Babitha Seocharan

Associate Director IT @Gilead Sciences

London, GB

Implementing strategic and tactical initiatives to achieve essential business outcomes. Eliminating barriers to successful outcome delivery and benefits realisation to ensure cost-effectiveness. Advocating for business areas to ensure that priorities and dependencies are clearly understood. Engaging in road mapping, budgeting, planning, and forecasting IT investments. Serving as a point of escalation to resolve complex issues, transforming challenges into opportunities. Fostering a culture of collaboration between IT and business sections to ensure seamless operations. Enhancing digital and data maturity across business areas (including people, processes, technology, data, and governance) to better respond to digital changes. Participating in business area leadership meetings and project/programme boards to stay informed about current developments. Keeping abreast of industry and technology trends to advise business areas and IT on potential impacts and opportunities. Owning business systems and boundary applications from their architecture through to ongoing support. Overseeing vendor, security, and privacy assessments to ensure that the solutions\' architecture and security comply with established standards. Collaborating effectively with IT and key vendors to ensure the implementation of relevant solutions, changes, and services. Conducting project scoping and business analysis by developing and maintaining project documentation such as business specifications, test packs, and project plans, overseeing testing, acquiring necessary approvals, and managing implementations. Providing overall portfolio leadership for all technical projects and working together with the Project Management Office to monitor portfolio execution and delivery. Championing agile methodologies to enhance efficiency and expedite quality product delivery. Responsible for delivering programs on time and within budget.

University of KwaZulu-Natal

Bachelor of Accounting, Accounting and Finance