Running the People & Office department at Koala, keeping our Koalapeople happy to come to work in our beautiful TreeHouse office everyday!

From Recruiting to Onboarding to HR Issues to employee satisfaction, our team manages our most important asset - the Koalapeople.

Googlers Experience Team: 
responsible for managing the HR Lifecycle and Workday implementation across 13 APAC countries. Experienced a variety of processes from Payroll Operations, Benefits implementation, HR Letters, Entity set up, to analysing success metrics for the HR Help queue (Customer Support).

20% Project: 
Member of the Majulah Design Committee for the design of the new MBC office;
Liaised and interfaced ideas and feedback from Googlers to the core team, translating “the voice of the Googlers” into scalable solutions and projects.
In charge of the “Creating Engaged Communities” workstream, represented the committee in numerous communications and Townhalls, being a “Project Majulah” ambassador and maintaining enthusiasm and ongoing engagement with the Googlers

Diversity and Googlersgive: Gayglers Ally Champion, Movember POC
Active member in the Gayglers Steering Committee and nominated “Ally Champion” for the Singapore office, running initiatives from organizing and running

Securities Operations, Client Due Diligence team

- Managed Institutional and Private Wealth Management clients on-boarding due diligence as the only qualified high risk entities approver in the region
- Drove cross-departmental projects for regulatory enhancements and system developments, and time/cost saving industrialization exercises to gain efficiencies from manual processes and redundant workloads
- Successfully completed numerous Audits including Japan Financial Services Agency 2013 Inspection

-Training Committee: organized monthly training events with global Managing Directors, researching the needs and gathering feedback within the attendees
-Recruiting Committee: mentor to junior Analysts; participated in numerous recruiting events for local schools and initiatives targeting Japanese speakers; filmed and arranged a recruiting video that was aired globally to senior managers
-LGBT Network: organized the first LGBT Interbank event sponsored by Goldman Sachs in Singapore in 201

Securities Operations, Client Middle Office
Securities Operations, Client Due Diligence

Saya Nagasawa

CHRO @ Active Connector, Xoogler, ex-GS