Job Title: Chief financial officer
Company: MTN Uganda
Andrew Bugembe is the CFO of MTN Uganda.
He has spent almost two decades in the telecommunications sector in Africa, having led finance functions for MTN in Ghana, Congo and Liberia. In September 2023, Andrew also took on a non-executive director role at MTN South Sudan.
Andrew holds a master’s in commerce from the University of Wollongong and has completed Harvard Business School’s Leadership for Senior Executives programme.
Work
Sep 2023 - Present: non-executive director, MTN South Sudan
Apr 2020 - Present: chief financial officer/Board Member, MTN Uganda
Aug 2016 - Mar 2020: chief financial officer/board member, MTN Congo
Oct 2014 - Jul 2016: chief financial officer, Lonestar Cell/MTN Liberia
Mar 2013 - Sep 2014: general manager Financial Planning & Analysis, MTN Ghana
May 2010 - Feb 2013: general manager financial operations, MTN Ghana
Apr 2009 - Apr 2010: senior manager financial operations, MTN Uganda
Jan 2006 - Mar 2009: financial manager, MTN Uganda
Education
1997 - 1997: Master of Commerce (Management Accounting), University of Wollongong
March 2022: Leadership for Senior Executives 2022, Harvard Business School
MTN Uganda
MTN Uganda is a Ugandan telecommunications operator with the strategic intent of providing telecommunications and digital solutions for Uganda’s progress. x
MTN has a presence in all 134 districts and has approximately 16.7 million customers, 1,048 employees, 150,000 mobile money agents, 200 service stores and 14 main distributors.
In 2021, MTN become the largest local listed company on Uganda Securities Exchange worth UGX 4 trillion.
