Company Director

Company Director 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. Susan is also a member of the Heritage Bank Finance Committee, and Chair of the Risk 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 was on the Risk Management Taskforce for the Masters Degree Kaplan. She 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. More recently Susan has published ‘Treasury for Dummies,’ which is an ebook, available for purchase under the ‘Resources’ tab of this website.

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.

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