Sharon MacDonald
MBA, CA, CPA, GradDipACG, GradDipAdvAcctg, BBus(Accy)
M. +61 402 241 414
P. +61 7 2104 8912
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Areas of Expertise
- Financial Management and Analysis
- Financial Governance
- Financial Remediation
- Financial Modelling
- Data Analytics
- Transforming Financial Reporting
- Process Improvement
Professional Qualifications
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Chartered Accountant (CA)
- Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA)
- Graduate Diploma in Applied Corporate Governance
- Graduate Diploma in Advanced Accounting
- Bachelor of Business (Accounting)
- Member – Australian Institute of Company Directors
Sharon leads i3 Australia’s finance service line as our head finance and analytics specialist. Sharon is anything but your typical accountant and is passionate about helping clients to transform their financial performance and unlock the value of data.
Education
Sharon is MBA qualified and both a Chartered (CA) and Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA) with more than 25 years of finance, data analytics and consulting experience working with clients in Australia and throughout Asia.
Background
Before co-founding i3 Australia, Sharon was the CFO of a health services organisation overseeing human resources, governance and office management functions. Prior to taking up this role, Sharon established a finance shared service centre for a network of health service organisations operating across Queensland.
Sharon leads financial improvement projects including, but not limited to, financial modelling, cash flow forecasting, scenario analysis and commercialisation strategies.
Sharon has project managed several ERP implementations and has been instrumental in transforming the financial performance of clients through digitisation, data analytics and advanced financial reporting.
More recently, Sharon has been assisting clients with financial remediation after audit, regulatory issues and financial underperformance.
As our subject matter specialist in finance and data analytics she has assisted the boards and management of clients in numerous industries to improve their financial management, reporting, performance and sustainability.
About Sharon
Personally, Sharon is passionate about continuous learning and seeing growth in people and improvements in how organisations perform.