Martin de Oliveira

Development and implementation of Sustainability Reporting Structures throughout the Group

Developed and Implemented of Risk Management systems throughout the Group

Analysis of Group Company performance and recommendations to improve profitability

Review of existing business processes for efficiency and effectiveness and making recommendations to improve where applicable

Formalizing and improving of existing Internal Control Systems

Brewtech Engineering is a division of Hudaco Industries Limited, a company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Annual Turnover of the Division was approximately USD 4.2million during my time with the organisation. Total Group Revenue was approximately USD 325million with roughly USD 465million market capitalisation on the JSE
• Directly responsible to manage the full financial department for the division, with 3 direct reports being the Supervisors for Accounts Receivable an Accounts Payable. As I served on the Divisional Board as well, I had a further 5 indirect reports, being the supervisors for Internal Sales, Purchasing, Manufacturing and 2 branch managers at offsite locations
• Chaired the Social and Ethics committee and was also responsible for the Human Resources function within the division, handling disciplinary actions against staff and all related HR activities
• Improved divisional budgeting process and by designing and implementing a Sales Budgeting model.
• Successfully resolved a legacy VAT dispute with the South African Revenue Service which had put the Tax Clearance Certificate for the entire Group in jeopardy, putting tenders worth millions of Euros at risk due to non-compliance. In the end I was able to recover USD 60, 000.00 of the USD 72, 000.00 under dispute which would otherwise been lost to the division
• Implemented the required Group Governance and Risk policies in the division that was, at the time of my arrival non complaint in various areas

Providing business development consultation services to SME's, with focus on compliance with statutory requirements and establishment of effective and efficient governance processes and procedures, performing financial analysis and development of strategies to maximize sustainable profitability

Pride-Pak Packaging is one of the largest independently owned corrugated packaging conversion plants in South Africa.

• The finance team reporting directly to me consisted of the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable Supervisors
• Directly improved % of overdue accounts through improvements to credit management processes and negotiations with high value delinquent customers
• The company had just migrated to Packaging 3000, an ERP system proprietary to the corrugated packaging industry. I successfully cleaned up journal posting errors that occurred during the carry over process in excess of USD 30, 000.00
• Resolved unclaimed VAT that occurred to do to incorrect processing of multiple property purchases, resulting in reduction of the VAT liability of the entity of approximately USD 60, 000.00

The Corruseal Group is one of the 5 largest manufacturers of corrugated flat sheet used in packing industry in South Africa. Served at two business units withing the group, Corruseal Heavy Duty and Corruseal SF.
• Managed full accounting and HR functions within both Corruseal Heavy Duty and Corruseal SF
• Responsible for preparing monthly management accounts and presenting to the Group Board of Directors
• Managing treasury functions including monthly cash flow requirements, transferring surplus funds to Group treasury
• Managing annual statutory audit including taking part in the audit close out meeting
• Submitting all statutory returns to labour and tax authorities

Maintenance of Accounting records
Preparation of Management Accounts
Preparation of Annual Financial Statements, Completion and submission of statutory returns, Overseeing debtors/creditors clerk to ensure that duties are performed satisfactorily,
Reporting directly to CEO regarding financial position and performance of entity,
Preparing costings on new and current ventures. Assisting payroll, Human Resource, Operations and Marketing departments in the everyday running of the business.

BS Team Leader: Loading of EFT payments for both dividends and corporate actions.
Liaising with Dividend and Corporate Actions departments to ensure that accounts are linked to the relevant banking systems to enable reconciliations process. Supervising EBS officer to ensure that allocated tasks are performed.
Liaising with Hyphen to correct any problems with the FACS system which may occur during the normal course of business.
Loading of accounts to the Accurate Reconciliation system.
Loading of bank statements to the Accurate Reconciliation system.
Assisting staff with matters regarding the Accurate Reconciliation system.