CHIRAG THAKKAR

SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

Areas of expertise:

  • Retail & Personal Banking
  • Commercial Lending
  • Payments
  • Insurance
  • Demergers
  • Servicing
  • Core Banking
  • Digital
  • Integration
  • Program Management
Liberty IT Consulting Group Project Management Project Office and Delivery Business Analysts

What Chirag brings to Liberty IT Consulting Group

Chirag is a very experienced, hands-on project professional well-known in the industry and highly regarded by his former employees and customers. Chirag has 11+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, most of which as a senior business analyst, plus experience as a Product Manager in the Banking and financial services industry, particularly in home lending. He has deep experience in product fulfilment and e-conveyancing. He has experience working in Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall environments and has spent multiple years as a project member of large transformational programs. Chirag has worked on several enterprise-wide projects using project, requirements and collaboration tools like JIRA, Confluence, MS Visio, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and MS Office. By combining his expertise in scoping, requirements elicitation, conceptual design and project delivery, Chirag has combined his knowledge of Lean Six Sigma with his banking background to produce excellent results. He can engage stakeholders at all levels and all stages of the project lifecycle, from ideation and identification of opportunities through requirements gathering, solution, execution and transition to BAU.

Key achievements

  • Managed large-scale business transformations at Westpac (Athena – life insurance divestment) and CBA (International Payments, New Payments Program, Multi-Currency on Core and Core Banking Modernisation)

  • Attained New Payments Platform (NPP) real-time payments market leadership for CBA in November 2020.

  • Led 10+ cross-functional teams plus vendors and application service providers delivering outcomes that have transformed ways of working for customers and staff.

  • Winner of CEO and CIO team awards at CBA.

Favourite quote

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. It is on us to utilise it wisely.”

-Albert Einstein

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