Luyanda Maphalala

Experience

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  Unilever

  Jan 2009 - May 2010

  Finance Graduate - Production Accountant

  I was the production accountant for the Home and Personal Care Category in their Boksburg factory. The role included the following:• Forecasting, analyzing and reporting on monthly budget, costs and volumes• Being responsible for monitoring and reporting the performance of specifically the liquids factory within the Home and personal Care category.• Being the custodian of the costs of the factory and being responsible for making sure that everyone knows exactly how much is spent in the factory and whether enough is being produced to recover the costs.• Being the custodian of costs also includes making the necessary provisions and accruals at the end of every month to ensure that costs incurred are reported in the correct month.• Running the month end process on SAP and then preparing the liquids factory portion of the monthly results pack that gets sent to our category accountants.• Costing as well as preparing the operational plan for the liquids factory for every quarter.• Monitoring and reporting price variances every month.• Responsible for creation and maintenance of costing routings. • Business Partnering with Category Accounts, Factory Production Department and Factory Planning Department. Show less

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  L'Oréal

  Aug 2010 - Sept 2013

  This role included the following key responsibilities:• Building with the BU Controller the plan, budget and trends for the departments.• Taking part in the re-trending process which is the revising of the monthly phasing of the budget according to year to date performance.• Ensuring the correct allocation of expenses by analyzing consistency between budget trends and actions taken by the product managers. • Ensuring expenditure follow-up.• Producing monthly reports to the region as well as head office in Paris. • Calculating accruals and prepaid expenses and preparing month end journals where necessary.• Preparing recons of the marketing spend by individual brands to guide Product Managers on how they are tracking versus their budget.• Challenging managers in order to optimize costs and efficiency of activities (e.g. customers allowances, marketing costs, purchase of products & services, value analysis…)• Approval of all marketing expenditure purchase orders and ensuring that the brands remain within budget.• Overseeing the opening of new product codes on SAP and ensuring that all classifications are correct.• Assisting with payroll input. Show less The key responsibilities of this role included the following:• Participating in the year end budgeting process within the Professional Products Division.• Taking part in the re-trending process which is the revising of the monthly phasing of the budget according to year to date performance.• Ensuring the correct allocation of expenses by analyzing consistency between budget trends and actions taken by the product managers. • Ensuring expenditure follow-up.• Producing monthly reports to the region as well as head office in Paris. • Reporting monthly results at cost centre level as well as at a product level to head office in Paris.• Maintaining product information and classification on our international reporting system called OGWin.• Calculating accruals and prepaid expenses and preparing month end journals where necessary.• Preparing recons of the marketing spend by individual brands to guide Product Managers on how they are tracking versus their budget.• Assisting with payroll input.• Management of sales deals on internal sales ordering system• I was also given full business control over two of our six brands so I became responsible for purchase order approval and validation. Show less

  • Business Controller

    Jan 2013 - Sept 2013

  • Assistant Business Controller

    Aug 2010 - Dec 2012
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  Sebata Group

  Oct 2013 - Dec 2014

  Business Reporting Analyst

  Key responsibilities of the role included the following:• To enable the Operations function within Sebata to fulfill the group reporting part of its mandate. This includes the responsibility of maintaining reporting systems, extracting necessary information and authoring board and EXCO reports.• Supporting business leadership through the development of financial and operational reporting and analysis solutions.• Implementing and maintaining measurement systems to facilitate the needs of business improvement projects. • Authoring Board Reports for the Sebata Group of Companies. This includes preparing and updating the balanced scorecards reviewed at the monthly EXCO meetings as well as at the quarterly board meetings. • Maintaining of spread sheets and systems related to performance data. The main focus in this regard was designing productivity reports used to measure the productivity of both direct and indirect resources. • Generating reports from the ERP system HansaWorld as well as the Sebata Dashboard and other reporting tools. • Compiling presentations to summarize performance information for Cluster, EXCO and board requirements. This included doing ad hoc income statement and cash flow projections to show the effect of a big change in the business we experienced. These projections assisted EXCO in their decision making.• Maintaining performance reports for Operations service delivery including client required reporting, especially for their biggest client, a big parastatal in South Africa. • Maintaining ad-hoc measurement systems in support of continuous improvement initiatives.• Providing business analysis for all performance reports. Show less

