Excited to announce that I will be starting this new position in an permanent capacity from January 2023.

Excited to announce that I will be starting this new position in an acting capacity for the next 3 months.

After a 18 month Career break I'm looking to get into doing some Business Consulting or a 6 month contract.

After nearly 30 years in the Financial Services Industry (The National Bank of NZ limited & ANZ New Zealand Limited, I have decided to take the opportunity to have a small Career Break and enjoy the summer. Looking forward to getting into something new on my return.

Head of Technology, Central Functions and Property services looking after Finance, Human Resources, Risk, Operations and Property.Responsible for:Strategic investment for the business units to ensure alignment to organisational objectives & goals,Improving business relationship with Technology to improve long term objectives.Actively manage projects within the portfolio to ensure a all parties are aware of timeframes, risks, finance and delivery expectations. Worked constructively and collaboratively with Project mangers to ensure positive outcomes for our business units,Provide comprehensive reporting and governance for the business units,Deliver Property upgrades across the Corporate and Retail sites. Managed the team that implemented the technology solutions and worked to make this team as efficient as possible by reducing duplications and provide better pipeline management. This involved installing video conferencing facilitation, wifi and network services,Development and coaching of team to ensure that they were highly engaged and had comprehensive development plans in place.

Business performance management for ANZ Technology.Responsible for:Strategic Vendor management solutions based on contract for services to drive ongoing profitability and management of resources across a number of initiatives. Built operational, strategic and executive relationships,Applied strong workforce management practices for both demand and supply management for better forecasting and alignment to the Investment planning processes,Drive operational efficiencies through project and portfolio management while delivering improved productivity through better project delivery for our Business Partners,Lifted capability around financial and business based reporting for the technology leadership team, business partners, Board and NZ Leadership team,Driving cultural change in the technology team through lifting people engagement and capability.

Management of both the IT Partnership team and the Delivery Services team while there was the NZ operating model changes and the NZ Simplification was being established.Responsible for:Management of the combined Business Engagement function across all business segments determining demand for all business services,Delivering investment slate objectives through the internal development team looking at process, financial planning and governance alignment,Maximised teamwork across 350 staff to ensure a strong customer centric approach while retaining technical development and training,Lead the graduate development programmes for technology and built the mentorship and training programmes in conjunction with Human Resources,Acted in the CIO role for a few months in leading the strategic discussions with Senior Leadership,Developed and assisted in implementing of the separation of Business as usual costs and the strategic investment platform to improve accountability of budgets within the technology teams.

Head of IT Business Technology Partnership for Institutional, Commercial, Rural & Private Banking.Responsibilities included;Drive strategic direction in conjunction with NZ business units to meet their revenue targets, cost reductions and business objectives,Assist with Relationship Management, Markets, Payments and Business Services to understand risk and functional capabilities held within their system inventory,Ensuring active management of financial outcomes to align the Technology investment to achieve greater efficiency to meet customer needs and requirements,Applying business knowledge and capability to translate Technology design and implementation to a more meaningful outcome for Business units,Implemented a number of remediation projects to stabilise key platforms to protect revenue streams,Deliver Technology projects to simplify and consolidate the technology environment using product knowledge and strong customer centric approach,Collaborated with Group counterparts on major initiatives to assist in consolidating and driving better scalability across platforms and projects,Strong people leadership and lead the Technology graduate induction,Passionate about leadership and People development and have been working proactively with staff to ensure there is a clear understanding of an integrated business model between business and technology.

Head of Product Management - Institutional Banking, ANZ National Bank Limited.Responsibilities included;Drive product profitability for Working Capital in NZ to meet overall Trans-Tasman goals and objectives,Provide strategic direction for International Payments, Trade Finance, Cash Management and Channel business components,Ensuring active management of the Delivery Channel (Online Banking) to achieve greater efficiency to meet customer needs and requirements. (DirectLink grew to be the market lending channel for Retail and Business Customers),Undertake product design and analysis to ensure it meet local market and customer needs,Delivering product promotion requirements to increase product penetration via internal and external sources,Ongoing management of major product bundling and product initiatives to meet the overall Trade & Transaction Services management strategies.

A secondment to ANZ Trade and Transactional Services Business unit to undertake a review prior to full amalgamation of ANZ Bank and The National Bank of New Zealand Limited.Undertook 2 projects as part of the integration of ANZ and The National Bank of New Zealand Limited looking at the best opportunities to set these up for operational success.Analysed organisational cash and trade sales resources to fully understand end to end customer propositions.Liaising with key stakeholders to gather business critical data and information to present to Senior Management,Built data models and recommendations to improve operational efficiencies,Reviewed and assessed the business processes and structures used across the global business to develop the best operational model for the integrate banks,Developed a Foreign Exchange model ensuring a more effective selling platform based on a customer centric approach.

Worked as part of the National Bank Treasury Senior Management team.Responsibilities were;Driving the strategic direction of the business and ensuring operational efficiency,Management of Staff including setting objectives and evaluating performance, identifying training needs, and improving performance of the team (personnel grew from 4 in 1995 to 21 staff in late 2003),Undertook the role of Head of Wholesale Foreign Exchange for 3 months while maintaining existing responsibilities,Developed management capabilities and increased the client proposition within the Treasury environment,Re-designed the business models to seperate one large team into 3 regional teams to provide FX solutions to specific geographical regions. Built the business significantly to increase revenues to $60 Million.

Foreign Exchange Dealer with Retail Customers for the National Bank Client base.Core focus was to improved the dealer/Retail Branch relationship and to increase the number of customers doing FX transactions internally. Build a sales model to effectively build on retaining the internal business rather than loosing this to external FX provides like Thomas Cook and other smaller providers in the market.Successfully improved the retention of the client base and lifted overall profitability in this client base.

Head of the International Department responsible for Trade and Clean Payments.Responsibility included;Overseeing International Trade Finance Services and Clean Transactional Business,Management of 6 Trade and transaction Services staff,Worked collaboratively with other internal departments to co-ordinate a customer centric approach,Supervising and provided support for training to increase broader staff awareness for International products.

Responsible for the ongoing business development opportunities for the Lower Hutt branch region. Core focus was to attract new business for the Branch Manager within targeted client groups and looking to provide additional value through product penetration to exisiting customers.

Providing support to the Senior Managers of the Lending Services and Credit analysis teams developing own credit management skills.Allocated Credit discretion to do small business and home lending for clients.

International Services rotation for six months to:Learn and articulate the understanding of international Business unit,Providing Trade Finance Solutions to Corporate Customers,Processing and reconciliation of International transactions,Providing resolutions and support for operational issues for the International Business clients.

Worked under the Graduate/late entrant development programme to fast track employees through for Management roles.

Role was to develop further Business opportunities for NZ Honey products in the UK and European markets.Controlled budgets and growth targets.Marketing of Arataki Honey products in the UK and Europe.Worked with large distribution and Supermarket chains to increase market penetration in London and UK market.Coordinated activities with the NZ Embassy in London and Europe for improved business opportunities.

My role covered the Southern half of the North Island