Benjamin Van As – Senior-level Advisory and Business professional based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Benjamin has a 20 yr + track record in Consulting and Advisory of which 11 years were spent with Deloitte & Deloitte Consulting. He has worked on a variety of projects including but not limited to high-profile or international, large-scale programmes and projects, dealing with diverse organisations, incl. listed local, international companies, medium and smaller private companies down to corporate start-up and SPVs and PPPs, as well as public entities in different countries. Keen interest in Start-ups, Corporate Business Improvement and turn-around, Strategy, Innovation, Disruption, all things Digital and Mega-projects/events or Public Private Partnerships / PPPs.
Analytic problem-solver, able to deal with complexity and ambiguity, add value and interact at an executive level. Demonstrated managerial and technical skills including, but not limited to Strategic, Commercial as well as Operational delivery, Business Improvement & Cost reduction, Regulatory Compliance & Governance, Complex project advisory from inception through to implementation and close-out/wind-down, Transaction Advisory for Public-Private-Partnerships (PPPs) and commercial procurement transactions, Procurement including Tender- and Contract implementation and Contract management from conception to contract closeout, Managing WIP and Financial cycles from requisition to payment, as well as planning, implementing and executing Mega-sport events or National/Regional Operational Contracts, across both private and public organisations with international & national level focus. Adept at building and managing relationships/stakeholder management, developing and putting processes in place to improve efficiencies, budget and cost control, developing controls and risk management, IT system specification development, system testing and implementation, successfully managing large budgets, scrubbing, merging and analysing data.
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