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Joyeeta Ghosh

Sydney,NSW

Summary

Over 20 years Technology experience in the financial services and Not for profit sector

  • Instrumental Head of technology bringing a deep knowledge of systems and processes for over 20+years of experience achieving ambitious goals in challenging IT environment in capital markets and non-financial business transformation (such as not for profit)
  • Delivered track record in managing all aspects of Transformation – roadmap, shaping and planning, funding, and program delivery.
  • Demonstrated success in leading investment banking application projects (trading and settlement system reporting) and regulation led transformation projects, with deep exposure cloud and security infrastructure needs.
  • Mix of industry and consulting experience, which provides the right balance to deal with ambiguity and unique challenges of transformation.
  • Strategy and planning of large programs – including shaping the governance structure and articulating the business case.
  • Diligent, forward-thinking, and adaptable to dynamic company, customer, and project needs.
  • People driven leader and work as an enabler to help achieve individual and team goals.
  • Coming from a development background, hands on leader, skilled to build a performance driven motivated team with trusted members.
  • Demonstrated success in managing efficiently OPEX and CAPEX budget with proven record of 10% reduction of vendor contracts and managing their relationship with facts and trust.


Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Nomura Research Institute
01.2003 - 01.2005
  • Technical Software engineer for java based application , created reporting frameworks to improve internal delivery efficiencies. Worked for Goldman Sachs as Client for the reporting framework.
  • Progressed to Senior Analyst within a year to take on client delivery , requirement elicitation in the client location and preparing technical document along with Development work.

Team Lead, Analysts

Nomura Research Group
01.2005 - 01.2007
  • Directed and supervised team of 15 engaged in development including offshore and onshore and managed delivery pipeline,reporting , conducted UAT, SIT, development lifecycle
  • Achievements :
    Introduced Efficient Exception Reporting technique by the team(7), to understand trade failures
    which helped business saving money to avoid paying fees to regulatory authorities.
    Successfully managed global development and testing team, managing the project and
    implementing to the client’s business within the stringent deadline.

Team Lead/Global IT Manager/Lead Consultant

NRI, Nomura Research Institute
01.2006 - 07.2010
  • Lead cosultant for one of largest Japanese Investment bank across globe , worked at various capacities started as lead analyst, globa team lead, Lead consultant across offices in Japan, New York, UK, and Hong Kong.
  • Trading and settlement platform core delivery management across globe.
  • Managed the delivery pipeline for regularitory reporting framework team,

Head of Information

The Tax Institute
04.2018 - Current
  • Digital Transformation Leader for this NFP, I reported to the corporate service GM and worked closely with the Board
  • My responsibilities included overseeing both Application and Infrastructure teams of Seven, as well as outsourcing to vendors for specific infrastructure needs like monitoring Azure and Development across applications
  • In addition to team management, I played a crucial role in driving technology roadmaps, ensuring fit-for-purpose architecture, and serving as a key technical advisor for business strategies
  • Managing vendor relationships and their work delivery was an integral part of my responsibilities
  • Over the past 6 years, I have achieved significant milestones, including implementing solutions that led to measurable improvements and enhanced operational efficiency
  • By guiding the organization towards a complete cloud-based platform and utilizing data-driven insights, I reduced operational costs and increased member satisfaction
  • Negotiation with vendors is one of my superpowers, able to bring down proposed costs to 10% by leveraging my technical knowledge and questioning the work involved
  • Additionally, I helped the Board understand the potential of AI to enhance upsell opportunities on the website and deliver relevant content
  • Being committed to the business strategy (business LED IT) and adhering to the challenges and opportunities of the organization that I have made sure where digitization and analytics driven approach help the organization serving the tax community better to make our tax laws impactful
  • Managing the IT budget of a 4-million-dollar portfolio, I optimized costs and reduced OPEX expenses by 10%
  • I implemented cost-saving measures while ensuring the delivery of essential technology solutions, server scaling and streamlined applications to save redundant costs
  • To address the increasing cyber threats during the start of the Covid year, I created and implemented a robust cybersecurity strategy consisting, focusing on addressing vulnerabilities and safeguarding critical assets against cybercrime which helped the board to address their key focus
  • As the primary advisor for all technology needs, I closely collaborated with stakeholders to understand business requirements and recommended appropriate technological solutions
  • My strategic guidance aligned technology initiatives with organizational goals, and I provided valuable insights to the Board
  • Key outcomes-
  • The organization was able to launch a completely new website for their member satisfaction and serve content easily
  • The organization's previous infrastructure was dated technology with no skills to support and automation
  • Managed IT budget, optimizing costs and reducing OPEX expenses by 10%
  • Negotiated with vendors to achieve cost reductions of 10% or more without compromising quality
  • Established a fully integrated data warehouse and currently data lake and analytics tools for insightful decision-making
  • Integrated dispersed systems to make data unified and insightful
  • Provided leadership and guidance to teams in application and infrastructure design for sustainable roadmap and cost.

