Meet Brenda Hoang, Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Services

Brenda is helping to facilitate the efficient and effective investment of public monies in new infrastructure and services across NSW. She will lead the Group Finance and Investment branch in providing stewardship of Transport’s $30 billion annual budget, meeting the cluster’s budgetary, statutory and assurance obligations.

What are the biggest opportunities for you and your team working in this new operating model?

For me personally, it’s about working with my team to seize the opportunity to re-think what we do, how we do it, and how we can better service our clients so they can achieve their desired outcomes. It’s also about making sure that the money entrusted to us by the taxpayer is well spent.

Evolving Transport is all about re-imagining the way in which we provide Transport services. This gives Group Finance and Investment the opportunity to re-imagine the way we deliver financial services and how we enable the new operating model through financial insights, information and advice.

What’s your biggest achievement to date?

Our branch is the steward of around $30 billion of taxpayers’ money, so each day we’re helping Transport prioritise its spending and live within its means. On top of that, we’ve been working with the business and with Treasury on the stimulus response to coronavirus, including an additional $90 million in cleaning supplies and services this year.

We’re also on the cusp of releasing the first ever whole of cluster Business Case Policy and Templates. This will enable consistency and help improve funding discussions across the cluster. It will also contribute to higher quality, which will save the organisation time and money through less re-work and timelier project funding releases.

What excites you most about your role and team?

Transport is a great organisation that has an impact on everyone’s lives, from those that drive to those that take a train or a bus. That’s not to mention the infrastructure we’re building and the great place-making activities we’re undertaking. I feel very privileged to be a part of Transport and to know that I lead a team, and manage a budget, that helps deliver game-changing infrastructure and services to the people of NSW.

It’s also exciting being able to shape a new finance function to meet the needs of the organisation moving forward, bringing together our legacy TfNSW and RMS teams to work in a more integrated, seamless manner.