Self Employed

•Empower Accounting professionals by enhancing their communication and writing skills in Business English as a second language.
•Level up their language proficiency, building confidence and establishing lasting relationships with English-speaking stakeholders and finance professionals.
•Follow a structured approach in the English program to achieve specific goals.
•Focus on developing confidence and fluency in the English language.
•Enhance vocabulary for discussing financial topics and engaging effectively with colleagues and stakeholders.
•Prepare clients for various real-life situations such as meetings and presentations in an English-speaking environment.
•Practice writing skills to ensure proficiency and adaptability in professional contexts.

Business English Coach for Accounting Professionals

Langu

● Evaluating students’ English CEFR levels
● Designing lesson plans tailored to students’ needs based on needs analysis
● Teaching English Vocabulary to beginner levels
● Improving students’ pronunciation through continuous practice
● Strengthening students’ understanding of English Grammar
● Facilitating and teaching receptive skills: Listening and Reading
● Facilitating and teaching productive skills: Speaking and Writing
● Effectively managing the classroom
● Using Resources effectively when Teaching English as a Foreign Language
● Develop a good working relationship with students to create an environment conducive
to learning

English Second Language Teacher

Private

● Designing lesson plans suitable for students’ needs based on needs analysis
● Subjects taught: English, Mathematics, Afrikaans
● Improving students’ grades in assessments of various subjects
● Facilitating and teaching receptive skills: Listening and Reading
● Facilitating and teaching productive skills: Speaking and Writing
● Establishing and improving students’ grasp of Mathematics
● Designing innovative ways to test concepts previously taught
● Develop a good working relationship with students to create an environment conducive
to learning

Dynamic Tutor

Ascendis Health

Delivering an accurate and high-quality reporting to inform weekly cash flow for both local and forex payments. Weekly ensuring intercompany accounts are balanced and all charges from a head office level is charged to the relevant business. Reviewing of the creditor’s reconciliation and daily payments. Ensuring deadlines are met with accurate, precise reports. Reconciliation of all head office bank accounts, including forex bank accounts. To ensure all Balance sheet ERP accounts are reconciled and reported on the reporting system.
	Refined the bank reconciliation process.
	Formed strong relationships with major customers; enhanced the customer experience.
	Successfully implemented processes to ensure reporting is completed with the necessary timeframe.

Accountant

City & Suburbs Realty

Preparation of monthly management accounts and ensuring the monthly owner’s statements are prepared and sent to owners. Accurately billing tenants for monthly charges, municipal accounts, adhoc cost, etc. Ensuring tenant statements are accurate. Reconciliations of GL accounts. Effectively resolving queries between tenants and owners. Ensuring filing system is kept up to date and petty cash is reconciled daily.

Rand Merchant Bank

Delivered comprehensive financial guidance across various support functions. Critically appraised financial procedures. Controlled all financial, regulatory, and compliance requirements. Analyzed balance sheet and cash flow, presented data to emphasize key drivers and variances. Reviewed statistics, developed financial forecasts and budgets. Generated reports, including management account reporting. Posted journals, including accruals and pre-payments. Analyzed general ledger, identified and resolved anomalies. Reconciled bank accounts and statements. Supported the year end audit process. Consolidated and reported IT costs.
	Provided oversight across several functions, including RMB Cost, Client Engagement, IT and Coverage, Finance, MIS, Human Capital, Project Management, Change Management, Data Management and Chief Risk; achieved results on time and within budget.
	Collaborated with stakeholders, shared ideas and best practice; improved the ability to meet financial and business targets.


	Partnered with multiple business areas, offered solutions and recommended improvements to meet the Support Budget Timeline; amended SLA recoveries in line with budgetary changes.
	Successfully automated IT reporting; reduced timescales required to deliver stakeholder reports from 2 weeks to 3 days.
	Managed internal costs for Corporate Banking; effectively managed banking requirements valued at R500M.
	Received award nomination for the automation of correct allocation of internal cost; improved efficiency and profitability.

Financial Manager

Safmarine

Redirections of shipments and liaising with clients -- both external and internal.
Submitting manifest for customs purposes
Ensuring the shipments details are of a high standard to ensure correct deliveries and billing to customers
Issuing Arrival Notifications

Voyage controller

Allocating and auditing of revenue, and managing 45% of the Safmarine Johannesburg Import cash portfolio. 
Liaising and meeting directly with clients to resolve outstanding freight accounts.

