Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
• Lead the APAC FP&A shared services function, providing strategic finance support across planning, reporting, and analysis while ensuring service delivery aligns with business priorities and enterprise standards. • Serve as a key member of the GFS KL leadership team, shaping policy execution, strengthening governance, and partnering with regional and global finance leaders to drive a more scalable, standardised, and business-focused operating model. • Engage senior stakeholders across markets to enhance decision support, improve service effectiveness, and embed a strong feedback culture that strengthens the value of finance partnership to the business. • Expanded FP&A support to Japan Alexion and Eurasia, optimised team structure and span of control, achieved 90%+ Learning & Development satisfaction, and delivered automation initiatives in cost allocation, gross margin reporting, and pre-close P&L insights to improve efficiency and business visibility.
• Led delivery of Group management reporting and performance insights across monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles, including sales reporting, latest view, quarterly outturn, and executive reporting for SET and Board-level stakeholders. • Supported enterprise forecasting and planning, analysing key business drivers, aligning assumptions across teams, and producing decision-ready materials for senior leadership, CFO, and CEO reviews. • Partnered across finance, commercial reporting, IT, and technical teams to improve reporting accuracy, streamline forecast submissions, and support critical processes including month-end close, Boundary Changes, and prior year restatements. • Recognised with the 2022 Finance Excellence Award for cross-functional delivery of online reporting to SET; also completed Enterprise Q2 Outturn in record time, led H2 reporting to SET, and strengthened Group data security through reporting access optimisation.
• Led an Asia FP&A shared services team, managing multiple markets and ensuring high-quality delivery across reporting, closing, and planning activities. • Coached and developed team members, supporting career progression, capability building, and onboarding of new hires through recruitment, interviews, and training. • Acted as the first escalation point for stakeholders, strengthening service delivery through proactive engagement, KPI reviews, issue resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives. • Oversaw market reporting, close activities, and planning cycle submissions, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and consistency of roll-up numbers across markets. • Guided analysts in delivering robust monthly and ad hoc analysis that supported country business partners in informed decision-making. • Drove process improvement and knowledge sharing across systems and planning processes, identifying best practices, resolving operational issues, and increasing team productivity.
• Managed 2 biggest markets transition on time with exeptional high level of stakeholder satisfaction and completed the task with no issues. • Provided robust and accurate month end financial data to the key stakeholders. Supporting monthly and quarterly forecasting & budgeting • Delivered quality month end analysis and provided in depth and insightful commentary on market management PnL position against budget or growth rate to country business partner and CFO. • Actively involved in planning cycles that happens quarterly and working closely with market main stakeholder to identify any potential obstacles and opportunities to achieve scorecard target. • Collaborated with country business partner in developing budget presentation. • High frequency of interaction with cost centers owners on providing clear and precise financial information. • Provided ad hoc analysis in terms financial indicators such as product gross margin and discounts to market as well as regional finance team. • Spoted and resolved market PnL issue in a highly efficient manner. • Identified opportunities for standardisation and simplification to increase efficiency
• Managed finance related matters ranging from budgeting and operating for the largest account in the market finance as well as regional accounts involved numbers of countries. • Closely monitoring contract financial performance and generate reports ranging from actual revenue to cost monthly for review with project leaders. • Developed analysis of a contract forecast, budget & actual using key performance indicators against revenue • Performed monthly accounting journals and provides supporting for posting review • Worked on pricing related to addendums of main contracts and seeking approval from management leaders by providing analytical point of view from business and finance perspective. • Interacted closely with business unit on scheduled and ad hoc business assessment with management level. • In charge of month SOX compliances on revenue and was a main contact point • Supported projects related to simplification and standardization of the center.