Stan Kobrin

Technical Product Manager

Henriette Backstrom

Development Manager

Dana Naidoo

Product QA Manager

As a Chartered Accountant with 6+ years audit experience turned Product QA Manager, Dana is able to bring the same detail-orientated approach to quality assurance on Makosi's product releases as she's done on audit engagements. Dana is passionate about building technology that works as it should, and delivering tested, intuitive and user-friendly product to our clients.

Ashleigh Forster

Business Analyst

As a business analyst you need to be comfortable with the unknown and “making sense” in the chaos. Ashleigh ensures that requirements are clear from both the development team and the business stakeholder’s perspectives, so that we can deliver the best features to our users. She is passionate about optimizing process and bringing teams together to work towards a common goal.

Stefan Rossouw

Business Analyst

Stefan is a Business Analyst currently working cross-functionally with the Makosi Product team to design, develop and deploy strategies for the business environment. As a Business Analyst, he aims to effectively evaluate system performances, identifying key indicators, and discover how changes in operations will improve results. He is passionate about translating user requirements into easily understandable documents, analysis, and insights that in turn drive high impact business decisions.

Grant Barnard

Front-end & UX Developer

Farai Mrape

Full Stack Developer

Farai has been in the software engineering space for a long time. He is committed to continuous professional and personal development in everything he undertakes. He has a relentless drive to solve complex problems through simple intuitive technical solutions. Farai is a techie at heart, and passionate about all things empowerment.

Robert Betts

Community Manager

Robert is a career consultant to Chartered Accountants with global experience within international consulting groups based in UK, South Africa, Bermuda and Cayman Islands. With more than 10 years’ combined experience in the accounting and recruitment industry, he's uniquely placed to understand both the consultants and client by identifying top talent for our international client base.

Rene Oostendurp

Enablement Manager

Rene is an experienced senior talent enthusiast with over 14 years recruitment experience. Rene has gained experience in building and growing strategic talent sourcing capabilities which includes talent mapping expertise and talent insights. She also has vast experience in managing and growing new teams, project managing innovative recruitment solutions as well as learning and development. She is an advocate for aligning your talent strategy to the new ways of working as well as skills of the future and has a special interest in collaborative intelligence - Human, technology, and AI.

Alryn Appalsamy

Fulfillment Specialist

As an accomplished accounting professional with 5+ years of audit experience under his belt, Alryn has worked on several audit projects across the US, servicing clients in New York City and San Francisco. Having worked abroad, he brings keen insight and a unique perspective to the talent team’s recruiting function, ensuring that the standard of consultants serving our clients are always of the highest quality.

Cara Van Wyk

Fulfillment Specialist

Cara’s passion and motivations lie in facilitating people ascertain their goals and dreams. She has demonstrated this over many years in the recruitment space, with a vast network and knowledge in the accounting industry. She takes immense pride in her deliverables and finds satisfaction in the success of matching business requirements with her specialist fulfillment capabilities.

Lance Adams

Fulfillment Specialist

Lance is a highly successful recruiter, with 6+ years' experience in the finance recruitment industry. He brings his experience and unique insights to the talent team, ensuring that Makosi delivers exceptional talent and an unparalleled experience for our clients.

Taryn Hickman

Fulfillment Specialist

Taryn is a highly experienced recruiter with 13+ years of experience within the Finance niche. She holds a BA degree in HR & Industrial Psychology and is a ISPr APSO member. She has won multiple awards throughout her career and thrives on building and maintaining strong relationships in both internal and external teams, in order to achieve optimal results, for Makosi and our clients. 

Firdows Suleman

Talent Specialist Lead

Firdows is a skilled Recruiter and Trainer with over 12 years recruitment experience, specializing in placing financial professionals. Her expertise lies in people strategy and implementation for success. Her motto is upskill, uplift and get the job done!

Chelsea Dearham

Talent Specialist

Chelsea is a skilled Recruiter and HR Generalist. She holds a Btech Degree in Human Resources Management as well as Bcom Honours in Industrial and Organisational Psychology. She has worked in various industries including audit, financial services and freight and logistics which has allowed her to grow her network range for recruitment purposes. She brings to Makosi her years of experience in placing talent in the right roles.

Corne Booysen

Talent Specialist

A recruiter with 22+ years' experience, Corne holds an Honours Degree in Industrial Psychology from the University from Pretoria. The majority of Corne’s experience has been in the recruitment industry, mainly in the South African market. She has consulted and led teams across the finance spectrum and gained experience in managing a team in the IT space. Corne is passionate about business, consulting, managing & empowering staff, and more recently, how to transform companies for the digital era.

