Hendrik de Bruin

An experienced professional with 20 plus years' experience in various business functions with a focus on Supplier, Operations and IT Management. I am skilled in information and data extraction and transformation and how to utilise information in the development of tactical and operational solutions and standards that meets organisational and project requirements.

Student - Parttime Business Management Student

(2024)

Diploma in Business Management with BMT College

• Completed 2nd year June 2026
• Completed 1st Year July 2025

Contract Business Consultant - FWC Hospice

(2021 - 2025)

I was contracted to assist the Board and CEO with the rating and grading of the hospice with the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA). The first-round rating was 3 out 5 Stars. Key Activities were:

• Create and Implement various IT, Financial, Operational, HR and Risk Management Policies to ensure compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements with the HPCA.
• Design an Organisational wide risk register with appropriate response solutions.
• Implement IT BC/DR solutions and strategies to ensure organisational resilience.
• Moved critical software applications to cloud solutions to support BC/DR strategies.

Contract IT Consultant - MDR-PROJECTS

(2017 - 2019)

• Evaluate IT management strategy, processes, and infrastructure to identify areas for improvement and to recommend solutions.
• Designed secured information processes that ensured compliance with industry regulations and to protected sensitive information.

Office Manager - TERSIA KING LEARNING ACADEMY (Private School)

(2010 - 2016)

In this role I was responsible for the administration and support activities and was team leader for a team of 4 office support personnel and one IT technician. I collaborated with cross-functional teams to understand and fulfil compliance criteria and departmental and business needs.

• Ensured that service providers keep to their Service Level Agreements
• Accurate record keeping of Supplier contracts regarding renewal and expiration dates
• Responsible for purchasing function tasks including quotes, purchase orders and accounts payable.
• Oversee the fees collection process and compile weekly and monthly aged analysis reports
• Assemble, clean and organized large data sets, for various annual compliance reports.
• Designed dashboards and data visualizations to effectively communicate key trends and insights to executive leadership, leading to data-driven decision making and improved business performance.
• PAYE, UIF, SDL (EMP 201) and 3rd party payments for over 100 employees using Sage VIP Payroll.
• Dept of Labour UIF declarations and submissions.
• Bi-Annual and Annual Tax (EMP 501) reconciliation and statutory payroll requirements for SARS
• Annual HR Reports such as ETDP Seta WSP (Workplace Skills Plan) and ATR (Annual Training Report)
• Dept of Basic Education Annual Survey Report for Staff and learner totals
• Maintain IT Asset register, system documentation and configuration data for regulatory and audit purposes.
• Responsible for annual IT budget regarding upgrading and purchasing of hardware and software.
• Responsible for organisational wide IT services which included 3 Computer labs and the school Admin department totalling 110 Workstations and over 1500 Users
• Monitor systems for any anomalies and performed routine software updates and maintenance.
• Monitor Web filtering for all users browsing the Internet and restricting access as per business requirements.

Computer Literacy Educator - TERSIA KING LEARNING ACADEMY (Private School)

(2004 - 2010)

My primary function was to teach CAT (Computer Application Technology) from Gr10 to Gr12.

Wholesale Buyer / Sales assistant - Cash Converters

(2001 - 2003)

Program - Business Analysis - University of Pretoria (2015 - 2015)

Certificate - Project Management (2014 - 2014)

Certificate - Business Management (2013 - 2013)

Certificate - Human Resource Management (2012 - 2012)

Certificate - PC Support Engineer - Damelin (2000 - 2000)

Certificate - Network Support Engineer - Damelin (2000 - 2000)

Matriculation - University Exemption - Hoërskool Eldoraigne (1997 - 1997)