Motivated professional with a solid foundation in finance . Demonstrates strong analytical skills and attention to detail while adapting to diverse roles within the finance sector. Eager to contribute to team success through effective communication and collaboration.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance Regional Business Partner
The Beverage Company
08.2024 - Current
·Support Regional FM in Annual budgeting processes by supporting cost center owners.
Lead balance sheet reconciliations for assigned general ledger accounts to validate positions.
Own weekly income statement updates for functional heads to maintain control.
Lead commercial month-end analysis covering damages, customer spend, and pricing.
Steer year-to-date and monthly stock loss tracking for supply chain stakeholders.
Present reconciliation information to regional finance managers to strengthen forecasting visibility.
Manage regional capex clearing for assets to keep ledgers aligned.
Oversee monthly quarantine, damages and expired stock write-offs through investigation actions.
Approve requisition readiness for stock write-off decisions and support governance checks.
Drive bill of materials improvements by coordinating updates and change documentation.
Coordinate waste and pallet charge-out invoicing with accurate reconciliation evidence.
Review weekly production yields and direct investigations to remove root causes.
Ensure open POS reporting completion across the region within agreed deadlines.
Maintain fixed cost schedules to support consistent regional reporting.
Account for monthly stock counts across raw materials, Warehouse finished goods and maintenance spares.
Apprenticeship
Checkers hyper Galleria
09.2020 - Current
Resigned to pursue a role that better aligned with career goals.
Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
Managed complaints with calm, clear communication and problem-solving.
Maintained clean, safe working environments to eliminate accident risks.
Credit Controller
The Beverage Company
04.2023 - 07.2024
Management of customer collections aligned to trading terms.
Post customer payments by recording cash transactions from bank aligned to policy and debtors trading terms.
Issuing monthly customer statement.
Updated and reported receivables by totalling unpaid debtors, ensuring accurate financial tracking.
Maintained debtor records through monthly master data reviews, enhancing data integrity.
Verifies validity of account discrepancies by obtaining and investigating information from sales trading agreement, promotions, customer service department and from customers.
Resolve validated or authorized deductions by entering adjusting entries.
Resolve invalid or unauthorized deductions by following pending deduction procedures.
Manage and release blocked orders aligned with policy.
Prepared and consolidated reconciliations documents to support legal handover process.
Promoted to Business Partner
Claims Specialist
The Beverage Company
06.2022 - 03.2023
Process claims on SAP.
Requested and followed up on customer debtor claims to ensure timely resolution.
Sought validations and approvals for customer-deducted claims to maintain compliance.
Investigated invalid customer claims and coordinated paybacks to recover funds.
Send proof of deliveries to customer and investigate.
Cleaned customer accounts each month to maintain accuracy.
Report to Supervisor month end using claims tracker.
Received promotion to Credit Controller due to performance.
Billing administrator
Fidelity Services group
03.2022 - 06.2022
Processed billing for securities transactions, ensuring accuracy and compliance with financial regulations.
Billing dues and invoice analysis reports vetting.
Compiled monthly revenue reports to analyse financial performance and support strategic decision-making.
Monthly reconciliations.
Creating and processing credit requisitions on SAP.
Loaded and updated sales orders, facilitating timely fulfilment and customer satisfaction.
Sending posting sheets and Posting sheets vetting.
Checking CADO and the 103s for guards booking.
Left position after securing a better job opportunity.
Finance Graduate intern
Msinsi resorts & game reserves
10.2020 - 02.2022
Prepare balance sheet reconciliations including Payroll reconciliation.
Captured daily revenue and expenditure transactions on Pastel Evolution.
Maintained accurate debtors and creditors control accounts to ensure timely reconciliations.
Control petty cash.
Making Payments using bank online system and making enquiries with bank.
Control the company fuel cards.
Provide administrative support during internal and external audits.
Prepared monthly reports for departmental meetings, summarising key financial data.
Sars company Efiling.
Assist on asset Verifications.
Writing departmental minutes of the meetings.
Control filing and archiving.
Operated from Hillcrest Head Office.
Concluded employment contract successfully.
Taxation tutor
University of Zululand
01.2018 - 12.2018
Conducted classes and objective tests to enhance student understanding and performance.
Marked student assessments and recorded results in Excel for accurate tracking.
Organised and maintained detailed records of tutoring sessions, including students' progress, to track and report outcomes effectively.
