Her Story
About Surabhi
Surabhi Ghosh is an IT professional with nearly 20 years of experience. She chose IT as a natural progression from her engineering background, starting her career at Bank of America and later joining Citibank where she has worked for 11 to 12 years and grown significantly in her role. Her domain expertise lies in the regulatory and compliance fields for the bank, specifically on the IT side implementing various regulations and compliance-related initiatives across the region. She leads a large geographically dispersed team including development, testing, and analyst groups, beginning her day by identifying key focus items and meeting with teams in Asia and EME time zones while following a follow-the-sun model. Her typical responsibilities also include stakeholder management, meeting with product and partners to identify requirements, finalize solutions, and implement them. Ghosh holds an advanced program certification in AI, blockchain, and cloud, which has helped her professionally in the IT sector. She attributes her success to her sincerity, motivation, hard work, and ability to adapt at every phase of her career journey. Outside of work, she volunteers with nonprofit organizations through Citi's volunteering platform and enjoys drawing and painting, sharing her passion with her child.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Surabhi
01What do you attribute your success to?
I think I would attribute it more towards my sincerity, motivation, and hard work that I've done so far, and also have, like, you know, adapting, adapting at every phase of my career journey.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
One of my managers once gave me the advice to never get married to a job. Everybody's very dedicated towards my work. So, like, take control if something that you wanted to accomplish did not go as per your plan. And that would be more exciting. Take a second shot at it, and move on. There's nothing wrong in having a failure.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
As a young professional you should do the most of your time. Learn the most that you can, upskill, look at the latest technologies, and this is your time to actually grow in terms of knowledge. Forget about going in terms of career, etc. That will come inbuilt. And also social networking. Build your work with strong and other career-oriented women or men. Make sure that you have mentors throughout your journey.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
The advent of AI in the IT field, requiring upskilling to meet productivity targets using AI tools, similar to when computers came into the world.
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