Bilal Akoojeea is chief financial officer of Mitsubishi Motors SA, the South African distribution arm for the Mitsubishi marque. He is a qualified chartered accountant whose senior career has been spent in vehicle fleet services and motor aftercare finance.
Akoojeea joined Mitsubishi Motors SA from 58Fleet, where he was financial director for close to two years. Before that he spent more than eight years at MotorHappy, first as finance manager for almost two years and then as finance director for over six. He began his career as an audit assistant at Deloitte.
Career History
- Chief Financial Officer, Mitsubishi Motors SA (current)
- Financial Director, 58Fleet (almost two years)
- Finance Director, MotorHappy (over six years)
- Finance Manager, MotorHappy (almost two years)
- Audit Assistant, Deloitte (almost two years)
He holds a BCom in accounting from the University of the Witwatersrand and an advanced diploma in management accounting, and carries the Chartered Global Management Accountant designation.
What Bilal Akoojeea brings to the chief financial officer role at Mitsubishi Motors SA: a decade of finance leadership in vehicle fleet and aftercare businesses, which is the annuity side of the South African motor industry, applied to a distributor whose unit sales are exposed to the import cycle.
