Operating across the breadth of the corporate management space, our consultants provide solutions to deal with your business challenges including;
Strategy & Business transformation.
Organizational Restructuring & Resilience.
Governance, Risk and Compliance solutions.
Digital Leadership & Data Analytics.
Finance Transformation.
Strategic Internal Audit Engagement.
Strategic Sourcing.
Innovation in Marketing.
Human Capital Development.
SME & Family Business transformation.
Problems we are Solving
Oil & Gas
Our consultants were engaged in consortium with Zoramu Consulting Group, Invest in Africa (UK) and Equity Bank to co-design the framework for, and co-implement programmes for the national Oil and Gas Industry Enhancement Centre (IEC) on behalf of international oil major Total Energies. This was to assist Total Energies in its commitment to Government of Uganda to skill hundreds of Ugandan companies and individuals to enable them effectively participate in the multi-billion dollar trans-national Oil and Gas pipeline development project, one of the largest FDI investment transactions in the country’s history.
Energy Consulting
As part of its drive to deliver an effective EXCO -1 management team to underpin effective succession, our consultants supported solution design and delivery of accounting based decision making, planning and control skills to a cross functional management team of over 40 staff including engineers, HR practitioners, IT specialists, auditors and core finance managers of a public listed national power distribution utility. Our solution included coverage over capital rationing evaluations, energy sector pricing theory, cost structure and breakeven analysis from first principles.
Financial Services Consulting
In January 2021, a fast growing commercial bank with a unique strategic mandate retained the services of our consultants to provide Board Induction support for its recently appointed Directors. Our consultants designed a solution across governance, technology, strategy, and risk considerations enabling broad and strategic Director preparation, conceptualized and delivered in a short timeframe. In September 2021, a leading digital stock exchange retained the services of our consultants to facilitate leadership and strategy conversations for their Board and senior management considering the current disruptive global business environment.
NGO Sector Consulting
Following increasing realization of the challenges faced by the NGO sector in Uganda from fraud and corruption, an industry wide initiative, the Internal Risk Management Group (IRMG) was formed by mainly international NGO’s operating in Uganda.
The forum is funded by, among others, British Aid and the Swedish Development Agency SIDA and In January 2020, following a competitive tendering process, the IRMG retained MAT ABACUS Business School consultants to provide support to their member organisations as part of a process to deal with these problems.
Our Value Proposition
In today’s knowledge led world, we believe a good business advisor and consultant must also be a good academic. At MAT ABACUS Business School, we believe our consulting clients receive a superior service as our consulting teams bring to their engagements:
• Industry work experience as senior level management, including C-level and Board Director experience.
• Insights from world class programs we teach including the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh Business School MBA & M.Sc. in Finance, ACCA, CFA, PMP, CIA and CISA. These programs frequently update program content to incorporate cutting edge lessons learned in the arena of global business.
With unique insights gained from having to solve management problems at the workplace and in the classroom setting over many years our consultants are ready to rise up to the challenges faced by your business with game changing solutions.
Prof. Samuel Sejjaaka B. Com, PGD Comp. SC, M.Sc., FCCA, CPA (U), PhD.
Country Team Leader/CEO
Prof. Samuel Sejjaaka is a Ugandan accountant, academic and businessman. He is a partner in Sejjaaka, Kaawaase & Company, Certified Public Accountants. Between 1991 and 2014, he lectured at Uganda’s oldest tertiary institution, Makerere University (later the Makerere University Business School) and rose to the position of Deputy Principal. He then helped establish Abacus Business School, Uganda’s premier executive education institution which merged in 2019 with Management and Accountancy Training Company (MAT). He is the current Country Team Leader/ Principal of MAT ABACUS Business School. Prof. Sejjaaka’s experience encompasses over 25 years’ experience in management and directorship, including governance and oversight of public interest companies, supervision of assurance functions and strategy formulation for growth. Dr. Sejjaaka is current Chairman of Petroleum Revenue Investment Reserve Advisory Committee; Chairman of UAP Financial Services and a Board Member UAP Life Insurance. Dr. Sejjaaka earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Makerere University; a Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science from Makerere; a Master of Science degree in Finance from the University of Strathclyde. His Doctor of Philosophy in Accounting and Finance was obtained from Makerere University. Dr. Sejjaaka is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-U)
Mr. Aguma Mpairwe B.A (Hons), MBA, CIA, CISA, FCCA.
Business Consultant
Aguma Mpairwe is an accountant, auditor, banker and lecturer with over 20 years working experience engaged as a Management Consultant and lecturer with MAT ABACUS Business School. He has worked at the C-level for over 15 years in three Financial Institutions including a national commercial bank, regional development bank and in-country subsidiary of a continental banking group. He has headed internal audit, and briefly, a combined risk and audit department in the banking industry and has provided (through internal audit) Board and Management support to these institutions which were at various stages of their operations including recovery, restructuring and set up of greenfield country operations. His early career experience was as an external auditor with Ernst and Young (EY). Separately, Aguma has also pursued a parallel career in accountancy and management training gaining over 15 years’ experience, lecturing on professional accounting, internal audit, information systems audit and MBA courses in Uganda and Rwanda. He has taught Accounting, Auditing, Risk Management, Corporate Governance and Ethics. He is currently an Approved Tutor by the Edinburgh Business School for their Financial (Market) Risk, Credit Risk and Corporate Governance electives for the Heriot-Watt MBA taught at MAT ABACUS Business School, and also teaches on ACCA, CIA, CPA and CISA courses. Aguma is a Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor, and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He graduated from the University of Lincoln, UK with a B.A. in Business Accounting, and from the University of London with an MBA in Banking.
Freda is an audit and project management consultant who has been both an implementer and an evaluator of projects and possesses engrained experience in programme management and budget responsibility. She has worked with projects/ programs with NGOs, INGO’s. governments and private sector in areas of programme management, internal audit, training and capacity strengthening as well supporting projects/operations that are expanding using various tools/ techniques to match staffing to skill, ensuring operating systems and procedures match growth. A Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and Certified Government Auditing Practitioner (CGAP) with strong systems orientation she has evaluated processes, strengthened controls, identified risk exposures, updated and prepared project manuals. She has led project review processes as well as undertaking reviews, assessments, evaluations and special investigations. She has worked for various organisations including Marie Stopes Uganda, the Smart Money card project that introduced fuel cards to Uganda, the USAID Uganda Private health Support Programme and offered consultancy services for projects funded by various donors. She has strong knowledge of requirements, reporting and public donor compliance for various donors including the DFID, SIDA, USAID, the EC and UNFPA. Freda holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Makerere University Business School, a post graduate M&E certificate from Uganda Management Institute and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Rural Economy.
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