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Soft Commodities Trader
Due to increased sales, a soft commodity trader required a receivables purchase facility for one of their large customers - purchased from Africa and sold to the US.
Metals Trader
Purchasing commodities from Africa, the US, and Europe and selling to Europe, a metals trader required a receivables finance facility for a book of their receivables/customers.
Energy Trading Group
An energy group, selling mainly into Europe, desired a receivables purchase facility to discount names, where they had increased sales and concentration.
Clothing company
Rather than waiting 90 days until payment was made, the company wanted to pay suppliers on the day that the title to goods transferred to them, meaning it could expand its range of suppliers and receive supplier discounts.
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Msizi Khoza
Head of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG),
Msizi Khoza
Head of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG),
Absa Group
This includes leading the firm’s financing, corporate banking, markets product and infrastructure teams to enhance and expand our commercial capabilities to help our clients accelerate their transition.
Previous roles include Principal in Structured Asset Finance; and serving as Chief of Staff to the Absa Group CEO where he provided strategic and operational support to the Group CEO, helping her to drive strategy execution and deepen relationships with key stakeholders.
Khoza supported the CEO in driving strategic execution and delivery and was the principal interface between the CEO and all internal and external stakeholders (Group Exco, Board, regulators, business organisations etc.)
Msizi partnered with Group executives and other senior leaders to align the organization behind the CEO’s change agenda.
As part of this role, Msizi also headed the Group CEO’s office, providing overall leadership to the administrative system that guides day-to-day operations – ensuring that time, information and decision making is more effective.
Previously, Msizi briefly worked at Ethos Private Equity, where he worked alongside portfolio company executives to drive strategic and operational outcomes. This included developing & refining strategic objectives as well as identifying operational, commercial and financial levers to unlock growth.
As part of deal teams, he was responsible for crafting investment theses and overseeing the commercial due-diligence of target investments.
Prior to that, Khoza worked as a consultant for management consultancy, A.T. Kearney, where he advised C-Level executives on strategy, operations, supply chain optimisations and sales force effectiveness. He served clients across the mining, telecommunications, retail and private equity sectors across Africa, Middle East and Europe.
Msizi’s MEng thesis, entitled “Economic modelling using computational intelligence techniques”, produced two peer-reviewed international journal papers and was presented at three international conferences of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
Outside his work commitments, Msizi is married with one child. In his spare time, beyond connecting with family and friends, Msizi is a struggling golfer and enjoys a good read.
