ROSLYN KEETSE
Finance Business Partner
Johannesburg
Summary
Experienced Finance Business Partner with recent promotion after 6 years of dedicated work. Trusted finance advisor and partner to various departments, providing valuable guidance on critical business matters. Currently collaborating with Product and Sales teams to design customer segmentation and pricing strategies, while leading an initiative with the Technology team to optimize resource utilization in projects. Implemented a Cashflow Management Reporting tool aligned with organizational strategy and successfully transitioned the finance department to a modern structure. Focus on accurate financial performance and position reporting, utilizing self-service capabilities, system automation, and data analytics to enhance decision-making processes. Expertise in financial analysis, strategic planning, and business partnering, with a strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization. Proficient in utilizing general ledger systems for effective financial analysis.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
2024
2024
years of post-secondary education
Work History
FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER
Astute Financial Services Exchange
01.2025 - Current
- Collaborate with business leaders to develop and execute financial strategies aligned with the organization's goals
- Drive financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes, ensuring alignment with business objectives
- Analyze financial performance, identify risks and opportunities, and propose data-driven recommendations for improvement
- Deliver detailed analysis of key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor business performance and identify trends
- Provide insights on cost control, margins improvement, and revenue growth opportunities
- Evaluate the financial impact of strategic decisions, such as new products launch, Market expansion, and investments
- Liaised with budget holders to evaluate financial performance and offer financial management data, analysis, and advice.
- Facilitated quarterly revenue cycle to support project analysis requirements.
- Mentored finance team members, fostering professional development and enhancing individual capabilities for career advancement within the organization.
- Produced financial reporting in [Software] to summarize financial performance and explain key variances.
- Act as trusted advisor to senior management, offering financial expertise in decision making processes
- Build financial models and conduct scenario analysis to support complex business decisions
- Partner with cross-functional teams to assess financial viability and resources allocation for projects
- Prevent wastage and identify process improvement to contain and reduce costs
- Contribute to the development, planning for and implementation and take joint accountability for the operating model of the Finance Department partnering with Head of Finance in response to the business model and Astute Strategy
- Establish an aligned Balanced Scorecard focused on the implementation, measuring and management of the Financial & Regulatory Reporting Strategy
- Contribute to determining the business value chain for the Finance Department
- Ensuring Costing of projects is correctly assessed and reported on
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT (CGMA DIP MA)
Astute financial services
08.2012 - 12.2024
- Develop and submit budget for Exco, Audit and Risk and board approval and Manage Operational and Capex budgets and forecast
- Produce timely and accurate monthly management accounts and Financial KPIs
- Accountable for accurate processing of account payables, Account Receivable, Project and Timesheets and Payroll allocations
- Reviewed and approved Salaries
- Manage cost and revenue through variance analysis, collaborating with executives for areas of improvements and cost optimization strategies
- Analyze delivery team productivity, products revenue trends, product profitability and product transactions performance
- Develop financial modelling for new products to assess financial viability, break even, ROI and NPV to support the business case
- Baseline costing, project financial reporting, cost of delays and reworks
- Provide management information to support decision making and drive revenue targets
- Develop and implement financial processes and procedures through system automation and documentation to improve efficiency and reduce costs
- Manage external audit process and review draft financial statements and update ERP systems with updated TB
- Ensure systems and internal controls are in place to implement auditors’ recommendation for material differences
- Prepare annual price increase and pricing for sales contracts
- Drive Operational Efficiency
- Provide feedback on project cost and Capitalization of project cost
Financial Operations and Pricing Specialist
IBM SA
12.2007 - 08.2012
- Analyze and manage software services profitability and sustainability
- Develop and maintain forecasting to ensure the targets are achieved by sales team
- Analyze cost allocations to ensure accuracy and maintain acceptable increase on cost to revenue ratio
- Collaborating with sales team to increase conversion rate
- Collaborating with Account receivable team to ensure billing accuracy
- Managing contract renewal and troubled contracts through revenue backlog management to avoid loss of business
- Preparing high quality profitable competitive pricing for sales bidding
Education
CIMA dip ma -
cima global
BACCALAUREUS TECHNOLOGIAE - undefined
COST AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTNG
Skills
Principled Leadership
Data-Driven Decision Making
Financial Budgeting
Cost Forecasting Expertise
Data Interpretation
Critical Thinking
Financial Project Management
Expert Financial Modeling
Data Analysis Reporting
Investment Performance Evaluation
Operational Controls Management
Accrual Accounting
Financial Reporting Standards
Operational Efficiency Enhancement
Financial Performance Analysis
Pricing Model Optimization
Audit Process Coordination
Cash Flow Optimization
Effective Cash Flow Management
Budget Control
Profitability analysis
Pricing strategy
Audit coordination
Cash flow management
Accomplishments
- Employee of the Year Runner Up, 07/2024, For Finance Business Partner and contributing to strategic business enablement managers and product business planning and targets.
- Value-based Leadership Certificate, 12/2023
- Financial Modelling Certificate, 02/2018
- Employee of the Year Runner Up, 2017, For delivering 3 months Budgeting cycle in 1 month.
- Employee of the Year, 2013, For delivery Costing Model of the second successful product in the company.
Timeline
FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER
Astute Financial Services Exchange
01.2025 - Current
MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT (CGMA DIP MA)
Astute financial services
08.2012 - 12.2024
Financial Operations and Pricing Specialist
IBM SA
12.2007 - 08.2012
BACCALAUREUS TECHNOLOGIAE - undefined
COST AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTNG
CIMA dip ma -
cima global