1. Robyn Varley – Shortform Resume February, 2016
Project Manager
Robyn has extensive experience in Banking, having worked at the NAB for more than 20 years and in project
management roles for the last 15 years. Robyn’s most recent role was working as a Senior Project Manager, with
full accountability for Broker AML reforms.
Robyn has a strong track record of project delivery but has a particular passion for establishing, structuring and
mobilising projects to ensure effective governance, financial management and risk management. Robyn’s deep
understanding of project initiation is borne from the desire to set projects up for success from the outset.
Key Assignments
 Business Project Manager – Broker Partnerships AML Reforms. Oct. 2014 to February 2016.
o Overall accountability for delivering Anti Money Laundering Reforms Compliance changes into the
Broker Partnerships businesses – to fixed timeframes.
o Large Team (Tech PM, 10 BA’s split over two states, 2 Vendors, and 50 developers) – running Agile
and waterfall methodologies. Around $6m spend.
o Complex business structure, and reporting directly to a large Project Control Board with senior
stakeholders (5 GMs)
o Successfully delivered on time without any impact to front line ,or technology problems .
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 Integrated Schedule Manager – NextGen DBR program and NabView program. Feb 2013 to October 2014.
o Responsible for establishing and providing effective ownership, leadership, coordination, control and
reporting of the NextGen DBR Mortgage release (over $130m), with a focus on the integrated
schedule and critical path.
o Ensure each domain has robust schedule in place which effectively feed into the integrated
schedule. Manage dependencies between schedules.
o Run and manage Critical Path meetings, ensuring actions completed, impacts to schedule slippages
are understood across program and communicated to LT.
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 Program Manager – Security Services Transformation program. Feb 2012 to Jan 2013.
o Single accountability PM role to complete the Business Case for the Security Services Transformation
program for 2012, and manage the planning, initiation and delivery of the 2012 project slate.
Responsibilities included management of 2 senior project managers and one project analyst across 6
projects, coordination of 5 different vendor partners, managing the finances for the program,
running the PSG meetings, and assisting in submissions to PCB and ISC.
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 Senior Project Manager – Personal Bank Product Rationalisation Dec 2010 – Jan 2012
o Manage the shaping and planning of the Product Rationalisation Technology streams of work. This
program of work is focussing on the simplification of the Personal Banks product set from an
estimated 277 products down to between 50 and 100. Total budget of around $15m.
o Managed the Business case for the largest of the Product Rationalisation streams, Product Variant
redesign – a large project involving significant changes to 88 assets across the bank. This project
would have completely redesigned the way we stored and managed product variations. Business
case numbers for this project indicated a $25m+ cost, with high risk and complexity.
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 Project Manager - Valuations 20:20 (Business Case Phase) – Jan 2010 to Sept 2010
o Developed a business case with many senior stakeholders in Lending Services and Risk to improve
the quality, selection and cycle times of property valuations, develop a consistent valuation model,
and automate processes using a third party provider.
o Worked with complex policies in order to deliver better valuations to protect against loss and
improved lending decisions.
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 Project Manager - nab rebranding (Brand Reignite) – 2006 – 2008
o Technology PM delivering several phases of a $4.5M project within the rebranding program.
Complex changes to 10 groups of assets , requiring extensive SIT. Delivered on time, and on budget
and included a review and rewrite of all NAB’s external communications.
Other Achievements
• A major contribution to the development of an improved process for completing the Opportunity and Business
Case stages of projects within the National.
• Delivered an upgraded critical system in support of International Trade Finance with improved usability.
• Delivered a business case for the Business Intelligence Framework project in order to significantly reduce
operational risk within the Cards business
• Delivered a business case for the National Portfolio Facility project. This project was subsequently delivered
within 5% of my original Business Case estimates.
Domain Expertise
• Project Initiation
• Business Case development
• Technical Change
management
• Project visioning
• Project delivery
• Security Services
Industry Experience
• Banking
• Financial Services
Education and Qualifications
• B Bus - IT
• Diploma of Project
Management
• PMP - 2010
Project Complexity
• Project Initiation (up to $25m)
• Total project accountability
$6m with team size of up to
50, mixed methodology
delivery, and Vendor
management
• Critical Path management of
$130m program
Successful Projects
• AML Reforms (Broker)
Compliance project
• Project Consultant, NextGen
Data Migration (2010)
• NAB – Rebranding (Reignite)
(2008)
• NAB – Valuations 20:20 (2010)
• NAB – Business Intelligence
Framework (2009)
• NAB – International Trade
Finance Upgrade (2004-2006)
Other Experience
• Business Analysis
• Systems Analysis
• Analyst/Programmer