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Camperdown, Nsw, Au

Parramatta, New South Wales, Au

Parramatta, New South Wales, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Responsible for the technology functions supporting the Business and Institutional Bank at CBA, including the delivery of strategic projects, setting of technology strategy, risk management and driving operational efficiencies across the technology function. In this role, the key focus areas have been to develop the team capabilities to support our corporate digital and lending platforms. This has included working with technology partners to optimise the resource mix of the delivery teams, including a greater adoption of distributed agile.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Reporting into the CIO for the Institutional and Business Bank, the role had responsibility for the technology supporting the commercial lending and payments technology across the bank. The role required building the delivery teams to support this function, working closely with the business to execute on the payments strategy developed in my previous role and ensuring appropriate investment in technology to remediate any operational and technology risks in line with the risk appetite of the Bank and Enterprise Services. Key achievements in the role include: • Leading the team that successfully launched "Albert", a next generation POS device, developed with Wincor Nixdorf research labs in Europe• Completed integration of Bankwest payment systems following relinquishing of Bankwest’s ADI licence, resulting in annualised savings of $10m p.a. and simplification of the technology environment • Completed simplification of the bank’s payment systems, specifically the simplification of payments reporting and reconciliation systems and replacement of Bank’s payment gateways• Developed and gained approval for the banks investment in completing the new payments platform (NPP) program

Sydney, Nsw, Au

This role reported into the CIO for the Retail and Business Bank, with a mandate to manage the technology supporting the business bank and payments technology across the bank. The role required building the delivery teams to support this function, working closely with the business to develop the payments strategy and ensuring appropriate investment in technology to remediate any operational and technology risks in line with the risk appetite of the Bank and Enterprise Services. Key achievements in this role include:- Building a software development team responsible for the end to end delivery of a portfolio of payments projects, including an offshore development team with HCL - Delivery of the payments technology strategy to support the groups payments initiatives on a 3 years business pan - Completion of a number of strategic initiatives to leverage the bank’s investment in the core banking modernisation program:• client based strategic pricing for corporate clients • rationalisation of business banking technology platform • data centre re-location for our cards platform• providing a real time payment capability for all CBA transaction accounts • upgrades and modernising the legacy bulk payment channels in the bank• everyday settlement for CBA merchants, giving them access to their funds on the day of sales

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Reporting into the CIO for Group Services at CBA, the responsibilities for this role were to leverage the end-to-end delivery capability developed in my previous role as GM Project Delivery to execute a number of strategic projects supporting the Finance and Risk divisions of the bank. In addition, I was to consolidate the IT operations functions and leverage our offshore technology partners to provide a 24/7 IT support service for Finance and Risk technology. Key achievements included: - leading a team of over 80 project staff to deliver regulatory projects - Basel II, AML/CTF- upgrades to the bank's GL, including expansion for international offices - consolidation of IT operations team, including establishment of offshore support centre in Bangalore

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Reporting into the CIO for Group Services at CBA, the responsibilities for this role were to build an end-to-end delivery capability to execute a portfolio of IT projects in the shared service functions of the technology division at Commonwealth Bank.Key deliverables were: - establishment of a delivery team of 40+ people responsible for project delivery to the Finance, Risk and HR functions of the group- establishing a working relationship to deliver projects with technology providers in India for delivery of strategic projects - Delivery of key projects including establishment of fraud management solution and upgrade to the HR systems supporting the Bank

Sydney, Nsw, Au

This role was part of an internal consulting function within the Enterprise IT function of the bank. The key objectives of the role were to build and maintain a team who would focus on business case and solution development for a range of technology projects at the bank. The role required market scanning, early stage solution assessments and feasibility and engagement of delivery teams within the bank for solution development and early stage project planning.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

The key objectives of this role were focused on developing and executing strategic consulting engagements for clients in Australia and Asia-Pacific. During the tenor of this role there was the successful delivery of a number of high profile projects for Insurance and Banking clients in Australia and Asia, including: - Banking – IT operations improvements through the use of standardised processes (ITIL) and the simplification of overly complex architecture and governance processes- Superannuation Funds Management – IT and business operations due diligence on M&A target in Australia- Life and General Insurance – various engagements for parent company, ranging from completion of business strategy to advice on product systems for both the Life and General Insurance divisions. Business operations review for the Life insurance business and recommendations on the viability of outsourcing the claims processing business. - Life Insurance – IT and Operations Strategy- Motor Insurance – Supplier rationalisation and procurements systems implementation - Funds Management – Implementation of operational and systems changes as part of Ralph Business Tax reforms to meet regulatory and business needs Significant contribution to revenue, through establishment of three key accounts for the firm.

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Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics And Statistics

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