John Marais

Independent Business Consultant offering business improvement consulting to corporates

Data migration to the new SAP system for CCO entities. working for the ATA on the Auckland Council 'Supercity' Project. www.ata.govt.nz

Enterprise applications manager (SAP ERP) for large platinum mining group. Staff leadership for 10 business analysts and 7 project managers and SAP consultants Took over the responsibilities from the project team that implemented SAP. Had to appoint and grow the BA team, established governance, process and change control to grow environment to maturity.

1. Team leader that introduced Lean principles for re-engineering of the Debt Management business units, to collect overdue debt faster, align business processes with policies and procedures. It included changes to the process, the organisational design, recommended changes to polices, business rules and acts, changes to systems and IT architecture, change management and the establishment of a process management competency. 2. Workstream leader to CRM implementation

Two projects for IQ Business Group at ABSA Bank, one of big four in South Africa (similar to NZ ASB Bank) 2006-09-01 to 2007-05-20 1. Project manager for the Customer Acceptance Project as part of the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Funding programme in the regulatory environment in the Banking Industry to design and implement on-line for screening all new customers against the ‘World Check’ database. 2.Project for new IT strategy and business model

Service Industries Marketing Mergers and Acquisitions, Investment Analyses

Productivity Accounting •Software Engineering •Reliability •Quality Management •Information Systems •Computer Aided Manufacturing •Engineering Logistics. Production Engineering •Reliability Engineering •Process Simulation •Maintenance Engineering •Design •Quality Control