Ms Himans is an accomplished and highly respected accounting and finance professional, with close to two decades of experience in corporate finance, with 16 years spent in playing senior leadership roles in the energy sector. She is a chartered accountant and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), UK.

In recognition of her outstanding performance and leadership, she received the Exemplary Leadership Award, 2023 at the Women in Energy and Mining Awards (WiMEA).

Ms Himans also received our CEO’s Special Award for Outstanding Female Leadership, during our 2024 Women in Leadership Conference organized on the International Women’s Day in March.

Since 2019, when she took over the leadership of the Finance & Planning Department of PETROSOL, she has ensured that notwithstanding the global and national economic turbulence, PETROSOL met its financial obligations.

She previously served as the Head, Treasury Operations of Airtel Ghana Ltd (Airtel Tigo); the Commercial Manager of Maranatha Oil Services, a Bulk Oil Import, Distribution and Export Company; the Head of Finance of Springfield Energy/Springfield E&P, formally a Bulk Oil Import, Distribution and Export Company and now an oil exploration company; the Financial Controller of UBI Petroleum (now PUMA Energy Ltd), an Oil Marketing Company (OMC); and Senior Accountant of SO Energy Ltd, an OMC, which is a subsidiary of the Sahara Energy Group of Nigeria.

Ms Himans began her career as Audit Associate with KPMG, a global audit firm and went on to become the Finance Manager of the Private Enterprise Foundation (now Private Enterprise. She holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Wuhan University of Technology, China, and Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the University of Ghana, Legon.

She has also undergone the following courses: International Financial Reporting Standards for Oil and Gas (Johannesburg), Oil Market Fundamentals (Accra), BP Third Party Traders course (London) and Excel Application in Financial Management and Modeling (Accra) and Contract Administration.

Ms Himans is a Member of the Products Security Committee of the Association of Oil Marketing Companies (AOMC) now Chamber of Oil Marketing Companies (COMAC).