Meet Our Financial Services Leadership Team: South Africa

Our financial services industry group focuses on the opportunities created by our clients' need to adapt to changing market conditions, including increased cost pressures, industry consolidation, regulatory changes and the creation of common industry standards and protocols.

Read some leadership team profiles:

Simon Russell

Managing Director

The Managing Director of Accenture's South African Financial Services group, Simon Russell’s primary area of focus is banking. More specifically, he helps banks transform to become industrialised–differentiated on the outside and simplified on the inside.

Nesan Govender

Executive Director

Nesan Govender joined Accenture in 1996. Today he specialises in helping clients identify solutions that support them in achieving their revenue and cost-efficiency objectives. He finds the strategic advisor role highly stimulating, with implementation offering the chance to turn strategy into real outcomes that add value.

Edmund Franklin

Executive Director

Franklin heads up Accenture’s insurance business in South Africa. He is passionate about high performance insurance and applying Accenture’s outstanding global experience, top skills and IP to help South African long- and short-term insurers industrialise and grow their business.

Joaquín Laynez

Executive Director

Joaquín Laynez relocated to South Africa to head Accenture’s outsourcing sales in the financial services sector.

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