Mariam B. Umarji

Academia de Gestão e Finanças Públicas (AGFP)

Trainer

Mariam is an international management consultant, who has worked in the private and public sectors of Mozambique, Portugal and the U.K. She has served as an executive director in several companies supervising the areas of finance, admin, HR and operations. She is a results-oriented managing director driven to manage costs, maximize revenues and establish strategic mutually beneficial partnerships and relationships with clients, vendors, service providers, communities and governments.

Strong knowledge of the Mozambican legal and institutional framework and as well of the political economy environment in which companies operate in the country. She has a good domain of government policies and strategies for different sectors and understands well the implementation and management tools. She has experience in several sectors in Mozambique, from health to agriculture and passing through industry and trade, education and other sectors.

A chartered accountant and a recognized expert in finance, management and fiduciary risk with more than 15 years of experience in delivering high level, strategic policy advice and operational technical assistance in Mozambique and other countries such as Cape Verde, Angola, South Africa, Malawi, Tanzania among others.

She is an adept at establishing strategic alliances with organization leaders to effectively align with and support key business initiatives. Excels at building and retaining high performance teams by hiring, developing and motivating skilled professionals and local talents.

High level project management and team leadership experience in the implementation of technical assistance and reforms in multi-cultural environments. Considerable knowledge of the work of the ministries of finance / ministry of economy and ability to work smoothly together with ministry and government officials to guide them.

Strong expertise in capacity building, developing and implementing comprehensive technical training campaigns and coaching to government, ministries, municipalities, parliaments, companies and civil society organisations including the development of training materials and manuals.

Established track record in relationship building to achieve sustainable results in reform initiatives through dialogue, communication and cooperation between national and international counterparts.

She has developed many projects that include diagnosis, review and/or reform of financial and management systems; and, design and implementation of financial and management systems (including preparation of financial and management and administration manuals and establishing execution and reporting procedures). Her set of skills also include: socio and economic appraisals, baselines and feasibility studies; institutional and fiduciary assessment and strengthening; training and capacity building; project identification and design; project implementation; and, project and program appraisals.