Finance – Revenue Controller (Accounts Receivable)

Specializing in bookings & quotes
Management of all export shipments for the Middle east, Far east, Australia and New Zealand trades
Monitoring stack dates, vessel departures and the recociling of bookings made within the various trades

Export Customer service agent

Data quality
Data capturing
Data monitoring
Internal audit of regional reports

Documentation Clerk

🎯I Help Accountants Elevate & Advance Their English Communication Skills | 12 Years Accounting Experience & Certified English Teacher | Let's Connect!

Let me share a bit of my story with you. 

After over a decade in the banking, pharma, and shipping industries, I felt a calling beyond the numbers. 

This led me to the world of teaching, where I've been passionately helping accountants like you excel in the language of finance. 📊🌐

If you have any of the following challenges:

🌐 Collaboration with International Teams:
-Limited ability to seamlessly communicate with global teams or clients.
-Hindered project coordination due to language barriers.

💬 Participation in Global Meetings:
-Challenges actively engaging in discussions conducted in English.
-Fear of missing out on key insights and decisions during meetings.

📞 Effective Communication with English-Speaking Clients:
-Limited ability to convey complex financial information to English-speaking clients.
-Struggling to build strong client relationships due to language barriers.

📝 Writing Comprehensive Reports in English:
-Difficulty articulating complex financial analyses in written English.
-Challenges in creating clear and coherent reports for stakeholders.

Working with me, together we can achieve the following in just a few months:

🌐 Collaboration with International Teams:
-Improved understanding of team members' ideas and contributions.
-Enhanced ability to express thoughts clearly in English.
-Increased project efficiency through improved communication.

💬 Participation in Global Meetings:
-Increased contribution to discussions with valuable insights.
Improved comprehension of meeting content and decisions.
Enhanced ability to express opinions confidently during meetings.

📞 Effective Communication with English-Speaking Clients:
-Clear understanding of client needs and expectations.
-Improved conveyance of complex financial information in a comprehensible manner.
-Strengthened client trust through articulate communication.

📝 Writing Comprehensive Reports in English:
-Reports are easily understood by a global audience.
-Enhanced clarity and coherence in articulating financial analyses.
-Improved conveyance of insights and recommendations in written form.

Ready to break language barriers, elevate your finance game, and shape the narrative of every business decision? 🚀💼 Let's connect! 

Drop me a DM, and let's start this transformative journey together. 📩✨

Nancy Ambrose

Areas of resp.:
* Strategic development:
   - Drive process around yearly board strategy day
   - Drive process around strategy planning and follow-up

* Business performance follow-up
   - Drive monthly follow-up process regarding both business performance and strategic goals

* Leadership support
   - Lightweight support for PNO management e.g. follow-up on key tasks and reporting

* Drive specific strategic projects within
   - Operational process optimization
   - Finance and Performance management

* Ad-hoc tasks related to business development and follow-up
   - Analysis on cost, revenue
   - Analysis on M&A targets
   - Involvement in partnership agreements or other strategic collaborations

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The Nordics’ leading trailer rental company.

We are a family-owned company based on the values of responsibility and common sense. It has been that way since 1975 when Per Nelson Ørnstrand (PNO) founded the company. Since then, the next generation of the Ørnstrand family has now taken over, and today, Jacob Lee Ørnstrand is in charge.

PNO believes in long-term customer relationships based on trust, and the importance of taking responsibility as a company – not only in relation to our customers but also towards the environment and our employees.

Our purpose is to lead the transition to sustainable freight, and we strongly believe that PNO can be a key driver of change in the logistics industry.

We are investing in innovation and digitalization. PNO Ventures is our in-house, innovation hub dedicated to developing new ways to add value to customers, and how we continue to develop in an ever-changing market.

Based out of our head office in Copenhagen, and with branches in Helsinki, Oslo, Hamburg, Helsingborg in Sweden, Horsens in Denmark, Venlo in the Netherlands and Poland we have come to have the Nordics’ largest range of short and long-term trailer rentals.

PNO is a B Corp.

Strategy Lead

360 Finance Network

A strong network with focus on knowledge sharing and career development for ambitious finance professionals.

