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EDUCATION

Professional registration South African Institute of Chartered Accountants
Qualification CA(SA)
Registration date September 1985
Year qualifying examination passed 1985 (passed first time)

RAND AFRIKAANS UNIVERSITY November 1987
Johannesburg, South Africa
Degree Masters Degree – Accountancy
Abbreviation M Com (Acc)
Valuation models and international dealings

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA November 1984
Pretoria, South Africa
Degree Honours degree/Certificate in Theory in Accountancy – Accountancy, Auditing, Taxation, Financial Management
Abbreviation Hons B Compt/CTA

RAND AFRIKAANS UNIVERSITY November 1983
Johannesburg, South Africa
Degree Honours degree - Cost and Management accounting
Abbreviation B Com Hons (Acc)

RAND AFRIKAANS UNIVERSITY November 1981
Johannesburg, South Africa
Degree Bachelors - Accountancy, Auditing, Taxation, Cost and Management Accounting
Abbreviation B Com

Career Objective Financial Director/Chief Financial Officer

Have very good hands on experience (strategically as well as operationally)

Specific attributes for position Vast experience in doing business in Africa and internationally

Was extensively involved in Bromor Foods (Cadbury), the second biggest soft drink bottler in South Africa next to ABI/Coke

Have been exposed to international mergers, acquisitions and disposals

I am known as an FD with commercial acumen and someone who can make things happen

Very good all round experience in running large listed and unlisted companies and compliance to JSE requirements

Been well exposed to companies with turnover in excess of R1 billion (Denel – R3.5 billion, ACSA R1.1 billion, Bromor Foods (Cadbury) R1.25 billion, Bonuskor R1.05 billion Plessey R1.6 billion

Operated within a number of listed companies.

Travelled all over Africa doing business

Reason for leaving Personal

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

January 2007 – current Plessey South Africa

Finance Executive – Plessey International (Equivalent to Financial Directors position)

Alternate Director on Plessey International Board based in Mauritius

Reporting to Managing Executive: Plessey International (Equivalent to Managing Director) and Group Financial Director

Current role – promoted to Finance Executive – Business Development (On my current international project I report directly to the Group CEO and Group CFO)

Duties
* Business development internationally and locally (size of projects – R500million and US$1 billion)
* In charge of African operations (financially) – 10 countries 17 divisions/subsidiaries
* Budget process and budgets
* Review of cost structures
* Liaison with bankers, auditors, client in Africa
* To visit each African country every 3 months (travel is Africa is an integral part of the job)
* Review of provisions and reconciliations
* Ensure compliance with in-country company, regulatory and tax Acts
* Training of Financial Managers in Africa
* Full Finance function, including management reporting, statutory reporting (annual financial statements), regulatory reporting, budgets, etc.
* IFRS
* Corporate governance
* Payroll function
* Company taxation
* Market & credit risk function
* Involvement in operational risk management
* Staying abreast of changes in accounting standards, taxation law, company law & regulatory requirements applicable to the company
* Participation in / providing financial inputs to executive management forums
* Close involvement with off-shore businesses
* Conducting due diligences and new investment analysis
* International business development

Achievement
Elected to Leadership Forum for the Dimension Data Group

In January 2008 I was awarded an all expense paid Caribbean Cruise and a visit to America by Plessey as an incentive trip

I have just been awarded an all expense paid trip to Royal Livingstone in Zambia as an incentive trip

June 2006 – 31 December
2006 (Contract position) Glenrand MIB Ltd – listed on JSE

Group Chief Financial Officer

Reporting to CEO

Duties
* Preparation of business plan
* Year-end audit
* Preparation of annual financial statements
* Budget process and budgets
* Acquisitions, disposals and mergers
* Review of cost structures
* Reorganisation of group finance and group in general Management accounts
* Review of provisions and reconciliations
* Liaison with third parties (banks, auditors, merchant banks, lawyers etc).
* Board presentation on budgets, year-end results, company road map etc.
* Presentation to investor analysts
* Heads procurement committee
* Group administration
* Completion of tax returns
* Heads group tax compliance and group finance committee

Achievements I have cut the cost structure by R3 million within my first month.

