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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Secondment to lead Business Readiness for the EDGE Program (Unsecured Lending Platform).

Australia

Australia

Head of Project EDGE, focussed on the transition of Citi Australia’s Consumer Bank to National Australia Bank (NAB) to Legal Day One.

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Driving Forward Compatible Work Practice Adoption of Business Agility, Design Thinking, Change Management and Digital 1st mindsets

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for;· Monitoring, tracking and providing status updates on all Technology enabled business transformation initiatives and projects,· Providing overall governance of Technology enabled business Change and Business Readiness,· Facilitating business Investment Prioritisation and Demand Management process for major technology releases,·.

Sydney, Australia

Promoted to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) of the Consumer Bank with responsibility for;- identifying new capabilities within the newly introduced Consumer Bank system (Rainbow) that are not fully utilised, and develop bank-wide programs to drive adoption and optimisation,- understanding capability and control gaps to drive any additional investment.

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Successfully managed the “Rainbow Project”, a AUD105MM Technology and Business Change program from inception in 2011 to implementation in 2014. Responsible for up to 300 local staff involved in project execution, risk governance and management of streams from Initiation (gap analysis and requirements gathering) through to test planning and user and system.

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for; maintaining an effective and efficient control infrastructure and program oversight across Citi businesses (Corporate and Consumer Bank) in AU and NZ, consistent with Global and Regional control initiatives, standards and requirements. Reported into the Country Compliance Head and covered operational risk management tasks. This included.

Residing In Singapore

Director, Compliance and Corporate Governance for the Citi Consumer Bank’s captive software provider, Global Consumer Technology - GCT (formally the International Technology Organisation - ITO) based in Singapore. Leadership over teams reporting in from offices in India, Malaysia, Hong Kong and China. Key responsibilities included program oversight over.

Residing In Singapore

Responsible for start-up of a Program office as part of the captive software organisation (International Technology Office) to manage the rollout of new Citibank Online platform across Citibank Consumer Bank - EMEA. Key objective was to recruit for and initiate projects to replace legacy Internet Banking systems onto the global strategic Citibank Online.

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for leading a team of Project Managers, Compliance and Finance Analytics staff. This role included managing compliance and control and Audit interface for the Corporate Bank, Transaction Services business as well as providing Regional financial and strategy reporting to Region Office. Examples of Projects included in the Change Program include.

Sydney, Australia

Start-up of eBusiness team at Citi Australia Consumer Bank. Responsible for initiating many pilots across AP and Citi globally. Highlights included; - leading Australia's 1st mobile banking product (iMode) launched in collaboration with Telstra, local press and presented at AFR Australian Financial Review conference,- business architect and lead.

Sydney, Australia

Business Architect and Project Leader for the Citibank Lender System* (CLS) a unique-at-the-time, web-based origination platform allowing online straight-through processing of mortgage acquisition for the Broker channel. The industry standard had hitherto been primarily fax and paper based. The system included mobile (WAP 2) connectivity, 60 second.

Residing In Sydney, Madrid And London

International Internal Audit career spanning 9 years (1992 to 2000). This encompassed roles as Regional Audit Manager, Senior specialist Business Risk reviewer and Project Risk reviewer. Travelled on assignment to over 40+ countries whilst based in offices in Sydney, Madrid and London. Led individual and program of audits across Europe, Asia Pacific.

Sydney, Australia

Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcom), Accounting / Banking And Finance

Certified Practising Accountant (Cpa), Australia, Accounting

Hsc (Nsw), High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates