Driané De Bruyn

• Tracked orders and notified customers of status or potential delays.
• Trained new employees on logistics procedures, promoting a consistent approach across the team.
• Collaborated with sales and customer service teams to address client concerns and expedite orders when necessary.
• Ensured compliance with industry regulations, reducing the risk of fines or penalties.
• Visualize and facilitate logistics of the warehouse, transportation.
• Supervise and organize orders of raw materials.
• Coordinate and monitor operations of the supply chain.
• Optimize procedures with logistics IT.
• Track final product shipments, costs, and timelines according to requirements.
• Track final product shipments, costs, and timelines according to requirements.
• Resolve shipment and inventory issues.
• Keep detailed, organized records of orders and stock.
• Prepare accurate reports according to the expectations of upper management.
• Analyze data and suggest modifications and improvements accordingly.
• Adhere to all safety standards, regulations, laws, and policies.
• Support with inventory

● Trade on SAFEX (JSE platform)

● Tracking the market performance at domestic and international scales

● Buying and selling goods at a price the client agrees on

● Providing advice to clients about buying, selling, or investing

● Analyzing various reports about the market

● Developing strategies for investment

● Visiting shippers, producers, or retailers in domestic and international settings

● Operating tools and platforms for trading

● Understanding and developing futures contracts

● Communicating with clients throughout the trading process

● Maintaining professional relationships with clients

• Entered data, generated reports, and produced tracking documents.
• Improved team productivity with regular communication and progress updates, fostering a collaborative work environment.
• Enhanced operational workflows by maintaining well-organized documentation systems and updating records accurately as needed.
• Gathered and organized materials to support operations.

• Responsibilities include: Daily Derivatives reconciliation
• Logistic duties
• Derivative trading assistance
• Monitor transit lists
• Follow up if trucks have been loaded / unloaded
• Make sure shipments and delivery weights are monitored daily and completed
• Ensure transit is complete and correct so that the queries are correct
• Send freight confirmations to carriers
• Handle client queries / resolve / give feedback
• Daily communication with customers
• Credit Applications
• Opening and sending out of sales contracts
• Link Safex Positions in Trade Assistant
• Complete sales sheet regularly
• Allocate changes to Safex pricing directly on the Safex module
• Collect signed sales contracts
• Invoice Ex silo stock on sales invoice and transfer
• Booking in of loads when delivered at download points
• Create loads on dashboard
• Transfer of weights for internal contracts
• Monitor that sales transactions are successful
• Submit status of contract progress
• Control over sub-deliveries and communicate with Marketer
• Repurchase of stock on time
• Load transport bills: Claims / Tariffs / Corrections / Prices
• Debtors: Check and manage debtors to stay within limits and terms before delivery
• Debtors: Monitor daily for current invoices / problems / payment terms
• Handle any dispute about freight and communicate to relevant parties, Communicate risk of disputes to Risk Manager, Trader and Finance
• Upload and invoice extra costs arising from disputes
• Handle client queries / resolve / give feedback
• Avoid Credit notes and motivate with driver / marketer
• Collect POD's and electronic filing
• Provide assistance for Nedbank Audit
• Review commissions + Store final version
• Update BDT Income Balance Book
• Inform Risk Management of any Margin Calls
• Check payments and new clients list
• Help to retrieve calls and execute client instructions
• Reporting of client transactions on request (Polar Star)
• Compile BDT Performance report and distribute to management
• Handling of all admin and trading instructions at the request of Johann or clients
• Handling of extraordinary admin tasks on request
• Handle registration process of BDT clients
• Handle client payments and withdrawals
• Outsourcing of SG & SG Other Products Open Sales & Monitor of Sales Sheet
• Daily communication with carriers regarding routes / tariffs / future contracts, Arrange / coordinate between carrier, Arrange / coordinate loading barges at silos, Arrange / coordinate with loading and unloading points
• Invoice sales
• Invoice transport billing invoice
• Invoice and transfer Ex silo stock sales
• Repurchase stock in time that has been financed
• Logistics management
• File sales invoices, collect PODs and do electronic filing
• Load Cons: Compile and check weekly IDs, load, offload points and tariffs
• Management of Silo Stock Levels as well as Farming Stock Levels
• Build relationships with new customers as well as carriers.

• Responsibilities include: Timely and Accurately trade capture in CTRM system
• In charge of the daily follow up and maintenance of all Positions (past and forward, including but not limited to Market-to-Market valuation and PNL exposure)
• Assure proper internal communication between desks through (Front Office, Operations, Product Control, Finance and Freight desks
• Provide support to traders on a daily basis in the preparation and verification of position reporting
• (exposure and PNL)
• Responsible for daily maintenance of open positions (physical trade applications, paper trade allocations, wash out proposals, Market-to-Market curve rolling/modifications, market daily prices verification and upload)
• Concentrate pricing responsibility: daily coordination of pricing to be done (versus cash), validity check of fixing orders, daily broker statement reconciliation and capture of executed orders
• Daily Derivatives reconciliation
• Meet requests for ad-hoc information.

• Responsibilities include: Management of contract positions & data flow
• Position Reporting
• Ensuring the documentation of contract flow is in place; signed contracts received, contract completely and accurately recorded
• Ensuring recording of all transactions are updated on daily basis
• Stock reconciliations
• Storage & handling reconciliations
• Problem solving essential
• Invoicing and preparation for payments
• Ad-hoc reporting to traders and senior management
• Agent Trade Support
• Farming Support.

• Responsibilities include: Banking
• Purchase orders
• Capture of invoices
• Recon of Creditors
• Payments
• Recon of Cash up’s
• Recon of Stock
• Recon Bank statements
• Reporting for Director’s
• HR Duties
• Salaries & Wages
• Forecasting Income and Expenses.

• Responsibilities include: Providing quality service customers through undertaking risk assessment analysis of various types of lending proposals
• Analyzing financial information, such as statements, management accounts and cash flow statements
• Assessing the credit worthiness of client companies
• Advising and recommending changes to policies and procedures
• Liaising with other staff within the company, such as account managers and product specialists
• Helping to ensure that procedures comply with sector standards
• Staying informed about the legal compliance and market-risk-related issues involved in the approval of credit
• Analysis paying habits of customers who are delinquent in payment of bills and recommends action: Reviews files to select delinquent accounts for collection efforts
• Evaluates customer records and recommend that account be closed, credit limit reduced or extended or collection attempted based on earnings and savings data, payment history and purchase activity of customer
• Confers with representatives of credit associations and other businesses to exchange information concerning credit rating and forwarding addresses
• Interviews customers in person or by telephone to investigate complaints verify accuracy of charges or to correct errors in accounts
• Drafting of financing quotes and contracts
• Compilation of special provisions and monitoring there of
• Managing limits and limit Increases/decreases
• Recruitment of new clients
• Grain and dividend payouts, credit life insurance & Safex and Silo certificates
• Reason for leaving: Husband got relocated to Cape Town.

• Responsibilities included: Encoding of invoices
• Reconciliation of creditor accounts
• Ledgers
• Payment of creditor accounts
• Handling and problem solving on invoices
• Ensure stock received at branches
• Handling of enquiries.

• Responsibilities included: Debit and Credit control
• Reconciliation of accounts
• Completion of application forms
• Communication with clients and personnel
• Handling of personnel accounts
• Credit control and administrative tasks
• Control of credit limits.

• Responsibilities included: Secretary/Accounting
• Work on switchboard
• Filing
• Bank Reconciliation
• Data Capture
• Send & Receive E-Mail
• Handling the mail
• Customer Service
• Credit & Debit controlling
• Preparing accounts and statements for audit
• Reason for leaving: Retrenched.

• Responsibilities included: Diary entries
• Arrangements for directors & family traveling
• Hospital/Medical
• Personal Banking & Credit Card Reconciliations
• Appointments
• Domestic Arrangements
• Personal Filing & Record keeping
• Office Management
• Troubleshooting for computer problems
• Research for new applications, Networking, Hard & software
• Telecommunication, Mobile, Blackberry
• Admin, Mail, Filing, Diarizing, Stationery
• Accounting, Salaries
• Reason for leaving: Came back to South Africa.

• Responsibilities included: Control and maintain of properties residential (Levy charges, electricity, security and garden maintenance)
• Work on switchboard
• Filing
• Bank Reconciliation
• Data Capture
• Send & Receive E-Mail
• Handling the mail
• Customer Service
• Credit & Debit controlling
• Reason for leaving: Went to work in London.