Sizwile Sibindi is an international development practitioner who has worked in various finance and operational areas for international development organizations.
Sizwile completed her masters degree in Professional Accountancy with the university of London, and she is also a Certified Chartered Accountant with the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants. She is also a registered mentor for Oxford Brookes university, mentoring the next generation of accountants as they undertake their degrees
Sizwile has worked extensively with organizations in East and Southern Africa, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia. Most recently, she worked with Chemonics International, leading the finance the operations team.
Sizwile is a member of the Practitioner Advisory Group for IFR4NPO, which is an initiative to develop the world’s first Internationally applicable Financial Reporting guidance for non-profit organizations (NPOs).
She is passionate about capacity building for community-based organizations and local NGOs and has in the past worked as an organizational development and capacity building consultant, focusing on governance, financial management and compliance.
She now serves as Head of Operations and Risk for the Financing Alliance for Health, responsible for providing strategic leadership to strengthen operations systems, processes and risk management, and driving the implementation of the operations strategy