Company History

SpecCon (Pty) Ltd was founded by Heinrich van der Westhuizen who from inception in 2013 is the Managing Director. He is an experienced Chartered Accountant registered as such with the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. He completed his B.Com Honours Degree specializing in Accounting, Auditing, Tax and Management Accounting at the University of Pretoria in 2004.  He has also completed various other post tertiary accounting qualifications including Advanced Financial Costing Management. Complimenting his qualification, Heinrich has over 10 years of corporate experience at senior management and executive committee levels.

Heinrich saw the need for a training solutions company during his work in senior management.  He noticed the shortage of necessary skills development in companies and soon realised that the lack of skills development affected the efficiency of the employees he managed.  He began teaching Microsoft Excel and designed a website to teach individuals Excel online for free.

To date Heinrich has trained very senior personnel from many well-known South African Companies. He has a proven track record in Training Excel at very advanced levels, including financial modelling and VBA coding. He is currently one of the world’s leading Financial Model builders and also a leading trainer in reconciliation programmes.

After training Excel for over 10 years, Heinrich noticed the difference training made to the quality of individuals’ work. Armed with this knowledge, he founded SpecCon for the purposes of taking training solutions to the next level. 

SpecCon (Pty) Ltd has developed into a formidable force. It initially developed the consultancy aspect of the business with a simple philosophy of ‘seeking to understand the businesses of organisations’, then providing ‘the fix it and train’ support staff regarding the needs of these organisation. This further developed towards onsite facilitation of a bouquet of computer, business related, soft skills and wellness courses available to the public, corporate and community.

Our Vision

Our vision is to provide business training solutions. These training solutions are focused on transforming businesses by providing individuals with the tools to improve effectiveness, efficiency and accuracy in their work. 

Our Mission

Our main mission is to providing training courses via various media of communication that enhance career development and facilitate improvement in business performance.  In doing so, our objective is to close the gap between employee skills needs and employee skills development.  We are determined to understand the needs of our clients and dedicate ourselves to the fulfulment of these needs.

Our Objectives

Our main mission is to providing training courses via various media of communication that enhance career development and facilitate improvement in business performance.  In doing so, our objective is to close the gap between employee skills needs and employee skills development.  We are determined to understand the needs of our clients and dedicate ourselves to the fulfulment of these needs.

1. Meeting the soft skills and financial skills training needs of individuals by way of skill assessment and goal based training;
   
   
2. Retaining new and current learners through level based training;
   
   
3. Adjusting our training courses as required according to clear outcomes and objectives;
   
   
4. Assessing learners prior to training and reassess students after completion of the training to record improvements;
   
   
5. Providing access to training online;
   
   
6. Providing specialised consultancy services designed to optimize company processes;
   
   
7. Developing our own staff by way of skills development programs and continual assessments of skills levels;
   
   
8. Maintaining financial balance by providing excellent value to our customers and a fair return to our shareholders.