Profile: Marinus Coetzee, CA and Streamline Power User

Marinus Coetzee, an astounding character with a hidden passion for earthworms, music, biking, reading, and running, is one of Streamline’s oldest and most outspoken advocates. His life has taken him on many different routes and he has gained experience in a vast number of fields.

He tells us in an interview on 15 February that he grew up in the East Rand and studied journalism at Pukke. After graduating, he worked for Beeld for a few years while he studied accounting after-hours. He finished his studies and qualified as a Chartered Accountant and Auditor while working for Fluid Kayaks in 2006 and here he came across Streamline for the first time. Afterwards, he moved to Rustenburg and started his own practice before he joined Peugeot Citroën SA as Head of Finance.

He has recently started working for himself again, focusing on forensic investigations, international tax and acting as outsourced CFO for medium-sized companies. Although things change, the one thing that will remain the same is that he will still use Streamline as his workflow and process manager. He says that “Streamline brings everything together”, and where other people use “grand apps” for every specific need, “Streamline’s strength lies in the fact that it does my instant messaging, workflow, email sorting, archiving, task scheduling, processes, database management - and the integration of all these things - all in one place.” Marinus says that he “can’t understand how corporates can still work with paper - it is chaos!”

We are proud to announce that Streamline will be collaborating with Marinus and two other Accounting and Tax Practitioner firms in 2021 to build ‘Streamline for Accountants’. Over the years we have come to realise that the accounting industry is complex and very process-driven, and that the Streamline workflow engine is a perfect solution for their needs and challenges. (Interested? Email us This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

We wish Marinus good luck with his new endeavours and thank him for his fierce support and contribution over the years.