Accounting Standards Board Newsletter #3

Ms. Muller is a seasoned chartered accountant and business leader with more than 20 years of executive experience in driving operational excellence. She currently holds the position Head of Portfolio: Audit Support at the AGSA, a role she considers a career highlight as it provides her with the opportunity to spearhead a variety of unique units that support and enable the organisation to deliver on its core mandate. These include the technical audit support unit, the unit responsible for reporting and methodology, a newly established unit of audit risk intelligence as well as the Material Irregularity unit.

Being challenged gives Alice a sense of accomplishment, and she credits the AGSA for providing her with many growth opportunities. One most notably, was the opportunity to lead the implementation of the amended mandate of the AGSA by ensuring that both the internal and external environments were prepared to give effect to the new powers of the organisation.

Alice’s career spans just over two decades at the AGSA where she joined as an audit manager in 2000 and continued to advance her career over the years. She says that she remains motivated and energised by the ongoing difference the organisation is making in the country, one conversation or decision at a time, and lives by the motto “I will matter no matter what”.

Her career began at Deloitte where she completed her articles to qualify as a chartered accountant and worked a further seven years as an audit manager responsible for audits in the mining industry. She eventually joined a small firm when Deloitte withdrew from the Free State and took over the local clients.

Alice enjoys public speaking and empowerment. She is a strong believer in passion as the driving force for good in one’s life and those of others. “If you find your passion, life is easier. It’s easier to wake up in the morning and go about the business of serving those less fortunate than you”.

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