Frants Steynberg, Business Partner

Frants Steynberg

Business Partner

Deyaar Development PJSC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Investment Analysis and Management
Experience
18 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 0 Months

Business Partner at Deyaar Development PJSC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since July 2018

➢ Oversight of Finance department employees with a focus on Development
Projects, Asset Management and Sales Strategy and Policy
➢ Work with the business in providing finance-based solutions to commercial challenges and initiate change where required
➢ Delivering high quality management information and insights that aid top management in decision making
➢ Developing strategies that work to minimise financial risk and maintain the financial health of the organization

Co-Founder and CFO at Flux Freestyle
  • United Kingdom - London
  • July 2015 to February 2018

➢ Writing of business plan including market research and testing
➢ Capital raising, cashflow forecasting and management
➢ Stakeholder Management
➢ Accounting and statutory filings
➢ Payroll, HR & training and managing the onsite team of around 25 staff

Associate at Axa Real Estate Investment Management
  • United Kingdom - London
  • September 2013 to June 2015

➢ Financial, risk and performance management for a pan-European real estate fund
➢ Overseeing fund level financial statement consolidation
➢ Overall responsibility for fund model and reporting the results
➢ Supporting the Fund Manager throughout the asset lifecycle including acquisition, disposal, capex planning and lease re-gearing

Business Analyst at Aviva Investors
  • United Kingdom - London
  • June 2012 to August 2013

➢ Critically review business processes and systems and initiate change where required
➢ Fund analysis to determine the potential impact of transactions on funds
➢ Property level cash flow forecasts and consolidation to fund level
➢ Property level business plans to aid Fund Manager performance management and decision making
➢ Played a key role in the implementation of new fund management software

Client Accountant at Jones Lang LaSalle
  • United Kingdom - London
  • July 2010 to June 2012

➢ Lead accountant for several UK property funds
➢ Created and implemented a new cash reconciliation method for service charges which dramatically improved the accuracy and shortened the timeframe of the process

Service Charge Accountant at Capita
  • United Kingdom - London
  • June 2008 to June 2010

➢ Full cycle service charge accounting from budget setting, periodic spending review against budget, quarterly and annual reports, cash reconciliation

Finance Manager at Stay-Share
  • United Kingdom - London
  • January 2006 to April 2008

Education

Master's degree, Investment Analysis and Management
  • at Chartered Financial Analyst
  • June 2017

Specialties & Skills

Increasing Profitability
Problem Solving
Process Design
Business Strategy
Business Analytics
ACCOUNTANCY
ASSET MANAGEMENT
BUDGETING
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
FINANCE

Languages

English
Expert
Afrikaans
Native Speaker

Hobbies

  • Adventure travel
  • Cycling
  • Rock climbing