelled at Accounting, took Business Economics as an additional subject, led our school team in a business finance competition, and was introduced to my first business mentor, a local Chartered Accountant. > I enrolled for my accounting apprenticeship a week after graduating High School and over the next 4 years I worked 8 hours a day, every weekday, attending university at night and earning my first degree. > Also attained my Master Degree in Commerce, specializing in Computer Audit.