Risk Management & Treasury Solutions
Susan Campbell, FCPA, FFTP, F Fin, MAICD
Director of ARGYLL Consulting and NE Director of Heritage Bank, Susan Campbell has had over 25 years in the finance industry, which has included working with major banks and corporations in Melbourne and London. Susan started working with Macquarie Bank in the eighties after the float of the Aussie dollar before moving to London. There she became a corporate dealer for HSBC London dealing interest rate and FX derivatives for Asian and European corporates. On returning home Susan was the Treasurer for Sussan Corporation, a large national property and retail group and then move to a major listed mining company. For the last fifteen years Susan has run a successful consulting business ARGYLL, working with KPMG, Arthur Andersen, Barrington Corporate Finance, the Victorian Government and with various government bodies, financial organisations and corporations specialising in treasury operations, policies, transactional banking, risk management and internal controls and treasury systems.
Susan has been a senior lecturer at RMIT University working in the undergraduate and masters programs developing and presenting financial markets, treasury and risk management courses. She was responsible for the development of the Treasury Training Facility at RMIT. She has been a guest lecturer for the Graduate School at both RMIT and La Trobe University.
Susan has had a wide range of experience with various treasuries both in Australia, New Zealand and Asia and has done numerous projects which include reviewing/writing treasury policies, mapping treasury processes from a risk management perspective, conducting independent reviews of the treasury unit, formulating strategies and improving cost structures. In addition Susan was the Finance and Treasury Policy advisor for CPA Australia covering systems, internal controls and treasury issues and was on the CPA Finance and Treasury Centre of Excellence for many years.
Since 2005 Susan has been a non-executive Director of Heritage Bank (previously the largest building society in Australia). Susan is also a member of their Finance Committee.
She is an internationally renowned presenter who has done extensive work with many leading institutions and national bodies. She has presented throughout Australia and Asia for various clients including; CPA Australia, FTA., AFMA.,CPA Malaysia, the ICAA, Finsia, Australian Institute of Management, NSW Treasury, Queensland Government, Philippine Airlines, Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, World Bank, Bank of China, the Rating Agency of Malaysia, Euromoney, Asian Development Bank, IBBM and FTC Singapore.
Susan is on the Risk Management Taskforce for the Masters Degree Kaplan and is the author of; The Guide to Financial Risk Management published by Thomson Reuters, Australia, and The Finance and Treasury Handbook published by Brookers, New Zealand, as well as numerous articles covering a wide range of financial markets.
Susan has a Bachelor of Commerce, University of Melbourne, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment, a MBA, RMIT University, CPA qualifications and her Cert IV in Assessment and Workplace Training and is RG 146 accredited.
Company Profile
Argyll was established in 1990 with a brief to provide specialist services to the finance industry.
Over the years this has evolved to meet the needs of our many and varied clients.
Argyll though independent in all its areas, does from time to time work with larger organisations to satisfy the requirements of a job where necessary.
The main aim of our business is to provide hands on advice in matters of treasury and finance to corporations and financial services firms, both large and small and to support this with training of the staff involved.
Our clients include all major banks in Australia, the Victorian State Government and many overseas banks throughout Asia.
In the more recent years a large growth area of our business has been to provide training in the risk management field. The risk management profession has grown rapidly in all areas of business and financial institutions and this has lead to a strong degree of interest in specialised courses such as Market, Liquidity, Credit, and Operational Risk, Enterprise Risk Management and general financial risk management.