Josephine Tsitsi Matambo is a Tax Partner at PKF Chartered Accountants (Zimbabwe). She holds a Bachelor of Accountancy Degree (University of Zimbabwe), a Masters in Business Administration Degree (University of Zimbabwe) and a Tax Administration Certificate (Royal Institute of Public Administration - UK) among other professional and tertiary qualifications. She is registered as a tax accountant with the Public Accountants and Auditors Board (PAAB) Zimbabwe and is a fellow member of the Institute of Certified Tax Accountants (ICTA) Zimbabwe.

Josephine has an illustrious tax career that started with the Government of Zimbabwe’s Tax Department in 1981, soon after Zimbabwe gained its independence. She rose through the ranks to Assistant Commissioner of Taxes until she joined the private sector as a tax consultant in 1995. Her tax career took her to Maputo, Mozambique in 2003 where she practised for four and a half years, after which she practised in Luanda, Angola for three years. She re-joined the local private sector in 2012. In all these years of Practice, she held senior positions in three of the Big Four audit firms. 

She is one of the two local consultants engaged by the Government of Zimbabwe in 1998 to be part of the consultancy team to study the possibility of introducing a VAT system in Zimbabwe and to participate in drafting the recommended VAT law in Zimbabwe.

Josephine has more than 37 years of tax experience which spans across various sectors in Zimbabwe, Angola and Mozambique; 13 of these years include experience in the Tax Department in Zimbabwe (now ZIMRA). She is an Independent non-executive director at True Destinations Investments (Pvt) Ltd.

Registered Occupational/Industrial Psychologist

M.Sc. in Occupational Psychology University of Zimbabwe (2005)

Post Graduate Diploma in Occupational Psychology University of Zimbabwe (2001)

B.Sc. (Psychology) Honours - Upper Second Class (2.1) University of Zimbabwe (1996)

Diploma in Labour Relations IMPZ (1996)

CURRENT BOARD APPOINTMENTS AND EXPERIENCE 

1. Non-Executive Director – Schweppes Zimbabwe- July 2015 to date
2. Board Member(Part-time) – Health Services Board – July 2018 to date
3. Non- Executive Director – Zimbabwe Revenue Authority January 2019 to date

EXPERIENCE RECORD

1. Industrial Psychology Consultants (Pvt) Ltd (March 2004 to date) Managing Consultant
2. Rapid Financial Holdings, Zimbabwe (Dec 2002 to Feb 2004)

Group Human Resources Manager

3. Ernst & Young, Harare, Zimbabwe (July 2001 to Nov 2002)

Senior Human Resources Consultant

4. Ernst & Young, Harare, Zimbabwe (1999 - June 2001)

Human Resources Consultant

5. B H P Minerals Zimbabwe, Selous, Zimbabwe (1997 – 1999)

(Graduate Learner/Human Resources Officer)

6. Turnall Fibre Cement (Pvt) Ltd, Harare, Zimbabwe (1997)

(Personnel Assistant)

SUMMARY OF KEY HANDS ON EXPERIENCE (21 years of experience)

Memory has extensive experience in strategic planning and human resources management in both line function and consultancy services. He has assisted clients in the private, state enterprises and NGO sectors in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Botswana, Mozambique, amongst others. He is currently focusing on helping clients:

• Develop robust business strategies that can help them remain competitive in a dynamic operating environment
• Identify the best talent for current and future positions
• Measure productivity and develop productivity enhancement mechanisms 
• Analyse human resources data and use the same data to predict company performance
• Design workforce plans that survive economic cycles (downturn and upturns)
• With the assistance of statistical models use historical human resources data in the client organisation to predict which employees will succeed and fail, which employees are likely to leave the organisation, which employees are likely to commit disciplinary offences, which employees are likely to behave unethically, which employees are prone to accidents, which human resources process drive revenue growth and customer satisfaction. He assists the same clients come up with sustainable interventions to mitigate identified risks.
• Lay the foundation for building productive work teams using such methods as the MBTI and Team Climate Inventory
• Develop training programs for clients and assess the effectiveness of these programs in assisting client organisations succeed