Professional Qualifications

Masters of Business Administration (Privatisation)
Bachelor of Business (Accounting and Finance)
Member, Institute of Internal Auditors
Member, Information Systems  Audit and Control Association
Fellow, CPA Australia
Chartered Accountant, Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia
Fellow, Taxation Institute of Australia
Affiliate, Financial Services Institute of Australasia Professional Background

Professional Background

Shirley heads Moore Stephens Sydney's Business Risk Services Division.

Shirley advises and consults to boards on governance, internal audit, risk management, regulatory compliance including SOX, AML, AFSL and compliance audit. She has headed the internal audit for key clients in a wide range of industries and performed risk reviews for ASX listed companies. Shirley also has a special focus in Health and Aged Care( particularly aged care), financial services, manufacturing, infrastructure, construction, and retail.

Shirley also regularly leads and chairs thought leadership discussions forums for audit chairs and c-level executives and is an accredited presenter for Australian Institute of Company Directors.

She also consults at level of boards for a broad range of entities ranging from private and public companies at key directors, senior management levels as well to government ministerial and steering committees in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.

Shirley has worked with broad spectrum of companies ranging from large multinational corporations, multi-listed to small and emerging enterprises as well as public sector. She is experienced in most areas of business advisory and management consulting covering performance and systems improvement as well as business turnarounds.

She is passionate about driving convergence of risk, governance and strategy to drive audit and assurance in order to help clients achieve growth and drive value. Through her work in compliance reviews, strategic risk advisory, internal audit, process and controls review, she has contributed to clients in not only helping to achieve compliance objectives but sought to drive process efficiencies as well as identifying strategic opportunities.