Big Four accounting firm EY has hired Lisa-Marie McKechnie as a financial services partner in Sydney, from Australian firm Mills Oakley.

McKechnie specialises in superannuation and life insurance, advising trustees on their fund operations, including investment and asset management, interventions by regulators and restructuring superannuation arrangements, as well as acting for life insurers on compliance and regulatory matters and policy complaints and disputes.

She joined Mills Oakley in 2010 as the firm's first female partner in its Sydney office. Previously, she practised for almost five years at MinterEllison as an associate.