Efforts to construct expertise and enhance human capacities for the monetary trade has obtained a lift with the launch of the Aya Institute for Finance and Administration.
Aya Institute for Finance and Administration, a non-for revenue worldwide coaching centre of excellence, emerged from a non-public partnership of the German Growth Cooperation and 4 non-public companions below the develoPPP.de programme of the German Federal Ministry for Financial Cooperation and Growth.
The opposite non-public companions are Krapa Ghana Basis, IPC, a world consulting agency, and two German software program corporations specialising in e-learning and digital banking, Chemmedia and Quipu.
As a part of the programme, a five-member Governing Council was inaugurated to supervise the organisation, specifically Johanna OdonkorSvanikier, former Ambassador to France and Portugal and Chairperson of the Governing Council, Jim Reynolds Baiden, former Managing Director of Constancy Financial institution, DorteWeidig, Managing Accomplice of IPC, John Maxwell Addo, A Human Sources Skilled, and Mareike Wolter, Director of Coaching and Abilities Growth at IPC.
Talking through the launch in Accra final Thursday, the Government Director of Aya Institute for Finance and Administration, AbenaaKessewaa Brown, stated the organisation was established in September final yr to contribute to enchancment within the capacities of future and present staff of the monetary sector in Ghana.
She stated the imaginative and prescient of the Aya Institute was to be a catalyst for improvement of individuals and moral and inspirational management in addition to socio-economic change throughout Africa.
Mrs Brown indicated that for the reason that institution of the organisation11 months in the past, it had educated 400 personnel from the monetary trade throughout 11 organisations.
They embrace Constancy Financial institution, Petra Belief, The OmniGroup, Sinapi Aba Financial savings and Loans, absa, Dalex Finance, and SIC Life.
The Government Director stated the Ghanaian monetary sector wanted certified and specialised workers to extend effectivity and stay aggressive within the difficult evolving market atmosphere.
“We’re excited to introduce our distinctive studying expertise to the monetary companies trade and all sectors of the Ghanaian financial system, to assist develop the talents of groups and enhance their efficiency and productiveness,” Mrs Brown stated.
She stated the Aya Institute supplied technical and delicate expertise coaching in open and tailored programmes protecting 80 modules in addition to job-readiness modules.
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Among the modules, the Government Director talked about have been Accounting, Audit and Compliance, Banking and Finance, Entrepreneurship, Human Sources Administration, and Management Abilities.
Ms Brown stated Aya Institute had launched Younger Professionals Programme to construct the talents of graduates and put together them for the monetary job market, indicating that for a begin 50 graduates would profit from the programme this yr.
The Head of Sustainable Financial Growth, GIZ-Ghana, Gerald Guskowski, stated some graduates lacked the delicate expertise and technical competencies required by the job market.
“That is precisely why along with our companions, we’re introducing the Younger Professionals Programme to nurture younger graduates for the job market,” she stated.
“Closing the employability hole and the mismatch between the trade’s excessive demand for certified personnel, and the quite a few job-seeking college graduates, very vital to the expansion of the monetary sector,” MrGuskowski stated.
Doris Bloniarz, Regional Supervisor of IPC GmbH, stated the Institute would assist to construct the fitting expertise and attitudes for gamers within the monetary sector.