Implemented strategies that would save the company approximately R20 – R25 million over the next 24 months (R55 million over 5 years)

Negotiated and concluded the first acquisition for the group in 4 years successfully

Repositioned company with a new future vision

Reason for leaving Contract expired 31 December 2006 and Board insisted on an internal appointment

July 2005 – May 2006 Cadbury/Bromor Foods – Listed on London Stock Exchange

De facto Financial Director for Bromor Foods

Reporting to Group Financial Director, Cadbury South Africa

I was specifically recruited by Cadbury to take control of the disposal of Bromor Foods (Pty) Ltd. Cadbury was prepared to sell Bromor for R900 million, but with my assistance and input Bromor Foods was eventually sold to Tiger Brands for R1.16 billion and the effective date is 1 August 2006.

I was an integral member of the Cadbury Management team that did presentations to selected potential acquirers.

My work at Bromor Foods consisted mainly of the following:
* Preparation of annual financial statements, including group consolidation.
* Budgetary control and comparing management accounts with budgets.
* Analyses of financial information and report writing
* Preparation and coordination of all information flow to JPMorgan Merchant Bank for release to the bidders.
* Respond to questions raised by the bidders.
* Preparation and review of management and flash reports with associated variance analyses.
* Review of systems (My last project at Cadbury was the review of the Sarbanes Oxley financial controls and to recommend what action to take to rectify the current situation
* Review of tax returns.
* Extracting and reviewing all information for integrity before release to any third party. (No financial information was released without my sign off).
* Annual budget process and budgeting.
* Forecasting (Monthly and financial year end)
* Liaison with third parties, including but not limited to auditors, bankers, attorneys, merchant bankers, stakeholders.
* Working capital management and cash flow.
* Ad hoc investigations, projects and reporting.
* Analysis of insurance portfolio.
* Review and update of policies and procedures.
* Review of information technology strategy (up to date on the latest developments.
* Assisted in international due diligence and acquisition
* Cost and cost structure analysis

Achievements When I got involved Cadbury was more than happy to sell Bromor Foods for R900 million. With my input, coordination and packaging Bromor Foods was sold for R1.160 billion, realising an additional profit of R260 million

I am a go-getter and get things done and resolved. This can be confirmed with Mr Jim Mutugi at JPMorgan.

Reason for leaving Contract basis

August 2004 – June 2006 Consultant at Deloitte and Touche Chartered Accountants

Duties and Accomplishments: Project 3: Consulted to the European Union on financial management.

Project leader

Reported to General Manager: South Africa (European Union)

Wrote a Financial Management Manual plus budget and strategic model (Excel) with what if scenarios. This manual and model are very detailed and are available for inspection. The manual contained sections on Best Practices, Financial Policies and Procedures, Accounting Policies and Procedures and the Strategic and Budget Spreadsheet Model.

Trained staff (From CEO to Clerks) at various Social Housing Institutions on the best financial policies and practices and customised financial and accounting policies and procedures for these Institutions.

Project 2: Consulted to Barclays Bank (Regional Office for Africa and Middle East) on financial systems, alignment of three databases and Management and Board reports.

Project 1: Conducted strategic and business planning session for large state authority (SAMSA).

Lectured executive management on need for business planning and the essentials and content of a business plan.

Wrote the final Business Plan and operational budget for the large state authority.

Non Deloitte projects
China Railway Material Import and Export Company – project evaluation of US$ 600 million potential new railway line and harbour for iron and manganese ore.

Reason for Leaving: Contract basis only. Looking for a permanent position.

