Charmaine Mphahlele

Charmaine joined WBA in September 2021 and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. As the Operations Director she is primarily responsible for the overseeing HR (including Learning and Development), Finance and Governance. Her role is to serve as a conscience of the organisation, ensuring resources are used for impact in a sustainable manner and aligned with what our donors and funders expect, as well as what we expect from the companies that we benchmark.

Charmaine has previously worked in several roles including as Finance Lead within WBA, she was a Senior Audit Clerk while serving her articles for her qualification, a Project Commercial at Siemens South Africa, a Financial Manager at AFGRI and has held several non-executive board positions. She mentors Fellows of the Allen Grey Orbis Foundation, volunteers her time as the Treasurer of Gauteng Sports Aerobic and Fitness Federation (GSAFF), is a Golden Key Honour Society honorary member (2019 University of Pretoria chapter keynote speaker), holds a Bcompt Accounting Sciences Degree from the University of South Africa, is a qualified Charted Global Management Accountant registered with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), in addition to being an Associate General Accountant, registered with the South African Institute of Charted Accountants (SAICA). Quote she lives by:

True desire in the heart, for anything good, is God’s proof to you, sent beforehand, to indicate that it is yours already. And anything that you want, that is good, you can have, so claim it! Work hard to get it! And when you get it, reach back, pull someone else up, each one teach one. Don’t just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.” – Denzel Washington