About Africa Risk Management Advisors
Africa Risk Management Advisors (ARMA) is a professional services network offering advisory, training and placement services to a diverse clientele across the African continent. Formed as a joint venture between Success Realm (Pty) Ltd from Botswana and Centerprise Holdings Ltd from Kenya ARMA acquired the business and assets of Centerprise Africa, a Financial Advisory firm and Africa Risk Institute, a training and placement firm to establish a strong foundation for its Africa-focused strategy. ARMA operates from two locations – Gaborone (to service the South and West African regions) and Nairobi (to service the East, Central and North African regions).
Our Advisory offering is diverse and comprises of project finance, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, Banking Advisory, Independent Business Reviews (IBRs), SME support services, Technology solutions, and risk management advisory.
At the heart of our service offering is the desire to help enterprises overcome formation and growth and development challenges in their pursuit of their strategic objectives. Our governing philosophy is to offer market-focused and bespoke solutions to each of our clients. All our engagements are led by teams blending world-class best-practices with pragmatic, real-world operating experience.
Our Vision
A globally recognized Finance and Risk solutions provider.
Our Mission
To help people and enterprises in our chosen market segments realize their full potential through innovative, research-based and sustainable solutions.
Our Core Values
Our values are based on the acronym ‘ONE-PIER’ which implies that our clients have a single safe landing place for their Risk requirements.
1. ONE global network
- Leveraging the power of global relationships and collaboration to deliver exceptional services to clients wherever they do business in Africa.
- Attracting, developing and retaining the best talent for effective service delivery
2. People
- Attracting, developing and retaining the best talent for effective service delivery
- Embed a questioning mentality in our people – why/why not?
- Deliberate Internship program to help young graduates induct into the job market
3. Integrity
- All employees and partners will act with utmost integrity and professionalism
- Ethically unyielding, earnest and inspiring trust
- Taking responsibility for our actions
4. Excellence
- Relentless pursuit of excellence
- We create value beyond customer expectations
- We deliver beyond best practice
5. Respect
- Respect for employees, partners, and clients
- Value diversity and unique individual contributions
- Fostering a trusting, open and inclusive environment
Our governing philosophy is to offer market-focused and bespoke solutions to each of our clients.
We take great pride in our core team of principals who are not only professional bankers, risk managers, consultants, and trainers, but also strategic investors in many successful private ventures. The team further benefits immensely from a pool of trusted partners and associate consultants which allows for exchange of resources on a need-basis
All our engagements are led by teams blending world-class best-practices with pragmatic, real-world operating experience, broad commercial knowledge, specialized skills and hands-on experience. This carefully blended core team typically brings on board a combined experience of onwards of 30 years in the areas of risk management and finance which greatly benefits our client assignments.