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Sydney, Nsw, Au

London, England, Gb

- Working with organisations providing a broader perspective on their cyber & technology risk.- Data driven decision making + robust coverage analysis = control and visibility of risk transfer decisions.- Enabling optimal insurance strategy and financing limit determination.- Advisory and analytical tools to help organisations navigate their risk assessment, resiliency and insurance journey.

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Cyber Product Manager• Strategic growth - Lead the team, grow market penetration across Australia, New Zealand and Asia, ensuring a highly professional and reliable cyber claims and incident management service.• Incident Response Lead - triage cyber incidents and coordinate independent experts; IT forensic specialists, lawyers, accountants and PR consultants• Loss Adjuster - assess financial loss (response costs and business interruption) from cyber incidents on behalf of clients and insurers.• Risk Assessment - cyber risk and governance framework scorecards identifying improvement opportunities.Program Management • Reducing the life of a claim - Developed a program of projects improving claims registration, adjusting, claims management, client services, finance reporting and analytics, payroll and systems upgrades;• Technology based change - innovating and driving the adoption of technology to enhance the claim registration, assessment and loss calculation process.• Governance - With agreed KPIs, focus areas and success measures, coordinating and managing a portfolio of projects in partnership with heads of business lines, shared service and global management teams.

Business advisory consultancy working with investors, business owners and large corporate organisations to identify, document and execute growth strategies, improvement solutions and analyse M&A opportunities. Clients include: Sanitarium (FMCG), Cunningham Lindsey (Insurance), Livingstone Tech (IT), nem Business Performance (Advisory), ID Branding (B2B eCommerce), SkyCool (Clean Energy), Dr Phill's Kitchens (Manufacturing), Realync (Real Estate), Helical Holdings (Sustainability)Current Interests | Development:- Data & Dashboards: demystifying data into actionable insights- Food Security: decentralised food supply utilising plug and play hydroponic container systems.

Bella Vista, Nsw, Au

Joined to proactively provide financial and strategic guidance on $500m business restructuring and operational improvement program across c.950 stores and a cost base of c.$7bn. Leading a finance team of analysts, industrial engineers and productivity specialists, responsibilities included:- Project business case development, analysis and benefits tracking and realisation- Implementation of the project management governance framework, processes and tools- Performance & risk reporting analysing cost drivers, identifying trends, presenting insights- Management of the capital submission process: capital analysis and forecasting- Drove cross functional engagement and accountability for improvement initiatives- Developed a data analytics platform and introduced business intelligence tools- Full financial function of the Operations Development division (~70 FTE)Projects included:- National Loss Prevention- Labour management and productivity- Inventory and supply chain management- Store & Regional management reorganisation- OH&S- Store Fit-outs

Zurich, Ch

- Operational, financial and risk responsibility of a Top5 Institutional Broker- Planned and managed strategy execution delivering annual revenues c.$200m- Partnered with divisional teams: Sales, Research, Trading, Prime Services, Futures, Derivatives- Project management and support for all initiatives across multiple products- Corporate governance and regulatory compliance, control best practice and training of ~120 FTEs- Full financial function responsibility including daily liquid capital and margining oversight- Member Representative on Industry Committees and liaised directly with applicable regulator

Zurich, Ch

- End-to-end delivery of all new financial initiatives and products- Over 30 projects across asset management, fixed income, equities, futures and balance sheet- Ensured timely execution of all projects and complied with defined organisational standards- Regional and global projects: Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Australia, USA, UK- Engaged all support functions incl. Legal, Compliance, Operations, Product Control, Finance, Tax- Managed systems UAT and BOW to ensure proper sign off for all new business sign off

Zurich, Ch

Engaged institutional Fixed Income investors and mid market distributors originating, structuring and marketing debt and structured credit investment opportunities.

Alternative investment funds manager managing a portfolio of credit and fixed income investments.

Corporate structured insurance solutions using reinsurance and capital markets

Honours, Bachelor Of Commerce

Higher Diploma - Financial Markets & Instruments