Wiehann Joubert takes CFO role at DRA Global

Ang Lloyd 09 December 2024

Wiehann Joubert moves from acting CFO to permanent position.

DRA Global, an international engineering, project delivery and operations management group within the mining, minerals and metals industries, announced Wiehann Joubert as its new CFO, effective 1 December 2024.

Wiehann served as acting CFO since May 2024, when he took over in an interim capacity following CFO Michael Sucher stepping down to pursue other opportunities.

Prior to becoming DRA Global’s acting CFO, Wiehann was the GM of management reporting and business partnering. He has been with DRA Global since 2018, when he joined as regional finance manager for the group’s Africa projects.

Wiehann has over 17 years’ experience in finance, including executive and senior audit management roles at KalTire and PwC, respectively. He is a chartered accountant and holds a master’s in international accounting from the University of Johannesburg.

Ang Lloyd

Ang is a senior writer for CIO South Africa, CHRO South Africa and CFO South Africa. She's been working with words since completing her BA in journalism from Rhodes University in 2004, and she has experience in the B2B and consumer magazine spaces, digital marketing, and writing for the C-Suite. She has a special interest in technology and how it impacts humans, but most of all, she just loves telling people’s stories (she's won awards for some of them). In 2020, she felt like she needed another piece of paper so she completed her honours in journalism at Wits University.

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