Danielle Stein Fairhurst

About

Danielle Stein Fairhurst is the Principal of Plum Solutions, a Sydney-based consultancy specialising in financial modelling and analysis. She is a LinkedIn Learning Instructor and the author of “Using Excel for Business and Financial Modelling”, published by Wiley Finance and “Financial Modeling in Excel for Dummies”. In 2021 she first received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award and in 2022 she was awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the Financial Modelling Summit. With over 20 years’ experience as a financial analyst, she helps her clients create meaningful financial models in the form of business cases, pricing models and management reports. She has hands-on experience in a number of industry sectors, including telecoms, information systems, manufacturing and financial services. Danielle has regular engagements around Australia and globally as a speaker, course facilitator and financial modelling consultant. She founded the Financial Modellers’ Meetup groups which attracts participants from all over the world as well as a LinkedIn forum with over 200,000 members. An advocate for women in finance, she was on the Diversity Council for the ModelOff Financial Modeling World Championships and founded the Women in Financial Modelling online community. She is a Master Financial Modeler (FMI), holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) and has taught management accounting subjects at Sydney University. Specialisations: Financial modelling / Budgeting and Forecasting / Business cases and pricing models / Data Analysis / Activity Based Costing / Management Reporting