Chantelle Burger
Commercial Management Control
Pretoria
Summary
Results-oriented achiever with proven ability to exceed targets and drive success in fast-paced environments. Combines strategic thinking with hands-on experience to deliver impactful solutions and enhance organizational performance.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
2005
2005
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Commercial Management Control (Lactalis)
Sanulac Africa (Lactalis)
Pretoria
03.2023 - Current
- Analyze financial data, track performance against budget and targets, and identify areas for improvement.
- Variance analysis driving continuous monitoring and improvement of financial processes and performance.
- Manage the budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning process, ensuring alignment with the company's strategic goals.
- Business partnering, collaborate with other departments to understand business needs and provide financial insights to support decision-making.
- Work collaboratively with other departments and stakeholders to identify and address business risks.
- Tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) and providing insights into financial performance and areas for improvement.
- Ensuring accurate and timely management reporting to senior management.
Industrial Management Control
Clayville Nutritionals (Lactalis)
Olifantsfontein
11.2019 - 03.2023
- A strong business partner to senior management team
- Tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure progress towards goals and identify areas for improvement.
- Monitoring and controlling costs to ensure profitability and competitiveness.
- Developing and managing budgets, forecasting future costs, and analyzing variances between actual and planned performance.
- Analyzing production costs, identifying areas for optimization, and proposing cost-saving measures.
- Preparing financial reports, dashboards, and presentations for senior management, highlighting key findings and trends.
- Identifying and implementing process improvements to enhance efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Site Accountant (2 Sites)
Premier Foods (Blue Ribbon)
08.2014 - 10.2019
- Weekly profit statements / KPI reporting for sites.
- Stock control at sites.
- Ensuring that raw material cost and consumptions are correct, by signing and checking the Value Chain report.
- Balance sheet reconciliation’s, make sure correct accounts and cost centres are used and no queries older than 2 months.
- Maintaining the asset register for the plant.
- Preparing and analyzing management reports and business matrixes to provide updated information for management decisions through the user of company systems such as Great Plains.
- Deviation reporting and recommendations for all departments for the sites.
- Capital expenditure process. Submitting CAPEX, and ensure projects are completed and capitalized on time.
- Control expenses: Approving PO’s limit R150k and monthly / weekly / daily reporting on expenses and inefficiencies in the value chain.
- Manage the full finance function on site through the implementation of financial controls aligned to SOP’s.
- HOD for Admin / Finance department on site (11 employees).
- Prepare budget and forecast for responsible sites.
- Budget management monthly / weekly / daily.
- Do GAP analysis on internal procedures and ensure that the policies are being followed.
- Calculate financial benefits for all Continuous Improvement projects and doing root cause analysis (using Lean Sigma tools) for obstacles / targets not achieved.
- Have weekly INVOCOM’s to track progress on site goals and targets.
- Top 5 Invocom Score in Bakery division
- Reduced returns on two routes saving R140k
- Total Continuous Improvement projects savings R3.7mil for two sites
Management Accountant
Tricon glass and aluminium
04.2014 - 08.2014
- Creating BOM’s on excel and calculating product cost.
- Do the full bookkeeping function on Quick books.
- Prepare monthly income statement and analyze variances to budget.
- Prepare the budget and forecast.
- Calculating GP’s (Gross Profit percentage) per customer.
- Establish efficient internal controls and procedures.
- Follow up on creditors queries.
- Stock control. Ensure that raw materials are bought based on demand to eliminate excess stock.
- Handling BEE Registration.
- Completing the VAT Reconciliation and submission to SARS.
- Build Costing Model on Excel
Assistant Plant Controller (Responsible for 2 sites)
Sonae Novobord
09.2012 - 03.2014
- Establish efficient internal controls and procedures. Assist the Internal Auditor on testing controls and procedures. Map new procedures where needed.
- Analyze results of control checks and do follow-up with Plant management to understand deviations.
- Perform monthly analysis on stock movements and follow up with management to understand abnormal movements.
- Coordinating stock counts by ensuring that all the housekeeping is done on the factory floor and on SAP.
- Identify excess stock and coordinating with the plant to reduce stock levels.
- Assist with preparing and analyzing management reports and business matrixes monthly to provide updated information for management decisions through the user of company systems such as Hyperion, SAP and Woodpro.
- Daily reporting of maintenance cost versus budget to management.
- Follow up on creditors queries.
- Monthly general ledger reconciliation, ensuring that cost is allocated to the correct accounts and provisions is up to date.
- Maintaining the asset register for the plant.
- Assisting in the budget preparation and monthly forecasting on fixed and variable cost.
- Assisting the plant manager on the CAPEX budget preparation.
- Ensuring that raw material cost and consumptions are correct by analyzing the cost and following up with management if there are any abnormal deviations.
- Run costing for products on SAP, and check that cost prices are correct.
- Month end closure on SAP (run WIP, close production orders, run cycles) and loading physical indicators on Hyperion.
- Calculations of overhead rates and load it on SAP.
- Maintaining material BOM’s on SAP.
- Classified obsolete / slow moving stock
- Improved stock count procedure on laminates
- Reduced sanding paper cost by identifying ideal usage per m3 with site management
Cost Accountant (Responsible for 4 sites)
Primador (Pty) Ltd
09.2006 - 08.2012
- Invoicing for customer deliveries and collections.
