Pierre Scholtz
Contact details
Email address:
Cell: 083 600 1388
Land line: 011 465 2597
Fax: 086 509 5086
Member information
TMA-SA membership status
Regular member.
Background and experience
Pierre spent the last three and a half years as Group Chief Financial Officer for a Multinational Agricultural Commodity Group ("the Group"). He was based in Johannesburg although the holding company was registered in Mauritius and was responsible for operations in Uganda, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa.
Prior to this he spent ten years as an investment banker (in Corporate Finance) having spent the last five years of that period with HSBC. During this time he advised on a number of mergers and acquisitions and privatisations both locally and abroad in the Telecoms, IT, agriculture and chemical industries.
Prior to this Pierre advised on structured lending as part of a team at a large accounting firm.
Qualifications
- Chartered accountant CA(SA) 1994.
- BCompt (Hons) UNISA 1993.
- BBus Sci (Hons - Finance) UCT 1991.
Turnaround professional discipline(s) represented
- Accountant.
- Financial advisor.
- Interim manager.
- Investment banker.
- Management consultant.
- Turnaround consultant.
Services offered
The focus of Clear Direction is to provide services to small to medium size entities requiring:
- Corporate recovery skills and advice:
- Renegotiating and restructuring bank loans in a sensible manner for both entrepreneur and bank.
- Installing models and systems to manage cash, margins and budgets.
- Renegotiating onerous contracts.
- Staff realignment.
- Cost saving.
- Product / business division and new project evaluation.
- Overhaul of accounting systems where required.
- High level financial skills and input (advice) which cannot be afforded on a full time basis:
- Formalising structures.
- Strategic financing and budgeting advice.
- Evaluation of products and divisions.
- Assisting with specification and implementation of:
- Working capital management systems.
- Accounting systems.
- Budgeting systems.
- Cash management systems.
- Cost and margin monitoring.
- Implementation of correct and appropriate financial staff structure.
- Monthly reporting.
- Statutory compliance;
- Corporate acquisition and disposal advice including valuations.
- Evaluation of opportunities on a financial and strategic basis.
- Transaction structure advice.
- Valuation and pricing.
- Scope and review of due diligence.
Why I joined TMA-SA
Firm: Clear Direction Management Consulting
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