What’s Next powered by Deloitte — Deloitte’s Siliziwe Mafika unpacks the Finance Trends 2026 report and how CFOs can use it to their advantage
In this What’s Next with Aki Anastasiou interview, Siliziwe Mafika unpacks the Finance Trends 2026 report and what it means for African CFOs.
Mafika is the Director of Finance and a Performance Leader at Deloitte Consulting and a well-regarded leader in the African financial services sector.
He has spent the bulk of his career at Deloitte, and he first began working with the company in 2010 as an Audit Senior.
Following this, he would serve as a Finance Transformation Manager and as a CFO Transition Lab Manager and Facilitator.
Mafika began working at Deloitte Consulting in 2013 as a Senior Consultant, a position he held for nearly seven years before being promoted to Associate Director in 2020.
After serving as an Associate Director for over 3 years, he assumed his current Director position at Deloitte Consulting in 2023.
Mafika is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA).
The interview
In this What’s Next interview, Mafika discusses how Deloitte’s Finance Trends 2026 report highlights the challenges facing African CFOs, and how speed has become the defining capability for finance leaders.
Mafika unpacks how CFOs can produce results even under time constraints and being stretched too thin.
He also touches on the challenges of moving AI implementation beyond the pilot stage and explains how market changes are shifting how young finance professionals operate.
Mafika concludes the interview by sharing what an African CFO should do and what they should stop doing, based on the findings of the report.
Watch the interview with Siliziwe Mafika below.
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