Siviwe Silolo
Khayelitsha
Summary
Experienced in leading diverse teams to achieve goals and enhance productivity. Foster collaboration and communication among team members, ensuring seamless workflow and timely completion of tasks. Results-driven professional with 10+ years of experience in governance, risk management, ITGC, SOX compliance, system access management and audit assurance.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Masterdata and Reporting Team Lead
BP South Africa
12.2019 - 06.2025
- Led and reviewed operational performance for the team against defined objectives to ensure timely delivery of customer and vendor master data maintenance.
- Coordinated cross-functional teams to enhance workflow efficiency and departmental collaboration.
- Supported development of service level agreements, process performance indicators, and internal/external benchmarks.
- Identified and implemented training opportunities to strengthen team capabilities for future projects.
- Ran and analysed Salesforce reports to ensure performance per agreed service levels.
- Reviewed monthly fuel retail pricing to ensure accuracy before and after loading into ERP system.
- Provided support and interfaced with internal partners and external stakeholders to resolve escalations and queries.
- Supported external/internal audits with information requests and process walkthroughs.
- Led staff meetings to delegate tasks, assign workloads and communicate changing priorities.
Performance, Control and Assurance (PCA) Analyst
BP South Africa
01.2017 - 11.2019
- Coordinated input for SOX Section 302 due diligence processes and attested to control processes, ensuring compliance and accountability.
- Performed assurance testing on all SOX tests to assess the annual control effectiveness.
- Ensured compliance with internal control standards by approving all segregation of duties conflicts for BP ERP systems.
- Delivered monthly reports on systems access requests and SOD violations, advising business team leaders on effective mitigations.
- Monitored internal and external audit findings, providing recommendations for remediation to strengthen control effectiveness.
- Coordinated the annual review of business control documentation for all significant processes.
- Managed Key Incident Reporting Process (KRI), assisting incident owners in root causing incidents and tracking until closure.
- Assisted all GBS functions (R2R, O2C, P2P, HVC) with updating risk registers and coordinated the annual submission to Global GBS risk team.
- Coordinated reporting of functional Process Performance Indicators (PPI) and assisted with executive summaries for monthly Controls and Risks meetings.
- Performed monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting of BU performance vs. plan and forecast with detailed commentary on key variances and recommend actions.
- Led and interface with functional managers on forecast revisions.
- Maintained master list of critical spreadsheets and ensure training on End User Computing (EUC) Policy.
- Led initiatives to enhance cyber awareness, providing monthly reports on cyber barometer scores for all GBS functions.
- Maintained BCPs for the functions and initiated the periodic update process.
- Maintained the Emergency response plans for Cape Town office.
Junior - Senior Internal Auditor
Chevron South Africa
05.2010 - 12.2016
- Led or assisted in Joint Venture, internal Business Process assurance and advisory audits as per the annual audit plan.
- Assessed data integrity and identified risk areas through data analysis techniques, enhancing audit focus.
- Customized audit programmes to align with engagement objectives, improving audit effectiveness.
- Facilitated Fraud Risk Awareness (FRA), Control Self-Assessment (CSA) sessions for new businesses or system implementations.
- Provided subject matter expertise in inventory measurement, compliance, and procurement audits within the department.
- Analysed all business processes for each review and draft process flowcharts.
- Provided mentoring and guidance to new and/or guest auditors.
- Monitored annual budget for Cape Town audit office and conducted year-end variance analysis, ensuring financial control.
Revenue Accountant (Retailer loans and rentals)
Chevron South Africa
10.2009 - 04.2010
- Established and maintained customer retail site rental, loans, and rebates in SAP, ensuring accurate and up-to-date records.
- Coordinated with retail business on unpaid loans and site rentals, driving collection efforts or initiating write-offs for uncollectable debts.
- Performed reconciliations for customer loans and rental accounts.
- Managed master customer rebates register, ensuring accuracy and timely updates to support financial reporting.
- Investigated and resolved long outstanding debt that was due to new system configuration error.
Internal Controls and Compliance Analyst
Chevron South Africa
07.2007 - 09.2009
- Assigned Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) tests and tracked completion status to ensure timely compliance.
- Performed quality reviews on selected tests to ensure compliance with SOX requirements.
- Tracked SOX testing deficiencies and audit findings to facilitate corrective actions and enhance compliance measures.
- Coordinated the quarterly segregation of duties and user access reviews.
- Maintained compliance training and monitored high-risk transaction registers for the africa-pakistan region to uphold regulatory standards.
- Updated process flowcharts and control datasets for each SOX period.
Education
BP NextGear Leadership Program -
Duke University
Johannesburg01-2024
Bachelor of Technology degree - Internal auditing
Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)
South Africa01-2009
National diploma - Internal Auditing
Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)
South Africa01-2005
Skills
- Microsoft Power BI
- Leadership & influence
- Master data management
- SAP ERP system
- JDE oracle ERP System
- KPI management
- Microsoft Excel
- Workiva
- Risk Management
- Microsoft Power Point
- Leadership & influence
- Microsoft Excel
Accomplishments
- Successfully resolved 80% of the total retail and commercial customer portfolio loans that were not amortizing for 10 months due to incorrect setup during the 2008 SAP system implementation.
- Identified a long-standing Fuel Facs (inventory system) configuration error that resulted in an understatement of between 5000 - 15,000 litres of wet inventory (Petrol, Diesel, Kerosene, JET Fuel) at 12 of the 15 company operated depots.
- Identified and resolved an HR staff termination gap that resulted in a company to incur ERP licence fees for over 500 terminated employees.
- Implemented various cyber awareness initiatives which helped to improve the entity's Cyber compliance barometer score from 40 to 90% in 12 months.
- Initiated automation of vendor and customer onboarding process resulting in quicker turnaround time.
- Implemented standard vendor onboarding template to ensure standardization and update of old vendors.
Custom Section
- MS Excel
- MS Word
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Power Automate
- MS Power BI
- Audit Command Language (ACL)
- TeamMate
- SAP ERP system
- JDE ERP System
- SAP GRC PC and AC
- Salesforce
- Workiva
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Masterdata and Reporting Team Lead
BP South Africa
12.2019 - 06.2025
Performance, Control and Assurance (PCA) Analyst
BP South Africa
01.2017 - 11.2019
Junior - Senior Internal Auditor
Chevron South Africa
05.2010 - 12.2016
Revenue Accountant (Retailer loans and rentals)
Chevron South Africa
10.2009 - 04.2010
Internal Controls and Compliance Analyst
Chevron South Africa
07.2007 - 09.2009
BP NextGear Leadership Program -
Duke University
Bachelor of Technology degree - Internal auditing
Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)
National diploma - Internal Auditing
Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)