Lesego Adelaide More
Finance Business Partner
Midrand,GP
Summary
Lesego is a reliable, engaging, seasoned finance professional with over 15 years of progressive experience in financial management, reporting, and compliance across multinational corporations and NGOs. As a CA(SA), ACMA, CGMA and Professional Accountant (SA), I bring deep expertise in technical accounting, IFRS compliance, tax reporting, and internal controls, coupled with strong leadership in audit coordination, critical thinking, business acumen, process optimization, and team development. She is known for analytical rigor, stakeholder engagement, and adaptability, with proven ability to navigate complex financial environments, lead cross-functional teams, and deliver results under pressure.
Results-driven compliance professional with proven ability to navigate complex regulatory landscapes and ensure organizational adherence to legal standards. Strong focus on team collaboration, delivering reliable compliance solutions, and adapting to dynamic environments. Expertise in risk assessment, policy development, and regulatory reporting, combined with proactive and analytical approach to problem-solving.
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance & Compliance Consultant
More Loans (Pty) Ltd
01.2024 - 01.2025
- Financial Reporting & Statutory Submissions
- Prepared annual financial statements in line with applicable reporting standards for submission to the NCR and stakeholders.
- Facilitated independent reviews by external accounting professionals and ensured timely submission to the NCR.
- Managed income tax, provisional tax, and PAYE submissions to SARS, ensuring accuracy and compliance with statutory timelines.
- Maintained complete, auditable financial records and implemented improved documentation controls.
- Regulatory & Compliance Oversight
- Ensured full compliance with the National Credit Act (NCA), NCR regulations, and micro-lending governance frameworks.
- Prepared and submitted all required regulatory compliance reports, including annual compliance returns and credit provider reporting.
- Conducted regular internal compliance checks to ensure proper credit vetting, affordability assessments, interest rate adherence, and record-keeping.
- Updated business processes and SOPs to align with evolving legislation and NCR guidelines.
- Business Partnering & Strategic Support
- Advised the Managing Director on financial performance, compliance risks, pricing decisions, and credit portfolio management.
- Provided cash flow analysis, credit book performance insights, arrears monitoring, and recommendations to improve portfolio quality.
- Monitored key performance indicators (KPIs), including loan performance, impairments, collections, and capital adequacy.
- Training, Coaching & Governance
- Trained staff and management on compliance obligations, credit vetting procedures, ethics, internal controls, and documentation standards.
- Strengthened the business’s control environment by introducing improved financial controls, reconciliations, and approval workflows.
- Built staff capability in NCR requirements, customer due diligence, data accuracy, and financial record maintenance.
- Operational Finance Management
- Oversaw daily finance operations including bank reconciliations, loan disbursement tracking, collections management, and reconciliation of customer accounts.
- Ensured compliance with interest rate calculations, amortisation schedules, and credit fee structures.
- Handled supplier payments, payroll processing, and general ledger maintenance.
- Micro-Lending
- Key Achievements
- Achieved 100% compliance with NCR reporting obligations for two consecutive years, with no compliance findings or penalties.
- Strengthened internal controls, reducing documentation gaps and improving audit readiness for independent reviews.
- Improved financial reporting timelines by standardising templates and introducing structured workflows.
- Enhanced credit book visibility by implementing reconciliations and performance dashboards for arrears, impairments, and collections.
- Reduced compliance risk by training staff and management on NCA requirements, resulting in fewer operational errors and improved customer vetting quality.
- Successfully supported the company in maintaining its NCR registration, ensuring business continuity and regulatory alignment.
Record to Reporting Specialist
Alcon Laboratories
01.2020 - 01.2022
- Successfully took leadership of annual external audits. I received a AAA award for best co-ordinator of the audit, breaking record for the successful completion of the audit within tight deadline
- Successfully reduced the month end and Quarter end reporting period, from the 3 days to 2 days.
- Successfully held a team together and provided a safe space to vent over the news of retrenchment, while encouraging them to continue delivering quality work within tight deadlines.
- Successfully provided oversight of the technical accounting and accuracy of financial reporting, and ultimate accountability for the financials of South Africa.
- Strengthened the finance function by delivering precise and timely monthly, quarterly, and year-end reporting, contributing to improved compliance and audit readiness.
- Successfully coordinated the finance department transition from South Africa to Poland and Bangladesh.
- Conducted training of staff based in Poland and Bangladesh, on topics such as Tax, Vat, IFRS16 reconciliations, IFRS 9 calculations with justifications, financial statements compilations, customer accounts reviews and approvals, etc
- Successfully trained accounts receivable specialists on excel, and other areas of their work that needed attention.
- Successfully managed to resolve big customer accounts with a history of difficult reconciliations.
- Successfully performed Financial statements compilations in compliance with IFRS, and made formal presentations to the General manager and the Head of Finance.
- Successfully compiled and submitted Withholding tax on interest returns, Income tax returns and VAT returns with calculations and supporting schedules.
- Successfully performed monthly and quarterly balance sheet reconciliations in Blackline and formally interpreted to results to relevant stakeholders
- Successfully performed inventory write off provisions calculations with inputs from business units.
- Conducted a fixed assets count and performed reconciliations between fixed assets register and the control accounts.
- Facilitated the actual write on of existing assets, and write off of non existing assets from the asset register after getting appropriate approvals.
