Job Title: FD
Company: Johnson Matthey
Kevin Simons ws appointed FD of Johnson Matthey South Africa in June 2019. He began his career as the senior manager of finance at Nambiti Consulting, before becoming an independent consultant for Arcay Moela and EOH. In 2009 he founded Simons and Maggs Consulting, which provided financial management and corporate finance services to inter alia, Government, Abacus, SAB&T and MTN. He also served as the head of finance for Abacus Advisory until 2012, when he joined Sasol Group as the finance manager. He was responsible for Sasol Group Services, Sasol Energy, Sasol Oil, Sasol Chemicals, a number of international group holding and finance companies, as well as special projects such as Sasol’s gas processing and pipeline facilities in Mozambique and South Africa, and the proposed GTL in Louisiana, USA. In 2015 he was appointed as the manager of governance and special projects for Sasol Energy. He is a qualified CA (SA) and he has a BCom. Honours from UNISA.
Work
2017 - Present Chief Financial Officer, AEP Energy Africa
2017 - Present Chief Financial Officer, Destiny Corporation Management Services
2015 - Present Non-Executive Director, Enabliq Group
2015 - 2017 Manager of Governance and Special Projects, Sasol Energy
2012 - 2015 Finance Manager, Sasol Group
2011 - 2012 Head of Finance, Abacus Advisory
2011 - 2012 CEO, Simons and Associates
2009 - 2012 Founder, Simons and Maggs Consulting
Independent Consultant, EOH
Independent Consultant, Arcay Moela
Senior Manager of Finance, Nambiti Consulting
1998 - 2000 Auditor, Arthur Andersen
Education CA(SA)
B.Com Hons (RAU), Accounting, UNISA
About Johnson Matthey: Johnson Matthey is a British multinational speciality chemicals and sustainable technologies company.
