For our
May session, we are delighted that Vicki Hartley, CFO of Lendi and
Non-Executive Director for Dress for Success, will be sharing with us how
being an accountant has given her the geographic flexibility to work
internationally in London, Auckland and Sydney and how she is now using those
skills to start a Non-Executive Director Portfolio.
Vicki
will also speak about some of the challenges she has faced working in the
traditionally male dominated areas of investment banking and financial
services and contrast that to her current experience as a Non-Executive
Director on two charity and NFP boards that support women and as a result have
almost 100% female staff and 100% female directors.
Vicki is
a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales. She
has over 25 years of Financial Services Experience in Australia and the United
Kingdom. Over her career she has worked in the auditing profession before
moving to work at UBS and Deutsche Bank in London alongside the trading desks,
before arriving in Australia and taking senior roles at QBE and
Challenger. More recently, Vicki has held the position as the CFO of
Lendi, one of the largest Australian Fintech’s that is challenging the way
Mortgage Brokers compare loans and services clients in the age of the internet
and google advertising.
Alongside
her role at Lendi, Vicki is a Non-Executive Director for Dress for Success
Sydney and Domestic Violence NSW Service Management. Vicki’s accounting
qualifications and experience has assisted her in being treasurer for both
these Not for Profit/NGO organisations.
We are
encouraging our members to support Dress for Success and bring along a good
quality handbag or piece of business attire. Please ensure that it is
clean, current style, something you bought and only wore a few times or maybe
it’s now too big (or too small) or the wrong colour, not active wear. If
you would give it to a friend then Dress for Success would love to take
it. Or you can make a gold coin donation on the night.
