Responsible for managing a large scale, multi-year, highly complex market risk program, known as Fundamental Review of Trading Books (FRTB), with a budget of over $50m. Lead a strong team of 40+ cross-functional Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from various business areas, including Front Office, Market Risk Oversight, Quants Model and Solutions, Model Risk and Validation, Risk Middle Office, Market Risk Reporting and Market Risk Technologies, to streamline and modernize the bank’s legacy market risk system, enabling the bank to achieve compliance with APS116 and FRTB regulations. My remit covers all aspects of project management, encompassing the entire project lifecycle, from crafting compelling business case, securing funding approval, developing comprehensive project plan, to effectively managing budgets and resources, and engaging with senior business stakeholders and external vendors. In addition to my Program Director role, I was also elected to perform an Acting Head of eFX and Risk Regulatory Technology during the period of Jan to Apr 2022, which is a technology function supporting the Bank’s FX business and responsible for delivering the Bank’s risk and regulatory obligations, with over 70 team members located across multiple global geographical areas in Australia, Singapore and India.

Data Portfolio Delivery team within Westpac’s Data Platforms business unit is responsible for delivering a broad spectrum of data driven projects, ranging from the delivery of new data ingestion, data quality, data analytics and execution capabilities for Data Platforms to the delivery of compliance related initiatives. I led a program of critical initiatives with overall budget of $15m to advance the Data Platforms strategy for strengthening its data oversight and operating model, simplifying data analytics environment and ensuring it complies with increasingly complex privacy and data protection regulations. My remit entails managing system capability uplifts and enhancements of the bank’s cloud-based data analytics platform and being responsible for successful execution of a spectrum of data privacy changes across multiple functions to ensure Data Platforms meets compliance requirements in accordance to privacy regulations such as Australian Privacy Act and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Leading a team of 30+ across global geographical locations in International Business & Markets (IB&M) Enterprise Services and responsible for the technology delivery and service management for CBA’s markets and institutional FX business. My team is the custodian of firm’s FX trading eco-system comprising a range of critical applications, most notably the firm’s crown jewel, high volume and low latency FX trading and settlement system - ION Wallstreet.My remit covers both Change and BAU aspects of IT delivery and I oversee a portfolio of projects initiated within IB&M FX business and retain oversights on any external projects that impacts FX business. In addition I assume BAU responsibility in ensuring all FX systems and applications are continuously upgraded and enhanced so that it operates in a safe, sound and secure manner. Key projects managed in the role comprised:• Wallstreet Risk Buy-down project, upgraded and remediated a host of critical resilience risks in Wallstreet key technology components (Redhat OS, Oracle DB, MQ, XCOM, Java) • Replatform of FIS IntelliMatch application from physical server to private Cloud platform • Replacement of Payment Provider application GBST ClearView with Syn~Bank, interfacing to ASX CHESS settlement system. • Migration of Wallstreet MQ capabilities to the firm’s leveraged MQ platform, integrating with over 50+ systems. • Developed Bank of England reporting application, enabling the bank to meeting its regulatory reporting obligations.

Program managing a portfolio of OTC regulatory projects and delivered critical reporting, central clearing and bilateral margining capabilities for the firm, enabling it to achieve full compliance with global OTC reform regulations such as Dodd Frank, EMIR and ASIC Derivative Transaction Rules. Liaising with Regulators, Compliance, Legal and IT, I orchestrated activities to ensure an eclectic of markets regulations are thoroughly analyzed, their impacts fully assessed, and devise innovative technological capabilities to meet the regulatory requirements. Capabilities successfully delivered includes: • Derivative Transaction Reporting solution based on ASIC regulatory requirements • Central Clearing capabilities for IRS and CDS derivatives through LCH, ICE and CME • Variance Margin (VM) solution built on Collateral Management System ALGO and AcadiaSoft

