Guy Werner Email & Phone Number

City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

As a Freelance Consultant, I offer services covering Revenue Modelling, Revenue Assurance Strategy & Execution, Telco Billing Wholesale & Retail, Risk Management, Governance Risk & Compliance Solutions. This includes implementing teams if required. Engagements to date are included below: Wildlife Virtual Fencing (Pty) Ltd: Revenue Modelling SupportJune 2024 – Present- Assessment of the commercial impact of proposed wildlife management solutions.- Development of pricing structures for new products and services.- Conducted scenario planning, revenue modelling, and profitability analysis to support strategic decision-making.Product Owner: GRC Compliance SolutionSept 2023 to June 2024- Analysis of existing control compliance solution.- Specification of requirements to modernise and improve UX to meet user needs.- Innovate and design functionality required to service generic enterprise GRC needs, to take to market.- Specification of a lighter application version to service the SME GRC compliance needs to take to market.Vodacom: Engagement Support InitiativeSept 2023 - March 2024- Collation and documentation of Vodacom Prepaid Solution, engaging all internal parties involved.- Presentation of the Solution to Engagement Partner, understanding their existing solution and status quo.- Assess partner issues and to establish possible support solutions.

City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Conscious of the increase in cyber threats in the world, I have joined Cybervision, a local cybersecurity company, to develop their 'consumer' business. This entails sales and integration of F-Secure cyber-solutions into large customer base entities in Southern Africa. F-Secure is a leading cybersecurity application with over 30 million customers across 180 partners across the globe. The function includes: - Providing Consumer Cybersecurity Solutions through Operator Partnering.- Managing F-Secure engagement for Southern Africa.- Business case creation and management.- Revenue modelling and forecasting.- Preparation and delivery of proposals and presentations.- Product development (in conjunction with F-Secure).

Southern Africa

Realising a lifelong dream of a Southern African overloading expedition, this was post-corporate bliss incorporating adventure, people, remote places, wildlife, wild camping, 4x4 and wonderful rest and recuperation.Route: Cape Town, Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Cape Town National Parks visited: Moremi, Khwai, Chobe; Mudumu; Bwabwata; Iona, Kafue, Busanga Plains, South Luangwa; Liwonde; Majete, GonarezhouStatistics for those so inclined:80 days50 nights in rooftop tent (favourite accommodation)13 dinners out - the rest around camp fires!17000kms driven

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Provision of Strategic Leadership and Operational Management of Billing (subscriber and wholesale), Revenue Reporting and Product QA as well as assurance of these down to a customer level. Assurance as a service was provided as required for each of the aforementioned disciplines.Key Successes:- Digital transformation and Agile implementation across the teams in my division.- Strategisation, implementation, automation and management of reporting and assurance solutions (systems and processes) across the company; and- Consolidation of a multi-source reporting environment into a single data store.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Returning to the Vodacom mothership, I proposed and created the Prepaid Billing Management Division to facilitate the rapidly expanding prepaid subscriber base, later expanded to the rest of the business. Initiation, management and drive of IT wide Integrity Enhancement and Management programme. This changed the face of effectiveness of IT in Vodacom Network (Pty) Ltd. Key Successes- Early implementation of system and processes solutions to leverage the demand.- Integration and management of Billing, Assurance, Revenue Reporting.- Effective Service Provider IT management, a critical startup success.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

I missed the pace, intensity, creativity and size of the telecoms industry and returned to Vodacom as a part of the Vodacom Internet Company start-up team. This included negotiating a joint venture with Worldonline International, a pan European internet start-up company. My responsibilities encompassed the following. - Inception / start-up of the Financial systems, policies and procedures for the company- Inception / start-up of the Billing related functions for the company.- Internet Base Purchases and integration

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Head-hunted to this role, my responsibility was leadership of all components of financial functions of the Group (30 branches & 300 staff) Key Successes:- Strategic digitisation of the centralised manual timesheet processing, this being a core part of the business. This included processes for de-centralisation of the function and equipping the branches with IT equipment and training.

Cape Town / Johannesburg

Head of Income Financial ControlNov 1996/ May 1997 My experience in the system side of revenues placed me well for success in the Finance side of the revenues, based in Johannesburg. - Management of all financial system and process components of the revenues of Vodacom Network (Pty Ltd).- Formulation and implementation of related policies and procedures at the time of rapid expansion of the subscriber base and the revenues.Manager: Billing and AdministrationNov 1993 - Oct 1996Having joined soon after Vodacom was awarded its mobile operator licence, we had a clean slate to go forth and create! Early activities included:- Inception start-up of the wholesale billing and related functions for the company. Kept pace with the meteoric rise in subscriber numbers and revenues through planning and implementing solutions ahead of the wave (critical success factor).- Planned and Implemented greenfields setup for Billing and Administration components of the brand-new company, including system implementation and creation of billing policies for Subscriber, Interconnect and Roaming Billing.- Facilitated interactions with Service Providers for billing interchange (12 Service Providers at its peak)- Assessed Vodacom international investment viabilities from a B&A perspective.Key Successes- The implementation of greenfields CRM and Billing systems, process, policy solutions with no existing industry history in SA at that time. (CRM and billing was identified as one of the pillars critical for success of the start-up). - Contributed to securing an early lead in the industry. This created the powerful brand which has long been synonymous with success in South Africa.

Advanced Executive Programme

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B Compt (Hons)

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom