Bennie van Rooy 2016 Speaker

Chief Financial Officer – Land Bank

Land & Agricultural Bank of South Africa

Biography

Bennie is a qualified chartered accountant with diverse financial, executive management and entrepreneurial skills. His personality and professional skills are geared to add value to an environment that is growing and expanding. He is an excellent enabler of ambitious businesses and individuals embarking on a growth path.

After matriculating in 1993, Bennie completed his B.Com (cum laude) degree at the North-West University (Potchefstroom campus) in 1996 and Hons. B.Com degree at the University of Pretoria in 1997.

He completed his internship at PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2000, where he specialised primarily in IT, Construction and Engineering industries.

He further obtained experience in mergers and acquisitions as well as a variety of risk and financial management disciplines at Barclays Africa (Absa Bank) during a 6-year career. His positions included:

• Investment risk manager,
• Risk Manager: Africa, where he was responsible for the risk management function of Absa’s African subsidiaries in Mozambique and Tanzania,
• Regulatory Reporting specialist,
• Credit Risk Executive in the credit risk reporting function,
• Head: Balance Sheet Management,
• Head: Capital Management and Funding.

Bennie was appointed to the position of Group Financial Director of the JD Group (a JSE listed diversified retail and consumer finance business) with effect from 1 May 2010 and held this position until March 2013.

He was then promoted to the position of Chief Executive Officer of JD Consumer Finance (a division of the JD Group), a Johannesburg-based business consisting of a R10bn lending business, Contact Centre, two insurance-licensed entities and approximately 7,000 staff members until from March 2013 to February 2014.

He joined the Land Bank with effect from 8 June 2015 as Chief Financial Officer.

He has a strong track record of successes that include the restructuring of bank and corporate Balance sheets, successfully implementing SAP, product development (debt and consumer finance assets and insurance products), mergers and acquisitions, developing and promoting talented staff to executive positions, implementing innovative funding and debt structures and the implementation of the Basel II capital management principles in Absa Bank.