Job Title: CFO
Company: Equites Property Fund
Laila’s career started young as she helped out at her grandfather’s butchery on Saturday mornings. In 2010, she received her BSc degree from the University of Cape Town, and the year after she was an assistant lecturer at the same university.
In 2012, Laila did her articles with PwC, and in 2013 she became an assistant manager of transaction services at PwC South Africa. In 2015, she was appointed a strategic analyst at Virgin Active before joining Equites Property Fund that same year as a financial manager. She’s since then stayed with Equites Property Fund and has served as executive of group finance, interim CFO and currently as CFO.
She also serves as a director on the board of the Michel Lanfranchi Foundation, which is funded by Equites, through which she advocates for education and representation.
Work
2020 – Present Chief Financial Officer, Equites Property Fund
2020 – 2020 Interim Chief Financial Officer, Equites Property Fund
2016 – 2020 Executive: Group Finance, Equites Property Fund
2015 – 2016 Financial Manager, Equites Property Fund
2015 – 2015 Strategic Analyst, Virgin Active
2013 – 2015 Assistant Manager: Transaction Services, PwC South Africa
2012 – 2013 Trainee Accountant, PwC
2011 – 2011 Assistant Lecturer, University of Cape Town
Education
2005 – 2010 BSc, University of Cape Town
About company: Equites is a REIT with both the property and asset management functions managed internally. It is the only specialist logistics property fund listed on the JSE.
