Assistant Director (Corporate Planning - Business Planning)
Corporate Plans, Business Planning, Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA)• Team Lead for Defence Budget planning and management. Strategised and developed financial plans to ensure high budget utilization rate. Involved in strategic planning of future years budget. • Responsible for budget reporting and planning with Senior management, including Permanent Secretary (Defence) MINDEF, Permanent Secretary (Defence Development) MINDEF, Chief Executive DSTA and Deputy Chief Executive (Operations) DSTA.• Supervisory role for four officers in managing six customer accounts across the Ministry of Defence and Singapore Armed Forces. • Co-developing with Defence Finance Organisation an IT system to plan and simulate scenario planning for strategic budget management.• Team Lead for data analytics project to analyse charging model for project management against current organisation structure.• Team Lead for data analytics project to analyse project schedules and budget utilisation.• Coordinated visits to DSTA for various Chief of Services. Involving being the liaison officer between DSTA and the SAF as well as coordinating scheduling, food catering and logistics.• Planned and executed re-organisation for the creation of a new business unit. Tackled challenges such as division of project work scope, competency reallocation whilst ensuring day to day operations continued.• Implemented process streamlining and e-approval workflow for revenue transfers between business units.