RBA COO Susan Woods
Susan Woods, an RBA insider, is being promoted to the newly established role of Chief Operating Officer at the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Woods has been the Assistant Governor (Corporate Services) at the RBA since 2018 with responsibility for information technology and workplace and the enterprise data office.
In that capacity “she has overseen the delivery of a substantial technology-related change, the renovation of the bank’s head office and the uplift of data governance and strategic planning capabilities,” the RBA said.
Creation of a COO role was one of the more germane recommendations of last year’s Review of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Two weeks ago, Andrew Hauser, formerly with the Bank of England joined the RBA as Deputy Governor.
Prior to joining the RBA, Woods held various roles in the private sector for more than 30 years.
She was General Manager of Business Technology & Transformation at StatePlus, “where she was responsible for information technology, the design and implementation of a new operating model for the business, and the enterprise strategic project portfolio,” the RBA said.
Before that, she was a partner at Deloitte in strategy and operations consulting and has held senior roles with Capgemini and Ernst & Young.
Woods will take up her new role on Monday, 4 March.