- Assisting customers on collections by coordinating with dispatch to get the stock ready.
- Preparing documents for customer credit requests and hand it over to the credit controllers. (Capture the request on SAP, attach the POD, invoice and header page)
- Manual document control. Ensuring that all manual documents is invoiced with the reference invoice attached to the documents.
- Controlling of invoice paper by assisting the filing clerk with the control numbers to ensure that no documents is missing.
- Standard product costing, costing of the raw materials by running costing runs before month end on SAP when supplier prices changes.
- ABC costing. Identify activities on the production floor and allocating labour and overhead cost to products.
- Cost center reporting, report on the direct cost of manufacturing. To determine if a department has over / under recovered overhead or labour cost for the MANCO team to drive efficiencies, also splitting indirect cost between sales, distribution and admin.
- Daily reporting of GP’s (Gross Profit percentage). Send the daily sales to the general managers with the GP’s. Products with low and high GP’s is highlighted for the managers.
- Forwarding the customer backorder to the employees, highlight overdue customer orders.
- Calculate and suggest customer sales prices to ensure profitability.
- Oversee stock control by running the IQR (Inventory quantity ratio) report, classifying stock as slow, fast, medium moving or obsolete. Report this monthly to the MANCO team.
- Driving stock levels, to reduce stock by sending the top 20 excess stock report to the relevant GM’s and follow up weekly if the actions have been followed.
- Coordinating stock counts by ensuring that all the housekeeping is done on the factory floor and on SAP. Making sure that the stock count policies and procedures is followed, and that everything is done according to the time schedule. Issuing count sheets to the production supervisors and making sure all the count sheets is captured on SAP. Report on the results of the stock count and on the procedures not followed.
- Updating bill of materials and routings (activities and standard times allocated to the products)
- Reporting on variances: PPV’s (Purchase price variances) Run this report weekly, follow up with the Group buyer on variances and why alternative suppliers was used, suggest better options to the buyer and report this to the MANCO team.
- Stock variances: Investigate stock variances and report on the variances for each store.
- Production variances: Weekly report on production variances for each production department to the MANCO team.
- Assisting on driving and maintaining of the MRP (material requirement planning) system by reporting weekly on materials bought and manufactured outside of MRP that has no demand, this increases stock. Maintaining the system by changing the max and min stock levels on request.
- Maintaining material master by ensuring that all the hierarchies is correct, creating of new material codes, the units of measure is correct or add alternative unit of measures.
- Member of the internal SAP support team in the group. Development of new processes and improvements on SAP.
- Assisting employees on SAP related queries and housekeeping.
- Monthly reporting on the procurement spend analysis.
- Mapping of the policies and procedures on Visio. Train staff on new policies and procedures.
- Implementing ABC Costing
- Improved stock count procedure – (reducing overtime cost)
Admin Clerk
Best Accounting Services
02.2006 - 08.2006
- Filing of the client documents (VAT forms, creditor’s documents, and UIF and SDL forms).
- Answering of the switchboard and taking messages.
- Complete PAYE forms and submit it to SARS.
- Collecting and delivering documents to clients.
- Handling of SARS related queries such as registrations of VAT, Tax clearance certificates, prosecutions and admissions of guilt.
Education
Matriculated - Afrikaans HG, English HG, Mathematics HG, Biology HG, Accounting HG, Computer Typing SG
Fochville High school
B-com - Financial Management
UNISA
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt - undefined
BMGI
Skills
Friendly, positive attitude
Problem-solving
Teamwork and collaboration
Profitability analysis
Cost control
Variance analysis
Financial budgeting and forecasting
P&L tracking
Profitability improvement
Problem-solving abilities
KPI management
Continuous improvement
Educational History
Fochville High school, 2005, Afrikaans HG, English HG, Mathematics HG, Biology HG, Accounting HG, Computer Typing SG (passed with distinction), UNISA, 2011, B-com Financial Management, BMGI, 2018, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
Contact Numbers - Cell
063 292 2455
Experience Years
18
Degree
Bcom Financial Management, 2011
Personal Information
- ID Number: 8710220144089
- Date of Birth: 10/22/87
- Gender: Female
- Driving License: Code B
Timeline
Commercial Management Control (Lactalis)
Sanulac Africa (Lactalis)
03.2023 - Current
Industrial Management Control
Clayville Nutritionals (Lactalis)
11.2019 - 03.2023
Site Accountant (2 Sites)
Premier Foods (Blue Ribbon)
08.2014 - 10.2019
Management Accountant
Tricon glass and aluminium
04.2014 - 08.2014
Assistant Plant Controller (Responsible for 2 sites)
Sonae Novobord
09.2012 - 03.2014
Cost Accountant (Responsible for 4 sites)
Primador (Pty) Ltd
09.2006 - 08.2012
Admin Clerk
Best Accounting Services
02.2006 - 08.2006
B-com - Financial Management
UNISA
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt - undefined
BMGI
Matriculated - Afrikaans HG, English HG, Mathematics HG, Biology HG, Accounting HG, Computer Typing SG
Fochville High school
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