Job Title: CFO
Company: IEC
Dawn Mbatha was appointed as the CFO of the IEC (Electoral Commission of South Africa) in December 2020. She has also served as a non-executive board chair of Segokaku Transport and non-executive director of Cricket South Africa in that time.
She joined the IEC in 2019 as the interim CFO. Before that, she was the associate director of the TFR Consortium at the Department of Defence, as well as the interim CFO of the Road Agency Limpopo SOC.
Dawn started her career as an article clerk at SNG, and later became an audit manager. She was seconded to PwC Los Angeles as a senior associate, before returning to South Africa as an inspector for the Independent Regulating Board of Auditors. From 2015 to 2016 she was an audit partner at Ngubane & Co, and from 2016 until 2018 she was an audit committee member at the CATHSSETA (The Culture, Arts, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport Sector Education and Training Authority).
Dawn is a qualified chartered accountant and CTA with a BAccSc degree from the University of Pretoria. She has also completed her APT at the University of Johannesburg.
Dawn has been nominated for the 2024 CFO Awards for her work as the CFO of the IEC.
Work
2020 – Present Chief Financial Officer, IEC
2022 – 2023 Non-Executive Board Chair, Segokaku Transport
2020 – 2021 Non-Executive Director, Cricket South Africa
2019 – 2020 Interim Chief Financial Officer, IEC
2017 – 2019 Associate Director: TFR Consortium, Department of Defence
2017 – 2017 Interim Chief Financial Officer, Road Agency Limpopo SOC
2016 – 2018 Audit Committee Member, CATHSSETA
2015 – 2016 Audit Partner, Ngubane & Co
2014 – 2014 Inspector, IRBA
2012 – 2012 Senior Associate, PwC Los Angeles
2007 – 2013 Article Clerk & Audit Manager, SNG
Education
2008 APT, University of Johannesburg
CA(SA), SAICA
BAccSc, University of Pretoria
BCompt, Honours, (CTA), University of South Africa
About company: The Electoral Commission of South Africa is the country’s election management body, an indepnedent organisation established under chapter nine of the Constitution. It conducts elections to the National Assembly, provincial legislatures and municipal councils.