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  Pernod Ricard

  Jan 2015 - Jul 2017

  Financial Controller Sub-Saharan Africa

  Key responsibilities:• Managing and improving the financial and operational processes, policies, controls and systems in support of the Group’s mission• Assisting the various affiliates within the management entity of Sub-Saharan Africa with putting in place processes and procedures that are in line with the requirements of Pernod Ricard EMEA (PR EMEA).• Working on various internal control projects, such as Segregation of Duties, and ensuring that the project milestones and deadlines are met. Undertaking missions into the affiliates when necessary to ensure implementation.• Keeping PR EMEA updated on the progress being made on various internal control projects. • Performing Audit Report follow ups with the relevant affiliates and ensuring that progress is being made on the remediation of audit risks that have been identified.• Assisting affiliates in their preparation for upcoming internal audits so as to reduce the severity of the audit findings.• Assisting the affiliates with the risk management process and ensuring that the risk mapping process is undertaken smoothly.• Drafting key procedures for the Management Entity, PR Sub-Saharan Africa, that can then be further adapted and rolled out into the affiliates.• Coordinating and collecting the submissions of all the affiliates and consolidating into one document/presentation that represents the entire management entity.• Assisting the affiliates with the completion and submission of the Group Internal Control declaration document, challenging their responses as well as ensuring that progress is made year on year on the remediation plans put in place. Show less

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  TransUnion

  Aug 2017 - Apr 2018

  Senior Consultant: Financial Planning & Analysis

  • First line of responsibility for all financial inputs into allocated business units:- Enforcing compliance with financial and management accounting controls and principles- Applying the correct accounting treatment as appropriate- Review and management of full P&L results- Accounting and management of deferred revenue- Approval and verification of cost allocation to relevant cost elements, projects and costs centres.- Cost tracking and cost control- Providing input into cash flow forecasting• Preparation and management of budgets, forecasts, quarterly reports, plans and various other reports• Assist with preparation for internal and statutory audits• Partner with business units to develop budgets, forecasts and plans including justification for results• Maintain business unit budgets, forecasts and plan in the financial system (Hyperion)• Ensure the accounting records correctly reflect the results of business units’ financial position• Monitor and report on the financial commitments, risks and opportunities of business units• Review results and ensure completeness of cost accruals and make provisions where necessary to ensure financial results are correctly stated for all reporting purposes• Develop analyses based on metrics to evaluate financial and operational performance for business units• Identification and investigation of potential inefficiencies and risks encountered by the business based on financial and operational performance metrics• Prepare and provide meaningful inputs and analyses of variances• Work with business units to ensure that P&L results are in line with budgets/ forecasts by implementing corrective action where necessary• Management of respective Balance Sheet analyses• Key Customer analysis and reporting• Preparation of Volume and Product reporting, with required analytics• Management of month end close calendar and related processes Show less

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  GSK

  May 2018 - Dec 2020

  Sales Business Partner

  Key responsibilities include: • Manage gross to net ratio • Track sales to forecast numbers• Track discounting and returns to ensure in line with customer plans and financial budget• Report and comment on month end sales• Discussions on month end sales with sales team• Manage monthly P&L against budget and forecasts• Monitor on invoice discounting by providing monthly info to sales, facilitating monthly meetings to discuss and ensuring feedback is received and challenged as necessary• Monitor monthly returns to ensure processes are followed correctly and keep returns to a minimum• Monitor sales claims for deviances from policy and trends• Review month end results along with Senior Business Partner and provide insight into drivers of brand sales and gross to net.• Assist in explaining and providing commentary on deviations from budgets, prior year and forecasts• Develop and continuously improve month end reporting formats• Prepare management accounting information• Assist with the budgeting and forecasting process• Ensuring reasonableness of sales budgets• Assistance in providing information for the Commercial and Finance decks for budget and Forecast presentations• Preparation, control and submission of monthly forecast• Add value by challenging and understanding monthly forecasts during Pre-DRM Meetings• Evaluate promotions and discounting including ROI analysis and monitoring• Support commercial projects in conjunction with the sales and marketing teams• Ad-hoc support and preparation of information to support the Head of Finance and Senior Finance Business Partner• Ad-hoc support and preparation of information to support the Commercial Leadership Team• Running reports and extracting information from JDE (general ledger), Cognos, BISON• Provide information and assist with the internal and external audits• Ensure there are up to date SOPs/knowledge documents to support all systems and processes• Review and Release payments on Citibank Show less

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  Lusiya Managed Logistics

  Feb 2021 - now

  Co-Founder and Financial Director