Managing Director of Absa Bank Uganda
Prior to this role, he was the Executive Director of Finance at Absa Bank of Botswana (the 3rd largest business in Absa Group outside South Africa) and held a similar position at Absa Bank Zambia Plc until 2015.
His organisational leadership experience/expertise includes business development, strategy formulation and implementation, people management, business performance management, enterprise risk management, capital and liquidity management, financial planning, and control.
Mumba is passionate about people and customers and has been successful in building high performing teams across the various markets that he has worked in, through the creation of incremental shareholder value.
He is a chartered accountant by training with over 25 years post qualification experience in both the private and public sector. He has spent the last 16 years of his career with the Absa Group working across 3 different markets in Southern and East Africa (Zambia, Botswana and Uganda).
Mumba holds a master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Herriot Watt University (Scotland) and is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (United Kingdom); and the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA, UK). He has also attended several leadership programmes over the years, among which are an advanced management programme (AMP) with the IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Mumba also has extensive board experience and once served as the board audit committee chairman of ZAMCOM in Zambia. He also served as international board member of the Africa region of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA) based in South Africa. He currently serves as an Executive Director of the Absa Uganda Board, and served in similar capacities on the Absa Botswana and Absa Zambia Boards.