Rachna Verma

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Bio:

Rachna is driven to promote lean thinking and continuous improvement to drive business value and improve customer experience. Rachna has a passion for collaborating with teams, delivering tangible business benefits and bringing clients and stakeholders on the journey towards on-time project delivery.

Rachna is a Chartered Accountant with over 15 years’ experience across Professional Services, Banking & Financial Services and Aviation in Australia and the UK.

Prior to joining the firm, Rachna immersed herself in the Agile way of working and was a Product Owner in Banking and business partnered with the Finance community to deliver tangible business benefits.  Rachna’s interest in lean thinking and continuous improvement has been self-cultivated and has grown from an interest to a full-time passion.

Rachna’s experience:

  • Designing a new scaled agile operating model for a pharmaceutical
  • Co-leading an IT transformation program using agile principles for a large insurance firm
  • Developed and visualised the transformation roadmap to prioritise business value
  • Led Scrum Team to deliver Group Performance Reporting to the CFO on working day 10 for Group Finance at an Australian bank by delivering two key IT capabilities
  • Automated business processes to deliver value-add data and time savings at Australian and UK banks
  • Business partnering with front office, technology, finance and shared services in Banking to deliver monthly management reporting, produce budget and forecast data with value-add analysis and commentary

Key facts:

  • Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting & Economics) from the University of Wollongong
  • Chartered Accountant (CA). Member Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand
  • Professional Scrum Master PSM I

Expert areas:

  • Agile at Scale
  • Agile Methodology Frameworks & Models
  • Agile Operating Model
  • Australia