LEADERSHIP
INTRODUCING THIS YEAR’S
CFO AWARDS
NOMINEES On 14 May the 2020 winners of the prestigious CFO Awards will be announced at the annual “Oscars of the finance profession”. The winners will be selected from South Africa’s leading finance professionals. Here are the nominees for this year’s top accolade in the finance profession.
Angela Pillay: FD, Sasfin
Ashley Francis: Executive FD, UCT
Angela started her career at Arthur Anderson, but wanted to get into financial services so she moved to FNB, where she started in home loans and worked her way through various roles, including CFO for the Commercial Bank for four years, and balance sheet management. She then moved to Absa, where she became CFO of the Corporate Bank and gained international exposure through Barclays. She moved to Liberty as the CFO of Libfin for a short time before being approached for her current role as group FD of Sasfin. She is a CA(SA) and has a master’s degree in financial services with over 15 years of financial experience.
Ashley joined the University of Cape Town (UCT) in September 2013 in the interim capacity of finance executive. In 2015 he was selected as the finance director designate and assumed the official executive finance director position on 1 January 2016, making him the first black FD of UCT since its establishment in 1918. He also serves as a member of the finance, risk, joint venture, remuneration, and intellectual property advisory committees, and is responsible for managing the university’s risk, procurement and commercial development portfolios. In 2011 he founded Ashley Francis Consulting. Prior to this, he was the owner and MD at Biotech Fuels, a chief financial executive at the V&A Waterfront, financial manager at Irvin & Johnson, and management accountant of fish processing at Sea Harvest Corporation. He is a qualified CA(SA) with a CTA and a bachelor's in accounting science degree from the University of South Africa.
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