Monash University have appointed Anna Tsikouris as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Senior Vice-President.
As an accomplished and highly-regarded commercial leader, Tsikouris will bring the university a wealth of experience when she commences in April.
This experience comes from time spent in large organisations across the globe in Asia, Australasia and Europe, where she led large-scale transformations.
In an announcement from Monash University, the institute congratulated her and
Tsikouris joins Monash from the Australian National University (ANU), where she served as CFO for the past four years.
She joined ANU during the COVID-19 pandemic, a difficult period for the higher education sector, just as it was across all walks of life.
So, she understands the landscape in which universities operate.
Drawing upon her extensive commercial experience, Tsikouris was able to redesign the responsibilities and focus of the school’s finance portfolio and deliver a transformative approach to strategic financial management.
She enabled the implementation and ongoing success of organisation-wide initiatives by facilitating collaborations within the portfolio, with internal ANU stakeholders and external commercial partners.
In her commercial background overseas prior to joining ANU, Tsikouris spent six years as the Vice-President and CFO, North East Asia, at Ericsson Japan.
It was there she was responsible for the market areas of Japan, Taiwan, mainland China, Hong Kong and South Korea.
She had been at Ericsson since 2000, holding several senior commercial management roles across Asia as well as in Sweden, New Zealand and Australia.
Before that she worked in accounting at Warner Village Cinemas and Barclays Commodities in the United Kingdom, and the Department of Human Services in Victoria.
