Elifas Hamukoto

Elifas Hamukoto is a Chartered Accountant with over nine years’ experience spanning banking, asset management, and Big-4 audit across Namibia and the United Kingdom. He currently serves as Senior Finance Manager: Product Control at Standard Bank Namibia. 
 
Prior to this, Elifas was Portfolio Manager at BFS Fund Manager, overseeing a diversified credit and equity portfolio, and an Audit Manager at Deloitte UK, where he led financial reporting and risk engagements for FTSE 100 clients, including Azule Energy (BP & ENI’s Angolan oil and gas business) and Centrica PLC’s commodities and oil & gas trading division. His technical grounding in IFRS 9, credit risk provisioning, and derivative accounting within commodity trading environments, combined with business strategy experience supporting SME growth and investment readiness, gives him a strong lens on financial and governance matters shaping Namibia’s emerging oil and gas sector.