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BRIDGETTE NOKUTHULA MTSHALI

Roodeport

Summary

Client-focused, with a passion for process efficiency, I have experience with both the SA LISP and UT business, reinforced with effective team leaderships skills and a strong industry network.

Overview

2026
2026
years of professional experience

Work history

TEAM LEAD - Asset Services

FNZ SA
Johannesburg, South Africa
08.2025 - Current

Key Responsibilities: Skills & Competencies:


  • Daily Cash Operations: Monitor and manage daily cash balances across multiple client accounts and currencies.
    Execute and authorize payments, settlements, and transfers within FNZ systems.
    Ensure timely and accurate posting of cash transactions.
  • Reconciliation & Controls: Perform daily cash and scrip reconciliations between FNZ platform, custodians, and banks.
    Investigate and resolve breaks or discrepancies promptly.
    Maintain strong internal controls and adhere to audit requirements.
  • Liquidity & Forecasting: Forecast cash requirements for client portfolios and operational needs.
    Support liquidity planning and funding strategies.
  • Client & Stakeholder Interaction: Liaise with investment managers, custodians, and internal teams to ensure smooth cash operations.
    Provide reporting and updates on cash positions and movements.
  • Risk & Compliance: Ensure compliance with FNZ policies, regulatory standards, and client mandates.
    Identify and mitigate operational risks related to cash management.
  • Strong understanding of cash management, banking operations, and investment administration.
  • Proficiency in Excel (functions like VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, IF statements).
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines in a high-volume environment.

Operations Team Lead

04.2021 - 12.2025
  • Strategic team management and planning (queue management, query handling and resolution where analysis required, spot-check health checks, resource allocation of cleanup projects, testing arrangement and quality control of system corrections)
  • Leave and resource management.
  • Daily team huddles (discussions on performance of the day before/where we are/what can we do better. Includes closing knowledge gaps and process discussions.)
  • Tracking and monitoring of overall team performance (presentation of weekly stats - errors, performance)
  • Escalation analysis and resolution, where cases are deemed business critical and important by the client
  • Hourly queue monitoring, ensuring strict adherence to SLA and quality of work
  • Performance development and performance management discussions with team members (both with performing and non-performing individuals)
  • Process improvements for clients based on trending – documentation & roll-out of new business rules, process updates or system enhancements
  • Client engagement (Relationship meeting presentation, weekly service review discussions and preparation, ad hoc meeting request setup and discussions to facilitate BAU)
  • Daily, weekly & monthly reporting for clients (including SLA analysis, errors, trending of errors, rejection trending & improvement, backdate reporting, remediation)
  • Escalation, enquiry, and error management when received either from the client, via the system or via email directly from the client
  • Internal client preparation meetings (service review action items & feedback, relationship meeting pack discussion)
  • Collaborating with different teams within the business to facilitate a positive client experience.

Subject Matter Expert (SME)

FNZ
  • Acting as a “go-to” for questions or problems within operations.
  • Assisting in requirement elicitation
  • Representing BAU operations in project meetings
  • Documenting business processes
  • Assisting in the definition of procedural improvements
  • Validation of project requirements and deliverables
  • Proving input and construction of test cases and scenarios
  • Validation of test results of project teams

Unit Trust (UT) Admin Consultant

FNZ
  • End-to-end analysts and resolution of investment queries
  • Resolution of internal and external-origin queries
  • Queue management
  • Providing regular updates to management
  • Ensuring disputes between internal teams and clients are resolved within service-level turn-around-time
  • Capturing and processing client investments
  • Documenting processes and procedures of client services consultants

Covid Ward Hostess

Life Hospital
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • Replenishing patients’ water jugs three times a day to ensure good hydration
  • Providing patients with hot and cold beverages throughout the day
  • Collating patients’ menu choices
  • Preparing patients’ trays for meal service
  • Adhering to the red tray system when appropriate
  • Serving patients meals at designated times
  • Knowledge of patients’ dietary needs
  • Recording food temperatures at ward level
  • Delivering snacks to appropriate patients
  • Washing up of all patients’ crockery
  • Disposing of waste appropriately
  • Maintain a high standard of hygiene at all times
  • Part-time

