We are a leading professional services firm dedicated to supporting Financial Institutions in improving and excelling data management, business analytics and reporting/visualisation.
Our elite team of functional and technical experts is focused on the convergence of Enterprise Performance Management, Data Intelligence, Governance, Risk Analytics and Compliance.
We believe in the power of connected data, understand the data supply chain, external data, digital data, syndicated data, structured and unstructured data.
We see technology as a great enabler for driving business results. We fully embrace Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and the innovation that is occurring in big data so that you can move faster.
Our software partners are the category leaders and together we are revolutionising how our clients are using business analytics.
We are creative problem solvers. The more challenging the work the better. The more messy the data the better. We are your partner to turn unruly data into insight for better, faster decision making.
Our Management Team
Education / Certifications
- Ph.D. in Financial Econometrics and Credit Risk Modelling Techniques at RMIT
- Master of Applied Finance at Melbourne University, and Specialisation School in Banking at Rome University “La Sapienza’.
- Member of the PRMIA – Professional Risk Manager International Association, and GARP – Global Association of Risk Managers
- Speaker at various international conferences on risk management issues, modeling techniques and regulatory compliance.
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Experience and Accomplishments
- Worked for Moody’s Analytics throughout Europe for six years implementing credit risk models and stress testing frameworks in banks in South Africa, Italy, Spain, France and UK.
- Worked at Capitalia Bank Group (now Unicredit) for five years in a variety of roles. These included the designing, developing and validating internal risk rating models; establishing single name, segment, industry and regional limits; and building other econometric models, for provisioning purposes.
Education / Certifications
- Bachelor of Information Systems at Swinburne University of Technology
- Business Analysis Essentials at PM Partners
- Accredited Practitioner in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
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Experience and Accomplishments
- Worked for Moody’s Analytics for over five years implementing Fermat CAD and project managing the implementation of Risk Authority at ANZ Bank, the largest customisation project in Asia-Pac for RiskAuthority™.
- Extensive onsite consulting and implementation experience in Australia and the UK in large Tier1 financial institutions including; HSBC Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), American Express , Travelex, FirstRate Exchange Services, ANZ Bank in Melbourne
Education / Certifications
- Masters in Computer Applications (MCA, Computer Science), Osmania University
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Applications (BCA, Computer Science), Nagarjuna University
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Experience and Accomplishments
- Worked for Moody’s Analytics supporting and implementing the Risk Authority credit risk platform in the largest implementations in the AsiaPac Region.
- Played a key role in the Next-Gen program at National Australia Bank; implementing GL Recon, FTP, Credit Risk and Regulatory Reporting modules.
Education / Certifications
- Graduate Certificate of Computer Engineering at RMIT University
- Bachelor of Manufacturing Engineering at Swinburne University
- Bachelor of Science (Physics) at Melbourne University
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Experience and Accomplishments
- Supported large Tier 1 Financial Institutions and large corporations globally with names that include Royal Bank of Scotland, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse, HSBC Private Bank, AMEX Australia, Telstra/Qantas, IBM GSA and Holden.
- Has extensive experience in data migration, SQL optimisation, and systems integration in the finance industry.
Robin has more than 12 years information technology experience, 10 of which have been in the financial services segment specialising in Financial and Regulatory risk management and origination. He has extensive experience in software systems architecting, development and deployment as well as conducting user workshops and trainings.
Education / Certifications
- Masters of Science in Applied Finance at Nanyang Business School, NTU (Singapore)
- Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic and Electrical (Computing), Sheffield University (UK)
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Experience and Accomplishments
- Worked at Moody’s Analytics for over ten years developing and implementing Fermat/Moody’s Analytics Risk Foundation suite of products(including Fermat CAD/MA RiskAuthority, RRT). Served as subject matter and product expert to support pre-sales, implementation and customisation to MA clients across Asia Pacific including ANZ, HSBC, Stanchart, BoC, OCBC, TMB etc.
- Pioneered Oracle R&D center in Asia Pacific and provided ad-hoc/premium consultancy to Oracle customers on critical projects that require deep technical troubleshooting skills.
Education / Certifications
- Bachelor of Technology (B.TECH) in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Delhi, India.
- Oracle certified in Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure (OFSAAI.)
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Experience and Accomplishments
- Extensive experience in managing, handling and operating the monthly RWA (CRE) and CP (IFRS9) processes at National Australia Bank.
- Provided technical support for various core banking systems including Funds Transfer Pricing, Credit Risk Engine, and to the implementation of IFRS9 at ANZ Banking Group.
- Participated to the Next-Gen Program at National Australia bank, including Project transition, technical and business support, change management, and co-ordination with multiple teams and stakeholders.
Education / Certifications
- Bachelor of Commerce at Swinburne University
- SAS Certified Data Scientist using SAS 9
- SAS Certified Data Integration Developer for SAS 9
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Experience and Accomplishments
- Worked for ANZ Bank for over three years designing, customising and developing bespoke data warehousing and analytics applications; written in C#, SAS and Oracle PL/SQL.
- Change implementation and performance customisation on the Moody’s Risk Authority product at ANZ Bank for two years; removal of existing manual processes and implementation of automated sourcing workflows from staging through to reporting.
Education / Certifications
- Certificate III in Hospitality Management (THH33002 – FGM Consultant)
- Post-Diploma “Tour Operator Technician” Torino
- Diploma “Travel Operations” Torino
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Experience and Accomplishments
- Planning, organization, implementation and management of Events and Marketing activities for Barilla Group. Coordination of the operations for the annual event at the Australian Open 2018 and 2019 as main sponsor.
- Worked for BMW as Administrator: Account Reconciliation (debtors / creditors), managing booking and daily appointments, Customer Service, liaising with Insurance companies.
