• Organised Graduate Management Trainee Program Recruitment Roadshows in the UK at selected universities – LSE, Cass, Warwick and City University.
• Orchestrated and co-delivered company recruitment presentations.
• Conducted candidate screening interviews.

Key responsibilities:

• Run the global succession planning process for all Country CEO and Management Committee roles.
• Manage talent projects (eg: Junior Talent Identification and Emerging Markets CEO Development)
• Manage Shared Services team in the delivery of quarterly insights, database refresh and talent profiles.
• Generate candidate list for Executive and CEO roles as appropriate.
• Research Talent Management practices and participated in benchmarking studies and surveys.
• Conduct business planning aspects of monthly Global Talent Network and fortnightly Resourcing calls.
• Get involved in ad hoc projects to solve business problems or cater to growth needs.

Key achievements:

• Streamlined succession planning processes and made improvements in the stakeholder communication aspects.
• Worked with Head of Talent and managers to develop and implement global talent and resourcing strategies.
• Continuously source for opportunities to drive the talent agenda and follow up on talent actions.
• Researched into talent management best practices and promote the SCB way via external publications.
• Work with leadership development team to ensure plans are robust and executed by senior line managers.
• Co-designed and developed learning intervention to up-skill line managers in talent management.
• Produced briefing materials and provided on-going support on the talent and performance review cycles.
• Drove closure of action items for different talent pools such as High Potentials and Under Performers.
• Supported the brokering of internal moves while external search continued for hard-to-fill roles.

Reason for move: Opportunity to contribute to a high priority project in HR Transformation.

• Responsible for management accounting of GE Sensing business in the EMEA region.
• Led financial planning aspects in the strategic planning cycles and rolled out process simplifications across EMEA region.
• Recognition award for contribution to successful financial quarter close.

• Completed 2-year program with 4 rotations: on-the-job assignment, classes and exams.
o Roles held in Finance Ops, FP&A, HR Ops, Asia Projects in Ops, BD, Growth & HR.
o Business exposure: Financial Services, Energy, Corporate and Aviation businesses.
o International experience: Malaysia, Singapore & Thailand (6 months), USA (2 months), Korea & Japan (< 1 month).
• Management awards for 3 projects:
o HR Consulting project at GE Money Bank
o Recruitment Digitisation project at GE Corporate
o Int’l Compensation Package for Trainees (the ADA Estimator project) at GE Corporate
• Leadership awards for leading volunteer and corporate events and for media PR work:
o GE-McKinsey Leadership Workshop for undergraduate students
o SEA-ANZ Corporate Finance Conference
o Profiling Malaysian trainees abroad, generating media exposure for GE Corporate
• Recognition award for career advisory talk at the National University of Singapore.

Asset-backed securitization team member responsible for wing-to-wing issuance of ABS.

Account management

HR Transformation

Standard Chartered Bank operates in 70+ countries across the Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe and Americas. It is one of the world's most international banks, employing over 73,000 people, representing 115 nationalities.

RM Transformation Project

• Conduct current state assessment on the HR Relationship Manager role for redesign.
• Obtain inputs from stakeholders on what the new Organisational Effectiveness role would look like.
• Design pilot project plan and identify success measures for the first run in UAE.
• Conduct post-pilot review and refresh materials/approach in preparation for the global roll-out in ’09.

Consulting exposure within e-commerce, software testing and prototyping areas

Managing press releases/runs, publicity planning and other media relations work