Brand Ambassador

Chalk
01.2018 - 01.2019
  • Participating in event marketing
  • Creating social media content
  • Assist in marketing campaigns
  • Increasing brand awareness
  • Educating customers about products
  • Collect qualitative feedback from consumers
  • On-site product sampling and/or brand education
  • Build rapport with customers and vendors

Sales Agent

UDM International, Blue Mercury Financial Services and Fidelity Group
01.2017 - 01.2018
  • Educate customers on sales
  • Explaining products and services
  • Meeting sales goals
  • Create compelling sales pitches
  • Build and maintain relationships with clients

Call Centre Agent

Merchants CellC
09.2016 - 08.2017
  • Prepaid Customer care consultant
  • Handling customer complaints
  • Handling high-volume inquiries
  • Ensuring customer satisfaction
  • Providing proactive customer outreach
  • Delivering information about the company’s offerings

Sales Agent

NuSkin (Qleen)
01.2015 - 01.2016
  • Selling beauty and health products online

General Assistant

Family Supermarket Takeaway & Fruit and Veg.
01.2014 - 01.2015
  • Receive, process, and organize deliveries.
  • Cooking, Serving, and prep for the next day.
  • Processing payments and providing excellent customer service
  • Part-time

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration - Business Adminitration

Regenesys
South Africa
01.2025 -

Data Engineering NQF 5, Part-time Course - Data Engineering

Explore AI Academy
01.2023 - 01.2024

National Senior Certificate - MATRIC

Hoerskool Jan de Klerk
01.2011 - 12.2015

Skills

  • Cloud computing for data engineering
  • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)
  • Team/Resource Management
  • Oracle SQL Data Querying and Extraction
  • Problem-solving / Analytical Reasoning
  • Business Process Modelling Tools
  • Adaptability
  • SA Unit Trust and Tax-Free Investment (UT & TFI) Knowledge
  • Learning speed
  • Stress Management
  • Effective Communication
  • Python for data engineering
  • Storing big data
  • SQL for data engineering
  • Moving big data
  • Processing big data

REFERENCES


  • Gavin, Dean, Operations Manager, gavin.dean@fnz.com, +27 84 249 9355, FNZ: Unit Trust and Tax-Free (UT & TFI) Admin Consultant , FNZ: Admin Specialist, Second in Charge (2IC) Ops Team lead
  • Kelly, Singh, Team Leader, +27 73 073 3101, FNZ: Projects
  • Manager (Amir), +27 74 662 9817, Family Supermarket Takeaway & Fruit and Veg.
  • Dawn, Petersen, +27 82 434 5812, Merchants Cell C
  • Yolanda, +27 82 752 6119, Life Hospital

Timeline

TEAM LEAD - Asset Services

FNZ SA
08.2025 - Current

Bachelor of Business Administration - Business Adminitration

Regenesys
01.2025 -

Data Engineering NQF 5, Part-time Course - Data Engineering

Explore AI Academy
01.2023 - 01.2024

Operations Team Lead

04.2021 - 12.2025

Covid Ward Hostess

Life Hospital
01.2020 - 01.2021

Brand Ambassador

Chalk
01.2018 - 01.2019

Sales Agent

UDM International, Blue Mercury Financial Services and Fidelity Group
01.2017 - 01.2018

Call Centre Agent

Merchants CellC
09.2016 - 08.2017

Sales Agent

NuSkin (Qleen)
01.2015 - 01.2016

General Assistant

Family Supermarket Takeaway & Fruit and Veg.
01.2014 - 01.2015

National Senior Certificate - MATRIC

Hoerskool Jan de Klerk
01.2011 - 12.2015

Subject Matter Expert (SME)

FNZ

Unit Trust (UT) Admin Consultant

FNZ
BRIDGETTE NOKUTHULA MTSHALI