Yolandi van der Merwe
Senior Specialist Business and Commercial - Contracts at Liquid Intelligent Technologies South Africa- Claim this Profile
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Creating a Positive Customer Experience
LinkedInJun, 2023- Nov, 2024 -
ITIL 4 Foundation
Pink ElephantApr, 2022- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies South Africa
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South Africa
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Specialist Business and Commercial - Contracts
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Jul 2018 - Present
The Senior Specialist Business and Commercial – Contracts role is responsible and accountable for the overall performance of nominated strategic contracts. Such performance entails all legal, commercial, financial / P&L, risk management, contractual obligations, service delivery, governance, quality assurance and operational alignment of managed outsourced / IT contracts. Emphasis is also placed on customer centricity and contract profitability. o Track customer contractual financial requirements and risks. o Enhance customer reporting and represent Liquid Telecom in monthly customer Steerco and Manco, from a financial and governance perspective. o Liaise directly with client to determine agreed billing per month. o Establish and maintain contract P&L in conjunction with Finance. o Collection and management of cash flow in project. o Provide strategic input into proposals for costing purposes and assist Sales with pre-sales pricing / costing support by means of a Business Case and contract pricing / rate tables. o Accountable for the end to end execution of contractual deliverables in co-operation with cross functional teams. o Identify, mitigate & manage contract risks. o Responsible for maintaining good customer relationship. o Manage and track the movement of customer assets on behalf of the customer. o Manage contract amendment process with customer against approved variations or adoption of new Services for allocated contract. Show less
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ABSA
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Johannesburg Area, South Africa
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Professional Consultant
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Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
My role as Professional Consultant served as the primary contact between project managers and the programme manager, ensuring that all project governance was adhered to as well as to ensure that all project spend was kept within agreed budget. The Professional Consultant was also required to prepare Business Cases for all projects to obtain the required funds for project spend. o Weekly consolidated project milestone reporting to management. o Controlling and managing the sanction approval process on relevant projects. o Managing supplier order process and ensure DOA compliance were kept, and managed risk associated with this. o Sign of invoices associated with supplier performance requirements on project deliverables. o Ensuring project change control procedures governance is adhered to. o Reported on project budget vs actual forecast. o Participated in project Steerco meetings where all risks, contractual governance and financial performance were discussed. Show less
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Nashua Communications (Pty) Ltd
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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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Senior Finance Commercial: Managed Services
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Jun 2010 - Mar 2017
Customer Liaison - Represented Nashua Communications at Customer Manco meetings on major contract outsource deals to ensure contractual financial compliance are adhered, to meet and manage customer expectations. Financial Management – Was responsible for internal Financial reporting and Controlling of Managed Services projects within Nashua Communications on: • Project accounting for major projects. • Liaise directly with client to determine agreed billing per month. • Collection and management of cash flow in project. • Balance sheet responsibility for accruals and Work in Progress (WIP). • Asset management of equipment deployed at client sites. • Management of project equipment and signed off NBV calculations of each implementation on various sites. • Control of variance reporting/analysis. • Monthly profitability and productivity reporting to Service Management. Procurement & Logistics – Ensured and controlled that Procurement department ordered the correct equipment from suppliers to meet project delivery timelines with assistance from Project Managers. Risk Management - Controlled project managers with financials and planning requirements on each of their projects and ensure that those requirements are fulfilled by the project manager. Revenue Assurance - Responsible for timely and accurate invoicing based on client sign off as well as specific project deadlines, also responsible to liaise with client to ensure collection of money due on invoices. Credit Control – Ensuring that creditors are paid in a timely manner. Other o Assisted sales people in checking and correcting quotes. o Monthly forecasting and analysis of unbilled contracts (local and foreign). o Ensuring that project administration captured orders correctly and timeously. o BI Development of basic QlikView models for reporting purposes. Show less
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Pansolutions Gaborone
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Botswana
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Assistant Accountant
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Jan 2010 - May 2010
• Reporting and controlling of Projects from a Revenue and Margin perspective to Senior Management. • Performed financial administrative functions on projects. PR creation and GR’s associated with Projects. • Reporting and controlling of Projects from a Revenue and Margin perspective to Senior Management. • Performed financial administrative functions on projects. PR creation and GR’s associated with Projects.
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Education
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2007 - 2009
University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria
Bcom Business Management, Accounting until final year -
2017 - 2017
agile42
Certified Scrum Master -
2002 - 2006
Hoërskool Overkruin
Matric -
2019 - 2019
Leading Edge Business Solutions(Pty) Ltd
Certificate in Power BI Fundamentals, Dashboard Creation
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