<ul><li>Company Overview: Group Company of PUIG, Spain</li><li>Team Leadership & Process Excellence: Organised the transformation of the Finance & Accounts function, establishing performance-driven goals, and embedding a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. Drove operational efficiency through process redesigns, SOP implementation and optimal resource deployment, leading to measurable improvements in turnaround time and accuracy.</li><li>Strategic Partnering with CXOs: Acted as a key advisor to the CEO, CFO, and other CXOs on business planning, pricing strategies, and business model pivots to support scale-up and profitability. Contributed to investor communications with data-backed insights to enhance stakeholder confidence and secure strategic funding.</li><li>Cross-Functional & Global Stakeholder Management: Functioned as the strategic finance business partner to cross-functional heads and the PUIG global finance team, aligning local execution with global financial strategies and compliance requirements.</li><li>ERP Transformation & System Automation: Led end-to-end ERP reimplementation to address system gaps, enforce role-based controls, and automate core finance processes—resulting in enhanced data accuracy, faster reporting and improved internal controls.</li><li>Costing, Inventory & Profitability Optimization: Designed and implemented plant-level costing models to ensure accurate COGS determination. Improved inventory management across pricing, consumption tracking, and aging analysis—enabling better working capital control and cost efficiency.</li><li>Manufacturing Finance & Statutory Compliance: Supervised end-to-end accounting for manufacturing operations and ensured full statutory compliance.</li><li>Financial Reporting, MIS & Profitability Analytics: Delivered accurate and timely monthly MIS reports, including P&L, Balance Sheet and KPI dashboards with deep-dive variance analysis across stores, business verticals, and geographies. Supported board-level decision-making through insightful presentations on financial health and business performance.</li><li>Budgeting, Forecasting & Business Planning: Led the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and rolling forecasts, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and market dynamics. Monitored key financial metrics to enable business decisions and proactive cost management.</li><li>Statutory, Internal & Tax Audit Management: Finalized standalone and consolidated financials under Ind AS and IFRS, ensured timely group reporting and compliance with international standards. Delivered clean and timely closures of statutory, tax, and internal audits in coordination with Big 4 auditors. Strengthened audit readiness through pre-audit diagnostics and rectification of recurring control gaps.</li><li>Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management: Ensured end-to-end compliance which includes ROC, RBI, FEMA, Income Tax, GST, Transfer Pricing, DTAA, and Customs. Reviewed cross-border contracts and transactions to ensure arm’s length pricing, accurate TDS application, and proper documentation under Transfer Pricing regulations.</li><li>Commercial Negotiation & Contract Governance: Led commercial negotiations and structured deals with vendors and franchisees. Reviewed key business contracts to ensure financial viability, risk protection, and compliance with regulatory standards.</li><li>Treasury & External Commercial Borrowing (ECB): Managed fund planning and liquidity management including ECB drawdowns, bank negotiations, and interest optimization. Improved working capital cycles through proactive cash flow forecasting and receivables control.</li><li>Internal Controls & Governance Framework: Led organization-wide reviews of internal control systems, identified process gaps, and redesigned or implemented over 40 SOPs and IFCs. Established a governance structure for financial discipline, risk mitigation, and policy compliance across departments.</li></ul> at Kama Ayurveda Pvt. Ltd. & PUIG India Pvt. Ltd.<ul><li>Company Overview: Group Company of PUIG, Spain</li><li>Team Leadership & Process Excellence: Organised the transformation of the Finance & Accounts function, establishing performance-driven goals, and embedding a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. Drove operational efficiency through process redesigns, SOP implementation and optimal resource deployment, leading to measurable improvements in turnaround time and accuracy.</li><li>Strategic Partnering with CXOs: Acted as a key advisor to the CEO, CFO, and other CXOs on business planning, pricing strategies, and business model pivots to support scale-up and profitability. Contributed to investor communications with data-backed insights to enhance stakeholder confidence and secure strategic funding.</li><li>Cross-Functional & Global Stakeholder Management: Functioned as the strategic finance business partner to cross-functional heads and the PUIG global finance team, aligning local execution with global financial strategies and compliance requirements.</li><li>ERP Transformation & System Automation: Led end-to-end ERP reimplementation to address system gaps, enforce role-based controls, and automate core finance processes—resulting in enhanced data accuracy, faster reporting and improved internal controls.</li><li>Costing, Inventory & Profitability Optimization: Designed and implemented plant-level costing models to ensure accurate COGS determination. Improved inventory management across pricing, consumption tracking, and aging analysis—enabling better working capital control and cost efficiency.</li><li>Manufacturing Finance & Statutory Compliance: Supervised end-to-end accounting for manufacturing operations and ensured full statutory compliance.</li><li>Financial Reporting, MIS & Profitability Analytics: Delivered accurate and timely monthly MIS reports, including P&L, Balance Sheet and KPI dashboards with deep-dive variance analysis across stores, business verticals, and geographies. Supported board-level decision-making through insightful presentations on financial health and business performance.</li><li>Budgeting, Forecasting & Business Planning: Led the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and rolling forecasts, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and market dynamics. Monitored key financial metrics to enable business decisions and proactive cost management.</li><li>Statutory, Internal & Tax Audit Management: Finalized standalone and consolidated financials under Ind AS and IFRS, ensured timely group reporting and compliance with international standards. Delivered clean and timely closures of statutory, tax, and internal audits in coordination with Big 4 auditors. Strengthened audit readiness through pre-audit diagnostics and rectification of recurring control gaps.</li><li>Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management: Ensured end-to-end compliance which includes ROC, RBI, FEMA, Income Tax, GST, Transfer Pricing, DTAA, and Customs. Reviewed cross-border contracts and transactions to ensure arm’s length pricing, accurate TDS application, and proper documentation under Transfer Pricing regulations.</li><li>Commercial Negotiation & Contract Governance: Led commercial negotiations and structured deals with vendors and franchisees. Reviewed key business contracts to ensure financial viability, risk protection, and compliance with regulatory standards.</li><li>Treasury & External Commercial Borrowing (ECB): Managed fund planning and liquidity management including ECB drawdowns, bank negotiations, and interest optimization. Improved working capital cycles through proactive cash flow forecasting and receivables control.</li><li>Internal Controls & Governance Framework: Led organization-wide reviews of internal control systems, identified process gaps, and redesigned or implemented over 40 SOPs and IFCs. Established a governance structure for financial discipline, risk mitigation, and policy compliance across departments.</li></ul> at Kama Ayurveda Pvt. Ltd. & PUIG India Pvt. Ltd.