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

NIPIGAS

Leading $X00M annual budgeting process with one of the biggest BU: #2 out of 11 BUs, 27% of consolidated revenue. Project office staff coordination (5 people)

Senior FP&A Expert

Louis Dreyfus Company

Lead X00M EUR annual budgeting and reporting processes. Reported to Finance Manager Russia and CFO in Head Office in Geneva. Managed 2 direct and 7 indirect subordinates. 

Achievements:
►	Decreased weekly P&L reporting time by 50% by data acquisition process automation
►	By changing the way data was presented to Management (tables were replaced with diagrams and dashboards) decreased annual reporting acceptance time by 20% 
►	Created monthly closing routine for all the reports making the process predictable allowing the closing to be completed in 4 working days
►	Created working files for semi-automatic monthly P&L report (OLAP-cube for 20k+ strings in Excel)

Head of Reporting and Controlling Group

Projects in finance and AdTech

Food Production Plant, Moscow, Russia
►	Audit of Finance Department, internal control and BA.
►	Digital transformation of Finance reporting

EdTech Startup Project 
►	Created IFRS financial statements transformation model from RAP GL to BS and P&L in compliance with IFRS standards and prepared reports for online school according to Management’s requests
►	Built a new Budget Model for the forthcoming period + 2 more years ahead
►	Analyzed the effectiveness of accounting department: process mapping, review of internal control procedures, comments and recommendations on departmental distribution of duties and work optimization, comments on performance assessment and control

Business and HR Consulting Company
►	Client portfolio analysis: profitability, revenue.
►	Creating a payment calendar, finance planning and reporting.

Finance Consultant, Budgeting and Reporting, in Finance and EdTech

IDS International

Managed Finance Department activities including monthly and quarterly finance and management reporting for the companies of Borjomi Group and upgraded management reporting. 7 direct subordinates.

Achievements:
►	Organized liquidity control in conditions of cash deficiency by creating payment procedures according to payment calendar. Before: payments to suppliers were delayed up to 3-7 days. After: day-to-day payments on time. 
►	Developed a new budgeting model resulting in budgeting time reduction down to 2 months and making it more clear and productive for all Business Units.

Deputy CFO

Scania Group

GAAP International Reporting according to Swedish standards and IFRS reporting

Achievements:
►	Prepared Technical requirements for implementation of Dual Accounting System (RAP to SGAP transformation process)
►	Organized and facilitated successful teamwork of 3 IT and 5 Financial department specialists

FP&A Manager

Managed Finance Department activities including monthly, quarterly and yearly finance and management IFRS reporting for Scania Leasing. 

Achievements:
►	Successfully passed KPMG audit and got a clean audit report

Financial Controller

Audits of mineral fertilizer production plants, international steel and aluminum manufacturers, aviation plant, telecom company and others. Major clients: Ericsson, WWF, Rusal, Eurochem, NLMK.

Senior Audit Consultant

Audit Consultant

Mondelēz International

15+ years of helping people understand numbers. 
Passionate about data and ways to use it.

Performance-driven Finance professional with 15+ years of experience in management reporting, planning, analysis and digital transformation. Proficient in Excel: pivot tables, complex functions, charts, dashboards as well as SQL, MS Navision, Axapta, 1С, SAP, Magnitude. Managed projects with teams up to 10 people.

Strong analytical skills, fast learning, easily adaptable, servant leadership, excellent communication skills, good team player. Certified ACCA accountant. English and Russian fluent.

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