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Jacques Breytenbach

CFO

Entrepreneurial CFO with 25+ years’ experience driving financial transformation, cash flow resilience, and operational excellence across complex, capital-intensive industries. I help business leaders unlock value through better financial visibility, disciplined capital management, and scalable systems — delivering the insight and agility of a full-time CFO on a fractional basis.

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Track record highlights

  • Led a $800m capital and debt restructuring that stabilised liquidity and safeguarded long-term solvency in highly volatile conditions.
  • Designed and implemented a centralised Financial Shared Service Centre and integrated ERP, delivering a 15% efficiency improvement and enabled real-time reporting.
  • Directed group-wide budgeting, forecasting and liquidity management, materially improving profitability, cash flow resilience and return on investment.
  • Led M&A due diligence, valuation, negotiation and integration for five mine acquisitions, ensuring seamless operational and financial integration.
  • Built and led multi-country, multi-currency finance and treasury functions across Africa, including FX risk management and ExCon-compliant funding structures.
  • Provided executive leadership to cross-functional functions (IT, HR, Supply Chain, Security, Legal), aligning operations with financial strategy and cost discipline.
  • Serve as Independent NED and Audit & Risk Committee member, bringing board-level governance, capital markets and stakeholder expertise to clients.

Sector Experience

  • Mining, Resources & Energy: PGM and diamonds.
  • Engineering: Petrochemicals
  • Retail & Consumer Products: Mining Supplies

Jacques's specialist skills

Corporate Finance

Successfully conducted capital and debt raising, M&A, financial modelling, capital allocation framework.

Systems and Controls

Experienced in designing and implementing robust financial systems and controls.

Budgeting & Forecasting

Improved budgeting and forecasting accuracy, maintaining rolling forecasts and detailed cash flow projections, with variance analyses.

Financial Operations

Improved operational efficiencies through automation, process improvement and automation.

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