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Chris von der Heyden

CFO

I’ve always been passionate about working with SME’s and assisting them to achieve their maximum potential. Through my experience working with entrepreneurs across varying sectors in Africa and the Middle East, and my background spanning both finance and commercial functions, I strive to ensure that finance teams play a key role in enabling and driving business growth.

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Track record highlights

  • Assisted in building a small regional player into a multinational market leader.
  • Streamlined business operations to ensure a company in the hospitality and tourism sector survived the COVID downturn and exited as a stronger entity.
  • Led a commercial team that doubled revenues year on year for three consecutive years.
  • Analysed business operations and implemented efficiencies that resulted in a 5% increase in overall profit margins.
  • Cleaned up the finances of a distressed business, identified opportunities for business improvements and turned the business from a loss maker into a profitable business within two years.

Sector Experience

  • Services: Event transportation and logistics
  • Hospitality & Tourism: Event planning and management
  • Banking & Financial Services: African SME's
  • Manufacturing & Transport Logistics: Event logistics

Chris's specialist skills

Financial Operations

Utilising finance skill-set to enhance commercial offerings.

Cash Flow Improvement

Extensive experience managing cash flows in seasonal businesses.

Business Planning

Strategic planning and new market entry.

Budgeting & Forecasting

Solid background in budgeting and forecasting, if you fail to plan you plan to fail.

Strategic Thinker

Strategically identify business opportunities or market gaps.

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