Assisted with daily accounting processes and reports on Stock activities, Sales and compilation of Management report packs for the Owner

This position is a dual role as it concerns a customer facing position whereby in which I meet with clients together with our sales / pre-sales teams within the MEA region (30+ countries) to analyse and configure their specific IT system requirements within DHL’s many pre-designed in-house solutions. Thereafter, depending on the region involved, Project management, BPR processes as well as implementation, training and support is initiated for these projects. Product awareness as well as client specific needs are key to a successful adoption of our customer facing solutions. EDI knowledge is also essential in allowing flexibility into an existing system and / or intergration with a clients existing system. The main solutions I work with is SAP EWM , FSI FCMand OQT. Been the lead functional analyst my participation therein is active engagement in all 5 phases of a project-- Project Preparation, Business Blueprint – Requirements, Realization - Master Lists - Define business scenarios, Final Preparation Stress and Volume Tests and Go Live and Support: Ensuring system performance through continuous monitoring and feedback. I am the RSA internal administrator / specialist for our global client track and trace app DHLi. This role really enable me to be a true ambassador for DHl that enables me to not only meet clients but also grow our business globallyIn January 2015 a RSA BI / PRES (Performance Reporting exception Specialist) team was formed to develop client specific reports as well as inhouse departemental KPI reports off our local SQL databases utilising the SSRS application. Because of my SQL scripting and reporting skills I was made part of this team and also took ownership of all Tableau reporting (development and designer). With these in-house reports (over 800 subscriptions) we assist the BPM/O team in analysing and interpreting our many KPI's throughout all of DHL DGF ZA business units as well as those in the MEA region

Co-developed (primary contributor) an add-on application (3rd Party Product) for the Sage 300 ERP market which was a first to market application and still remains the only proper recon app available. The application, known as RecIT, automates reconciliations between your sub-ledgers and General Ledger in the 3 core modules namely Inventory Control, Accounts Payable and Receivable. It also reconciles 2 major clearing accounts within the Sage 300 / AccPac system. This was viewed by many Sage Development Partners worldwide as virtually impossible but I succeeded therein. It even placed me amongst me the top 5% most viewed profile on LinkedIn for the year 2012 and appears within the top 10 most wanted add-ons for Sage within 1437 requested add-ons. The power of the app lies behind a series of hundreds of interrogative MS SQL queries which I designed, structured and coordinated as well as all the Crystal reports thereon. I did this by analysing, interpreting and presenting monetary and accounting anomalies residing within a database to those requiring such reports. All processes, logic and reporting therein were thought out by me as this was my idea and IP. My business partner done all the GUI programming thereon. This project was facilitated by me and I reported to the DTI as they co-sponsored this development bmo a grant. RecIT can be regarded as a pre BI Tool with many reports explaining the anomalies between ledgers within the Sage 300 ERP system as well as providing corrections thereon. This Sage 3rd Party add-on application is currently been sold though Sage Softline and thus my only engagement herein (until a possible complete sale of the application) is product activation. This accomplishment is a clear indication of my analytical thinking as well as the tenacity to believe in oneself and to seek a solution to problems faced by Sage users worldwide.

The company was segmented into various Business units of which I was placed in the Mining team and when needed ran the Sage 300 ERP Manufacturing projects on my own with the at times add on manufacturing module. Because of my experience and seniority, most new projects I run from start to finish on my own with a small team (lead/member)when needed. Added to these responsibilities is Training (due to my Lecturing experience) as well as assisting sales team with demos and developing Proof of Concepts for potential Sage 300 ERP sales. Attended a Sage X3 Financial module course in 2010 but due to the product been new in the SA market there were no implementations I participated in in its entirety, so I was recalled back into the Sage 300 / AccPac unit.Because of my vast experience I also traveled abroad (mainly Africa) to engage in such project activities. I am also a product specialist to enterprises needing to implement a financial system that supports “Project & Job Costing” activities. Adjacent to this is my database interrogation abilities, database rebuilding as well as financial reporting writing skills. Great company and very proactive customer needs aware staff.

At PriceWaterhouseCoopers I was involved primarily in one major project concerning the Hans Merensky Foundation (a billion rand manufacturing entity) which was at that time the largest ACCPAC site worldwide. It consisted of 19 entities with well over 400 users spread throughout South Africa. We were tasked in combining these 19 entities into 3 databases to simplify operations and co-ordinate reporting capabilities. Great client and excellent project!

I joined this company immediately after an offer by Synergy Accounting to purchase this division fell through. Whilst negotiations were taking place many consultants resigned from CS, as they did not want to work for Synergy, as they were not meeting certain offers. As there was an immediate need for an Sage 300 / AccPac consultant I was directly approached by the then Manager of the department with an offer of employment. As there were not many clients to service, my main concern is that of in-house support as we use Sage 300 / AccPac as our financial system. Other than this project most of my attention has been focused on three clients who are constantly seeking Sage 300 / AccPac support on a perpetual basis. So whilst at CS I only done 3 implementations and assisted in 2 others.

As two former managers of Accronym formed this company, we were quite small in Johannesburg in terms of staff. My position therefore was almost everything that concerns Sage 300 / AccPac i.e. Implementation and support consultant, Project and Account manager. I also done all the report writing and modification for Great Plains clients (Financial and user specified using FRX Designer and Crystal reports) as well as adhoc support.Similar to those of Accronym (listed below) with the only exception being, that of Account management which entails a certain degree of selling skills.

Implementation of Sage 300 / AccPac & Great Plains at client’s site. As a project consultant, I concern myself with the implementation/migration of the entire project which amongst other includes; everything from Needs Assessment, System Design, Data Setup & testing, conversion (Where necessary), Software installation and configuration on relevant platform, Reports macros and specification writing right up until data specific training. Because of my various technical abilities, I also assist our technical support team in various support calls such as database rebuilds, hardware problems, etc.

Support consultant to existing dealers & clients. I assisted the support team in the entire package (22 Modules) except in HR. I also assisted the Sales & Marketing Dept. by training and demos on Pastel Premier. Due to my accounting knowledge, I assisted the development team in the testing and quality control of the Pastel Premier for Windows beta version. This position was personally awarded to me by Ivan Ferrer who was the CEO of Pastel at that time.

Accountant in charge of entire Accounting Dept. of above mentioned company as well as 2 sister companies’ computerised accounting systems (Brilliant, Bill of materials and EasyPay which I setup myself) and Tas Accounting. These systems were administered by 6 bookkeepers of whom I trained 3 myself. Because I reported directly to the MD, I was also responsible for Cash flows and projections, maintaining budgets & management packs and salary maintenance.Calgan Manufacturing was acquired in May 1995 and I was put in charge of setting up the computerised accounting/manufacturing system Also, because of this attainment of Calgan CC, my MD decided to become an exhibitor at the Rand show and Pretoria show on a much larger scale. It was therefore my task to convince our Bank manager to finance this project and by means of analytical reports and projections I managed to triple our overdraft facility.

Besides the relevant admin work, the bulk of my duties consisted lecturing Financial accounting at a tertiary level (75%) and pretertiary level (25%). My class results and enthusiasm were extremely good over the years, which indicated my capacities and abilities in my workplace hence demonstratively referred to as Dr. Debit.