Head Of Finance

• Apr 2015 - Present

Lead and helming the Finance Division, Financial Planning team & Business Partnering. EXCO member to participate on the key decision making of the company. Responsibilities include creating forecasting models, assessing risk in investments (eg: new stores, platforms, payment gateways, cross borer etc) and ensuring all accounting activities comply with Statutory Financial Reporting Standards. Review and monitor major performance indicators and develop insightful investment (new stores) and cost reduction. Optimized profitability in management of $100M in business revenue. Lead due diligence and support CEO & Chairman on company confidential and strategic planning. Accomplishments: 1) Successfully lead and implement stand alone system to Financial ERP system with simulated time set. 2) Interface PMM (Trade PO & Inventory) and concessionaire system to new financial ERP system; 3) Interface POS system to new financial ERP system (lead and work closely with Chief Cashier to design electronic Daily Cash Form to interface from Zread sys to new financial ERP system; 4) Work closely with HR to interface HRIQ e-claims system to new financial ERP system; 5) Automated sending Concess Margin Due Statement & Sales reports to vendor via email; 6) HR e-claims HRIQ interface to Agresso (GL codes set up in HR system, GL team no longer needed to key in the claims for payment processing, scanning receipt will be kept in HR system). Time and space saving for finance; Project; 7) Partnering with EY to ensure Financial Statement comply with FRS 115 & FRS 116 (new standards); 8) As finance lead to work hand in hand with EY & Metro Holdings to prepare Sustainability reporting; 9) Partnering with IT to transform current manual AP function to B2B AP portal. 10) Explore RPA (Robotic Process Automation) to enhance finance function Show less

Accounting Manager

• Dec 2013 - Mar 2015

1) Ensure that activities and transactions are processed in accordance with the defined Process Flows and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs); 2) Ensuring value determination of inventory provisions, sales return reserves and allowances per US GAAP and our Global Finance Policy; 3) Work with all the markets to manage and deliver their expectations. Ensure that services are rendered to the markets as per documented process; 4) Own the General Ledger closing processes. Review and approve the ‘judgmental’, ‘rules based’ and ‘value determination’ activities within the Closing process. Following on this, ensure that such activities are fed in to the transactional team to get the transactional processing completed within defined time frame / with high degree of accuracy / with appropriate internal controls as per US GAAP and our Global Finance Policy; 5) Perform Balance Sheet Variance analysis and reporting. Work with Market to drive Trial Balance review with Regional Level Controllers; 6) Call out and implement when possible, opportunities to drive continuous improvements in efficiency, productivity to reduce manual work within team, improve controls, quality of information; 7) Project and process improvement activity:- a) Process lead/owner for General Ledger, Fixed Assets and Reconciliation process for Asia Pacific; b) Be actively involved in the development of process model for process transformation activities; c) Participate/ lead the testing of the agreed design and deployment of the transformation of the services that would be owned in the Shared Services. Accomplishments: 1) Restructuring – successfully lead and drive to transfer Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets and GL activities from share service to outsource (Pune, India) with simulated time set; 2) Documented the process transferred to outsource; 3) Streamline as it process to to-be process; Show less

CPA (to complete last module)

• Jul 2013 - Oct 2013

Preparing CPA Exam Preparing CPA Exam

Accounts Manager (4 months contract)

• Dec 2012 - Apr 2013

Overall responsibilities: 1) Ensures the timely, accurate close of the general ledger in accordance with U.S. GAAP 2) Prepares and approves general ledger journal entries supporting various business units, regions and/or corporate controller’s group 3) Prepares & performs detailed account analysis and approves balance sheet account reconciliations 4) Provides overall support and customer service to SEA & VNM business partners 5) Compute & prepare accrual for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, SEA & China tax 6) Review SEA intercompany service fees billing & settlements 7) Participates in the development and implementation of process improvements to improve accounting operational efficiency and quality of output 8) Monitors performance indicators to track progress against goals Show less

Manager - Financial Management & Reporting (Senior Manager II) -Contract

• Mar 2011 - Nov 2012

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• Feb 2008 - Feb 2011

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• Sep 2005 - Jan 2008

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• Jan 2004 - Sep 2005