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📌CFO Awards winners 2020
✳ CFO award of the year – Godfrey Byekwaso CENTENARY BANK
✳ ME/SOCIAL impact award – Moses Kargbo TUGENDE LTD
✳ Not-for-Profit Award – Edith Nalwadda RIGHT TO PLAY
✳ Public Sector Award – Augustine Tamale NEW VISION
✳ Young CFO Award – Ivan Mandela SHONA GROUP
✳ Finance Transformation award – Stevens Mwanje NSSF
✳ Strategy Execution award – Simon Peter Kavuma CITI BANK
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Centenary Bank’s General Manager Finance Godfrey Byekwaso has been named the Chief Finance Officer of the year 2020 at awards held Thursday night at the Kampala Sheraton Uganda. The 4th edition of the CFO awards are sponsored by ACCA Uganda and Deloitte.
This year’s award ceremony was a black tie affair attended by 80 people due to the Covid-19 restrictions. The event was streamed live on ACCA and Deloitte social media pages to allow the people who could not attend
This year had over 240 nominees, the highest since the awards were introduced, with the ‘CFO award of the year’ attracting the highest number of nominees.
The growth in the number of nominees was mainly attributed to the important contribution that CFO’s continue to exhibit in the sustainability and growth of their organisations through the execution of strategies.
Other winners
Among other winners awarded in the virtual event, saw Moses Kargbo, the finance manager Tugende Limited winning the SME award and Social Impact Award. This is a new award, introduced to recognize organisations and companies that contribute to societal growth.
Edith Nalwadda Senior manager Field Finance, Right to play international took the Not-for-Profit Award while Augustine Tamale CFO, New Vision Printing and Publishing Company limited won the Public Sector Award.
The much sought after Young CFO Award was won by Ivan Mandela from Shona Group Limited while the prestigious Finance Transformation award was won by Stevens Mwanje from The National Social Security Firm (NSSF). Strategy Execution award was won by Simon Peter Kavuma of CITI Bank.
The keynote speaker Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah (FCCA), the Director-General for police welfare of the Ghana Police Service emphasized on the need of adopting technology in the day to day running of organisations and applauded CFO’s for their important role in ensuring that businesses stay afloat.
The theme for this year’s event was ‘Building resilient finance leaders and organizations’ which amplified the essential role that CFOs play in strategy development and driving growth of their organisations; emphasizing the need to design integrated and all-inclusive financial strategies addressing different angles and dealing with the challenges of the new normal.
