Philip Theron

CFO

Philip is a Finance Professional with 16 years of overall experience in business partnering, FPRA, financial controlling, working capital management, investment appraisals, accounting and process improvement.

Starting off as an entrepreneur in IT in 2000, he ran an IT product business and was able to secure a contract with one of the key players Pinnacle Micro. From there he moved to Financial Advisory services with specialization in risk mitigation and investment. The next stop was Anglo Platinum in the mining industry where he worked in the logistics field whilst studying.

After graduating with a degree in Financial Management from the University of Pretoria in 2005, Philip started working for Siemens as a Project Controller. Since then, Nokia acquired Siemens Telecoms and Philip enjoyed various different exciting roles in the company.

One of his roles was as a Senior Financial controller. It is a senior role in Nokia and has a strategic position – being the interface and driver/facilitator for many finance – CO/BG business topics. It provides strong support to the account director and Offer Controlling functions, during pre-sales phase and sales phase.

In this role he oversaw a small team of six colleagues and supported the key accounts to increase order intake, revenue and margin whilst ensuring compliance on internal controls.

Philip secured his associate status with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) in 2022.