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The FINCA Uganda CFO on self-worth, balance, courage, and the quiet strength of purposeful leadership In this instalment of our Letters to My Younger Self series, Robinah Siima, Chief Financial Officer at FINCA Uganda, reflects on the lessons, pressures, and defining moments that shaped her into one of the country’s most grounded and values-centred financial leaders. With an MBA, FCCA, CPA(U), and FMVA, and a career spanning audit, financial management, regulatory oversight, reporting, and CFO leadership, Robinah embodies a rare blend of technical mastery and emotional intelligence. Her work today touches every corner of FINCA’s financial ecosystem. From treasury and…
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FINCA Uganda CFO Robinah Siima won the Young CFO Award at the 9th edition of the Chief Financial Officer Awards 2025– an initiative of ACCA Uganda and Deloitte Uganda. Siima carries the kind of presence that makes you lean in. As a CFO, she brings a descriptive blend of discipline and modern financial thinking. In this wide-ranging conversation with Paul Murungi, Siima reflects on what it takes to achieve remarkable success early in a career. She shares the personal philosophy of consistency that shaped her into a strategic leader and explains why empathy and clarity are now non-negotiable qualities for…
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Eight finance professionals won ten awards at the 9th edition of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Awards 2025 with Peter Ssenyange, CFO, Pearl Bank Uganda Limited emerging the overall CFO award 2025. Peter also won the Sustainability Award. The other double award winner was Ronald Makata, CFO, Stanbic Bank Uganda emerged CFO of the Year (First Runner-Up) and won Finance Transformation & Technology Award and Compliance & Governance Award. The other winners were:- Emmanuel Mugagga, CFO, Uganda National Oil Company – Strategy Execution Award, Irene Mwoyogwona, Head of Finance, Pride Bank Limited – Leadership Award, Bob Okodi, Finance Manager, Amref…
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In a continuous effort to alleviate poverty through building sustainable financial solutions, FINCA Uganda has attracted new talent to fill key positions in project management, innovations, risk management, credit control and regional branch management. FINCA is Uganda’s second-largest micro-finance deposit-taking institution (MDI). The new executives are Disan Katabalwa (PMP) as Project Manager; Rogers Sebatta and Muhammad Isiko as Regional Managers; Sophia Nabbona Kihumuro as the Head of Credit, Michael Tony Mbusa, as the new Head of Innovations and Product Development and Mpirirwe Mary, as the Head of Risk. The 6 new executives bring to FINCA over 7 decades of combined…
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By Primrose Kobusingye On November 27, 2022, the world woke up to the grim news of the passing of Rupert Scofield (73). He has been described as the founder of micro-finance. In 1984, along with John Hatch, Rupert conceived an idea to form a village bank that gives people access to no collateral loans through a collective guarantee. This marked the start of the Foundation for International Community Assistance commonly known as FINCA whose impact has spread to 5 continents and 17 banks and Microfinance institutions across the world with a major focus on women. FINCA is a catalyst for…
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In line with its purpose of being an “unconventional community-based bank that responsibly provides innovative and impactful financial services”, FINCA has also maintained health profitability. For example, in 2019, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, FINCA registered UGX6 billion in net profit. Although the pandemic affected its customer’s ability to service their loans, FINCA still registered a decent profit of UGX2.2billion and UGX2.4billion in 2020 and 2021 respectively. The healthy financial performance has enhanced FlNCA’s stability, in line with all the regulatory capital requirements. For example, the core capital and total capital adequacy as of the end of 2021,…
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FINCA Uganda in partnership with National Forestry Authority (NFA) have embarked on a forest restoration initiative worth UX 100,000,000 restoring sixty (60) hectares (ha) of forest land. This corporate social responsibility program is in commemorate FINCA’s 30th anniversary in Uganda. The exercise will cover a period of five (5) years and the restoration planting will be spread ten (10) central forest reserves across the country. The first restoration planting was launched in Bajo Central Forest Reserve (CFR) in Bbaale constituency – Kayunga district. Bajo CFR covers a total of 3,373 ha, gazzetted in 1932 as a catchment area for R….
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The Foundation for International Community Assistance, now commonly known as FINCA was founded by Mr. Hatch and Rupert Scofield as a Village Banking™ model- a concept that would enable poor Bolivian farmers with no collateral to access loans through a collective guarantee. Several years later, FINCA’s mission remains “alleviating poverty through lasting solutions that help people build assets, create jobs and raise their standard of living.” Madina, a married mother of four has, with the help of FINCA, been able to build a thriving family enterprise comprising a 12-acre commercial pineapple plantation, a 3-acre coffee plantation and a commercial poultry…
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FINCA Uganda (MDI) and BrightLife Uganda, a solar company, have donated one million, three hundred thousand masks worth approximately £120,000, to the Ministry of Education and Sports to ease on the opening of schools in the country. This was at a function officiated by the First Lady and Minister of Education Honorable Janet Kataaha Museveni at the Kololo Independence grounds. FINCA Uganda was represented by the Board Chairperson – Olive Lumonya, James Onyutta – the MD/CEO, Robert Kakande – the Executive Director and Claire Ochiengs Akampurila – the company secretary. Bright Life was represented by the Board Chair – Hon…
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FINCA Uganda, in association with other financial sector players in Uganda has launched an aggressive digital campaign dubbed “#DigitalIsHere”. This was at an event held at the company offices in Kololo. The campaign is an array of digital products geared towards augmenting the bank’s service delivery to its customers. FINCA customers can remotely open accounts using FINCA Digital Field Assistant, download the FINCA mobile app and self on board, Transact at any Cente Agent points or apply for chip and pin VISA enabled card. To achieve this ambitious project, FINCA has partnered with Centenary Bank to offer the Agency banking…
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