- Performed actual depreciation runs on the system
- Multinational Pharmaceutical
Financial Controller
Zoetis South Africa
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Successfully provided oversight of the technical accounting and accuracy of financial reporting, and ultimate accountability for the financials of South Africa.
- Successfully Maintained and directed the internal control environment which included designing and monitoring internal controls over the Company’s financial reporting processes to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Enhanced commercial effectiveness by acting as a proactive finance business partner to the Sales and Marketing teams, delivering insights that supported revenue growth and optimized promotional spend
- Successfully Partnered with the General manager and commercial leadership team/BU Leads in achieving the targeted revenue results
- Acted as a primary liaison between Zoetis South Africa and Zoetis global (Poland, USA, Belgium, etc)
- Ensured timely and accurate financial reporting in accordance with US GAAP, local/statutory accounting standards (IFRS), Zoetis policies and procedures and all applicable laws and regulations.
- Presented management reports to the heads of departments on a monthly basis within a specified timeline.
- Established and monitored accounting policies and procedures, and served as a resource in all aspects of country level accounting to the Zoetis Shared Services Center ( ZFS )
- Coordinated and monitored policies and procedures for compliance with Sarbanes Oxley Act
- I ensured accurate recording and reporting of financial transactions, guided country operations with external audit preparation, and implemented recommended procedural improvements.
- Proactively advocated for corporate accounting & compliance responsibilities.
- Compiled full clean sets of financial statements for this multi-national company for 4 years consecutively.
- Took leadership of annual audit by the external auditors – we received unqualified reports with no significant audit findings
- Managed and provided guidance to the banking, treasury, accounts receivable, accounts payable, invoicing and maintenance of the full general ledger accounts.
- Prepared VAT returns, income tax returns and IT14SD for e-filling submission to SARS.
- Coordinated with local tax authorities on audits/reviews and served as the primary contact for local tax requirements.
- Ensured proper application within the organization of agreed financial targets and work with the Center of Excellence ( CoE ) to ensure appropriate management information tools and reports are in place to assure adherence to financial targets
- Prepared annual budgets for a three year period and quarterly forecasts in co-ordination with the business unit leads/commercial team and General Manager and ensured timely submissions to international headquarters.
- Managed the working capital of the company.
- Monitored the budget against actual results and presented the variances to the general manager and commercial leadership team as well as to the Zoetis global community.
- Became an active member of the Finance community ensuring that the complex factors behind the analysis of the business are understood by shared service center and CoE (Center of Excellence) and that the appropriate financial analysis, management analysis is provided to the leadership team proactively.
- Reviewed the transfer prices for inventory applied that it was accurate and variances with actual invoice prices were processed correctly
- Reviewed and approved the inventory stock count adjustments in the system.
- Multinational Pharmaceutical
Financial Accountant
Zoetis South Africa
01.2014 - 01.2016
- IFRS reporting, tax compliance, SAP implementation and balance-sheet management
Financial Accountant
Tshepang Trust
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Donor reporting, budgeting, payroll and stakeholder reporting
- NGO
Senior Bookkeeper
Kheth’Impilo AIDS Free Living
01.2010 - 01.2012
- Budget management, funder compliance, staff supervision and audit support
SAICA trainee Accountant
Auditor-General of South Africa
01.2007 - 01.2010
- SAICA training contract auditing national and local government entities
Education
CA(SA) -
SAICA
01-2026
ACMA, CGMA - undefined
CIMA
01-2025
Professional Accountant - undefined
SA
01-2014
Postgraduate Diploma - Accounting Sciences
UNISA
01-2013
BCom - Accounting
University of the Western Cape
01-2007
Matric/Grade 12 - undefined
01-2001
Skills
Finance Leadership & Governance
Budgeting & Forecasting
Financial Modelling & Scenario Analysis
Commercial & Strategic Business Partnering
IFRS & US GAAP Reporting
Audit, Risk & SOX Controls
Working Capital & Cash-Flow Optimisation
Tax & Regulatory Compliance
Change Management & Team Leadership
Strong Microsoft word, advanced excel, power point, SAP, Essbase, HFM
An excellent team player
Deals very well with cultural diversity
Negotiates acceptable solutions/ presents more than one solution for every problem/challenge
Communicates very well to stakeholders and presents views clearly
Listens and reads effectively
Analyses and reasons critically
Manages self very well
Takes initiatives and influences others positively
Able to prioritize and work within tight deadlines
Adapts very easily to every situation/environment
Manages projects and people with excellence
Allocates the right people for the right jobs
Coaches and mentors junior as well as co-workers
Constantly update self with what is happening around the world and consider impact thereof on the task under consideration
Timeline
Finance & Compliance Consultant
More Loans (Pty) Ltd
01.2024 - 01.2025
Record to Reporting Specialist
Alcon Laboratories
01.2020 - 01.2022
Financial Controller
Zoetis South Africa
01.2016 - 01.2019
Financial Accountant
Zoetis South Africa
01.2014 - 01.2016
Financial Accountant
Tshepang Trust
01.2012 - 01.2013
Senior Bookkeeper
Kheth’Impilo AIDS Free Living
01.2010 - 01.2012
SAICA trainee Accountant
Auditor-General of South Africa
01.2007 - 01.2010
ACMA, CGMA - undefined
CIMA
Professional Accountant - undefined
SA
Postgraduate Diploma - Accounting Sciences
UNISA
BCom - Accounting
University of the Western Cape
Matric/Grade 12 - undefined
CA(SA) -
SAICA