360 Finance Network (360FN) has established a partnership with CFO Service at PwC Denmark, Djøf, and Odgers Berndtson, a global executive search, talent assessment, and leadership development firm with >50 years of experience. The Firm is the second largest in Europe and operates across 30 countries with +60 offices. They are for example recognized for their global talent program called CEOx1Day which is running in more than 10 countries today.

360 Finance Network Members: ~ 320

Currently we have 9 networking groups:
360 Finance Network I (Network leader: Abdulwaqi Rathore)
360 Finance Network  II (Network leader: André Thormann)
360 Finance Network III (Network leader: Jonas Ilsø)
360 Finance Network IV (Network leader: Simone Bjerring)
360 Finance Network Aarhus (Network leader: Christian Kehlet)
360 Asset Management (Network leader: Jakob Garff)
360 Sustainable Finance (Network leader: Natascha Krebs Hartvich)
360 Insurance & Pension (Network leader: Michelle Venge and Amalie Bjørn Hjernø)
360 Data & Technology (Network leader: Dennis Uhrskov Raagaard)

2024 pipeline:
360 XXX (TBA)


Visit our webpage: www.360finance.dk

Contact me for partnership requests.

Co-Founder of 360 Finance Network

Business Partnering Institute

When it comes to finance, we’re some of the most passionate and nerdy people you’ll meet. Our team has extensive experience in both finance, consultancy and business partnering, so we know your world and understand the challenges you face.   

At BPI, we focus on relationship building. We like to get up close, and get involved with your people and your business to tailor the learning program and consultant team just right for you, so we create sustainable impact together from day one. 

We like to work closely alongside our clients to establish that strong collaborative relationship built on trust and a shared desire to develop both personally and professionally. 

That allows us to create the solutions that work best for you. Simple, pragmatic and fit to your organisational language. 

We call this inside-out consulting.

Senior Consultant

PwC Danmark

At PwC CFO Service, we support companies in optimising and enhancing their finance function. We leverage on our knowledge and experience to advice and support with effective and efficient financial management and project management in all parts of the Danish industry.
We also provide high-end interim services on employee and management level to support with day-to-day tasks, process optimising and projects.
We ensure that the best solutions are tailor-made to address our clients’ challenges within the CFO domain.

Tasks: Financial Controlling and Analysis, Data Migration, Process Mapping, Month-End close, Year-End close

ERP experience: SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle NetSuite, e-conomic, AX dynamics

Other: QualiWare, Power BI, Alteryx

Senior Consultant - CFO Service

Consultant - CFO Service

Assistant Consultant - CFO Service

Vestas

Tasks:
- Benchmarking footprint competitiveness by simulating a Total Landed Cost Excel model
- Direct product cost variance analysis

Improvement in technical skills:
- SAP
- Management reporting w/ Think-Cell
- Excel

Finance Intern - VPS Group Costing

CFO Insights

I was a part of organizing the first CFO Insights Conference. CFO Insights is Northern Europe’s largest CFO forum. CFO Insights aims to develop CFOs by addressing the issues of the future CFO while connecting all parties affected by the CFO value chain

Sample of speakers: Christian Baltzer, Steen Blaafalk, Torben Carlsen, Peter Normann, Jeppe Rindom and many others!

Web: cfo-insights.org/denmark/

Product Development Analyst

Centrica Energy Trading

Joined Neas Energy (today called Centrica Energy Trading)
Tasks:
- Monitoring and optimizing OPEX and other trading-related costs in Front Office
- Eliminating unnecessary costs
- Forecasting OPEX
- Developing and maintaining Excel VBA models
- Assisting with ad-hoc projects

Student Employee - Trade Support & Development

IKEA Group

Customer Relations Co-Worker

Checkout Services Co-Worker

I've served as a consultant for PwC Denmark and Business Partnering Institute, cultivating my finance expertise. Currently, as a Strategy Lead at PNO Holding, I collaborate closely with the Management team, playing a pivotal role in advancing top-priority projects within Finance and Strategy. 

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Finance & Accounting | Finance Business Partnering | Finance Transformation | Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) | Interim Business Controller | Interim Financial Controller | Problem-solving | Data & Analytics | Microsoft Power BI | Excel | Powerpoint "the consulting way" | SAP S/4 HANA | Data Migration | Qualiware | Netsuite

I enjoy connecting with new people and hearing new perspectives. Please, reach out if you would like to grab a coffee and talk about finance, soccer, or anything really!

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