• Strategic leadership of Information Technology for the Asian businesses - establishing strategic governance of IS, developing direction with the business, nurturing the Asia IS community and communicating plans.• Operating the ERP & BI platform for the South East Asia businesses - maintaining a robust and efficient JDE E1 service to the businesses that are supported on the platform. Managing a motivated and capable E1 team - anticipating needs, preparing business cases, and executing projects.• Steering and managing major IT enabled change projects - amongst others Dynamics 365 CRM in APAC, Distribution Centre automation, and supply planning systems. Acting as counsel to the Business Unit leaders as well as ensuring effective IT delivery to major change projects across Asia Pacific.• Leading the Asia Pacific team and associated resources that support the APAC IT services - lead, manage and motivate the IS internal and external resources that supports the APAC services. Recruit, develop and maintain the skills and competencies of the group.• Plan, communicate and manage financial plans for this area - ensure that plans are developed regularly and that financial budgets are negotiated, communicated and understood by the business leaders. Manage plans and share consequences and choices early.• Bring IT idea leadership to the region and business for how we can improve - champion improvements and project management excellence within the business. Identify and promote the right changes and behaviours.• Governance – both working within a Governance framework for IT and IS, and participating in its development for the global team. In addition, this means delivering consistency across the region in line with agreed timelines and goals.• Tools: Experience in Microsoft 365, Cloud, Managed Services, CRM, ERP (JDE & SAP),

Develop the Vopak Asia IT vision & strategy and direct the execution of the strategic IT plan to deliver the identified and agreed business benefits in collaboration with the CIO office, Global IS and Operating Companies.Manage the operation of IT applications and infrastructure within Vopak Asia at the required service levels and lowest cost.Accountable for the efficiency and effectiveness of divisional ICT systems and infrastructure, including full responsibility for its financial and security control.Work with Vopak Asia division senior management and the global CIO in formulating a divisional information and ICT vision and strategy.Advise Vopak Asia management on business value improvement opportunities that are the results of the use of IT and technology innovations.Develop, manage and execute a divisional ICT plan, policies and standards applicable to all areas of ICT including hardware, software, communications and information services, and planning and control of IT resources (budget, staff, hardware, software etc.).Enable successful technical implementation of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project, as well as other large and more complex information system projects.Manage and develop the Vopak Asia division IT Department in line with the Divisional IT strategy and plan for a high performance team.Manage the relationship with global and local suppliers such as Vopak Global Information Services (GIS) and third party support teams.Manage the support needs of the regional offices (from the local IT, regional competence centre, and/or IT vendors & service providers).Ability to manage a complex technology program, including distributed and mobile systems, telecommunication, data warehousing and business/data analytics.Assert apt framework into the IT security domain. Develop, implement and embed security scans for group companies, extending to including all operating Companies.

Planning and execution of Asia IT Strategy in alignment with global objectives (London and Zurich).Deliver reliable and efficient services to the bank. Overall responsibility for all IT aspects towards Asia Management and senior stakeholders.Management of the following IT functions in Asia:- IT Security and IT Risk Management (including MAS TRM)- Business Applications (Core Banking)- Infrastructure Operations- Asia Service Desk (1st and 2nd level support on Infrastructure environment and Banking Applications)Asia IT budget management.Asia IT staff and performance management (team size of 11 in Asia – Singapore and Hong Kong). Regular reporting to Asia Management and Wealth Management IT (Zurich).Sourcing IT services from a global level and ensure they are implemented in line with business objectives in a standardized manner, taking into consideration local and regulatory requirements and Service Level Agreements.

Plan and drive IT initiatives across the East Asia region (14 countries comprising 29 sites), ensuring high availability and performance of systems whilst forwarding the business through the use of Information Technology via the delivery of creative and effective IT solutions.Align Information Technology to business requirements by interfacing with business unit heads at all levels on requirements, thereby interacting with management and users to gather requirements pertaining to strategic fit, scope, benefits, risk, cost, and obtaining top level management commitment in order to maximise benefits derived from IT and to represent the business interests within GIS.Manage IT Services and projects, provide business, technical and training support and consultation to countries within the East Asia region, assisting with rollouts of projects (hardware infrastructure and software applications), products and services where required.Capture, understand and document requirements on how systems should operate, what functions are required, how those systems supports the business and how they fit into the current workflow, and to continuously rethink ways to streamline and improve existing processes.Act as a liaison function across various IT groups (Regional and Global) for requirements, priorities and follow through with delivery.Conduct business analysis of new and existing processes and systems, identifying business objectives and allowing the production of business cases, carefully considering specific management and end user requirements.Monitor the IT infrastructure of offices within the region remotely and by means of site visits and audits, and to ensure corporate standards are maintained by providing 24x7 support via a follow-the-sun strategy.Provide IT staff in the region with additional support through such means as training, coaching, consultation, provision of inputs to workshops and the dissemination of information and communication.

Managed IT Department comprising a team of 6 staff providing IT support for a community of more that 2000 people using a near total of 1000 machines.Administered the network consisting of servers and Wireless networks.Oversaw company-wide efforts to identify and evaluate all IT critical systems.Designed and implemented IT processes and procedures.Managed IT budget.Web-mastered company’s website.Training of users.