Leadership

Victoria Kalua is a seasoned accountant and a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants with vast experience in leading financial strategies to facilitate and initiate organizational growth. She has more than 12 years of post-qualification experience under her belt in both finance and external audit. Victoria is a great team leader and player, with strong interpersonal and communication skills. She is an effective driver of steady and sustainable financial growth of the company.

Victoria joined the FINCA Malawi team of executives in 2015. Prior to joining FINCA, she worked with Kamponji Enterprise as the Finance Manager for one-and-a-half years. Victoria’s main competency is attributed to her work experience for two of the Big 4 audit firms; Ernst & Young and KPMG, where she specialized in financial services audits for over 10 years in the capacities of Audit Manager and Audit Supervisor, respectively.

Victoria’s areas of expertise include reporting financial performance, external auditing, budgeting and forecasting, cash-flow management, liquidity management and staff supervision.

Stanley Mkwamba is a well-trained and experienced banker and marketer by profession with experience working in various industries including telecommunication and banking. He focuses on overseeing the commercial and credit aspects of the business.

Stanley holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from University of Malawi, Masters in Degree in Marketing University of South Wales. He also has a post graduate diploma in Marketing from The Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK.

Being a hardworking, committed, and honest individual with a strong sense of integrity, Stanley leads and provides insight in overseeing commercial and credit aspects of the business within the FINCA Malawi subsidiary while leading the operations department.

Stanley joined FINCA Malawi in 2018 as Chief Operating Officer, a position he currently holds. Prior to joining FINCA, he was the Executive Head of Retail & SME Banking for Nedbank Malawi where he worked for close to five years. Before that, Stanley also worked as Chief Commercial Officer for Malawi Telecommunications Limited (MTL) and Head of Personal & Business Banking at NBS Bank earlier.

Violet is a passionate marketing professional with a drive to achieve great things. With hands on experience of 12 years in financial services, she is responsible for marketing strategy and research, brand management, corporate communications and customer relationship management to ensure the ultimate growth of the brand.

Violet joined the FINCA Malawi team as Marketing Manager in November 2016. Before moving to FINCA, she worked at FDH Financial Holdings Limited as the Marketing Manager for a period of four years.

Violet is a chartered marketer with the chartered institute of marketing (UK) besides holding a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from University of Malawi and an MBA in Strategic Management.

Hamlett Peter Kamtengeni is a trained and experienced banker by profession with seventeen years’ experience working in the banking industry with a focus on Internal Controls, Risk and Compliance management. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Accounting, Audit and Information Systems from Malawi College of Accountancy. He has also attended various banking courses that enabled him to acquire other financial services-related certificates ranging from anti-money laundering, credit, marketing, business continuity and disaster recovery to risk and compliance management. Hamlett is also a certified Trainer of Trainers in Tip-Off Anonymous (a whistle-blowing tool) and Money Laundering.

Being a hardworking, committed and honest individual with a strong sense of integrity, Hamlett leads and provides insight in risk management, compliance management, internal controls management as well as business continuity management within the FINCA Malawi subsidiary while leading the internal controls, risk and compliance team in Malawi.

Hamlett joined FINCA Malawi in June 2018 as Risk and Compliance Manager. Before joining FINCA, he worked for Finance Bank Malawi, Malawi Savings Bank and Nedbank in various functions that include internal auditing, credit underwriting, credit appraisal, quality assurance, credit and risk and compliance management.