Michelle King

National Higher Education Lead

KPMG Australia

As KPMG’s National Lead for Higher Education, Michelle facilitates our services to Australia’s higher education providers. Joining KPMG in 2018, Michelle and has leveraged her sector experience across a broad range of higher education projects, with particular emphasis on student experience and operational excellence and transformation.

Michelle helps our education clients deliver projects that include:

  • whole of student lifecycle management by creating student-centric approaches across a the prospective and current student experience as well as the alumni experience
  • review of institution-wide strategic functions such as business intelligence
  • assurance and oversight of significant investments in enterprise-wide change programs.

Prior to KPMG, Michelle held a number of strategy and transformation roles in the education sector.

  • Education
  • Government and Public Sector
  • Operational efficiency, strategy
  • Public Policy and Regulatory Change
  • Strategy
  • Transformation
  • Universities and Colleges, Higher Education
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Geopolitics and the Australian higher education sector

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Achieving financial sustainability in higher education

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Revenue diversification is a significant opportunity for Australian universities.

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Transforming data and analytics in higher education

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Learn how La Trobe University advances their data management and digital strategy.

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Transforming financial management and procurement in higher education

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Approaches to financial services, cost management and sourcing in the university sector.

Transforming HR at The University of Queensland

Transforming HR at The University of Queensland

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The University of Queensland modernised operations and people processes with Workday.

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Student experience in the age of the customer

Article Posted date31 March 2021

How can higher education providers create a truly engaging learning experience?

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Deakin University case study

Article Posted date11 June 2019

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Deakin University transforming their finance function with KPMG and Workday.