KHUMO MBATHA

• Lead and deliver due diligence, valuation, and advisory projects across diverse sectors, ensuring compliance with BDO standards and best practice.
• Manage client relationships and stakeholder expectations, serving as primary point of contact and driving repeat business opportunities.
• Supervise, mentor, and review work of engagement teams, providing technical training, feedback, and performance management.
• Apply strong transaction and industry expertise to identify key value drivers, risks, and deal negotiation points.
• Review and oversee financial models and reports (DCF, PPAs, IFRS 2 valuations, Goodwill impairment assessments, intangible asset valuations).
• Provided expert guidance on mergers and acquisitions activities, conducting due diligence assessments and valuations for potential targets.
• Mentored junior finance team members, fostering a collaborative work environment that encouraged professional growth and development.
• Reviewed documentation and identified financial discrepancies where applicable.
• Prepare and negotiate scopes of work, fee estimates, and proposals, while managing engagement pipeline.
• Support JSE reporting accountant mandates and actively participate in business development and industry initiatives.

• Performed buy- and sell-side due diligence, analysing financials, industry dynamics, and identifying key risks with actionable recommendations.
• Calculated normalised earnings, net debt, and working capital to support transaction decision-making.
• Prepared and presented due diligence and valuation reports to senior management, boards, and audit committees.
• Conducted independent company valuations (property, portfolio, and operating companies), including sensitivity and peer analysis.
• Built and maintained client relationships, contributing to proposals, quotations, and business development initiatives.
• Supported team development by coordinating trainee secondments and cross-department collaboration.
• Enhanced management decision-making by providing insightful financial analysis and recommendations.
• Strengthened relationships with external partners including banks, auditors, tax advisors, and regulators as needed.
• Conducted detailed financial analysis to identify and evaluate changes in operations, trends and potential areas of improvement.

Achievement: Implementing a secondment initiative within the department for audit trainees who are interested in Corporate Finance

• Performed international audits in accordance with GAAP, IFRS, and relevant legislative requirements.
• Managed multiple audit engagements simultaneously while maintaining strict adherence to timelines and budgets.
• Demonstrated versatility by adapting quickly to new industry sectors or changing client expectations during engagements.
• Reviewed financial records, reports, and systems to identify risks and compliance gaps, ensuring audit quality.
• Analysed financial data and reconciliations, reporting discrepancies and recommending corrective actions.
• Collaborated with senior management and audit committees to review compliance processes and strengthen internal controls.
• Evaluated risk management and internal control frameworks to mitigate potential compliance and reporting issues.
• Prepared audit findings and recommendations for client management and regulatory stakeholders.

• Performed planning, execution, and finalisation of audits in line with IFRS, IFRS for SMEs, and the Companies Act.
• Identified and assessed risks of material misstatement, designing and executing audit procedures to address them.
• Tested internal controls and substantive procedures, ensuring compliance with IFRS, Tax Act, VAT Act, and King IV.
• Drafted and reviewed annual financial statements, ensuring alignment with audit evidence and regulatory standards.
• Prepared and presented audit findings and reports to managers, partners, and audit committees.
• Liaised with corporate finance, tax, and CAATs teams, and coordinated stock counts at multiple locations.
• Supervised and provided on-the-job training to junior team members, ensuring fieldwork completion within time and budget.

Key Achievement: Contributed to audits across multiple industries both listed and private (manufacturing, financial services, and listed entities) with combined revenues exceeding R10bn, strengthening compliance and improving client reporting processes.

• Enhanced students'' understanding of subject matter by incorporating real-world examples into lessons.
• Tutored diverse groups of students to strengthen subject comprehension, boost confidence, and build important learning skills.
• Provided constructive feedback on assignments, helping students improve their writing and problem-solving skills.
• Promoted critical thinking skills through engaging activities and consistent reinforcement of complex concepts.

• Consulted with students to advise on topic selection, appropriateness and academic value.
• Assisted students in identifying career goals and aligning them with appropriate academic programs.
• Served as a liaison between students, faculty, staff, and administration to address concerns or conflicts that arose during the course of study.
• Promoted campus resources such as tutoring services or counseling centers to help students overcome barriers to success.
• Helped students with initial adjustment to university academic life and interpreted institutions policies and requirements.