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Michael Jones

Senior Finance Manager

Michael is Agulhas’ Senior Finance Manager. He leads the Finance and Contracts team, managing the company’s day-to-day financial operations and supporting the CEO and Leadership Team with financial reporting, analysis, compliance and risk management. He also acts as Finance Manager for Agulhas’ work with the Independent Commission for Aid Impact.

New to the world of international development and keen to learn and contribute, Michael’s work background is providing financial management and leadership for UK SME professional services firms as a Financial Controller and Head of Finance. He has a BSc (Econ) in Financial Economics from Birkbeck College London and is a Chartered Management Accountant.

Key work skills

Michael’s professional interest is in how to reconcile efficient and effective financial management with business needs that look beyond the bottom line, and more broadly, how different individuals and cultures can collaborate and grow together successfully while respecting each other’s unique gifts.

Other interests

Michael enjoys reading and writing, hiking, listening to music, supporting Arsenal and Beşiktaş football clubs and the England and Afghanistan cricket teams, and observing life in cafes and other parts of the natural world.

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