Stephan van der Merwe (CA) SA
Product manager at CaseWare Africa - South Africa- Claim this Profile
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English Full professional proficiency
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Afrikaans Full professional proficiency
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Credentials
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CA(SA)
SAICA CA(SA)Mar, 2004- Nov, 2024 -
Certified SAFe® 5 Product Owner/Product Manager
Scaled Agile, Inc.Dec, 2020- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Caseware Africa
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South Africa
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Product manager
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Apr 2008 - Present
As the product manager that heads up the Public Sector market at CaseWare Africa (a division of Adapt IT Ltd), I focus on listening to clients and making sure our products meet their requirements, as well as ensuring products are updated with ever-changing compliance requirements whilst taking the latest innovation in technology into consideration. I had the privilege of heading the teams that conceptualized, planned, developed, and marketed the below products: 1. GRAP Financial Statement product 2. IPSAS Financial Statements product 3. MCS Financial Statements product (used by National and Provincial Departments) 4. mSCOA Statutory Reporting product for local government 5. Audit Working Papers product based on INTOSAI standards I am proud to say these product suites have made CaseWare Africa a dominant software provider in the financial reporting space in the Public Sector. This also translated in revenue growth where our annual budget is 23 times the annual budget when we started this journey 12 years back. However, to maintain and grow the market share we gained, requires innovation in pricing strategies, re-organsing teams (implemented Scaled agile framework), building and maintaining strategic business partners, redo current product design and venture into new infrastructure platforms. Doing this requires sound planning (Aha) and collaboration with all stakeholders. Show less
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Auditor-General of South Africa
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South Africa
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Audit manager
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Jan 2004 - Apr 2008
The AGSA is where my journey in the public sector space started. As an audit manager, my focus was to complete multiple external audits of public sector entities in accordance with ISA standards as well as adding value to these clients in the process. This requires managing of different teams working on various audits at once. During this time I also qualified as a learning assessor with SAICA. My biggest achievement in this time was that for the 4 years running my audits all passed the external quality reviews done by IRBA. Second, to the above were that my team was able to outperform our revenue budgets, which meant we were able to always get our performance awards over the 4 years. Show less
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EY
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Financial Reporting Manager
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Apr 2004 - Dec 2004
I was contracted to be the Financial Manager of an Investment Holding Company, as well as acting Financial director for one of its subsidiaries. These roles required me to: - Liaise with external auditors to conclude audits of all the subsidiaries - Perform the monthly accounting duties, which include monthly management accounts - Implement new BBEEE requirements - Investigate shareholding changes Even tough this was an short assignment, I learned a lot and got exposure to new fields. Show less
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MacRobert Incorporated
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South Africa
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Law Practice
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200 - 300 Employee
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Financial manager
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Jan 2000 - Mar 2004
As the financial manager, I was responsible for managing the accounting department consisting of 13 staff members. The role required me to: - Prepare monthly management accounts - Oversee all the controls in the finance department and HR department - Implement a new creditor control system - Liaise with external auditors - Managing the annual budget process - Managing all the directors' interest What stood out for in this time was how to manage a team and continuously improving the system as well. I also have the privilege to see how the firms revenue doubled our the 4 years. Show less
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Equifin Incorporated
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South Africa
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Accounting Trainee
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Jan 1998 - Dec 2000
As an accounting Trainee, I was responsible for dealing with various clients, accounting, auditing, tax and management reporting requirements. Being a trainee accountant at an audit firm exposed me to the fundamentals of accounting and auditing. Also what it means to provide high-quality services to clients. As an accounting Trainee, I was responsible for dealing with various clients, accounting, auditing, tax and management reporting requirements. Being a trainee accountant at an audit firm exposed me to the fundamentals of accounting and auditing. Also what it means to provide high-quality services to clients.
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Education
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1998 - 2001
University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika
BCompt(Hons), Accounting -
1995 - 1998
University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria
Bcom(Acc), Accountancy -
1990 - 1994
Highschool Wonderboom
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