Functional Skills

Agile Software Development
Business Continuity
Business Development
Data Transformation
Finance Transformation
Regulatory Compliance
Revenue Growth
Risk Management
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
Business Analysis
Risk Governance
Software Implementation
Vendor Management
Program Management

Software Skills

Azure
Java
Jira
MySQL
SQL
UNIX
Microsoft Access
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft OneDrive
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Excel Macros

Certifications

CSMCertified Scrum Master
ITILIT Infrastructure Library Certified
PMPProject Management Professional

Sector Experience

Business Services
Financial Services
Technology

Notable Clients

HSBC
JPMorgan Chase & Co
TD Bank Group

Big 4 Accounting
Top Consulting Firms

Experience

Freelance Management Consulting
Business Advisor
7/2023 - 7/2024
• Leverage regulatory risk expertise to integrate risks such as climate into enterprise risk frameworks (ERM), drive product strategy and business development initiatives for two ESG start-ups such as Zero Circle and IT consulting firms, driving a 50% surge in lead generation through strategic market positioning and streamlined sales processes.
• Conducting SAR review for a AWS based app for a Vancouver based health company.
• Cultivated and enhanced strategic partnerships by aligning with cross-company pipeline objectives, leading to a 40% increase in co-sell opportunities and a 25% growth in revenue from strategic accounts within one fiscal year.

KPMG Management Consulting
Director
2/2020 - 6/2023
• Conducted risk assessments of ERM models identifying gaps between current processes and desired outcomes for various regulations such as third-party risk management, across multiple financial institutions (ranging in engagement size from 50K to 200K). These institutions include Matthews Asset Management, MUFG, Mandiri Bank, and REITs, with the aim of meeting regulatory deadlines
• Led comprehensive risk audits for multinational financial institutions, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and internal policies. Identified critical gaps, implemented corrective actions, and enhanced audit processes, resulting in a 20% improvement in risk mitigation and operational efficiency.
• Implemented Target Operating Model (TOM), Statement Of Purpose (SOP), governance framework, standard templates for adjustments, as well as monitoring trends/variance of the reports for regulatory reporting managed service/ cloud based ($ 3 M). Resulting in 40% reduction in monthly regulatory reports ge

Ernest amd Young Management Consulting
Senior Manager
1/2019 - 12/2019
• Drove a $0.4M Regulatory Data Transformation (RDT) program for Westpac, to identify and assess third party risk in the current process, defined new process maps and SOP to mitigate them to compliance with MAS mandates by coordinating across 10 LOBs such as front-office, GCR, treasury, risk, compliance, COO, CEO.
• Directed risk audits for international clients, identifying critical vulnerabilities and implementing corrective actions that reduced risk exposure by 25%. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to standardize audit procedures, improving audit efficiency and accuracy by 15%.
• Key Player in the Project Management & Leadership meetings like PWC, PSC reporting daily/ weekly metrics, projected migrations and forecasted spend of the projects.

BearingPoint Management Consulting
Advisor
6/2018 - 11/2018
• Rolled out a $4M tax transformation engagement for SCB across four locations, integrating with 30+ banking systems, managing milestones, schedules, and budgets.
• Established pre-sales processes and go-to-market strategies for the APAC market.

NTT DATA Services Other
Regional FS Practice Head
8/2017 - 5/2018
• Reduced invoice and PMO processing time by 90% using RPA and streamline process.
• Won DDT project (0.8 m) for a Japanese bank - SMBC.
• Led workshops on different data driven transformation topics like data quality, governance for banks like Bank Danamon, Commerzbank, Mizhuo, SMBC, DBS, OCBC.

NASDAQ, AxiomSL Pte Ltd Start-Up
APAC Product and Delivery Lead
11/2010 - 7/2017
• Define the Regulatory Reporting product roadmap which was successfully deployed across Tier1 clients like CS, SCB, MS to manage multi-country regulatory reports for countries such as Korea, Singapore, HongKong, China, India.
• Steered PS team for clients like CS, DB and MS to deliver regulatory reporting. – finance (balance sheet) / transaction reporting for regulators such as MAS, BoK, HKMA, SFC, RBI.
• Delivered regulatory risk engagements - global liquidity and Basel project for one of GSIB Japanese (Nomura) using agile methodology spreading across 3 regions – Asia, Europe and US.
• Turned around financially challenged project (BJB) with contract variation up to 80% of original award value and average margin of 40 percent in couple of months and handing back to original Client Partner.

FRSGlobal/Wolters Kluwer Start-Up
Business Project Manager
7/2006 - 11/2010
• Led end-to-end multiple 'regulatory reporting transformation programs across multiple locations (SG/HK/Qatar/ Indonesia) for clients like Barclays, SCB, BOCI, BNI, WestLB, UOB, OCBC, QNB.
• Participate in pre-sales activities and work with solution team to submit RFP/RFI.
• Manage project cost and budget with the objective to maximize revenue and margin achievements.
• Proactively manage changes and provide accurate progress update to senior stakeholders like CFO, finance head.
• Responsible for entire SDLC life cycle from signing of work order till it goes in production of the engagement/implementation.
• Manage/Consulting for customer requirements specific to IT Architecture like hardware sizing, enhancements and feasibility studies, business cases, cost-benefit analysis and proposals.