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Daisy Johanas

Auckland,NZ

Summary

Accomplished and Energetic Professional with broad scope of experience in Banking, Media & Airline Industries. Keen ability to identify opportunities to uplift and transform business to deliver exceptional customer service.

Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture. Documented strengths in building and maintaining relationships with diverse range of stakeholders in dynamic, fast-paced settings.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Manager, Assurance, Product Information & C

Bank Of New Zealand
12.2023 - Current
  • Responsible to lead two teams, Line 1 controls testing & assurance and Product Information & Communications for CP&S.
  • Accountable and responsible for the controls and assurance testing framework for CP&S.
  • Use technology to simplify and drive consistency in control testing.
  • Responsible to uplift the control environment, CP&S
  • Manage the change and governance practise for product information and communication.
  • CP&S contact for cross bank deliverables impacting conduct, product information and communication.
  • Support, advice, guidance to Product Managers on customer outcomes associated with change, reviews and monitoring.
  • Improved team performance by providing comprehensive training and fostering a collaborative work environment.
  • Consistent high colleague engagement scores.
  • Continuous improvement on process, new methodologies adapted to uplift control environment.
  • Optimized resource allocation, and improved efficiency in managing projects.
  • Improved and delivered clear and concise reporting for teams and management forums / committees.
  • Successful in creating a collaborative culture across the product domains, resulting in good outcomes.

Senior Manager, Controls & Assurance

Bank of New Zealand
10.2020 - 12.2023

Key tasks & achievements:

  • Design and implement Controls Assurance Framework and Program for Customers, Product and Services division, BNZ.
  • Implemented and developed operational standards, policies and procedures
  • Effectively manage end-to-end, risk & compliance management assurance through independent assurance activities.
  • Responsible to lead a team of control assurance managers & information analysts.
  • Boosted team member productivity by enhancing performance monitoring and instituting motivational approaches, resulting in high engagement score on staff engagement survey, lift from 85% in April FY21 to 100% in June FY22.
  • Assisted in organizing and overseeing assignments to drive operational excellence: achieved 100% on effective and efficient planning, execution of controls tested, year on year.
  • Qualitative and Quantitative summary reports provided to Risk and Conduct Forums.

Product QA Manager

Bank of New Zealand
04.2019 - 09.2019

Keys tasks & achievements:

  • Responsible for overall design and model Product Quality Assurance program within Customer, Products and Services including ongoing program enhancements to improve efficiency.
  • Owning and evolving Product quality assurance (QA) templates and testing library including designing new tests using data and insights.
  • Working with Product QA analytics team and Product Owners to develop ongoing dashboards that will help Product Managers proactively identify product issues.
  • Successful in delivering FMA QA Commitment for BNZ.
  • Demonstrated leadership skills in managing projects from concept to completion.
  • Assessed product quality by monitoring quality assurance metrics, reports and dashboards.


Service & Sales Centre Manager, Auckland

Bank of New Zealand
01.2018 - 03.2019

Key tasks & achievements:

  • Responsible to lead BNZ (1) Service Centre (2) Outbound partners (3) Staff Help Desk in Auckland through effective leadership, support and coaching of staff. (Total staff: 90, direct and indirect reports)
  • Responsible to achieve high levels of quality interactions, customer satisfaction and creating wow experience by delivering BNZ Customer Promises.
  • Provide support via Staff Help Desk team to colleagues across BNZ.
  • Workforce model for service and sales Centre, to ensure customers needs are met by right banker level.
  • Educate customers on self serve banking, effectively reducing calls to contact centre.
  • Work closely with the workforce planning team to plan, monitor and to maintain optimal business resource capacity including forecasting resource requirements. Initiating actions to improve utilisation.
  • Part of the Amazon contact centre platform project team to establish the requirements for the future contact centre hub, digital transformation.
  • Effective management of Customer Complaints, ongoing monitoring of Complaints & coaching to staff where required. Proactive engagement with the Customer Complaints team to assess issues and address areas of improvement.
  • Improved Average Handling time scores in 2018 by implementing new methodology of coaching.

Leader, Sales & Customer Experience Teams

Yellow Pages Group
09.2002 - 09.2017

(Held sales executive, sales management roles between 2002 - 2017)

Head of Internal Sales
September 2015 to September 2017

  • To build full-scale customer-centric phone sales team from ground up; duties include establishing structure, recruitment of team leader, sales consultants and developing sales and marketing strategies.
  • Implement strategy to be at forefront of New Zealand local marketing in order to provide tailored solutions for businesses across all industries; and by taking pride in fostering long-lasting relationships with customers.

Customer Experience, Channel Support Manager – New Zealand

August 2013 to August 2015

  • Lead & implement the Customer Experience project in Aug 2013 for Yellow.
  • Design end to end customer journey pre & post sale for digital products & uplift operational excellence.
  • Analyse the customer behavior from product sale to churn, identify areas of improvement & recommend business process changes to improve customer experience, process, and product improvement.
  • Monthly analysis and reports to all business units & Executive Leaders in the Company.

Education

Master of Arts -

Madras University
India
1997

Skills

  • People and Culture, Coaching & Mentoring, Inspiring
  • Formation of new team
  • Strategic Planning, Business transformation, Change Management
  • Design and implement Frameworks
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Operational Risk & Compliance Management Assurance

Certification

Certificate in Operations System Operations

(University of London - 2023)

Certificate in Risk Management

(New York Institute of Finance - 2023)

Professional Banking Fundamentals
(G FINSIA - 2022)
Certificate in Design Thinking For Innovation
(University Of Virginia - 2020)
ICAgile Certified Professional - 2018
Accredited Customer Experience Professional (F)
BP Group, United Kingdom - 2017Advanced Strategic Management & Advanced Leadership
New Zealand Institute Of Management (NZIM) - New Zealand, 2012

Timeline

Senior Manager, Assurance, Product Information & C

Bank Of New Zealand
12.2023 - Current

Senior Manager, Controls & Assurance

Bank of New Zealand
10.2020 - 12.2023

Product QA Manager

Bank of New Zealand
04.2019 - 09.2019

Service & Sales Centre Manager, Auckland

Bank of New Zealand
01.2018 - 03.2019

Leader, Sales & Customer Experience Teams

Yellow Pages Group
09.2002 - 09.2017

Master of Arts -

Madras University
Daisy Johanas