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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Colonial First State (CFS)Senior Project Manager / Edge Platform Delivery Delivery of Colonial First State's (CFS) transition from the legacy FirstWrap platform to the cutting-edge CFS Edge Wealth Management Platform. • Orchestrated core business feature delivery for the CFS Edge Wealth Management Platform and oversaw downstream integration across multiple IT platforms.• Addressed 240 production defects and deployed major releases for platform scalability and reliability.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As a Senior Project Manager, I mobilized multiple initiatives within the Data Platform Portfolio. • Overseeing the migration of DDEP (Data Lake) from Cloudera/Hortonworks to Microsoft Azure Synapse of 1 PB of data and refactoring 10,000 ETL workloads. Successfully finalized funding and accelerated Accenture staff onboarding.• Managed the end-to-end IT integration of the Enterprise Product Catalogue (EPC)• Mitigating risks, issues, and coordinating with vendors on IT platform upgrades.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As BOQ's Program Director for Regulatory Reporting, I Led ME Bank Regulatory Integration and delivered enhancements to APRA compliance obligations. The program also managed the vendor selection process for the banks new Regulatory Reporting Tool.• APRA Enhancement delivered a reduction in manual data preparation and improved data reconciliation between the General Ledger, EFS returns.• Led initiatives such as Basel III Capital Adequacy and 220 Credit Risk Management, meeting regulatory deadlines and milestones.• Integration of ME Bank, enabling regulatory submissions and fulfilling ADI License hand-back objectives.• Managed all aspects of program financial budgeting, forecasting

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As the Portfolio Manager for Regulatory Reporting Delivery, I unified disparate teams across BAU and Projects into a strategic framework, overseeing business and technology for solutions including EFS, CAPITAL, SSRS, CRS/FATCA, RML, and more. • Established a common backlog view to facilitate stakeholder engagement and prioritization.• Managed all aspects of the Regulatory Reporting Technology stack, overseeing vendor relations and engagement with high-level stakeholders.

Sydney, Australia

Drove a crucial regulatory transformation initiative aimed at delivering essential banking returns for Economic & Financial Statistics and Credit Risk, meeting compliance obligations to APRA, ABS, and RBA. • Scope Delivery, managing resources, and adhering to non-negotiable timelines.• Managed cross-platform dependencies, ensuring seamless IT delivery aligned with compliance needs.• Work with product owners, solution, and data architects to finalize requirements.• End-to-end delivery of EFS Phases 1, 2, and 3 submissions to APRA via CBA's strategic solution, AXIOM SL.

Sydney, Australia

A large-scale AGILE project reporting into the Group’s “Program of Action” (POA) where my Key responsibilities included driving multiple AGILE scrum teams, liaising with product owners, data analysts, IT architects, and compliance personnel to capture critical data elements used for transaction monitoring and reporting

Sydney, Australia

As a senior project manager on the $30 million CommInsure Life Business De-Merger, I oversaw the Integration stream for bringing source financial data into PeopleSoft General Ledger. This was a complex program aimed at actioning the terms of settlement (TSA) between CBA and AIA for "day 1" implementation obligations.• Delivered critical components of new IT data flow from source systems to General Ledger Financial/Management Reporting through to HyperionEnsured alignment with stakeholder priorities and effective coordination across multiple delivery streams, CommInsure Business Stakeholders, and CBA Infrastructure and CyberSecurity teams.• Drove decomposition of the backlog, orchestrating seamless coordination among various stakeholders and platforms.

Sydney, Australia

The General Ledger Data Integration was a pivotal stream within the Best-in-Class Data (BICD) program, a multi-year endeavor to establish a new Group Data Warehouse (GDW) providing reconciled information for group-wide use. • Worked across integration of the banks most material source systems such as Home Loan, Credit Card, BankWest, Wealth Management (CFS, FMS), and Market Systems (Murex, Wall St) into the GDW through an end-to-end strategic architecture to the General Ledger (PSGL).• Oversaw a series of data integration projects within Financial Operations, where data is sourced bank-wide and processed through to the bank's General Ledger. • Collaborating extensively across upstream and downstream IT platforms, providing assurance to diverse business stakeholders within stringent timelines and budget constraints.

Sydney, Australia

Best in Class Data (BICD) was a large and complex multi-year data integration program to create a new group data warehouse (GDW) which would deliver GL reconciled information for group use. The initiative involved loading many of Commonwealth Bank’s most material and complex source data systems through an end-to-end strategic architecture. This was a high profile program of work which was broken down into key milestones with non- negotiable timelines.

Sydney, Australia

This role was to be a precursor to the work I would be involved in on the Best in Class Data (BICD) Program. In this role, I coordinated a series of remediation projects for systems which were impacted by a newly implemented target architecture and changes in the Commonwealth Bank’s PeopleSoft general ledger mapping logic. The program of work centered around Group Treasury Systems which perform critical calculation of Transfer Pricing rates and the bank’s management information system (MIS).

Master'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General, Distinction Average

Ebusiness (Diploma), It Business Solutions

The course provided an excellent platform to combine my sales experience with the IT industry. The course curriculum covered areas such.