Martin Gericke Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg, Gp, Za

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

With three decades of corporate experience, wealthgen is shifting its focus to now help small businesses grow.With wealthgen as your accounting and financial planning services partner, you can focus your attention on differentiating your business from the pack. wealthgen will take care of the rest.We help small business owners make sense of all their tax compliance requirements, accounting, financial statements, financial planning and personal investments needs.​As small business owners ourselves, your journey becomes ours.Together, we help set you on a new path to success. Our aim is to change the face of accounting and financial planning services by offering a fixed monthly fee for all your accounting and financial planning needs. It is our commitment to build a partnership with you and your business.​wealthgen understands that no two businesses are alike. Our packages are tailor-made to your needs with different fixed price plans to suit your requirements.wealthgen is innovative and technology driven. We take the best of what technology has to offer to automate and simplify your business and financial processes.But, as much as we leverage cloud-based technology, we relish the opportunity to build a close personal relationship with you and your business. Regular face-to-face interaction remains at the top of our charts. wealthgen understands that trust and respect are earned. Your business deserves the best. Our commitment is to service excellence and communication. Together, we can make sense of the "numbers" and ensure that your business never gets bogged down by red tape.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

At Bespoke Solutions we believe in comprehensive tailor made Financial Planning solutions, geared to your specific needs as our client.Financial Planning broadly encompasses the following 2 areas, Wealth Creation and Wealth Protection.Both areas are necessarily inter-connected and so should ideally be addressed together within an analysis of your financial needs.Creation of wealth entails the implementation of techniques for the optimisation and utilisation of existing income streams and/or existing assets in such a way that it increases the net worth of a client and/or that client’s family over a period of time whilst he or she is still economically active.A comprehensive needs analysis will be done on:•Retirement Planning•Investment Savings•Wealth Management•Portfolio ManagementWealth Protection involves assessing your exposure to risk and then managing that risk. Once assessed the risk of our clients are mitigated using the below techniques. Wealth Protection is all about protecting your current accumulated wealth AND your ability to earn wealth in the future.A comprehensive needs analysis will be done on:•Capital and income needs in the event of death, disability or dread disease.•Issues that must be addressed include: repayment of capital amounts, replacement of income, provision for last expenses,etc.•Short-term insurance needs,

Johannesburg

Ensure process alignment and specifically systems/applications across the Group. Initial scope to reduce multiple implemented ERP systems and streamline/standardise the related business processes.Further focus (June 2019 to current) to ensure the successful implementation of Group financial consolidation and reporting solution (cloud based solution Tagetik – similar Hyperion/Cognos/ SAP BPC). Initiated due to very complex group structure previously managed via Excel only.• Report directly to the Group Exco and Group CFO. • Member of the Finance, Buyer (procurement), Plant/Formwork (asset management), Quality (site risk management), Application Forums, Group IT Exco and Pension Fund committee member.Responsibilities:• Applications Strategy • Project and programme management• Change management• Stakeholder management• Budgets/Actuals or financial reporting• Vendor management including contract negotiation etc• System development lifecycle management• Presentation/communication at senior level• Identification and management of standardisation of process and systems across the Group.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Core Role:■ Leadership and management of team of 12 people (900 Oracle users across three countries namely Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Burundi and 100 Hyperion users) which manage and customise the financial ERP system (Oracle) as well as budgeting, consolidation & reporting solution (Hyperion),reporting toGroup CFIO and more recently Group Financial Controller■ Lead Econet Group in developing the Oracle EBS and Hyperion strategic framework over short andlonger term■ Part of Econet Finance leadership team■ Responsible and accountable for the co-ordinated management of multiple projects directed towardsbusiness and organisational objectives■ Provided strategic direction with regards to scope, timing, resources, methodology for variousprojects■ Build credibility, establish rapport and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels,including those external to the organisation ■ Define and initiate projects, and assign teams to manage the schedule, cost, scope etc. whileworking to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the programme■ Executed and maintained programme management processes and disciplines in areas of schedule,quality, communications, human resources, risks/issues, governance and change management■ Leading teams in requirements analysis, solution design ,build, test, training, implementation and support of ERP solution (Oracle)■ Reviewing and advising on policies and procedures■ On-going reporting and leading Steering/Working Committees■ Ensure that programmes/projects implemented contribute to the benefits/objectives set■ Set and manage all related budgets and actuals■ Set and manage all relevant SLAs✔Achievements: The Group consists of multiple operations in various African countries, UK and USA (to a lesser extent).• Executive based at the Head Office responsible for strategic alignment of ERP systems and the centralised Financial Consolidation solution (Hyperion).

Johanneburg

Core Role:■ Leadership and management of team of 30 people (2,000 users) which manage and customise the financial ERP system (Oracle), budgeting, consolidation and reporting solution (Hyperion), Sarbanes Oxley Compliance as well as the implementation and customisation of a new SAP system (project team of 95 and 5,500 users) which includes new business process across finance, supply chain and HR, reporting to South Africa CFO and later to Group CFO■ Change management which includes critical evaluation of situations to identify root cause issues and opportunties as we as tanslating key drivers of change into easily segmented operational tasks to drive deliverables■ Responsible and accountable for the co-ordinated management of multiple projects directed towards business and organisational objectives■ Provided strategic direction with regards to scope, timing, resources, methodology for various projects■ Build credibility, establish rapport and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organisation ■ Define and initiate projects, and assign teams. ■ Executed and maintained programme management processes and disciplines in areas of schedule, quality, communications, human resources, risks/issues, governance and change management■ Leading teams in requirements analysis, solution design ,build, test, training, implementation and support of ERP solution (Oracle)✔ Achievements:• Executive responsible for the migration to the multi-national SAP platform across Finance, Supply Chain and HR processes. The initiative also included migration to Finance Shared Services. • Responsible for the Enterprise Resource Planning (Oracle ERP) strategy and operations. • In addition, I was also responsible for the implementation of Sarbanes Oxley when Vodacom became majority owned by Vodafone and was nominated for Vodacom CEO as well as Vodafone Finance awards.

South Africa

Core Role: ■ Capital expenditure budgeting process■ Reporting and forecasting on Capital Expenditure and Operational Expenditure■ Financial Analysis, Reporting & Preparing Financial Management Packs■ Maintaining internal controls & systems, plus statutory requirements■ Develop and maintain a strong financial team ■ Optimization of systems, expenses, suppliers and structures■ Communicating with finance team, sales, suppliers, board of directors etc. to realize broad business objectives and alignment thereof✔ Achievements:Implementation of Oracle Inventory & Purchasing Modules (Analysis, Design, Testing, Training & Support)

South Africa

■ Financial broker providing financial advice and tax consulting to the private sector ■ Structuring and arranging client’s financial resources ■ Provide financial clarity on current and future investments■ Building on-going client relationships and developing new business

South Africa

South Africa

Post Graduate Diploma, Financial Planning

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Financial Management