Molly Dingani
CBZ Bank business banking divisional director Molly Dingani has been declared the 2015 Chartered Secretary of the Year.
Harare City Council acting finance director Tendai Kwenda was declared the runner-up.
Institute of Chartered Secretaries in Zimbabwe chief executive officer and secretary Farai Musamba made the announcement at the institute’s annual conference banquet held at Troutbeck Resort in Nyanga on Saturday.
Dingani heads CBZ Banks’s business banking division – a new unit formed to focus specifically on the micro-business and SME sector, championing the financial inclusion strategy of the bank through innovative micro-business and SME financing models running under the theme ‘Growing your business is our business’.
Apart from heading the bank’s business banking division’s head office in Harare, Dingani has overseen the establishment of business centres in Harare, Bulawayo, Masvingo, Mutare, Gweru, Kwekwe, Chinhoyi and Bindura in order to reach out to all sectors. These business centres were in addition to the bank’s wide branch network of 66 outlets.
Dingani is an ICSAZ fellow. She holds a Master in Business Administration degree from the Nottingham Trent University and a Diploma in Business Studies from the University of Zimbabwe.
She has close to four decades of experience in the financial services sector rising from a clerk to her current position as director.
She is the Southern Region African Rural and Agricultural Credit Association chairperson and also a trustee of Leonard Cheshire Disability Zimbabwe. She is also the parish council chairperson at Our Lady of the Wayside Roman Catholic church in Mount Pleasant, Harare.
The runner-up Kwenda is an associate member of ICSAZ. He joined the Harare City Council in 2002 and rose through the ranks to his current position. He has a wealth of knowledge in accounting, taxation, treasury and investments, financial systems design and general administration.
He holds a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor of Technology (Honours) Accounting degree from the University of Zimbabwe. He is a registered public accountant, associate member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Zimbabwe and associate member of the Institute of Municipal Finance Officers (South Africa).
Among his achievements in 2015, Kwenda reduced the Harare City Council backlog of audited financial statements by four years. He also updated the council’s financial statements in readiness for audit for 2013 to 2014. He drafted the council’s finance department internal financial controls and standard operating procedures.
He also spearheaded the implementation of the Information Communication Technology strategy for the finance department, automating most activities and reducing revenue leakages.