Geraldene Dobson has wide-ranging experience of accounting and business issues. She is a qualified chartered accountant and a qualified Six Sigma Green Belt. She can help with a variety of accounting issues you may be facing from company start-up issues, simple book-keeping all the way through to financial process improvement and business turnarounds. Geraldene is an effective communicator with a pragmatic and hands on approach.
Practice Areas
- Process improvement
- Financial Management
- Accountancy
- Taxation
Primary Capabilities
Geraldene can work closely with you to help you run your finance function in the most efficient and effective way and to retain as much of your income as legally possible. Geraldene is an experienced and reliable accountant, and is keen to help you improve your financial affairs.
Preferred Activities
Business process improvement
Provide ongoing assistance with accounting and/or taxation work.
Core Offer
Geraldene is an adaptable individual who enjoys helping start-ups launch a successful business, improving financial processes of more established companies and dealing with accounting issues for clients at any stage of their business development. She is someone of high integrity, is self-motivated, a strong communicator and a pragmatic problem solver.
Other disciplines offered:
- Geraldene is Six-Sigma qualified and can assist with assessing current business processes and improving them significantly
- Assist with managing your day-to-day business with items such as debtor control / cash flow management etc.
- Assist with Sarbanes Oxley compliance
Primary Sector Experience
Geraldene has been running her own business for around 18 months and prior to that she was in a very varied Financial Controller role, in the European Corporate office of a listed US company. She dealt with all aspects of finance, from managing the basic aspects of book-keeping and statutory reporting (within the UK, Netherlands and Spain) through to major UK and European consolidations, management of Euro zone and UK cash pools and various special accounting-based projects to improve processes and save companies money.
Areas of Distinctive Performance and Value-Addition
A successful track record utilising her people and general business skills in the following:
- New business start-ups
- Implementing an accounting system
- Improving business processes
- Dealing with ‘difficult’ people
Notable Case Studies
- Lead a project to centralise the merchant service provider for Textron Inc (a global US listed company)
- Successfully managed European & UK cash pool for Textron Inc
Qualifications and proffesional memberships
- Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants England & Wales
- Member of South African Institute of Accountants
- Six Sigma Green Belt certified
Employment Summary
| Director, Hemisphere Accounting Ltd February | 2009 - present |
| European Financial Controller, Textron Limited | 2002 - 2009 |
| Audit manager Arthur Andersen – London | 1999 - 2001 |
| Audit senior Arthur Andersen – Johannesburg | 1997 - 1999 (M&A to K-C) |
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