Clare Sullivan

Experience

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  Deloitte

  Apr 2004 - Apr 2005

  Assistant Manager: Special Services Group (SSG)

  Assignments• Naspers (8 months): Sarbanes Oxley Project - documentation and evaluation phases of the SOX 404 readiness project for Multichoice South Africa and MultiChoice Africa.• St Peter’s Preparatory School (1 month): Review of the feasibility study for the introduction of a girls’ preparatory school, highlighting findings and recommendations that came to attention during involvement. The review involved performing an arithmetic review of the Excel models for accuracy of formulae and evaluating assumptions used within the feasibility study against the industry norm and best practice.• Gold Fields (4 months): Support with the financial year-end spending a significant amount of time within the creditors’ department. The work involved supervision of staff in removing a backlog in reconciliations and creditor queries. Process re-engineering – measuring the Gold Fields Shared Services as it existed, against the characteristics of South African Shared Service Centres. The outcome was the identification of the areas where Gold Fields Shared Services could focus their improvement initiatives in their move towards an optimal Shared Service Centre.• Dimension Data (1 month): Assistance with reconciling their Fixed Asset Register after the introduction of SAP. Show less

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  Massbuild

  Apr 2005 - Mar 2011

  Senior Management Accountant

  Responsibilities• Statutory and monthly reporting;• Presentation of management reports together with non-financial information to executive team;• Preparation and analysis of non-financial information and reports for strategic decisions;• Provide deep analysis of balance movements for Balance Sheet, P&L and Cash flow and reflect on set KPI’s and initiate course correction where necessary;• Analyse and integrate trends and patterns to determine the root causes of problems and identify solutions;• Identification of business opportunities to increase revenue and/or reduce cost with the objective of achieving competitive advantage;• Administration and consolidation of annual budgets;• Administrator of financial reporting package (BPA 10);• Supervision of management accountants, ensuring that their responsibilities were met. Show less

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  Massmart

  Apr 2011 - Apr 2016

  Group Reporting Manager

  Responsibilities• Oversee the production of Massmart’s Integrated Annual Report;• Create presentations, press releases, and other communication materials for earnings’ releases, industry events, and presentations to analysts, brokers, and investors;• Assist in the review of financial statements from all divisions and across the Group to ensure consistency in reporting and ownership of inter-company process;• Assist in the preparation of Group and Company annual financial statements, including web-based presentation; • Presentation of monthly management reports, together with non-financial information, to Walmart;• Assist with the implementation of new reporting systems including interaction with IT on system requirements; and• Responds to periodic requests from Walmart regarding accounting policies and procedures. Show less