The team

Facilitators

Every course is delivered by a director of the academy, or a fully qualified and certified expert facilitator.

Rona van Hoepen

Rona van Hoepen

Director & founding member

Rona van Hoepen is a director and one of the founding members of IMPACT Financial Training Academy (Pty) Ltd, a company that specialises in Financial and Business Skills training, as well as consultation in related fields. She is a Chartered Accountant (SA), Fellow Chartered Management Accountant, and holds a Master’s degree in Management Accounting.

She has a total of nine years lecturing experience at the University of Pretoria, University of Johannesburg and Northwest University, for which she has received distinctive teaching awards. She specialised in lecturing Management Accounting, Costing, Financial Management, Risk Management and Business Strategy to students of various levels, as well as training to both government institutions and private sector companies in these subject fields.

She has been with IMPACT Financial Training Academy (Pty) Ltd as one of the full-time trainers and facilitators since 2015, and has consistently received outstanding feedback from course delegates. Her areas of expertise include advanced financial modelling in Excel, optimising power tools in Excel, advanced applications in Power BI, as well as a high level of technical knowledge of the CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) Professional Qualification.

She is also involved with the CIMA professional body, used to be a member of the CIMA Gauteng Branch Committee, and currently serves as a Trustee on the CIMA Benevolent Fund Board of Trustees and as a member of the CIMA Council. As part of her CIMA Council role, she serves on the Lifelong Learning Committee, as well as the Professional Standards and Conduct Committee.

Marius Joubert

Marius Joubert

Director & founding member

Marius is a director and one of the founding members of IMPACT Financial Training Academy (Pty) Ltd. He holds a Master’s degree in Cost and Management Accounting and was a project leader in developing account level profitability for a bank (Absa), as well as General Manager for the Finance Learning Academy.

He has presented Top Talent, Decision Support, Business Skills and Personal Finance programmes to finance employees, business bankers, CIMA students, business analysts and business owners. He has also assisted numerous SME businesses to enhance their financial performance and completed many financial modelling projects in the banking environment.