Joanne James - Chief Finance Officer

 

Phone: +61 (0)3 9286 9246
Fax: +61 (0)3 9286 9040
Email: j.james@boxhill.edu.au

Office: Building E3, G52, Elgar Campus

Private Bag 2014, Box Hill 3128

Victoria - AUSTRALIA

 

Personal assistant

 

Name:  Gayle Andersen
Phone: +61 (0)3 9286 9310
Email: g.andersen@boxhill.edu.au

 

Qualifications

 

  • Bachelor of Business – Accounting
  • FCPA, Fellow of Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants
  • MAICD, Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
  • Chief Finance and Accounting Officer – Box Hill Institute

Areas of Responsibility 

 

Joanne is the Chief Finance Officer of Box Hill Institute, and the Company Secretary for Box Hill Enterprises limited where she is responsible for the following key areas of financial accountability and governance:

 

  • Financial Management and Financial Viability
  • Financial Statutory Compliance and Audit 
  • Procurement
  • Business planning and Budget performance
  • Strategic financial planning
  • Corporate Risk Management and related planning
  • Financial investments and capital funding
  • Financial obligations and cash flow
  • Fraud Management Awareness and Control
  • Financial systems
  • Corporate Governance for Box Hill Enterprises
  • Executive support for the Audit Finance and Risk Committee
  • Member of the CEO senate
  • Chair of the Risk Steering Committee

 

In addition to the Chief Finance Officer responsibilities noted above, Joanne’s direct reports include the following Executive Managers:

 

  • Executive Manager, Finance Centre
  • Executive Manager, Commercial 
  • Executive Manager,  Risk Management and
  • Executive Manager, Audit and Compliance.

 

Other areas reporting through to the Chief Finance Officers role, through the direct report accountabilities include BHI Digital Print Services and the Box Hill Institute Bookshops.

 

Professional Background

 

Joanne is a senior finance executive with over 20 years experience in banking, private enterprise, state and federal government agencies and vocational education and training.
As a result, Joanne has extensive executive management expertise, at both a strategic and at an operational level and across a range of sectors in both the profit and not for profit sectors. 

 

Joanne’s expertise and experience include strategic planning, financial management, budget management, cash management, project management, process improvement, investment strategy and borrowings, capital raisings and securitisations,  internal controls and compliance, strategic procurement, corporations law, contract management, national competition policy and pricing policy, systems implementation, fraud management and corporate risk management and insurance.