Davison Charamba

Finance Director @ RPC Data Limited

About

I’m a Chartered Accountant with 21 years of experience helping businesses scale sustainably. As a director in a Software Development Company, founding shareholder in a financial advisory firm and VC firm, I’m passionate about unlocking capital for African SMEs, harnessing technology and aligning growth with SDG1—Ending Poverty.

Country

Botswana

City

Gaborone

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Management, Business Analysis, Business Strategy, Change Management, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Leadership, Business Process, Process Improvement, Mergers & Acquisitions, Accounting, Risk Management, Finance, Financial Reporting, Financial Analysis, Business Process Improvement

Experience

Finance Director

RPC Data Limited

2013-12 - Present · 12 yrs 10 mos

Responsible for the overall financial strategy for the company including human resource acquisition, development, retention, rewarding and leadership; financial engineering, leverage and management; and shareholder value creation. Major achievements include process streamlining, improved profitability, organisational restructuring incorporating a successful Management Buy Out, de-listing and capital distribution.

Education

University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika

2013 - 2013

Psychology in the work place.

University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika

Accounting

2005 - 2005

University of Zimbabwe

Accounting

2001 - 2004 · 3 yrs

WorldQuant University

Financial Engineering

2017 - 2019 · 2 yrs

Implementing finance into computing by creating models in Excel, R and Python. Every financial problem can be reduced to algorithms. And the best programmers for financial problems are the finance practitioners like me!