Tshepo Andricah Kekana

• Enhanced budget management by implementing expense tracking and cost reduction strategies.
• Monitored budget and revenue trends, compiling reports for company leadership to inform decision-making.
• Developed comprehensive financial reports for executive decision-making support.
• Improved financial forecasting accuracy, utilizing advanced analytical models.
• Reviewed documentation and identified financial discrepancies where applicable.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams for strategic business planning and growth initiatives.
• Streamlined month-end close process, reducing time spent on manual tasks and improving data accuracy.
• Implemented cost-control measures that substantially decreased unnecessary expenditures.
• Coordinated with external auditors to ensure smooth and compliant audit process each fiscal year.
• Spearheaded annual budgeting process, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and facilitating smoother departmental operations.
• Assisted in the development of annual budgets by providing accurate historical data and realistic projections based on current trends.
• Established effective communication channels between finance teams, project managers, and stakeholders for better collaboration on financial matters.
• Improved financial reporting accuracy for senior management decision-making through regular audits and data analysis.
• Developed comprehensive budget forecasts for multiple projects, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost control.
• Collaborated with project managers to align financial goals and ensure timely completion of deliverables within budget constraints.
• Evaluated capital expenditure proposals critically, assessing their potential impact on company finances before approving or rejecting them accordingly.
• Prepared internal and regulatory financial reports, balance sheets and income statements.

Planning

• Signing of SLA with client departments
• Draft budget based on Medium Term Strategic Framework for province
• Provide infrastructure unspent budget to respective departments CFOs
• Assist client department request for roll over to national treasury
• Ensure adherence to National Treasury Budget Process Timelines and required formats
• Obtain the approved infrastructure Budget with allocated projects for the current fiscal year
• Assist the technical team in preparation of cash flow projections of projects
• Approve Budget (PO) of Projects/Programme in system
• Ensure PO are created according to cost category (i.e
• Contractors separate from PSP)

SCM

• Oversee the preparation of Procurement plan
• Facilitate all SCM needs/request of the region
• Review of tender Register, Irregular and Fruitless and wasteful expenditure register and Contract register quarterly

Finance and Budget Management

• Verify and Approves Payments (invoices against payment certificates/rate as per gazette)
• Ensure Approval of Variation Orders from client departments before adjusting PO
• Ensure adequate monitoring of Project/Programme expenditure against approved budgets
• Obtain estimated expenditure performance per project from technical team
• Compile expenditure data per programme for submission to client department for ENE publication
• Ensure adherence to timelines and required format for ENE publication
• Review of Reconciliations (Project and Programme reconciliations) and Variance reports
• Approve claims of funds submitted to client department based on monthly progress
• Provide Head office with ENE data for the province administration expenditure
• Developed and executed cost containment measures and ensured continuous alignment to National treasury cost containment circulars
• Review management accounts for programme and administration
• Responding to requests and finding of Internal & External Auditors
• Coordination of audit and assisting the CFO in preparation of audit steering committee packs and MANCO/EXCO packs
• Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring a collaborative approach to achieving business objectives.
• Human Resource Management
   Managing vast team of technical, finance and admin staff
   Facilitate all HR and contracts of employees for the region
   Writing submission for extension of contracts/new position to the board
   Facilitate interviews and initiate training for staff
   Review and approval of payroll before payment
• Reports And Presentations:
   Collation of data and preparation of reports / presentations which will include:
   Regional turnover reports
   Internal/external Audit Meetings
   Quarterly, Half-year and Year-end
   Budgets
   Articulate accounting points clearly to both financial and non-financial audience

• Manage the overall Internal audit assignments including development of the audit plan management of project execution coordination with key stakeholders and quarterly reporting to executive management and Audit committee
• Remediate deficiency planning and monitoring of finance section
• Conduct annual risk and fraud assessment and tailored responses to the organizations audit plan
• Planned and performed financial operational and information system audits
• Performed readiness analysis on current control
• Recommend on business operational processes; fraud detections and information systems controls
• Mentoring and training of junior staff

• Execution of Audit; Accounting; Tax and management accounting assignment within all spheres of government and entities including private companies