Romano Esbend

Experience

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  Colgate Palmolive

  May 2009 - Dec 2009

  Management Accountant Trainee

  • Preparation of monthly management accounts for head office by completing numerous schedules including accruals and cost allocations. • Preparation of monthly variance analysis for head office and detailed weekly forecasts of Colgate products • Preparation of journals passed in order to correct cost centre’s • Preparation of budgets and forecasts including analysis showing variance, trends and reconciliations. • SOX control owner including liaising with internal and external auditors. • Analyzing and reporting on actual vs budget Show less

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  BDO South Africa

  Jan 2010 - Oct 2011

  Trainee Auditor

  • Auditing the financials of Pension Funds and Provident Funds• Statutory information, updating databases with relevant information, etc legal compliance with regard to Vat ,import Vat, payroll taxes and corporate tax• Financial and expense analysis• Specific sections audited in the mining, steel, investment sectors o Accounts Receivableso Accounts Payableo Saleso Cost of sales o Payrollo Investments o Bank

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  WBHO Civil

  Nov 2011 - Mar 2013

  Assitant Financial Manager

  • Preparation and submission of monthly reports and reconciliations.• Processing of accruals, prepayments and general journals where necessary.• other ad-hoc financial accounting tasks• Compile reports on management accounts• full function fixed assets• Prepare monthly group accounts• Balance sheet reconciliations• Maintain accounting records for companies• Posting of monthly journals• Controlling information received from cross border companies• Resolving queries relating to financial information, including general ledger queries, tax queries and queries relating to financial processes at the sites• Clearing of intercompany transactions• Assist the Financial Manager with various projects relating to business, such as new business obtained, specific investigations regarding the accounts, implementation of improved systems and procedures,etc • Assistance to auditors during external and internal audits• Responsible for all stock and stock procedures within the company • Administrative duties relating to the position, such as keeping orderly files (electronic and physical), updating of statutory information. Show less

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  Nedbank

  Jul 2013 - now

  •Formulating techniques for effective product backlog management.•Assisting the team to understand the need for clear and concise product back log items.•Ensuring that the product owner has clarity on arranging the product backlog to yield maximized value.•Works with the Product owner to align team with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information.•Scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes.•Creates an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts.•Using agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.•Champions continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coaches’ teams to conduct continuous improvement events.•Identifying skills and competencies of scrum team members and adjusts accordingly to promote development and highly effective teams.•Managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.•Seeks opportunities for improvement to the overall effectiveness of teams and the organization.•Take proactive ownership of issues that could impact delivery of team commitments, reaching out to the wider Head of Software Delivery, IT community, Product Owners or other stakeholders to facilitate impediment removal.•Embraces the concept of continuous learning in my own journey and instils the same in the team(s) I coach.•Preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholder. Show less • Responsible for enabling achievement of the business goals and targetsaligned to the overall strategic objective of long-term growth andsustainability.• Strategy development and implementation across business units.• Driving all audit practices from a strategic, tactical and operational platform.• Operationalising the Audit strategy and filtering it through to business units.• Liaise closely with other functional Leaders and stakeholders to develop acomprehensive view of Risk, Audit and Finance strategy and driveimplementation across.• Assist and advise managers and employees on complex aspects of auditrelated initiatives, programs, policies, regulatory frameworks and procedures.• Organise and manage Internal audit workshops and conferences to createawareness of emerging risk matters in the industry.• Part of the training stream that ensure suitable training is identified fordevelopment purposes and that overall competencies are achieved.• Manage and lead the business planning process and continuously follow upon the progress.• Provides review, challenge and decision support to investment and operatingdecisions (e.g. business cases...)• Proactive identification of financial and commercial risks and opportunities,developing corrective actions where required.• Responsible for driving and controlling business performance analysis,supporting management team to improve business decisions and to ensuretimely and compliant financial reporting.• Managing the Transfer pricing process for the business and ensuring that TPsare requested and communicated to the relevant parties timeously.• Present at various forums (Business Unit and Group level) on newdevelopments and research findings relating to audit, finance and technologyin SA banking.• Point of contact for all GIA IT related matters and management of proposed ITprojects.• Conduct gap analyses between current policies and regulation againstinnovative developments in the financial sector. Show less • Budgeting and Forecasting(annual and 5 year plan as well as quarterly)• Discussion & review of monthly financial packs• Monthly presentation to Exco members • Monthly management reporting & review• Sap role mapping representative for cluster • Cost control• Review & authorize payment requisitions• Staff management• Interaction with executive management • Business case review & financial analysis• Transfer pricing review and monitoring• Monthly reconciliations review• Fixed asset review• Clearing of intercompany transactions• Assist with Procurement • Any other Adhoc activities Show less

  • Senior Operations Manager

    Oct 2022 - now

  • Scrum Master

    May 2021 - Oct 2022

  • Audit Portfolio Manager- (Finance and Business Operations)

    Jun 2019 - May 2021

  • Senior Financial Officer

    Nov 2016 - Jun 2019

  • Financial Officer

    Jul 2013 - Oct 2016