• Lead engagement manager on a corporatization project for the Prime Minister's Office of the Kurdistan Regional Government. The objective of our involvement is to work alongside Oliver Wyman (engaged by client from a strategy & operational perspective) and assist them from a financial and fixed assets perspective to carve out the Ministry of Electricity's power generation, transmission, and distribution into separate unbundled entities.
● • To date we have completed an initial discovery phase and drafted a roadmap of what is required to achieve the target state based on their envisioned operating model.
• The project involved meetings with multiple stakeholders over a 10-week period with extensive travel to Erbil on a weekly basis.
● • Leading an accounting diagnostic and harmonization for Olayan Investments Company Establishment.
• Leading an ICFR Implementation for Pure Health Holding PJSC.
• Leading an accounting transformation project to prepare first time consolidated financial statements in accordance with IFRS for the Libyan Investment Authority – one of the requirements of the UN in order to have sanctions lifted. A bottom-up approach was followed focusing on roughly 150 entities.
● • Extensive travel to Istanbul, Tunis and Cairo to present and workshop with management.
• Implementation of IFRS 1, 3, 10, 9, 15 and 16 across group entities.
• Supported the head office finance function & CFO as a liaison with the auditor (EY).
• Built a process to reconcile re

• Led multiple external audit engagements for:
• Nasdaq listed (Form 10k filer) – Transaction processing – Lesaka Technologies previously Net 1 UEPS.
• Multiple South African (JSE) listed and private entities such as Reunert Limited and AECI Limited. Experience gained across governance, internal controls, reporting frameworks (IFRS, US GAAP, ISA, PCAOB, SOX and the Companies Act.) and ERP systems (SAP, OneStream, COGNOS, Syspro, Accpac, Hyperion).

• External audit of government entities in South Africa including high-profile clients such as the National Lotteries Commission, Department of Trade & Industry, the Office of the Presidency. Experience in government frameworks (Modified Cash Standards, GRAP), governance (King IV) and compliance auditing (MFMA, PFMA).

• Worked Part-time at a small bookkeeping practice while completing my honors degree. Focused primarily on VAT returns, financial statement preparation and valuations.