Jaquie Otto

Talent Specialist

Jaquie is a driven recruitment professional with 11+ years in the industry. She is skilled in business growth and managing, leading, and coaching consultants to succeed in a highly competitive and corporate environment.  Jaquie holds qualifications in Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Life Coaching. She is passionate about changing lives for the better and recruitment allows for the most purposeful way to achieve this. 

Louani Bouwer

Talent Specialist

Louani is a skilled recruiter with over 8 years' experience gained with one of South Africa's largest specialist recruitment agencies. She specialized in the sourcing of Chartered Accountants as well as Account Management. She holds an ISP designation with APSO. Louani is passionate about guiding our consultants through the process and ensuring that they are client ready.

Megan Nielson

Talent Specialist

A driven and resourceful individual, Megan holds qualifications in both Psychology and Marketing. Megan is passionate about people and aiding in the development of strategies that will best further them towards their short and long-term career goals. With a background rooted in TAS & Professional Services Recruitment, a vast network and knowledge of the industry, Megan believes that people are the most important aspect of any organization's success and advancement.

Melanie Smit

Talent Specialist

Melanie is a skilled recruiter with more than fifteen years’ combined experience in internal and external financial recruitment, consulting, and marketing. She has a far-reaching network and comprehensive understanding of the full recruitment cycle. Melanie is dedicated to securing the best talent and in doing so, building an exceptional workforce to positively impact Makosi and its clients’ businesses.

Tanya Aab

Talent Specialist

Tanya is a skilled finance recruiter, with a passion for people. Her skill set in aligning finance professionals with the right career opportunities was gained with one of the largest listed recruitment agencies in South Africa, having sourced for roles in audit, forensic specialists, utilities, and finance lecturers. Her experience comes from various industries, including fashion, where she has created and developed her own fashion brand. She brings an element of professionalism and a need in investing in our long-term relationships with our clients.

Kagiso Smouse

Talent Coordinator

Kagiso is a Human Resources Specialist with several years of successful experience in Hiring and Employee Management. Kagiso has a keen interest in Talent Acquisition Technologies, Talent Profiling and Employer Branding. He has worked for three of the Big 4 Audit Firms, most recently as an Assistant Manager in Talent Acquisition at EY.

Bryony van Zyl

Journey Advocate - Onboarding & Employee Experience

Bryony has spent the last 5 years as the HR & Talent lead for the Johannesburg cluster of Publicis agencies. Prior to that she was a Business Unit director in Client services for an ad agency. Bryony has extensive experience working with people, helping businesses solve human capital challenges, curating employee experiences, and building strategic projects that create end-to-end solutions.

Marco Pienaar

Journey Advocate

Marco is an experienced people professional with a background spanning across numerous industries throughout his consulting career. He is a self-motivated and critical thinking individual who is driven by people initiatives and data driven, fact-based problem solving. Marco brings with an innovative, people-focused, practical approach to Makosi's people strategies.

Mpho Kuenane

Journey Advocate

Mpho is a skilled HR Generalist with 6+ years HR experience. She has worked in small to large organizations in the Hospitality, Financial and IT industries. Mpho completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Psychology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management, both from WITS University. She is passionate about people and creating an amazing experience for our consultants.

Parfait Ngoie

Journey Advocate

Parfait's passion lies in building and driving consultants towards their goals and aspirations. His enthusiasm working with people, coupled with his 7 years' experience in the accounting, audit and finance industry, makes him the ideal candidate to work alongside our workforce in helping them achieve their personal and career objectives. Parfait takes pride in matching client requirements with consultant expectations and thrives in high pressure environments, where he helps audit and TAS consultants deliver exceptional quality.

Shelby Wilson

Journey Advocate

Shelby is an experienced accounting professional with 5 years of audit experience, as well as 2+ years' experience as a Senior Accountant and Financial Manager. Her passion for working with people, coupled with her remarkable interpersonal skills and intimate knowledge of the journey of an accounting professional, makes her ideally placed to guide experienced and young professionals alike through their career with Makosi.

Theresa van Niekerk

Journey Advocate Coordinator

Theresa brings with her a wealth of administrative and operations support experience gained within the banking industry. Her field of study includes business management, financial management and human resources management. Theresa is passionate about people and believes that if you’ve got passion, faith and are willing to work hard, you can do anything you want in life.