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Singapore

Future Finance Program - Asset Data Workstream

• Project management, troubleshooting and testing for Prudential Corp Asia (parent company of Eastspring) in relation to their joint asset data store.
• Requirements gathering, development & testing, maintenance of PowerBI reports/dashboards for downstream users such as risk, finance, quants, investment teams, actuarials etc
• Consolidation, validation, exceptions handling, and liaison with stakeholders for monthly investment data collection spanning 3 regions (Asia, Africa and UK)
• Investment data support for Eastspring stakeholders such as our Global Shareholders' Reporting team, with regards to data maintenance and updates, data queries, exceptions and change requests.

• Business analyst with DBS Bank Ltd in the Treasury tech space, driving enhancements for DBS’s FX pricing systems and TAPI (Treasury API). Some key projects I've worked on:
• Migration of DPS settings from the old system (ET2) over to Flexi (DBS's inhouse FX pricing system)
• Led a project to re-create a price adjustment widget (from ET2) which traders use to adjust spot and forward CCY pair prices/spreads in real time - Leading to savings of up to $10m SGD per annum.
• Led other ET2 platform decommissioning efforts, including building an interface to Alipay to retrieve periodic rates for monitoring purposes, and also a daily rate files transfer & email notification service for our HK.

• Cards Usage & Partnerships - Payments & Platforms
• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends and patterns in complex data sets to derive fact based insights about potential and existing card usage deals partners.
• Support the evaluation of potential partnership opportunities for their strategic and financial value from internal and external data sources
• To formulate plans based on data insights to enable team to meet its strategic objectives
• Help influence a data driven culture by challenging critical business assumptions and encouraging cross-team collaboration
• Adept at turning data into stories and communicate insights to cards usage team

Singapore

I joined Great Eastern to gain experience and learn more about the financial advisory industry.I faced countless challenges along the way and learnt plenty about how to conduct proper financial planning as well the way insurance works. The experience was priceless and will without a doubt, give me an edge in my future endeavors.