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Senior Manager | UniSuperArvind is a passionate leader and a proven professional with strong business relationship and stakeholder engagement skills honed through 20 years of consulting. He has extensive Banking, Finance and ICT sector experience, rounded out by experience in Government (Australian), Transport, Petroleum, Higher Education and Retail. He has been deployed on numerous consulting engagements throughout the Asia Pacific region, enabling him to engage in highly varied client organisations, both culturally and in relation to their core business. Arvind is currently a Senior Manager at UniSuper where he manages three strategic business functions: Business, Technical and Process Analysis. Through leading these functions, he drives a continuous improvement agenda to achieve measurable improvement in delivery practices and operational processes that maintain a high-quality standard across the capabilities. His role involves fostering innovation, drive critical decisions and to consistently deliver results, assess and implement forward thinking ideas on service improvements. He has a passion for writing and publishing white papers/articles to document and share experiences, learning and observations spanning his career. He is well known in the Business Analysis industry as a nationally recognised industry speaker and an internationally recognised writer. |
Presentation: Stepping Up into Strategic Leadership
Many Business Analysts start as a Junior Business Analyst and progress in their career and grow into BA – Senior BA – Lead BA roles, etc.. As they progress they get given more important projects and/or programs to handle all the BA tasks and deliverables in a more complex environment. The question to ask is how can BAs progress beyond projects; into leadership? What is it that management looks for in individuals before promoting them into senior leadership roles and/or strategic leadership roles?
We naturally imbibe a lot of leadership qualities working as a Business Analyst. The key is to put those qualities to good use to be able to go above and beyond projects/programs. Lets have a look at what our profession teaches us and how we can use those skills and qualities that can take us further into strategic leadership roles.
