Chief Financial Officer Kate Koch to leave RMIT
After nearly four years with RMIT, Chief Financial Officer Kate Koch has made the difficult decision to leave the University.
Koch departs RMIT to achieve a personal career aspiration of being a Chief Financial Officer at an ASX 100 company.
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Martin Bean applauded her significant contribution.
“Kate has been a wonderful colleague, advisor and friend. I wish her every success in this next exciting step in her career and I want to acknowledge her years of outstanding service at RMIT and her extraordinary contribution to our future. We will always be grateful for her expertise as she guided our University through 2020, towards a sustainable future in the face of a dramatically changed environment.”
Koch has been a key member of the Vice Chancellor’s Executive group, accountable for oversight of financial management and control, financial planning and analysis, analytics and insights, legal, University secretariat, internal audit, compliance, risk and regulation. As a leader and mentor, she has guided others and established a best in class function of finance, legal and governance professionals..
Since she started in 2017, Koch re-established the five year planning process that included scenario planning that readied the team to respond with confidence to the impacts of COVID-19, secured the required financial facilities at the height of the pandemic, established a clear focus on data, analytics and forecasting, collaborated closely with RMIT Vietnam to align ways of working, modernised our legal, risk and compliance environment and embedded a risk lens in all we do.
Koch will depart RMIT in May with clear transition plans in place well ahead of that.
A recruitment process will commence immediately for her successor.
- Announcements
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.