IT Manager

01.2007 - 01.2010
  • In the last three years of my tenure, my role expanded to an overall IT manager remit, involving travel to subsidiaries such as the UK, Japan, and Hong Kong
  • I managed development and operational pipelines, leading solution design efforts and translating business requirements into technical specifications
  • I also navigated critical challenges, including global regulatory requirements for different countries, while maintaining a unified platform
  • Throughout my journey, I mentored junior developers and consultants to enhance their skills and improve client-focused delivery
  • I collaborated closely with clients to understand their needs and delivered tailored solutions
  • Additionally, I provided insights and analysis on project progress, key performance indicators, and business outcomes, presenting findings to higher-level stakeholders to support informed decision-making.

Business System Application Lead

Australian Institute of Company Directors
01.2012 - 04.2018
  • As part of AICD, a premium regulated body for directors and governance, I held various leadership roles reporting to the CIO and dotted line to CMO
  • Throughout my tenure, I focused on enhancing member experiences and internal operations plus building roadmaps to support the CIOs vision
  • During this tenure, I managed a team of IT professionals (BAs, testers, System Admin) and external suppliers for large and complex IT projects and enterprise change management
  • Some key achievements
  • Successfully reduced member request churn time by managing end-to-end release delivery, leading to greater efficiency and satisfaction
  • Increased renewal rates through automation and data-driven decisions
  • Rescued and transformed a struggling project by outsourcing a time and attendance solution to the cloud, eliminating disruptions, and ensuring timely payroll delivery
  • Led a large-scale banking and finance project, saving operational costs and leading a cross-functional project team
  • Led website improvements for better self-service transactions and assisted in building strategic roadmaps aligned with business objectives
  • Additionally, I partnered with finance and marketing to implement an integrated analytics platform, driving business decisions with data
  • My team facilitated a monthly release of CRM, aligning the system with business requirements and delivering effective solutions in collaboration with vendors and internal developers
  • As part of my role, I focused on managing operational costs and continuously reporting on ROI and key initiatives' expenses
  • I engaged in critical cost negotiation discussions with vendors and assessed key team risks
  • Additionally, I provided mentoring to support continuous improvements within the team and help them achieve their goals.

Team Lead

Macquarie Bank
09.2010 - 12.2011
  • having investment banking core background on data and application, worked in various capacities, initially as an SME, then progressing to an Analyst/Team Lead role
  • operational focused team lead role with day-to-day issue service level assurance and release management


  •  Process Improvement workshops running and managing them in a centralized repository
     User training across cross departments and business units.
     Change management assisting the group wide change manger needed help regrading
    technical system upgrade
  • I built a high-performing team in a very short time of 3 months which got to many successful deliveries
  • Leveraging my expertise in investment banking, I played a crucial role as a subject matter expert and change agent for numerous initiatives involving trading, settlement, pricing, and positions systems
  • I collaborated with different business units and teams, ensuring seamless integration, and facilitating effective communication
  • My team and I efficiently managed vendor releases and provided regular monthly reports to higher management
  • To improve project delivery speed, I introduced IT monthly releases and an agile methodology, resulting in significant improvements to the speed-to-market of all IT projects
  • Over the course of my tenure, we successfully delivered over 20 monthly deployments, as well as key enterprise projects, such as the upgrade of the reporting system and integration pipelines
  • Working in a risk-averse organization focused on APRA reporting and financials, we navigated complex releases and environments while effectively managing key risks and adhering to a follow-the-sun delivery model.

Senior Consultant

Fairfax Media
08.2010 - 09.2010
  • Led the Reporting framework development project and design with java spring FOP
  • Design and documentation of the analysis, data analysis.

Education

Bachelor of computer applications (Hons) - Computer Science

Visva
2004

Skills

    Nomura Research Institute (Nomura securities international) -Global

    Within a year Progressed from being a developer to Senior analyst with a clear skill expertise around domain knowledge of trading systems and business ready solutions by introducing Code reuse and refactoring

    Implemented the global reporting framework and provided a single point solution as a framework serving regulatory dependant reports and data usage

    Introduced exception trading reporting as part of trade processing solution which reduced many errors in the compliance Regulatory quarterly reports

    Led support and implementation for with managing 20 offshore resources, testers and onsite BA s for Execution of day end Reports to update the balances, generating portfolios and corporate action entitlements

    Identified huge processing backlog in terms of time of trade processing and provided plan on efficiencies around huge SQL queries in case of any blocker issues reported and if it required any performance tuning

