Tafadzwa Baye

AUDIT MANAGER.

Analytical Audit Manager leveraging exceptional risk management skills. Adept with financial statement review to identify errors. Highly knowledge with AASB, IFRS and International Auditing Standards.

The road to becoming a Chartered Accountant is more than purely accounting knowledge, the journey transforms you into an ethical business leader driven to create sustainable growth for both stakeholders and shareholders. At the end of my career, I hope to see my digital footprint in the world around me from bytes and acts of seamless service delivery through the journey. The era of guesswork is over, data analysis and interpretation will lead us into the future.

• Lead audit manager of a large Australian Energy Distribution Group (over $1.2bn revenue) including oversight of the group audit team and audit executives, as well as fostering collaborative relationships with internal and external specialists (e.g. valuations, actuaries, IT, IFRS technical). We successfully supported the client through a major ERP software transition through change management evaluation, internal control evaluation and design of the revised audit strategy resulting in the retention of the audit when it was put out to tender as a result of our exceptional service delivery. We also achieved a 2.4% margin improvement due a combination of our audit efficiency and fair negotiation of out of scope service fees.
• Managed the audit of a large manufacturing client (circa $1bn revenue) which is a subsidiary of a listed global construction equipment company. In addition to meeting group reporting requirements and deadlines, I managed to improve fee retention through effective group scoping & resource utilization resulting in a 12% increase in revenue. As part of the group audit, I co-managed the evaluation of the company's adherence to J-SOX requirements.
• Managed the audit of a large hospitality group (over $1.2bn revenue) as the regional component audit lead for the Pacific Region. Entity is a subsidiary of the listed global leaders in hotel management. In collaboration with the audit executives, we successfully transitioned from a legal entity based audit to segment based audit in line with the group requirements implementing a risk based audit approach, focusing on high-impact areas and providing assurance on the organizations most critical risks.
• Management of the audit of multiple listed Junior Exploration companies managing client expectations and deliverables and evaluating adherence to relevant laws, regulations, and applicable financial reporting standards.
• Simultaneously managed teams of 3-8 staff members per team with an average of 2-3 clients at a time.
• Collaborated with team of 5 in the execution of the EY business Accelerator Program in Zimbabwe Designed to provide exponential growth guidance for Small-Medium entities through coaching on the EY Global 7 Drivers of Growth model designed to sustainably optimise businesses and providing networking opportunities.
• Leader of the EY Ripples program for Bulawayo, Zimbabwe which is a CSR program designed to uplift communities. During my tenure we provided entrepreneurship coaching to a group of 6 underprivileged schools and managed to raise funds for the purchase of books and other educational materials.
• EY Social club Vice President, Bulawayo - successfully founded the Bulawayo Inter-firms sports day designed to facilitate networking and boost employee morale within the accounting profession. The event is now an annual event sponsored by the various partnerships.