Amanda Mbilase

Amanda Mbilase is a Financial Controls and Compliance Specialist, with 25 years of diversified business experience, spent in Global Multinational companies. Amanda's career started as a Treasury Clerk in retail and moved to Internal and External Auditing (Articles with KPMG Inc), practiced as Management Accountant mostly in Financial Services, including Credit Risk Reviews, and later specialized in Financial Internal controls over SAP Business processes. Throughout these years, has managed to leverage on best practice for most business processes, thereby improving compliance to achieve process optimization, which is the key business skill she brings in into any new organization. In her last role Amanda was supporting the redefining, harmonization, implementing and deployment of a new global template - SAP4HANA in different sites scoped. Five Key roles summarized briefly as follows: (Followed by detailed pages of detailed work done in each role 25

• SAP4/HANA MIGRATION PROJECTS: Redefine- Integrate - Simplify - Harmonies - Business Processes, - Supporting the redefining of current business process (AS IS) further development and implementation of solutions to enable new processes (TO BE), converting into a new harmonized standard internal control framework (FIT TO TEMPLATE) of key business processes. - Supporting the Deployment of the new global template - SAP4/HANA to all sites in scopes - Providing guidance to the team on Internal controls matters relating to all Business Processes as well as Financial Approvals - Supporting the designing of the SAP GRC as the new source of truth for all new uploaded business processes - Collaborating with Cross Functional teams (Business Process Owners, IT, SOLMAN, Design Authority Team and entire project team: - Supporting and job shadowing the design and implementation of concept and processes of Financial Approval (for Direct and Indirect Procurement, Accounts Payables and Travel and Expenses)
• SAP- FINANCIAL BUSINESS PROCESS REVIEWS PROJECTS: including SOX COMPLIANCE and INTERNAL AUDITS, INDUSTRIES - PHARMACEUTICALS / AUTOMOTIVES / MANUFACTURING Designing (mostly done at Global) and updating (localize) Financial Internal Controls frameworks (RACMS), for all SAP business processes, based on: - Documenting business processes (AS IS) and update to the (TO BE) using Visio and Creating standard Operating Procedures (SOPs - if nonexistent or updating as per new (TO BE) process - Driving Harmonisation of local processes vs Global Processes - Testing effectiveness and efficiency of documented existing business processes by performing process walkthroughs and Control Self assessments by process owners (provide support and reviews) - Discuss any gaps in the process (findings) and agree on recommendations and remediation plans, follow up to closure. Provide support to the business until all open gaps identified has been closed. Training and supporting business process owners on internal controls / risk assessment and Sox Compliance (Annual campaigns) - CORPORATE ENTITY LEVEL CONTROLS o LEGAL (SAP - CLM -Contract Management) / COMPLIANCE (Functions of the compliance officer and reporting to EXCO) o IT (Reviewing of the IT Control Framework - confirming gaps raised are cleared off and tabled on IT Steering committee) o HR (Reviewing of HR Policies i.e. CODE of Conduct - Employment contracts etc.) / PROCUREMENT (Third party contracts) o FINANCE (Maintenance of Delegation of Authority and Signatories) - DETAILED - PROCESS LEVEL CONTROLS (Payroll - Hire to Retire - Marketing to CASH - Procure to Pay - Record to Report - Fixed Assets- SUPPLY CHAIN - Order to Cash - Treasury) - Hands on reviews of SAP GRC USER Access quarterly and ensuring all IT general control framework submission and issues raised are monitored via IT steering committee till closure. - Hands on monitoring Delegation of Authority using DOA matrix on WORKDAY for compliance/ limits reviews on a weekly basis and - Performed Annual review of signatories (deputy) with external parties (banks) and in line with DOA. Review executive minutes for evidence that CFO of the organization monitors DOA allocations and rotationally changes annually / as and when its required. - Trained and coached staff (process owners) to perform Control Self Assessments
• INTERNAL AUDITOR - PROGRESSED TO AUDIT MANAGER (including Credit Risk reviews), INDUSTRIES - FINANCIAL SERVICES / GAMING AND LEISURE / MANUFACTURING / RETAILS /TRANSPORTATION / AUTOMOTIVES - Performed risk-based audit as per the 3-year Internal Audit rolling plan on operational and financial processes. Start with analyzing and documenting business processing (Process Maps), creating test plans, testing, and reporting results thereof, provide recommendations to management, and time lag for correcting findings identified and implementing action plans. Performed follow up audits on agreed intervals to ensure all open items are closed. Create formal internal audit reports for sign off by management and to be present to all EXCO meetings. Represent Internal Audit department in Audit committee meetings.
• EXTERNAL AUDITOR - ARTICLED CLERK PROGRESSED TO SENIOR ACCOUNTANT and GENERAL IT AUDITOR, - Performed financial audits of all items of Income Statements and Balance Sheet on sample basis, formulate conclusions on all sections reviewed with supporting evidence of results thereof, express an opinion on the financial statements as prepared by Management - Commenced with IT General Controls testing, and working with ERP Systems Process flow (SAP-Oracle - Walker)
• FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING (HANDS ON TREASURY CLERK -PROGRESSED TO MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT), - Processing of all transactions from source documents up to preparing monthly management accounting file with supporting reconciliations.

• Mr Mbulelo Ntusi, HR Executive Novartis Africa, +27 11 465 0050, mbulelo.ntusi@africanparks.org
• Mr Felix Rusere, EMEA Internal Controls Manager, +352 8199 4082, felix_rusere@goodyear.com
• Mrs Neli Khumalo, Transnet-TFR Commercial Executive, 011-584 0690 / 083 286 1934
• Mr Antoine Copin, Internal Control Manager, Antoine.copin@morpho.com