My name is Manqoba Manana, a Finance Manager (Business consultant) with over 17 years’ finance (business and strategy) experience in the banking, insurance (Bancassurance), fiduciary space (Wealth cluster) and complex financial services. I'm energetic, a fast learner and work well within a team. I was retrenched in 2019 from my role of Group Finance Manager, where I led the entire Finance operations team having a total a staff component of 19 people with 2 direct reports in the department. I have since started my own consulting business. My reporting lines across all roles that I have occupied have been the Finance Director (CFO), Managing Directors (CE) and business executives (Heads). This highlights my ability of supporting as well as interacting with stakeholders at a senior or executive level. I have a BCom, am finalising my Honours (2 modules left), and currently also reading for the Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting Sciences (CTA), with an expected completion date of November 2021. I have extensive experience in Bancassurance having acquired eight (8) years of my financial management expertise in this space: • A total of 3 years at STANLIB Asset Management (Investments and Wealth), and an • Additional 5 years at Standard Bank Insurance Services (SBIS): both Standard Bank Insurance Brokers (SBIB) and Standard Insurance Limited (SIL) which is the underwriter, as well as Fiduciary services. This experience has broadened by knowledge of financial controls, strategic management, stakeholder engagement and risk management which are key pillars for an effectively functioning organisation. My strengths are analytics (financial), report writing, financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting (both revenue and expenditure), minute taking, project management, sustainability & governance reporting and relationship building. I believe that I’ll be an asset to your organisation as a result of my work experience, hard-work ethic as well as unconventional thinking ability. I'm also a solutions driven individual which means that I exhaust all possible efficient avenues in pursuit of an ideal or suitable solution to a problem. I have sound knowledge of all regulations pertaining to the accounting and finance field such as IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards), PFMA, FAIS, FSB, Basel and the King Report on Corporate Governance. Should you require any further information or elaboration on certain aspects of this narration, please do not hesitate to contact me on my mobile: (***)-***-**** or via my email: ****@*****.*** I am ready to provide excellent service to your organisation, and looking forward to discussing the role & my qualifications in further detail with you.