Nethin Karamchand

Registered Chartered Accountant (SA) with 14+ years partnering with executive teams to lead finance across complex, multi‑entity organisations. Associate Director at Deloitte South Africa (Deloitte grade equivalent: UK - Director / US - Principal) since 2012- nine years in London, UK (2015-2023), returning to Cape Town, South Africa in 2024. - I act as a trusted adviser to CEOs / CFOs and functional heads, partnering with commercial, sales, operations and technology to analyse performance, surface growth opportunities, and build investment‑grade business cases. - I prepare and present financial results, risk / control updates and investment proposals to Boards and Audit Committees, enabling go / no‑go decisions and assuring governance. - I build, coach and mentor high‑performing teams (5-10 direct; project teams up to 150), setting clear objectives, running robust reviews and fostering a collaborative, learning culture that embraces inclusion. I deliver IFRS / statutory reporting (month‑end close), lead consolidated budgets / forecasts and executive‑ready packs, meet statutory timelines with Group Finance and contribute to integrated reports/annual financial statements; I also lead IPO, M&A and fundraising across due diligence, modelling and integration. - I oversee financial control, risk governance and compliance, spanning internal / external audit, tax and multi‑entity accounting, establishing processes, controls and risk registers to London‑listed standards for IPOs and M&A transactions. - I set the finance cadence (annual plan, quarterly reforecast, monthly / quarterly reviews) and KPI framework, draft policies / finance manuals, and drive transformation through process redesign, offshore shared services and automation / digital reporting, cutting management reporting cycles by 50%+ and linking trading performance to P&L, cash and disciplined capex / opex decisions.