Personal Experience
Sirisha Pinnali is a senior practice lead in the Banking and Finance Practice of Hunt & Hunt Melbourne. Sirisha manages our banking and finance client relationships and provides specialised advice to our major clients including banks and financial services providers. In addition to transactional banking, her areas of specialisation also include Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism financing, Privacy and Consumer Credit laws.
She is also a Chartered Accountant with more 20 years’ experience in Australia, USA and UAE and other jurisdictions, specialising in banking and financial services. She has held senior roles in audit, risk, strategy and financial management, including the Head of Finance Corporate Centre at the ANZ Bank. Her other roles have included working both in-house in large multinational corporates, and as a consultant.
Prior to joining Hunt & Hunt, Sirisha has led teams of specialised financial services experts at various levels, has been on the finance and risk committees and delivered advice to executive boards on complex regulatory and compliance issues in banking and financial services. She brings the depth of customer focus and delivery to legal services expertise and is acknowledged for fostering long-term client relationships, understanding and prioritising client needs, simplifying complexity and ensuring high quality, timely and cost-effective delivery of services.
