Andre Burger

Background

About Andre Burger

10+ years’ in auditing and commerce, 13 years in engineering, within diverse business sectors. Leads cohesive teams, ensuring regulatory compliance and managing performance. Reviews, adjusts, and executes Group financ3e strategy and continually optimizes financial performance. Maintains strong position through ongoing development of robust commercial and financial processes. Made significant improvements to ERP at Hall Longmore’s (HL), added Bank Reconciliation System, imported Fixed Asset Register, moved to a Shared GL and Shared Inventory platform across all companies in Syspro Moved HL’s Forex to online and international payment at Standard Bank, migrated phone system to VoIP from legacy PABX, installed new fiber backbone network on site perimeter and upgraded fiber for PLC network Currently executing solar and x-ray replacement projects, and renovations to administration offices and nearing completion of the launch of a SARS rebate store for import conversion and exports Led L’Oréal to being one of the first companies in South Africa to implement the Import Dispensation Allowance, negotiating for almost 3 years to allow a local bank to be used (SBSA/Citibank) Negotiated very favorable rates for transaction rates, overdrafts and short-term loans with SBSA & Citibank Investigated interest reallocation/pooling, calculating the impact of intercompany interest financing (s45 of Co. Act), a pilot project, a first for Citibank Implemented virtual accounts with Banks for auto SAP payment receipt allocation to each customer’s account Spearheaded B2B or virtual Credit Cards, together with an EDI project with Citibank Launched a project to perform multi bank target balancing and implemented online contract forex trading Worked with Sage on development of a back-end encryption tool for Sage VIP and later Sage People, addressing security and control concerns, highly successful and secure, and later rolled out by Sage as standard Successfully launched e-commerce for the group locally, convincing the group to allow a local payment platform for e-commerce due to significant savings unlocked after an extensive tender and negotiation process Successfully launched the first 8 L’Oréal owned and run boutiques from a financial and internal control aspect, including training of staff and involvement with group customized Cegid software Drove, advised, and assisted Accounts Receivable to lower significant arrears on cross border accounts by 95%