    Led program delivery and planning, including project and resource planning

    Successfully delivered three key initiatives heavy round of UAT testings, pipeline management and backlog management

    Macquarie Bank -Sydney

    Led successfully a team of analysts for deploying phase 2 of the CRM applications for Capital business, Research space and STP based solutions for whole back office operation of a fund management business

    Analysis of the AS IS and TOBE and providing options to the solution of the problem or project

    Roadmap articulation as key SME for product of their Research business (named Dimension data)

    Resolving a key STP related problem with Trade processing with my team leadership if trades are slow processing or getting error Looking at the logs to determine the failure points and analyze correctly

    Successfully introduced an IT monthly release and an agile methodology which significantly improved the speed to market of all IT projects Delivered over 20 monthly deployments in addition to delivering some key enterprise projects including the upgrade of the reporting system and Key integration pipelines

    AICD (Australian Institute of Company directors) - Sydney

    Led a major digital transformation project to move their legacy platform to Cloud based Microsoft Dynamic CRM

    Managed many key financial projects in the company mentioning few as: Transacting, Change of bank, introducing new payment method, CRM dynamics 2016 upgrade

    Established monthly release process which brought efficiencies around customer focused recenue generation and marketing efficiencies

    Rescued a failing over budget for an time and attendance project , buy quickly identifying the core problem and moving to the cloud, saving $$$ many dollars

    Introduced the BI and analytics tool to create data driven architecture and structure , introducing Power BI, integration tools and automate reporting helped creating new products to market

    successfully reduced member request churn time by managing end-to-end release delivery, leading to greater efficiency and satisfaction

    Increased renewal rates through automation and data-driven decisions

    rescued and transformed a struggling project by outsourcing a time and attendance solution to the cloud, eliminating disruptions, and ensuring timely payroll delivery

    Led a large-scale banking and finance project, saving operational costs and leading a cross-functional project team

    Led website improvements for better self-service transactions and assisted in building strategic roadmaps aligned with business objectives

    Additionally, I partnered with finance and marketing to implement an integrated analytics platform, driving business decisions with data

    The Tax Institute – Sydney

    Transformed the dated infrastructure by moving inhouse to cloud – office 365 , Azure services

    Identified the key revenue dragging attributes working with board and strategist and quickly implemented automation of self-service commerce modules for our members and customers to self pay and manage subscriptions (similar to Netflix model)

    Key negotiation agent around vendor quotes – for our website transformation project , successfully reduced the quote from $950000 to $600000 and continue to achieve the successful outcome with factful conversation around cost reduction

    the organization was able to launch a completely new website for their member satisfaction and serve content easily The organization's previous infrastructure was dated technology with no skills to support and automation

    Established a fully integrated data warehouse and currently data lake and analytics tools for insightful decision-making Integrated dispersed systems to make data unified and insightful

    Provided leadership and guidance to teams in application and infrastructure design for sustainable roadmap and cost

    From an demotivated underformed technology team of 2 was able to build on capabilities by leading with feedback driven process and structure but empathic approach and grew the team to 7 successfully delivering many parts of the business

    People Management:

    § Manage various team sizes and professional with a call out of high performing individuals (10 FTE) – onshore, over 35 in total at once

    § Experience in redeployment and reorganization to support FTE release and redirection through outsourcing

    § Created incident management best practices following ITIL for our team members to provide the best service

Accomplishments

  • ERP and CRM implementation
  • Architecture Design
  • Data Architecture implementation and strategy
  • Agile methodologies
  • Budgeting & Planning
  • Enterprise Program & Project Management
  • Prince 2 Practitioner
  • Business Process Re-engineering
  • IT Governance
  • IT Portfolio Management
  • Cyber security design and implementation
  • Outsourcing and effective vendor Management
  • Solution Architecture, Leadership in Tech - LinkedIn Cybersecurity Foundations - LinkedIn Reasonable Cybersecurity for Business Leaders - LinkedIn Creating Your IT Strategy - LinkedIn Get Ready for Generative AI – LinkedIn
  • Next Generation AI: An Intro to GPT-3 – LinkedIn

Timeline

Head of Information

The Tax Institute
04.2018 - Current

Business System Application Lead

Australian Institute of Company Directors
01.2012 - 04.2018

Team Lead

Macquarie Bank
09.2010 - 12.2011

Senior Consultant

Fairfax Media
08.2010 - 09.2010

IT Manager

01.2007 - 01.2010

Team Lead/Global IT Manager/Lead Consultant

NRI, Nomura Research Institute
01.2006 - 07.2010

Team Lead, Analysts

Nomura Research Group
01.2005 - 01.2007

Senior Software Engineer

Nomura Research Institute
01.2003 - 01.2005

Bachelor of computer applications (Hons) - Computer Science

Visva
Joyeeta Ghosh