Koketso Kekana is chief financial officer of Microsoft South Africa, the regional subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation based in Bryanston, Johannesburg. She is a commercial finance executive whose career spans consumer goods, pharmaceuticals and online retail across emerging markets.
Kekana joined Microsoft South Africa from Amazon, where she was head of retail finance and strategy from 2025 to 2026. She held commercial finance roles at Diageo from 2023 to 2025, covering South Africa and then emerging markets and the Indian Ocean, and was a revenue manager at Sanofi from 2020 to 2023. She began her career as a financial analyst at Procter and Gamble from 2015 to 2019.
Career History
- Chief Financial Officer, Microsoft South Africa (current)
- Head of Retail Finance and Strategy, Amazon (2025 to 2026)
- Commercial Finance Manager, Emerging Markets and Indian Ocean, Diageo (2023 to 2025)
- Commercial Finance Manager, South Africa, Diageo (2023 to 2025)
- Revenue Manager, Sanofi (2020 to 2023)
- Financial Analyst, Procter and Gamble (2015 to 2019)
She holds an MBA from Stellenbosch Business School and the Chartered Global Management Accountant designation.
What Koketso Kekana brings to the chief financial officer role at Microsoft South Africa: commercial finance experience across several emerging markets and a background in consumption-driven retail economics, applied to a subsidiary whose revenue is shifting from licensing towards cloud and artificial intelligence usage.
