Meet Kim
I was raised and educated in beautiful South Africa, where I began my career with Deloitte in Johannesburg before taking the next step internationally with a secondment to their Houston, Texas office. Big-firm consulting showed me the power of business structure, but it also anchored my core belief: clarity and human potential drive profit. When you communicate clearly and give people the space to lead, businesses win.
I've stepped into nearly every sector including mining, construction, media, digital, pharma, advertising, and manufacturing. If that diversity taught me one thing, it's that business is an interconnected ecosystem.
When strategy, people, or the day-to-day execution fall out of sync, the whole environment feels the strain. But when you reintroduce balance and direction, the ecosystem thrives. My career has been defined by this type of systems thinking, understanding the invisible strings that connect high-performance teams to raw commercial results.
Out of the boardroom, I'm a proud wife and mom to my 5-year-old boy, who always keeps me on my toes. In my "spare" time (who has spare time anymore?), I'm learning Spanish, taking on AI by the horns, I listen to the wise Brené Brown and am a sucker for a tough F45 HIIT class. My girlfriends would describe me as the most pragmatic, no-nonsense person in the room, but also the one who wants to skip the small talk and dive straight into the thick of things.
Today, I'm putting that corporate-grade blueprint into the hands of the open market. rhumb is my way of expanding that support, ensuring that both ambitious individuals and scaling organisations have direct access to the senior strategic thinking they need to step forward with absolute confidence.
Credentials
- 20+ Years of strategic commercial and corporate finance leadership.
- Ex-Deloitte grounding in massive, complex global ecosystems.
- CFO & Board Level experience driving growth and managing risk from inside the boardroom.
- Qualified chartered accountant CA (SA) Qualified with a BCom (Hons) in Accounting Sciences.
- Cross-Sector Mastery spanning Creative Agencies, Mining, Digital Media, Manufacturing, and Tech.
The combination of senior operational experience and commercial finance depth is what allows me to work at both the system level (how the business is structured to make money) and the decision level (how leaders price, prioritise and act under pressure).
What it's like to work with me
Clients describe me as calm, direct, and commercially grounded. I don't do drama, and I don't do theory without application. I bring the same composure to a pricing conversation that I brought to a boardroom under pressure.
I'm a thinker and a processor - I'll often say the thing that's sitting in the room unsaid, because that's usually where the real issue is. I don't come at a problem from one angle either; if the first lens doesn't explain what's going on, I'll try another until it does.
I'm a good fit if you want someone who:
- Has sat in your chair. I've lived these high-stakes decisions from the inside, not studied them from the sidelines.
- Tells you the truth, not an echo. Straight talk, no beating around the bush, even when it's not what's comfortable.
- Sees the whole system, not just the spreadsheet. I translate raw numbers into real commercial context.
- Speaks plain English, not accounting jargon. Dense financial data, turned into clear, actionable strategy.
- Looks beyond cost-cutting. Value-driven growth, not just cutting costs.
- Moves fast. High-impact commercial fixes over 50-page slide decks.
- Builds capability, not dependency. So your team can lead with confidence once I'm gone.
I'm not the right fit if you need a large consulting team, a generic finance template, or someone who'll agree with everything you say.