Hardy Maritz
Speaker
Hardy Maritz
Director: Group Finance
University of Cape Town
Hardy is a finance professional with a 22-year track record in higher education leadership, with wide ranging experience in financial management, cash flow planning and forecasting, planning more generally, governance, systems and projects, executive support and training, negotiations of all types and communication with a variety of stakeholders.
Hardy’s sector experience, involvement and leadership has included producing academic viability models for the University of Venda and the Tshwane University of Technology, leading a HESA/USSaF and Finance Executive Forum team in designing a fee setting guideline and process for South African institutions, starting the benchmarking of local institutions project with colleagues from WITS and UJ, playing a role in negotiating the setting up and contractual arrangements in respect of the University Sports Company and serving on the Board as well as Chairing the Audit and Risk Committee of Tertiary Education and Research Networks of South Africa (TENET).
He has also in his time at UCT, served on an extensive number of committees dealing with a variety of issues that impact on all facets of the organisation.
Hardy was also instrumental in managing, implementing and transitioning to the current structure of devolved finance managers in units, including their reporting lines and co-management arrangements with unit heads. He also undertook a Master’s Degree at UCT and has to date successfully completed all coursework. The current UCT Management Accounting and User Support function grew under his guidance and leadership and has become a unit whose advice and involvement in many varied aspects of activities, operations and finance at UCT are sought out.
At the start of 2016, Hardy was appointed as the Director: Group Finance for UCT and his portfolio has been expanded to include taking line management responsibility for Financial Accounting, Debtors, Treasury and Banking as well as retaining Management Accounting.
Presentation:
Pay and Connect | Day one