April 1998 – July 2004

Group of Companies Croesus Group/KEB International Group

Reporting to Chairman

Job title: Managing Director (started as Financial Director)

Duties:
Group perspective Oversee all group activities - strategically and operationally
Oversee all operational, commercial, information technology, marketing and human resources
Corporate goal setting for group and individual businesses
Group Consolidation
Compliance to Johannesburg Stock Exchange rules
Interim and Annual report preparation
Monthly reporting to Board
Review of company policies, procedures and systems
Corporate governance
Group taxation and tax planning and international tax structuring
Conduct local and international due diligences and merger and take over deals
Driving group sales
Co-ordinate dealings with banks, auditors, shareholders, investors and other stakeholders
Road show presentations
Group financial analysis and reporting and take appropriate action when needed
Developed business plan, budgeting, setting goals and targets for each business unit and ensured that overall the group met its financial targets (return on investment)
Monitor detailed cash flows
Restructuring and re-engineering of companies
Listed a number of companies on Johannesburg Stock Exchange (South Africa)
Group financial analysis and reporting and take appropriate action to rectify negative trends
Group accounting policies
Internal systems and control
Restructuring and re-engineering of companies to get the companies ready for Johannesburg Stock Exchange listings and/or on-selling of these companies.
Group cash flow management

Group Companies: Retail business
Lanito Trading (Pty) Ltd
Unlisted
Managing Director

Achievements Project management – Rebuild the store in 2 months – Spar said it would take at least 6 months
Grew turnover by more than 200% compared to the previous store.
Grew turnover in year one by more than 70%
Grew turnover in year two by more than 40%
Overall growth over two years more than 50%
Organic growth – volume growth more than 35%
- growth in head count more than 15%
Won the ladder of success (Spar) and ever since for customer service and financial achievements
The store was described by Dr Gordon Campbell, CEO of Spar world-wide as the most beautiful and most practical store in the world.
Won the most improved store of the year 2002 and store of the year 2003

Retail software
Omega Alpha International Ltd
Listed JSE
Financial Director
Achievements Market capitalisation at date of listing – R540 million - Market capitalisation at date at which my involvement ended (my contract ended eight months after listing) – over R1 billion

Logistics Group
Onelogix Group Ltd
Listed on JSE as Onelogix, subsequently transferred to ALTx
Financial Director

Achievements In charge of the biggest acquisition of the group – new acquisition generated within 30 months adequate cash to redeem the purchase price

Insurance Software and Virtual private network
BCS Computer Holdings (Pty) Ltd
Listed as Glotec Ltd on JSE
Financial Director

Achievements Company was valued at R6 million before my intervention. Eventually the company was onsold to listed Global Technologies for over R100 million

Property portfolio
Croesus Transport Properties (Pty) Ltd Unlisted
Financial Director

Alcohol plant
Jubilee Distillers (Pty) Ltd
Unlisted
Managing Director

Chemical industry
KEB Powerfuel (Pty) Ltd
Unlisted
Managing Director

Achievements Took over the management and increased turnover from R87 000 per month to over R3 million per month with net pre tax profit of around R300 000 per month within 18 months (hands on person prepared to roll up sleeves when problems are identified)

Reason for leaving Two shareholders passed away within a couple of months apart and heirs decided to break group up and sell all the components of the group.

February 1995 - March 1998

Managing the 9 state airports
Airports Company Ltd (South Africa)

General Manager: Group Finance and Information System

Public company but not listed

Group financial reporting to Board level
Group budget setting and budget reporting to Board level
In charge of overall retail negotiations
Developed all financial computer models
In charge of Group Audit
Handled Group taxation
In charge of Group Treasury function (R800 million).
Setting Group policy and strategies
In charge of group retail activities and all negotiations relating to retail activities (all retail contracts had to authorised by me in person) at the nine airports
Assisted in property and retail evaluation process
Assisted in financial modelling on projects
Can run an airport and/or project manage any airport project
In charge of getting non-airline income to 50:50 ratio
Computerised the whole ACSA Group, financially as well as operationally.
Addressed international conferences on airport finances
Local contact person for all international organisations, i.e. IATA, ACI etc
In charge of annual price increase application to Regulating authorities
Negotiated final values for take over purposes with Government
Project evaluation and new investment evaluation
Airport consultation
Visited over 30 airports world-wide
Staff compliment – 40 people

Achievements I consider myself to be an airport specialist
Computerised the Group, operationally as well as financially.
Brought out the first set of financial statements for the National airports
Wrote spread sheets for monthly group reporting as well as for annual auditing which reduced the audit fee by 30%
Board reporting packs developed by me still in use today

