Hilda Bujiku

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Job Title: Finance director

Company: Vodacom Tanzania

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Hilda Bujiku was appointed finance director of Vodacom Tanzania in January 2022.

She has been with the telecommunications provider since 2012, having moved briefly to Vodacom Lesotho in 2016 before returning to Vodacom Tanzania in 2018.

Hilda has over a decade of experience in leading finance functions and seeing teams through strategic and operational decision-making at market giants in Lesotho and Tanzania.

Prior to her senior roles at Vodacom, Hilda spent over five years at Millicom International Cellular Tanzania, which she joined after a one-year stint as an auditor at Ernst & Young (EY).

She holds a BCom in accounting from the University of Dar es Salaam and is a certified public accountant (CPA-T).

Work
2022 – Present finance director, Vodacom Tanzania
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022 deputy finance director, Vodacom Tanzania
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021 managing executive: financial planning & analysis and investor relations, Vodacom Tanzania
May 2016 - Sep 2018 finance director, Vodacom, Vodacom Lesotho
Dec 2014 - Apr 2016 finance business partner: commercial, Vodacom Tanzania
May 2014 - Nov 2014 acting finance director, Vodacom Tanzania
Mar 2012 - Apr 2014 head of financial planning and reporting, Vodacom Tanzania
Nov 2010 - Feb 2012 financial controller, Millicom International Cellular, Tanzania
Jun 2007 - Oct 2010 compliance manager, Millicom International Cellular, Tanzania
Dec 2005 - May 2007 assistant reporting manager, Millicom International Cellular, Tanzania
Aug 2004 - Nov 2005 auditor, Ernst & Young (EY)

Education
2005: certified public accountant
2001 - 2004: BCom, accounting, University of Dar es Salaam

Vodacom Tanzania
Vodacom Tanzania is a telecommunications company that provides a wide range of services for consumers and enterprises including voice, data, messaging, financial services and enterprise solutions. It was listed on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange on 15 August 2017. Vodacom Tanzania and its subsidiaries are majority owned by Vodacom Group, a company registered in South Africa, which is in turn owned by UK-based Vodafone Group.

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