Susie Young is based in Spencer Stuart’s Sydney office and is an active member of the Financial Officer Practice in Australasia, focusing on recruiting senior finance officers for a wide range of publicly listed and private companies across many different industry sectors. Her searches have included CFOs, tax managers, group controllers, treasurers, internal auditors, risk managers, company secretaries as well as business development and investor relations specialists. She also focuses on the Financial Services, Board Services and Diversity practices and has conducted numerous searches for CEOs and other top marketing, sales, strategy, real estate, customer service and human resources executives and non-executive directors for businesses across Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region.
Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Susie was president of SITEL Asia Pacific after serving as CEO of SITEL Australia, a 50/50 joint venture with Lend Lease Corporation. She previously worked for Lend Lease in Sydney as a divisional CFO in the financial services arm of that business and had responsibility for establishing some important technology joint ventures, including IBM Global Services Australia. Prior to joining Lend Lease, Susie had a 15 year career in investment banking and non-bank financial services working for Citigroup Australia, Wardley Australia, HSBC Australia and First National (the merchant banking arm of NAB) after being transferred to Australia from the U.S. by GATX Capital Corporation of San Francisco.
Born in the U.S., Susie holds a B.A. with honors from Denison University and a M.A. from the Monterey Institute of International Studies together with a professional certificate in translation and interpretation. She also attended M.B.A. studies at the University of California at Berkeley and participated in an executive education program at the University of Virginia. She is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and has served as a governor and director of the WWF (formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund) Australia since 2002.