Reason for leaving Change in management

March 1993 - January 1995

Industrial Manufacturing Group Denel Ltd

General Manager: Group Finance

Responsibilities Public company but not listed

Group and Corporate Office financial reporting to Board of Group
Determining Group strategy
Determining Group policies
In charge of financial reporting on international projects
Setting of Group budget targets and Group budget presentations to Board
Staff compliment – 60 people

Achievements When I started at Denel, it took 4 weeks to do the consolidation. When I left it only took 4 hours. I computerised the Group Financial reporting structure, which led to the time saving. Board reporting was reduced from 6 weeks to one week, including variance analysis.
The financial department staff complement was reduced from 28 to 10 coping with more work producing results substantially faster

Reason for leaving Transferred by Government to the newly established Airports Company of South Africa. This relates back to the investigation that I did for the Government on the Privatisation of State Airports.

January 1989 - February 1993

Merchant Bank Hill Samuel Merchant Bank – changed its name to Corporate Merchant Bank

Listed LSE

Senior Manager

Reporting to Senior General Manager: Corporate Finance

Responsibilities Corporate finance deals
Structuring of finance deals
Marketed business services to clients
Preparation of documentation for listings
Structured transactions, i.e. take overs, mergers and acquisitions
Built computer models for evaluation purposes
In charge of privatisation department
Acted as Director on Board of Foston Limited, listed on JSE

Achievements Earned 5 times annual income in fees
Listed a number of companies
Formed a major coal group – original owners only had coal concessions – eventually onsold group to one of South Africa's major mining houses
Restructured Group 5 on the JSE
In charge of the privatisation of the SA Mint
Did a project for the privatisation of State airports for the late Dr Wim De Villiers, which was later accepted and implemented to form Airports Company Ltd

Reason for leaving Company got taken over by Cape Investment Bank – did not want to move to Cape Town.

February 1988 - December 1988

Industrial holding company Bonuskor Ltd (Subsidiary of Rebrandt Group)

Group Financial Controller and Company Secretary

Listed on the JSE until take-over by HLH

Responsibilities Gave inputs to the restructuring of the Group
Monthly Accounts
Annual Budgets
Company Secretary
Due diligence's
Determining Group Strategy
Reported group numbers to main Board of Group
Tax planning for the Group

Achievements Member of team that purchases Robersons Spice (CGP) when the Robertsons disinvested from South Africa.
The first group to get a trade mark as a tax deductible
Turned the company around from loss making to substantial profits
Ran the company on my own for a period of three months after the Group was taken over by HLH Ltd

Reason for leaving Company got taken over by HLH - New position offered was not in line with expectations

May 1985 - January 1988

Transport holding company South African Transport Services

Senior Superintendent – Corporate Finance Division

Reporting to General Manager: Finance

Responsibilities Had to start a Corporate Finance Division for the whole of the South African Transport Services Group
Determined Group Policy
Conducted due diligences on new projects etc.
Advised Group on accounting issues
Assisted in determining Group Strategic Plans

Achievements Started the Corporate Finance Division of SATS with two other chartered accountants

Reason for leaving Got offered a position within the Rembrand Group

January 1982 - April 1985

Chartered Accountants Ernst & Young (Previously Arthur Young & Co) – Audit Supervisor

Responsibilities Conducted audits and in charge of audits, i.e. Cargo Carriers, Total Fuels, Irvine & Johnson, Renown Food, Witbank Colleries

Total South Africa (one of biggest fuel companies in Southern Africa)
(Started on temporary basis on audit assignment June
1979 until April 1985 – 6 years - Ended up in charge of audit 1985

Major areas audited – stock and stock control
Purchases and purchases control
Human resources
Contract reviews
Cost calculations and price determination
Natref (Nation petroleum refinery) – Refinery crude oil to fuel products – 3 years
Irvin & Johnson – Food industry
Cargo Carriers – One of biggest transport companies in Southern Africa

Reason for leaving Completed articles and wanted to move into commerce

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