Clarissa Appana

Clarissa Appana was appointed the group CFO of Tracker South Africa in 2023 after taking a break from her career for a year to take care of her family during post-Covid-19. Before that she was the group country CFO for LafargeHolcim South Africa for two years. 

Her career started at PwC South Africa, where she served as an audit clerk and later as an audit manager. She was appointed as the senior group statutory accountant at Sasol in 2007, and briefly worked for Bateman Engineering as a group financial accountant from 2010 until 2011. After that, she joined Tenova, where she stayed for nine years in various financial roles, including FD from 2013 until 2015. She was appointed group head of compliance and internal audit, where she stayed for five more years.

Work
2023 – Present    Group Chief Financial Officer, Tracker South Africa
2020 – Present    Independent Non-Executive Director, Sygnia Asset Management
2022 – 2023         Career Break
2020 – 2022         Group Country Chief Financial Officer, LafargeHolcim South Africa
2015 – 2020         Group Head: Compliance and Internal Audit, Tenova
2013 – 2015         Financial Director, Tenova Mining and Minerals South Africa
2011 – 2012         Group Financial Manager, Tenova
2010 – 2011         Group Financial Accountant, Bateman Engineering
2007 – 2010         Senior Group Statutory Accountant, Sasol
2007 – 2007         Senior Manager, PwC South Africa
2005 – 2007         Audit Manager, PwC
2002 – 2004         Audit Clerk, PwC South Africa

Education
2004 – 2004        CA(SA), SAICA
2002 – 2002        CTA, University of Johannesburg
2001 – 2001        BCom, Honours, University of KwaZulu-Natal
1997 – 2000        BCom, University of KwaZulu-Natal

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