About Finance
Finance Leadership Team
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Stacey joined UNSW as Chief Financial Officer in March 2019. She had previously been with Deakin University in Melbourne for six years in various senior finance roles including Interim CFO, Director Strategic Finance Initiatives and Director Financial Resources Management. Stacey has more than 16 years’ experience in the Higher Education sector having also worked at the University of South Australia for ten years in finance, operations and marketing positions.
Stacey is a Chartered Accountant with extensive financial assurance and audit experience having worked at Ernst & Young and Arthur Andersen. She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has held a number of directorships on for-profit and not-for-profit boards.
Stacey holds a Bachelor of Business (Marketing), a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master of Business Administration from the University of South Australia, along with a Graduate Diploma in Chartered Accounting from the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants |
Organisational Chart
Finance Services
- Financial Planning & Analysis
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Director: Lynette Petrie
- Provide organisation-wide financial management strategy
- Provide strategic management and commercial support
- Student load planning, workforce planning, business case viability guidance
- Treasury, Investments and Insurance
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Director: Andrew Fellowes
- Perform treasury activities
- Perform insurance activities
- Manage investments
- Financial Control & Compliance
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Director: Catherine Yeung
Financial Control & Compliance - Catherine Yeung
Research & Revenue Accounting - Marie Saparamadu- Performs statutory financial reporting
- Manage policy, financial compliance
- Financial process control
- Provide specialist advice and support including tax
- Manages financial data integrity
- Manages tax compliance
- Research Finance support
- Faculty & Divisional Business Partnering
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Lead Finance Business Partners:
- Faculties - Paul Jackson
- Divisions - Savvas Christou
Hub Leaders
- Faculties - Yvonne Balakian
- Divisions - Denise Miles
- Provide senior level business and finance advice to faculties and divisions
- Oversee all elements of each faculty and division financials
- Conduct financial modelling and analysis
- Prepare budgets and forecasts
- Provide management reports & analysis
- Provide transactional finance support
- Procure to Pay
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Director: William Bailey
- Partner with the business to deliver procurement activity for value >$350k including:
- Phase 1- planning & strategy development
- Phase 2- approaching the market and evaluation
- Phase 3- entering into negotiations and recommend suppliers
- Phase 4- facilitate contract execution and handover to Accounts Payable
- Responsible for travel procurement and operations across the University
- Provide support and advice for activities <$350k
- Establish competitive panels for staff to access prequalified UNSW suppliers
- Provide access to prequalified suppliers through Government panel arrangements
- Provide guidance on negotiations with suppliers <$350k
- Develop contract management plans
- Provide trend analytics for spend by category and supplier
- Identify opportunities for sustainable practises and lead modern slavery supply chain initiatives
- Partner with the business to deliver procurement activity for value >$350k including:
- Office of the CFO
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Operations Manager: Vicky Edwards
- Manage the day to day operational activities of Finance
- Provide a central point of support for all administrative processes
- Executive support to the CFO (cfo-support@unsw.edu.au)
- Management of Finance governance deliverables
- Delivery of operational business planning and process improvement
- Support workforce management and planning and capability development