Jabu holds a B.Com Finance degree from UJ with a post graduate qualification in management accounting. 

She has been with MIFA for eight months and says she loves her job, which she describes as an “inbetween role between Finance and Operations”. Among other areas, she oversees MIFA’s POPI compliance.

Experience: Accomplished finance professional with 12 years progressive financial management experience. Strong knowledge of financial technical techniques and compliance requirements. Excellent analytical, communication, and problem solving skills. Highly skilled in budgeting, forecasting and reporting. Strategic thinker, self-motivate, and confident individual.

Manages the administration of the MIFA, RMI, MISA, FRA, Merseta and MIBCO. Manages administration of pension backed lending. Coordination of budgeting process and providing of guidelines. Management of Tax controls, Manage and control income streams from funds, Renews short term insurance and Trustees Liability insurance for the company.

Marlene was appointed as Client Services Manager for MIFA in February and has more than 30 years of experience in employee benefits and pension funds.

Her vision for the team is “to be a professional, well-cohersed team that can service our members fairly and promptly and that operates with openness and honesty”.

Experience: Administering of Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Funds. Extensive experience in Private, daily priced, individual member choice Funds. Experience includes administering and managing the full administration of Private Funds in its entirety, also having experience in Member Communication, Trustee Elections, Trustee Reporting and Trustee Meetings. Having worked in the administration with salaries, risk cover and fund credits. Marlene fully appreciates the severity and importance of confidentiality in members/colleagues’ personal information. As Portfolio Manager of a staff compliment of twelve with service suppliers such as Insurers, Fund Managers, Banking Consultant, etc she has excellent people skills in both delegating at various levels as well as project managing the delegated tasks to ensure quality delivery at all times. She also dealt with payroll administrators, HR Directors, Financial directors and Chairpersons to provide consistent all round quality administration services.