PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is keen on building capacity of local talented graduates to support the country’s development objectives. 

Florence Gatome, a partner at PwC Rwanda, said this will help provide cutting-edge skills required by the industrial sector, among others.

Gatome said the global advisory firm has so far recruited over 50 young and bright Rwandans who are trained in the country and other countries in the region to provide a pool of skilled personnel to serve the private sector.

The firm, she added, also supports them to acquire professional qualifications in their different fields to improve their competences.

Gatome was speaking during the training of the firm’s heads of finance drawn from 20 countries across Africa in Kigali on Friday. The conference was attended by Malde Tanuja, the chief of operations for the PwC East market region, among others.

Tanuja lauded Rwanda’s ‘well-developed’ hospitality sector, noting that the country has put in place infrastructure while ensuring security, which supports private sector growth. "PwC supports investment in Rwanda by advising international companies that want to invest in the country on business registration and tax matters, as well as assisting them set up operations in Rwanda,” Tanuja noted.

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