Hong Kong SAR
• Identified as top talent in KL CoE (Center of Excellence) with sound knowledge and experience in planning consolidation, sector planning and cost management. • Awarded Asia Pacific Finance award for outstanding contribution towards financial performance by improving 3Q08 Malaysia outsourcing contract GP by $0.9M US (16 points GP improvement QTQ). Performed analyses to identify root causes of cost increase, and initiated discussion and action with various teams in expense, delivery team to improve contract profitability. • Awarded Diamond award for excellent contribution by supporting the Malaysia team in 4Q 09, only 5 awards for a quarter. • Education Lead for Accounting Basic and Commercial Awareness (ABC) training in KL COE by attending training in Bangalore, India.
- Regional role supporting China, Korea, South East Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Australia and New Zealand countries in financial forecasting and budgeting, reporting and analyses. - Involved in countries market modeling review and analyses to understand business strategy to drive revenue growth. - Analyzed and reviewed regional functional team headcount and expenses. Highlighted area for improvement to manage the budget and expenses efficiently. - Supported Hong Kong team in P&L financial planning and reporting to provide advise for improvement and highlighted financial risk and opportunities to help them in business decision.
- Analyzed revenue, cost, gross profit and pre tax income for price proposal, and presented financials to project team, finance and business managers for approvals. Contributed to winning bids of 9.5M US contract value in three months. - Reviewed, analyzed contracts and highlighted price proposal financials, term and conditions to management, sales opportunity leaders, legal and quality assurance. - Performed SOX testings to maintained good audit posture to ensure approvals were obtained according to pricing delegation guidelines.
- Led Growth Market GBS Finance teams on the annual budget and subsequent updates to ensure the industry and sector budget updates were completed on stipulated time and actively addressed issues across regions. - Collaborated within WW GBS plan coordinator to address requirements of budget templates to be submitted on time by the Growth Market Finance team. Analyzed revenue and signings target to highlight to business Leaders for business decision and action. - Supported the strategy and value program team on industry, sector and service line budget modeling for their business strategy and planning during budget cycles. - Designed and developed monthly and quarterly reporting for GMU GBS industry and sector actual financial achievement in signings, revenue and gross profit for measurements and decision making. - Consolidated GMU GBS quarterly revenues and signings performance forecast view on monthly basis to support GMU GBS sales operation to drive and track business performance.
- Led a team of five SO contract financial analysts with services backlog $323M US and quarterly revenue of $11M US on financial forecast, analysis, operations, and awarded for AP GTS Finance award for excellent performance. - Developed and implemented effective management and reporting system that is in-line with the operating model to drive accountability, provided early headlights of financial risk and opportunities to recommend resolution to the business to allow proactive actions and decision making resulted in budget overachievement in 3Q09 with revenue growth of 16% and GP 54% QTQ. - Initiated deep dive analysis and follow-up with immediate action for cost overhaul in 2Q08. Highlighted cost rates issues and improved cost recovery by 19% in 3Q08, led discussion with Asean expenses team to understand the background and drove cost improvement by 30% QTQ, collaborated with delivery team and improved intercompany cost recovery by 155%. - Led signings and backlog monthly reconciliation and quarterly certification with supporting documents and approval. - Assigned by management to engage newly signed Telco account with contract value of $180M US on financial transition and processes set-up because of contract knowledge expertise. - Maintained financial processes and documents in audit ready state, and collaborated with business control to identify control risks, exposures and take appropriate actions. Peer review for Malaysia SO was conducted in 3Q09 with SAT rating. - Developed KL CoE services Education Pack with a team of six and used as education materials to train new hire in CoE. Coached and provided training on SO knowledge and skills to new hires.
-Supported line team as a financial controller for a Malaysia’s SO mega contract (banking industry) with contract value ~$130M US, and advised the initial contract financial set-up to ensure the financial transition was managed smoothly and achieved budget. -Presented financial achievement, analyzed and tracked cost closely by advising the project executive and project team with financial guidance and improvement. Contributed to exceeding budget in both revenue and GP for 2007. -Improved 4Q07 GP by $0.3M US by identifying opportunities from capitalisation exercise to capitalise all the IT equipments related to project spending from expense. -Presented the financial during the project management review (PMR), and achieved A rating on PMR reviews in two consecutive years.
- Advised and supported sales team on domestic pricing strategy by provided accurate costing for variety of product models to achieve better negotiation with car manufacturer clients. - Promoted cost management activities to drive profitability by monitoring unprofitability models, and conducting localization material cost activity resulted in $0.3M US profit improvement. Developed analysis to detect cost abnormality and recommended countermeasues. - Led cost planning activities by setting cost reduction target for new launch product, and collaborated with respective department for their action. Recommended cost reduction initiatives to plant director for business and production decision. - Engaged with transfer pricing by involving in price setting and negotiation process between affiliates companies. - Led and presented half yearly profit plan during annual plan and revised plan. Consolidated sales plan and expenses budget, analyzed and highlighted results to management.
- Managed, led branch operation and inspired eight junior staffs to achieve sales quota performance goals. - Built good banking relationship with customers by solving customer queries, listened to their needs and promoted banking products and services towards customer needs. - Monitored operational cash handling, current account, saving account, fixed deposit account, remittance, credit card, hire purchase and housing loan repayment.