Eunice Waweru, Finance and Strategy director of Uganda Breweries Limited, recently engaged in a conversation with CFO East Africa, discussing her career journey, cultural differences across African countries, and the legacy she aspires to leave.

Despite starting his career as a graduate accountant trainee, Richard Tobiko, the chief financial officer for Nation Media Group, actually began working in operations on site.

MTN Uganda CFO Andrew Bugembe believes that monetary policy and decreasing global inflation will keep inflation levels to around 5 percent in the third quarter - and augment the telecommunication provider’s performance.

ICEA LION General Insurance CFO Zipporah Chege’s journey to leading a finance function was undoubtedly shaped by her upbringing.

MTN Rwanda expects an improvement in EBITDA margins in the forthcoming quarters with the implementation of its expense efficiency programme (EEP) and the launch of its own 4G network. This is according to Mark Nkurunziza, MTN Rwanda’s chief finance officer, who was commenting on the company’s first quarter results.

Dilip Pal, the CFO of Safaricom, is a highly educated and extremely experienced professional who has led finance functions on two of the largest continents in the world.

Saket Mohta has taken on the role of Regional Finance director: Africa & Middle East, for Bata Group. As a senior finance executive, Saket moves into his new role after a two-year tenure as Bata South Africa's Finance director.

Taking a sabbatical and working with an executive coach after spending a number of years working in audit, finance, strategy and general management ranks among the best decisions that Allan Wainaina, the CFO of Telkom Kenya, has made.

Moses G. Kuria has been promoted to Group CFO at CarePay International. Prior to his promotion, Moses was the MD of M-TIBA, CarePay International’s subsidiary in Kenya, which was launched in 2015 in partnership with Safaricom, M-PESA and PharmAccess.

Diversification strategy pays off for KCB Group, with the Rwandan business amalgamation resulting in the creation of the second-largest bank in the market.

Wangeci Kanjama has left the role of M-PESA Africa FD to take on the position of director of Partnerships and Special Projects at the mobile money transfer provider, effective May 2023.

Telecom records substantial profit amid competitive pressures, local and global market dynamics. Vodacom Tanzania finance director Hilda Bujiku went into the detail during a recent conference call.

Yusuf Omari, who has been serving as interim MD and CEO of Absa Bank Kenya, has returned to his role as CFO.

Veteran policymaker Kamau Thugge has been appointed governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK).

Equity Bank is set to become the second largest bank in Rwanda, based on its intention to acquire Cogebanque, with Equity Holdings CEO James Mwangi seeing growth opportunity in the unpenetrated financial services sector.

Eugene Antera has taken on the role of group CFO at Bamburi Cement, effective 1 June 2023. He has been with parent company, Holcim, since 2007.

Miriam Kaggwa was earlier this year appointed as the CFO of WPP-Scangroup. She has extensive experience in the marketing and communications industry in North America, the United Kingdom and emerging markets.

"I get to focus on the commercial side of the business and partner with our commercial leaders – which is the fun stuff and what I truly love to do.”

CFO highlights the things that worked well in enabling her transition from banking to brewing.