Reporting to OTC Program Director, I led and managed a project team of 20+ across global operational hubs in Australia and India in delivering a sophisticated and scalable regulatory reporting engine that tailored to ANZ unique business model. Collaborating with a well-known software provider Grasham Tech specializing in data integrity and control solutions, I implemented a robust control and reconciliation solution enabling ANZ to monitor and reconcile its data reporting quality in real time and swiftly identify and resolve any reporting breaks to ensure it remains full compliance with the regulatory reporting obligations at all time. I was tasked to partner with Hitachi to develop and implement a content management platform that served as the bank’s OTC transaction archival system, delivering a key capability to respond to any transaction queries from domestic and global regulators. Projects successfully delivered: OTC Regulatory Reporting The regulatory reporting application extracts derivative transactions from a range of internal trade booking systems, transforms and enriches the data based on global regulatory requirements (CFTC, ASIC, EMIR, HKMA and MAS) and submits them to DTCC Global Trade Repository within regulatory reporting timeline. DTCC Reconciliation The reconciliation solution was built on a vendor application CTC. The system reconciles derivative trades executed in the trade booking systems against the firm’s derivative positions in DTCC highlighting any exceptions to the Trade Flow Support team for remediation. It safeguards the bank by ensuring its derivative transactions are reported to regulators timely and accurately. OTC Recording Keeping The recording keeping solution is a Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) based application which archives the bank’s global derivative transactions in WORM format for up to 7 years enabling the bank to respond to audit requests from the regulators in relation to derivative transactions.

Moving into Markets Operations, I assumed responsibilities for the management and delivery of projects across OTC derivative functions within Financial Market Operations covering a broad spectrum of operational functions including Fixing, Clearing, Settlement, Valuation, Collateral Management, and Brokerage. I worked with senior stakeholders and subject matter experts from the relevant operational teams to identify their process optimization and system improvement opportunities and developed business case to seek project funding to achieve the desired objectives. Upon securing the funding, I partnered with our technology delivery team to devise a robust project plan and vigorously focus on the execution to ensure its successful delivery within timeframe. I also meticulously tracked and managed the financial forecast and actual spent to ensure the project is delivered within time. Projects successfully delivered: OTC and CCP House Clearing ProgramI was responsible for equipping the bank with house clearing capability and ensuring its ability to meet relevant OTC derivatives regulatory requirements. I have built clearing capabilities for NDF, IRS & NDIRS products in UK, Singapore and Hong Kong markets. FMO Hub RealignmentI led a migration team and liaised with the FMO Functional Heads of Middle Office, Confirmations, Settlement and Brokerage in establishing a new OTC derivative function (with 30 staff) in SCB’s operational hub in KL Malaysia, significantly contributing to the firm’s cost optimization strategy. PHAROSThis project standardized and automated derivative settlement process for 6 SCB entities in the trading platform Murex including the implementation of Payment Module and the automation of settlement accounting feed from Murex to accounting system PSGL.

I was part of the management team responsible for managing and delivering projects to strengthen the capabilities and efficiencies of SCB’s Equity Derivatives Operations. Agile methodology was used to manage and govern projects with intense software development with my hats on as Product Owner and Scrum Master. I was responsible for Product Log refinement, Release Scheduling, the chairing of Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective as well as the running of Daily Scrum meetings. Projects successfully delivered: Sophis RisqueSophis Risque is the back office and risk management application for cash equity and equity derivatives products. I was the development manager responsible for customizing the off-the-shell vendor product to support the unique business model of SCB and integrate it with the bank’s existing financial market applications, such as static data repository ATLAS, trading booking system Fidessa, payment system SCStar, accounting system PSGL, and reporting tool Crystal Report. Equity Aggregation SystemI headed a team to develop an in-house compliance application, which allowed the bank to continuously monitor its total equity positions across different trading platforms to ensure it does not exceed the regulatory limits. The application would automatically raise an alert with appropriate Disclosure Reports to Compliance via email if it detects breach on any regulatory limits. The application was developed in Java/Hibernate/HTML with Spring Framework on Oracle database.

My main responsibility was to plan and manage internal IT projects to support the business requirements of our compliance department. It involved analysing user requirements, creating project plans, assigning appropriate development resources, monitoring the quality and progress and ensuring the successful completion of the project. Key applications successfully delivered:Large HoldingsThe Large Holdings system was used by Compliance Department to monitor the bank’s equity holdings and generate disclosure filings when the trading positions exceed regulatory limits. It was a web-based application developed in Java and Oracle. Policy ToolsThe Policy Tools system allowed IRM (Information Risk Management) department to define information risk policies and monitor and track the compliance of these policies. It was a java application built with Spring Framework and Hibernate.