Taiwan
Excellence | Empowerment | Empathy I am a result-oriented ethics, compliance, risk and investigations leader, with a proven track record in establishing and implementing robust business processes and governance policies, across different industries. I am an empathetic leader who champions diversity and inclusiveness, and who builds, inspires, and empowers high-performing, multi-jurisdictional teams to deliver excellent and outstanding outcome. • Experienced Asia Pacific regional financial crime investigations leader in a leading international bank • Experienced ethics and compliance professional in a leading international supply chain company • Experienced business risk consultant in global consulting firms • Geographic and language diversity: professional experience across 4 continents – Asia, Australia, Europe and USA; native fluency in both English and Mandarin (written, spoken, and reads both Traditional and Simplified Chinese), and the Taiwanese dialect. Currently learning basic French. Specialties: • Financial Crime Investigation • Ethics and Compliance Program implementation and management • Anti-Corruption regulatory compliance (FCPA & UK Bribery Act) • SAP GRC implementation • IT Sarbanes-Oxley compliance audit and advisory • IT general controls audit • Stakeholder management • Mentoring / People management • Project management
Experienced regional investigations professional in a leading international bank. Holding the role of Regional Head of Internal Investigations, Asia Pacific, responsible for managing and overseeing investigations of financial crime cases, including whistleblowing investigations, across 19 countries in the region. Main achievements include: recognized by senior management, including Group Chief Compliance Officer and Asia Pacific Head of Financial Crime for my work; contributed to the establishment of a regional whistleblowing oversight committee; established and implemented regional procedures and controls for various key processes; built-up a regional team from 2 to 10 staff; reduced aged cases by 50% within the first 3 months of taking over the function; enhanced the quality of investigation reports by maintaining 100% pass rate on case reports for at least 20 consecutive months; established comprehensive management information reports for investigation cases across the region; provided training to regional colleagues and enhanced investigation capabilities
Experienced regional ethics and compliance professional in a leading international supply chain company. Nine years of Asia Pacific regional responsibility, with main focus in the Greater China and South East Asia regions, across 3 key topics: anti-corruption (FCPA & UK Bribery Act), anti-trust/anti-competition and trade regulations/sanctions. Main responsibilities included: implementing the end-to-end compliance management program, from the creation and roll-out of the Global Code of Conduct and relevant compliance policies, to the planning and conducting of compliance assessments, and issuing of remediation recommendations; creating and conducting compliance training to internal and external stakeholders; advising and guiding employees from all levels of the organization, such as APAC regional Managing Director, Country Managing Directors, senior management team and operational staff, on compliance concerns; promoting compliance awareness and ethical culture; and conducting investigations for compliance-relevant whistleblowing cases for Asia Pacific region
• Global experience: worked in 3 offices across 3 continents alongside Managing Directors in order to build-up and manage teams of SAP consultants • Global transferee candidate: transferred to the San Francisco office to provide expertise in executing and managing Sarbanes-Oxley compliance audits; transferred to the Hong Kong office given SAP implementation and language capabilities, which was seen as an asset for the expansion of business presence into the Greater China area • Extensive and diverse project experience: managed over 30 projects, example of key projects include: * Managed the review and advisory of over 20 SOX IT General Control compliance audits. Clients industries included retail banks, high-tech software and semiconductor manufacturer. Responsibilities included analyzing “as-is” control environments and recommending improvement solutions; creating and performing test of controls; supervising teams of local and international consultants; reviewing and presenting audit recommendations to client’s senior management and external auditor * 6-month full-cycle SAP GRC implementation for a large and complex international semiconductor client. Managed the process re-engineering and IT system implementation project for client’s SAP security environment. Main achievements included creating a systematic method to analyse and customise and monitor client’s Segregation of Duties (SOD) environment; acting as a liaison between client management and its external auditor; and training end-users. Project location: USA and South Korea • Proven client relationship and project management skills: consistently exceeding client expectations by producing high quality deliverables and ability to translate client requirements into executable action items; ability to effectively managing project timeline and budget, as well as flexibility and creativity in resolving project issues
• Head organizer and founder of ORIENTED in Sydney, Australia, a volunteer-based professional networking association • Established ORIENTED's signature monthly Happy Hour networking events with consistent monthly attendance of 150+ young professionals • Negotiated with venue management for favorable terms to host monthly happy hours • Assembled and managed a team of 5 volunteers