Job Title: CFO
Company: City of Tshwane
Umar Banda graduated from the University of Pretoria with a B.Com in accounting in 2004. He then worked at KPMG for several years before moving to the Auditor General’s office as an Audit Manager in 2012. In 2014 he was appointed as the acting CFO of the City of Tshwane. He was officially appointed to the post in 2017. Umar is skilled at Budgeting, Internal Audit, Accounting, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and Internal Controls. He has earned an Executive Excellence and Leadership Programme focused in Leadership from Gordon Institute of Business Science and is a Registered Training Officer for the City of Tshwane Chartered Accountants Training Programme (CATP).
Work
2017 – Present Chief Financial Officer, City of Tshwane
2014 – 2017 Acting Chief Financial Officer, City of Tshwane
2013 – 2014 Executive Director, City of Tshwane
2012 – 2013 Audit Manager, Auditor General of South Africa
2005 – 2012 Manager, KPMG
Education
2014 – 2014 Executive Excellence and Leadership Programme, Gordon Institute of Business Science
2001 – 2004 B.Com, Accounting Science, University of Pretoria
About the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality: The Municipality is a Category A municipality situated in the Gauteng Province. It merged with the Metsweding District, which was a consequence of the Gauteng Global City Region Strategy to reduce the number of municipalities in Gauteng to at least four by 2016. The City of Tshwane is the single-largest metropolitan municipality in the country, comprising seven regions, 105 wards and 210 councilors. Pretoria is the capital. It covers an area of 6 298km².
