Senior Financial Analyst
Pentair Valves & Controls
Total years of experience :15 years, 0 Months
Signature Strengths:
● Project Finance Control ● Fixed Assets Management ● Six Sigma ● General Accounting ● Month Close ● Treasury Cash Management ● Inventory Accounting ● Investment Analysis - CBA ● Accounting up to finalization
● Multiple Currencies Accounting ● Budgeting & Forecasting ● Trend Analysis ● Reconciliations ● Payables ● Receivables ● Intercompany ● Internal Controls ● Hyperion ● MS Office Guru
● ERP (implementation experience of two assignments)
* Generate monthly and quarterly financial statements using Hyperion
* Analysis and calculation of various accrual including warranty, stock obsolescence, bad debts and other timely creation of provisions
* Management of multiple cash, bank accounts for Group companies across 3 different currencies - USD, EUR and AED
* Responsible for consolidation, reporting and accounting up to finalization for 2 MNC manufacturing plants working in 3 shifts
* Preparation of all components of Audit Report including various schedules, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet, Statement of Comprehensive Income, Fixed Assets Schedule and Statement of Changes in Equity
* Analyze and resolve Inter-company balances across EUR, USD and AED between multiple inter- company entities primarily in Europe and North America
* Control of Fixed Assets including capitalization, depreciation, physical tagging and asset verification
* Responsible for review of Trial Balance and Reconciliations of accounts, Journal and Month Close
* Led the Project Finance Control for more than 30 active manufacturing projects for ACH LLC, a subsidiary of Ford. Includes correct capital vs. expense classification, budgets, currency revaluations / translations, overruns, forecasts, trend analysis.
* Drove and supported the implementation of PCAM, a finance system, in Ford Motor Company of South Africa - A team effort with me providing the finance angle.
* Led a team of 3 - 5 semi qualified professionals on project control and month end accounting (Quick learning - Learnt it personally in a month). We have won the Team of the Quarter award for working together and improving the quality of financial reporting
* Completed 3 Six Sigma projects in 3 years - a green belt, an yellow belt and a kaizen resulting in 52% time reduction, quality improvement, 22 working days recurring time save in an year and fix of control lapses including time save of one full head count permanently to the Organization
* Took lead in various PwC audits including year end, S-Ox, MCRP and have come out without any comments proving the quality of work done by my team
* Independent Contributor for South Africa project finance control, forecasts, month end accounting
CIMA Fully Qualified Management Accountant
ACMA (Associate Cost and Management Accountant)