Singapore
Audit professional with more than 10 years of internal audit experience gained from a highly diversified engineering MNC and healthcare industry. I am also a member of IIA Singapore’s Young Professional Working Group (YPWG) to help creating a space for young audit professionals to connect, share and learn from fellow professionals. I can be both individual contributor as well as a team player. I am self-motivated, analytical and love challenges. I seek to develop my career with a reputable firm that offers growth and opportunities.
- Planning audit engagement and scoping of audit in accordance to annual audit plan - Leading and provide guidance to the audit team through audit engagements as well as reviewing and appraising work done by junior staff - Design audit programs to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of controls - Conducting interviews with Process/Control owners to evaluate business processes and control environment - Analyse operational processes and system controls’ effectiveness and efficiency in view to improve them and propose value-added recommendations - Follow up on prior year’s audit issues to ensure that management action plan is duly implemented - Conduct overseas audit in USA and China (where all interviews, reviewing of documents and presentation conducted solely in Mandarin) - Conduct remote audit for overseas entities and managing co-sourced audits - Perform data analytics to identify potential exceptions for testing and follow up - Prepare audit report for circulation to management and board members - Perform investigative audit in response to whistle-blowing cases - Assist management in developing Control Self Assessment questionnaires for entities on various business processes Achievements: - Effectively led a team of 6 members in shared services SAP Concur Audit while concurrently managed co-sourced auditors performing Data Analytics, ITGC and Application Controls review. - Planning and successfully executing urgent overseas audit assignments under short timeframe - Highlight control lapses to senior management and provide recommendations to help improve the process - Establish good business relationship with management and continue to provide post-audit advice on best control practices
- Interview and understanding of business processes through discussions with management - Identify internal control deficiencies and business inefficiencies during audit and presenting audit finding to management as well as proposing appropriate recommendation - Review the business control environment and identify control designs deficiencies. - Provide assurance that operations and processes conform to current policies and procedures. - Report on the findings and monitor management’s response and implementation. - Make recommendations to the management on the systems and procedures being reviewed.
- Perform effective planning through assessment of client’s business environment and pre-scheduling of audit work required - Ascertain the smooth running of the audit engagement through developing positive working relationships with the client whilst leading and guiding the audit team throughout the course of the audit - Assess client’s compliance to the accounting standards and legislative requirements - Perform substantive analytics on movements in the financial performance of the client through understanding of its business environment and strategic business plan during the year - Review and prepare tax computations and reporting documents - Review client’s control environment to ascertain effectiveness of the controls design and operations - Make recommendations on improving internal controls.