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Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa

• Key Responsibilities:
• Leadership of the executive and management team which makes key strategic business decisions.
• Engage with Customers, Business Partners and Stakeholders to ensure performance expectations are achieved.
• Set strategic goals based on shared vision, and aligned with established organisational purpose and principles.
• Focus the business on maintaining our reputation as a leading product innovator through technical excellence.
• Optimise manufacturing operations to deliver exceptional quality and output in a safe working environment.

Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa

• Key Responsibilities:
• Leadership of the executive and management team which makes key strategic business decisions.
• Head of manufacturing operations with clear objectives of enhancing product quality and on-time delivery.
• Advisor to managers and staff at all levels of the value chain, ensuring cohesive business integration.
• Initiator of strategic staff development and skills training initiatives aimed at exceeding planned KPI's.
• Identify and motivate key machinery investments to modernise and optimise manufacturing capabilities.

Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa

• Key Responsibilities:
• Integral member of the executive team which makes key strategic business decisions.
• Facilitate effective management decision making by ensuring accurate information is timeously published.
• Advisor to managers and staff at all levels of the value chain, ensuring cohesive business integration.
• Manage working capital requirements, through key banking relationships, to ensure that all cash obligations are met.
• Champion of technology and process improvement projects including an Infor ERP system implementation.

Port Elizabeth Area, South Africa

• Key Responsibilities:
• Integral member of the executive team which makes key strategic group business decisions.
• Attend group board meetings to advise the directors on finance and strategy decisions.
• Mentor young employees, helping them to progress within the group and gain valuable skills through deliberate and focused direction.
• Facilitate effective management decision making by ensuring accurate information is timeously published.
• Champion of business information systems investments and process improvement projects.

Port Elizabeth Area, South Africa

• Key Responsibilities:
• Review and approve monthly management accounts for the group and weekly working capital reports prior to distribution.
• Person responsible for IFRS compliant reporting and consolidation of group companies through a close relationship with company auditors.Key Achievements:
• A redesign of the group general ledger structure, enabling more detailed and accurate allocations.
• Rationalization of the group's legal structure resulting in the elimination of 20 dormant companies. This lead to significantly improved management efficiencies and reduced statutory and auditing costs.

Port Elizabeth Area, South Africa

• Key Responsibilities:
• Assessment of ERP products to establish which product had the highest compatibility with our group requirements.
• Project management of the implementation team of internal business resources and external development consultants.Key Achievements:
• With a strong focus on business best practice, targeted business process redesign workshops resulted in the effective engagement of key users, and crafted an effective ERP system significantly improving business.
• The application of improved system controls greatly reduced the number of user errors, resulting in quicker transaction processing and data that is significantly more reliable.

Uitenhage Area, South Africa

• Key Responsibilities:
• Business advisor, working with the sales and production managers, with the specific aim of growing this group vertical expansion unit.Key Achievements:
• Development of a unique costing system which allowed the spinning mill to competitively expand into established markets. This enabled a revenue growth to quadruple over the next five years.
• Actively pursued government incentive schemes aimed at growing the textile industry. This allowed for key capital machinery purchases that, together with focussed quality improvement, has developed the spinning mill.

Port Elizabeth Area, South Africa

• Key Responsibilities:
• Accounting and payroll functions for all group companies, including all tax and statutory obligations.
• Management reporting, budgeting and costing functions for all group companies.Key Achievements:
• Developed a financial reporting system utilising Excel and Sage Alchemex to allow automated monthly group reporting, leading to reduced staff effort in producing accurate accounts in a shorter timeframe.
• Gained in-depth knowledge of the group's operations which made me a key "go-to" person for information and allowed for the initiation of numerous process improvement projects.
• Appointed as group Public Officer and elected as a Member Trustee to the Stucken Group Pension Fund.

Port Elizabeth Area, South Africa

Port Elizabeth Area, South Africa

B.Comm Hon, Accounting And Finance

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

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