Constançon
Sharon Constançon
Chief Executive
C Dir – Chartered Director, Institute of Directors
MBA – Master in Business Administration,
Witwatersrand University, South Africa
ACIS - Associate Chartered Institute of Secretaries & Administrators
FCIBM – Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Business Management
Other studies include:-
International Treasury Management
International Finance
Foreign Exchange Accounting
Diploma in Company Direction
Special projects & positions held:-
IoD – Board of Examiners – Board member for Certificate and Diploma exams
IoD – Interviewer for the Chartered Director Program
CfA – Steering Committee for development of Occupational Standards in Corporate Governance and Secretarial
Sharon has two decades of experience working as a contracted specialist to top 500 level companies in the arena of risk management, particularly treasury risk management. Customers included Dimension Data, Datatec, Tongaat Hewlett, Panasonic, Nashua, MTN, Telkom, Richards Bay Minerals, Beacon, Plascon.
Sharon has worked in the financial services and corporate sectors and in the last two decades run her own businesses providing corporate foreign exchange risk management and corporate governance services and solutions. Sharon’s focus is on “adding value to the customer, that is why I get up in the morning”. To achieve this, Sharon has developed systems and frameworks to support her drive to deliver service, something she feels is sadly lacking in businesses today.
Sharon’s experience in risk management at the Board level of more than 250 major, and often worldwide, corporates and her knowledge of regulations, international finance, corporate governance, financial markets and running her own businesses have together provided Sharon with an ability to work with Boards on more than one level - strategic, risk, governance and management. This experience enables her to support Chairmen and NED’s in their strive to improve the leadership by and challenge within their Boards. Sharon has strong analytical skills to complement her communication skills and uses this to help support change within Boards.
Sharon’s entrepreneurial mind, studies, managerial positions and experiences in large corporations, and innovative businesses, have honed her skills in understanding where operational risks lie and how they need to be addressed to ensure visibility to the Board, who are ultimately responsible. Sharon’s mission is focused on business effectiveness and efficiency, using a light touch transparent approach to embedding solutions, often starting this process at the Board level, with Due Diligence and Board Evaluation programmes.
Her career has included roles as Company Secretary at JCI, Treasury Manager for Blue Circle and Chief foreign exchange dealer for Société Générale before starting her own businesses, the first of which was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
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Sharon is a consultant registered with Synogis, a group of senior level consultants with a broad range of skills and sector experience. Please click here to go to Synogis website.