Christiaan Vorster

Christiaan is the Regional Executive of SAICA for the Western and Eastern Cape provinces. He joined SAICA in 2014 and is based in SAICA’s Cape Town offices

His wide-ranging bouquet of South African and International experience, gained both in and out of the accounting and related business environments, assist him in his stakeholder and member engagement function, enabling him to understand the broader issues from an array of diverse perspectives.

His prior experience can be summarised in three broad areas:

• Corporate Financial Management, specifically Valuations of non-listed entities (SMEs) and related business advisory services (Business Growth Africa, Galileo Capital, SCMB);
• Facilitating and Lecturing, mostly on Strategy and Planning, Investment Appraisals and Forecasting – both at South African University level and Internationally on Continuing Professional Development programmes (UCT, UP, Africa, Europe, Middle East)
• Project Management – managing various interdisciplinary projects both in South Africa and abroad (SAICA, TNT International (Netherlands), Africon (Namibia), Deloitte)

Christiaan is also active in the regional business community serving on various panels, including as Chairperson of the Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s audit committee and member of the UCT School of Accounting’s Advisory Board.

He is an alumnus of both Stellenbosch (undergraduate) and UJ (CTA) and did his articles at Deloitte Pretoria.