- Worked for Fenu Business Solutions as Consultant writing learning guides and summative assessments for SIT5016 Diploma of Event Management.
- General Manager for Donne in Cucina Pty Ltd, 2 venues in Melbourne, overseeing 25 staff and organising events and functions, social media and marketing.
Education / Certifications
- Bachelor of Commerce at Deakin University, Geelong
- Certified Professional Scrum Master I through Scrum.org
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Experience and Accomplishments
- Worked for ANZ Banking Group for 19 years in a variety of roles, gaining experience in application design and development, web application development, data warehouse design and implementation, and Delivery Management. Includes implementation of both large projects and smaller initiatives using agile methodologies.
- Extensive experience with delivering process improvement and automation in IT systems, automating manual and time-consuming processes to improve accuracy, timeliness and traceability.
- Key member of the team managing the implementation of Risk Authority at ANZ Bank, the largest customisation project in Asia-Pac for RAy.
Education / Certifications
- Master of International Economics and Finance at University of Queensland
- Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance at Bocconi University
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Experience and Accomplishments
- Worked for Macroplan Dimasi undertaking property market and economic research into the retirement living and aged care sector by using several property specific software programs and data bases.
- Worked at UnipolSai Insurance providing consultancy on the supplementary pension scheme: Closed Funds, Open Funds and Individual Pension Plans.
Education / Certifications
- Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, major in Actuarial Science at University of Santo Tomas (Philippines)
- Life Office Management Association (LOMA: 280, 290 & 301)
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Experience and Accomplishments
- Lead technical architecture design and solutions for Standard Life UK application migration
- Design and Implement z Systems RD&T Development Operations (Continuous integration, development and delivery)
- Migrate Legacy systems of Avis & Budget, BP petroleum and Sun Life Inc. to LUW platforms for the past 12 years
- Develop and enhance insurance application using Cobol, DB2 and SQL
- Lead and manage database conversion and data migration of IMS database to DB2 database
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Certifications/Technical Skills
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Experience and Accomplishments
- Designed, architected and led development of global software solutions for wholesale & retail banknote trading & distribution. Implemented across trading desks, vaults, logistics hubs, 100k+ bureau de changes, post office networks, and online.
- Extensive onsite consulting and implementation experience in Australia, Germany and the UK in banking, travel and logistics: American Express, Commerzbank, HSBC Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, First Rate Exchange Services, Australia Post, Royal Mail
Education / Certifications
- Bachelor of Economics, La Trobe University
- Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)
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Experience and Accomplishments
- Led a Financial Crime Risk enterprise programme at a leading Asian Bank spanning six primary markets.
- Advised banks across Asia Pacific in establishing effective Fraud and AML programmes.
- Led Business Requirements track for an AML project with a leading Australian Bank.
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Technical Skills
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Experience and Accomplishments
- Architected, developed and managed VCS Foundation’s Laboratory system to My Health Record integration project, which was the first laboratory in Victoria to upload pathology reports to My Health Record.
- Architected and led the development of VCS Foundation’s Laboratory system ensuring it was in accordance with the renewed national cervical screening program that commenced in December 2017, which was a critical project to deliver ahead of time to ensure business continuity.
- Successful delivery and go-live of the NBN Build Drops solution, which also involved the transition to the support and maintenance team.
Our Partners
Nixora Group has a wealth of knowledge and experience in large scale enterprise wide system implementations. We understand the value of a cross-skilled workforce and thus provide highly capable consultants to deal with both business and technical aspects of our projects.
Nixora Group operates in partnership with industry-leading technology companies to deliver added value implementation and advisory services to our customers.
With extensive experience in implementing Risk & Compliance solutions – Risk Modelling, Capital Calculation, Management & Liquidity, ALM/BS, AML/FC, and Reg Reporting – Nixora Group is the ideal partner when addressing complex business and technical aspects of data, risk and compliance projects.
Leveraging the latest technology offerings coupled with best practices and industry experience, we deliver business expansion for our partners, and improved performance and efficiencies to our clients.
Moody’s Analytics and Nixora Group have partnered for the implementation of Risk Authority® Platform, an award-winning regulatory calculation and reporting platform. Risk Authority is an open, flexible and highly differentiated technology in today’s marketplace.
AxiomSL and Nixora Group partner for the implementation of an Enterprise Data Management Platform for Risk & Regulatory Reporting, Liquidity and Capital Analytics, and together we deliver to Financial Institution the technology and deep industry expertise for addressing critical regulatory and risk requirements.
ASG Technologies and Nixora Group have partnered for the implementation of all of ASG’s Enterprise Data Intelligence Solutions, a suite of systems and platforms that allow Financial Institutions to (1) track Data Lineage through automation, (2) assess and remediate Data Quality Issues, and (3) gain deep insights into Critical Business Data.
Nixora Group works closely with the IBM’s Financial Services division to configure and manage solutions of the IBM Business Analytics suite including Customer Insight Banking, Watson, OpenPages, Cognos, and Algorithmics.
Oracle and Nixora Group partner for the implementation of OFSAA (Oracle Financial Services Analytic Applications) and FSDF (Oracle Financial Services Data Foundation) providing Financial Institutions with a suite of applications and a common staging and integrated results area.
Integris has partnered with Nixora Group to implement a first of a kind 5-S Cognitive and Analytics platform, based on Language Intelligence technologies (ASR, NLP and NLU) and delivers accurate processing of Social, Semantics, Sentiment, Speech and Structured data.
Provider of Analytics coaching for executives and business stakeholders, upskilling and senior Data Science support for Data Science teams, and external reviews (Analytics Auditing) for Data Science projects, readying companies for a data-driven world.