Above: Clockwise from top left: Nadine Kater (FASSET COO and director of Learnerships and ETQA), Ayanda Maki (BANKSETA), Lindsay Gibson (Gradzone brand manager) and Jason Venn (Venn-Sure Consulting franchise principal). Final year accounting, finance and business students from University of the Western Cape and Cape Peninsula University of Technology had a unique opportunity to hear the latest news and pick up hot tips on career and post graduate training opportunities in the financial and banking sectors!
The financial services sector is particularly important because it is the largest employer of people with financial management, accounting, and auditing skills. In 2007 about 118 000 people worked in the sector.
Fasset is the SETA for Finance, Accounting, Management Consulting and other Financial Services in South Africa. The Financial and Accounting Services Sector refers to the organisations served by
Fasset.
This sector includes: investment entities and trusts and company secretary services; stockbroking and financial markets; financial development organisations; accounting, bookkeeping, auditing and tax
services; business and management consulting services; the South African Revenue Service; the national and provincial treasuries; and other activities auxiliary to financial intermediation, such as debt collection.