MsSarah Jane Kavanagh
Adjunct Faculty
Graduate School of Healthcare Management
- Adjunct FacultyGraduate School of Healthcare Management
BIOGRAPHY
Sarah Jane is a fellow accountant with the CPA Australia (FCPA. Aust), a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD) and has a Project Management Professional (PMP) designation from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Sarah Jane is an innovative healthcare leader with over 16 years’ experience in financial management, strategy, organisational transformation and incident management. She graduated with a Master's Degree in Accounting and Finance from the Technological University of Dublin in 2007. She was a Senior Associate with PwC Dublin from 2007-2011. In Healthcare she was appointed as Mater Group Finance Manager, Brisbane, Australia in 2012-2016, controlling a budget of $500m pa. She subsequently took up the position of Group Finance Manager at Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Brisbane in 2018 (budget of €3.4 billion pa).
Sarah Jane has led significant transformational initiatives including a large group consolidation of Mater Brisbane Hospitals in 2013 and a SAP system implementation to 3,000 users at Metro North Hospital and Health Service. She acted as state advisor to Queensland Health in April 2020 following her successful delivery of a COVID-19 logistic response across Metro North Hospital and Health Service (17,000 staff) and the greater Brisbane area.
Since returning back to Ireland in 2020, Sarah Jane is a project consultant to St James’s Hospital, Dublin, which includes leading the supply chain automation and traceability of medical devices and clinical consumables at pan hospital level. She also leads business continuity and disaster recovery planning for the hospital.
Sarah Jane is an innovative healthcare leader with over 16 years’ experience in financial management, strategy, organisational transformation and incident management. She graduated with a Master's Degree in Accounting and Finance from the Technological University of Dublin in 2007. She was a Senior Associate with PwC Dublin from 2007-2011. In Healthcare she was appointed as Mater Group Finance Manager, Brisbane, Australia in 2012-2016, controlling a budget of $500m pa. She subsequently took up the position of Group Finance Manager at Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Brisbane in 2018 (budget of €3.4 billion pa).
Sarah Jane has led significant transformational initiatives including a large group consolidation of Mater Brisbane Hospitals in 2013 and a SAP system implementation to 3,000 users at Metro North Hospital and Health Service. She acted as state advisor to Queensland Health in April 2020 following her successful delivery of a COVID-19 logistic response across Metro North Hospital and Health Service (17,000 staff) and the greater Brisbane area.
Since returning back to Ireland in 2020, Sarah Jane is a project consultant to St James’s Hospital, Dublin, which includes leading the supply chain automation and traceability of medical devices and clinical consumables at pan hospital level. She also leads business continuity and disaster recovery planning for the hospital.