ASSOCIATES

Russell du Plessis

Russell is a seasoned Finance Manager and Accountant, experienced in preparing and analysing financial information and designing and implementing accounting systems in different sized organisations, operating in both commercial and public sectors. He has more than 7 years New Zealand, NFP, business, tax, legal and cultural experience, combined with strong business management and accounting experience in South Africa. Russell quickly assesses an organisation’s financial strengths and weakness, and has the ability to structure finances, systems and accounts so that management information is clear, and forecasting accurate. He can negotiate prudently and fairly, deliver value for money in all that he does and build strong work relationships.

Russell owned/operated businesses in healthcare insurance brokerage, environmental services, consumable supplies and retail. His key strengths are in:

• Relating your budget to your strategic plan and required outputs and outcomes

• cost centre definition

• Accounts structuring for different reporting arrangements (e.g. reporting on contract performance, cost centres, managers responsibility, etc)

• Structuring zero for reporting in different ways for managing your organisation affectively

• Budgeting cash flow forecasting reporting

• Value for money audits

• Restructuring for alignment with costs and delivery

• Process engineering for cost effectiveness

• Procurement better practice policies and implementation

Vikashni Moore

Vikashni is an experienced Human Resources Professional who has a strategic mindset with practical experience in change management, leadership coaching, and executive recruitment. She has worked as the GM HR for Fiji Airlines, Digicel, and others and has a strong academic and research base to complement her practical experience, being a doctoral student and lecturer in Human Resources at Auckland University of Technology. She has significant strengths in:

• Organisational culture and values – analysis and re-design (and tying up with employer branding)

• Managing change

• Organisational re-design 

• Employee engagement initiatives

• Building capabilities in teams and organisations 

• Coaching and mentoring younger HR professionals or broadly people development

• Diversity and inclusion programmes

• Recruitment

• Internal equity programmes

• HR planning for changing workforce (flexible work, gig workers, ageing workforce)

• Performance management programmes (including counselling and performance managing problem children)

• Other strategic HRM activities, such as employer branding