| Steinhoff’s various global corporate offices
provide strategic direction and services to
the decentralised operations globally, adding
value through identifying and implementing
our various strategies across the globe. In
particular, the specialised skills required to
manage the group’s brands, investments
and treasury activities are managed centrally.
This has been done in order to secure the
best possible utilisation and returns from
these assets and activities and manage the
risk inherent in these activities. |
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| Financial management |
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Our financial management department
implements and oversees procedures which
must be followed in preparing financial
reports and tax assessments. It also ensures
that adequate risk control measures are
in place. This includes proper insurance
cover for directors’ liability, product liability,
general liability, motor liability, business
interruption, credit default debts, and the
group’s assets. |
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| Internal control and audit |
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The internal control and audit department is
mainly responsible for independent financial,
internal control and operational system
reviews and audits. This department also
evaluates and assesses risk management
processes and internal control frameworks. This includes financial and non-financial
controls over all processes in the group
contributing to the achievement of
organisational objectives. |
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| Human resources |
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Human resources are generally managed
through regional divisions. The group’s head
of human resources receives reports from
each division which, in turn, receives reports
from each operating unit.
We currently have succession-planning
procedures in place for management and
senior employees. These contingency plans
include, when required, outside recruitment,
selection and assessment procedures and
proper training for successor employees. In
accordance with South African legislation,
human resources also implements and
oversees training programmes to ensure that
historically disadvantaged employees receive
specific training and development. |
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| Information technology |
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Information technology decisions and dayto-
day management within the group are
managed at regional level and are overseen
centrally by group services IT management.
Although implementation, roll out, and
subsequent maintenance and support are
conducted at regional level, group services IT management conducts regular on-site visits
to evaluate system performance and future
development plans.
Given the disparate operational requirements
and variety in infrastructure between the
different regions and industries where we
operate, we have decided not to implement
a single platform or application solution.
We have, however, implemented a
worldwide standard to which all our divisions
must comply, with certain guidelines, when
implementing any form of
new technology. |
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| Legal |
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| We currently have 11 licensed legal counsel.
They are all actively involved in internal issues,
such as drafting agreements, and oversight
of the group’s statutory and legal reporting
requirements. Country-specific matters are
outsourced to accredited practitioners. |
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| Strategic development |
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Our strategic development is driven by
management at regional division level, who
develop proposals for possible joint ventures,
mergers and acquisitions, special projects
and potential growth areas and expansion of
current divisions.
These initiatives are supported by different
members with specified skills
and expertise. |
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| Tax |
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| We have formed an in-house tax department
to ensure compliance worldwide. |
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| Technical support |
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| Group services provides technical support in
connection with factory layouts, plant and
equipment procurement as well as advice on
production processes to enhance efficiencies. |
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| Treasury services |
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| Our treasury services department organises
adequate funding to enable us to explore
or realise strategic opportunities and
developments. Based on feasibility reports
and decisions on a particular opportunity,
we decide whether and what type of funding
to procure, manage and maintain. |
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| FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Michael Angeles (35), BComm, ACA | Nadine Bird (27) CA(SA) | Stuart Crichton (27), BBus (Acc) | Judy Davey (46) | Bradley Drutman (34), CA(SA), ACA | Michael Eggers (35), MBA | Pieter Le Roux (28), CA(SA) | Mariza Nel (34), BComm, ACMA (United Kingdom)
Frans Olivier (28), CA(SA) | Iwan Schelbert (45), BAcc | Dirk Schreiber (36), MBA | Lynette Tredoux (42), BCompt (Hons), CTA | Rod Urbina (38), ACA |
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| INTERNAL CONTROL AND AUDIT Jan Opperman (49), CA(SA) | Dries de Wet (37), BTech Cost and Management Accountancy, Nat | Joan Murphy (40), BSc (Hons), Grad Dip Pers Trng Mgmt, | CIPD (United Kingdom), AHRI | Christine Polson (33), Dip HR Mgmt |
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| HUMAN RESOURCES Johan Geldenhuys (51), BA (Hons), MBA | Tina Jakeman (51), MSc | Dianne Jones (47), Dip Teach, Dip Empl Rel, AHRI | Elwira Makareinis (51), Diploma Personnel Management | Katarzyna Miskiewicz (35), MBA | Dorota Siedziniewska (40),
Graduate Personnel Management | Michael Stadie (48), Economics Training | Debbie Batley (CIPD) | Heather Blacker (CIPD) | Helen Brown BA (Hons) | Linda Handsford MSc (HR) LLM | Tina Jakeman (CIPD) | Noel Jolly | Kate Morris | Rachel Wheeler (CIPD)
Mhaire Holway | Helen George (Dipl HR) | Elwina Makareinis (MBA) | Kataryne Miskiewicz | Themba Liyolo (Exec Mgf Programme) | Thandi Medija | Theuns Mierie (BTech Cum Laude) | Craig Steward | Anita Borsos |
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| INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Enrico Liebenberg (51), BComm | Theo Finkeldey (39) Certification Business Administration and Operations | Jürgen Henze (43) | Clive Nichols (33) Bachelor of Applied Science
Steven Rookes (46) HTEC in Electrical/Electronic Systems | Mark Andrew Spicer (43) Certificate in IT anc Computing | Jacques van Wyk (39) | Steven Webster (42) HND Public Administration |
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| INTERNATIONAL SOURCING Gavin van der Merwe (47) Marketing Director BA, HDipCS, MBL |
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| LEGAL Marie-Aurelie Girard (39), BA, LLB | Hans-Ulrich Bussas (52), BComm, BProc | Kotie Engelbrecht (35) Corp Law (Certificate) | Gesche Hannig (32), BLaw | Julia Pajkert (28), BLaw | Shaun Pelser (36), BLC, LLB | Rod Simpson (30), BEc, LLB, Solicitor, F Fin (Aust) |
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| CORPORATE SERVICES AND STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT Theo de Klerk (38), BComm (Hons), CTA, HDip Tax | Ben la Grange (33), CA(SA) | Nico Sieberts (47), CA(SA) |
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| TAX Philip Robinson (32), CA(SA) | Yvette Boshoff (33), CA(SA) | Werner Smal (34), CA(SA) |
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| TECHNICAL SUPPORT Ray Cox (65), Dip Mgmt | Wayne McNamara (38), Nat Dip Indus Eng | Philip Naude (29), MBA |
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| TECHNICAL SUPPORT Ray Cox (65), Dip Mgmt | Wayne McNamara (38), Nat Dip Indus Eng | Philip Naude (29), MBA |
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| TREASURY SERVICES Helmut Apel (43), SAIFM | Raj Bhardwaj (36), BBus, ACA |
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| OTHER SERVICES Derrik Matthew (59), (Corporate Branding), Dip Marketing and Bus Management | Gareth McFarlane (47), (Africa credit), BA (Hons), CIS, MBL | Oliver Störk (42), (Central Service), Degree Bus Admin |
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