PwC partner, Anne Loveridge walked away with the crowning jewel of the Woman of the Year at the Women in Financial Services awards 2015.
Senior partner for financial services at PwC Australia, Anne Loveridge, triumphed as Woman of the Year at Money Management and Super Review’s Women in Financial Services Awards.
Loveridge nabbed the crowning jewel at the awards ceremony, which also recognised other women across the financial services industry, with titles including Financial Planner of the Year, Mentor of the Year, and Superannuation Executive of the Year.
During her three-decade tenure at the firm, Loveridge has been widely appreciated by her peers for her leadership and initiatives not only in financial services at PwC, but also in promoting gender diversity, diversity of leadership, and ways of thinking in the workplace.
“She is personally passionate about diversity of leadership including style, gender, age, and background and promoting diversity of leadership, by demonstrating an open mind approach, focus on outcome,” PwC partner, and Loveridge’s colleague, Julie Coates said.
Westpac chief financial officer, technology, Rachel Grimes, commended Loveridge for being the first female partner in the department for PwC Sydney.
As one of the most senior partners at PwC Australia, Loveridge has taken on many client leadership roles, including lead audit partner and co-signing audit partner at Westpac, and global lead relationship partner at National Australia Bank.
When Loveridge was the PwC global client lead partner for a major Australian bank from 2012 to 2015, she took it upon herself to lead a diverse gender and culture team of 14 partners and engagement teams of up to 70 staff to change the way the bank worked, and enhance their performance.
Given the responsibility of driving the female partner representation at the senior account level, Loveridge and her team were able to boost representation by 30 per cent.
“Due to the strength of her industry knowledge and her positive contribution to the industry, in November Anne will depart the firm to take up a role on the board of the National Australia Bank,” Coates said.
