Experience

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  MetLife Japan

  • Tokyo, Japan

  • AVP, Head of Finance Systems Group

    • Jul 2018 - Present
    • Tokyo, Japan

    Reporting to SVP & CFO, MetLife Japan.Responsible for leading a Finance Systems team and delivering on a multi year Finance Transformation initiative to standardise and simply reporting and planning processes whilst utilising Oracle suite of products with cloud technology. Responsible for initiating and leading Dashboard initiative with Power BI to develop Finance, IT & Sustainability dashboards for the CEO & Executive team Developed efficiency mindset programs educating employees on digital tools to encourage optimisation and experimentation through the use of RPA, Power Automate, Power BI & Alteryx.Managed/coordinated the onboarding of a new finance centre of excellence in KL.Developed Data Governance framework ensuring sound data management, auditable projects and processes.

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  MetLife

  • Hong Kong

  • AVP Finance Systems

    • Aug 2013 - Jul 2018
    • Hong Kong

    As the Finance Systems lead for Asia reporting to the regional CFO the key focus was to define the strategy or Asia roadmap for Finance Systems across the Asia region. This included the execution of a finance transformation program across Asia to standardize and centralize finance data and metrics across 10 markets in Asia. As well as the data component led the project move our Planning & Projection Oracle tool to the cloud while managing through a team the day to day operations including submissions and consolidation of financial. In conjunction continue as the lead for Data Governance across Asia.

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  MetLife Australia

  • Australia
  • Insurance
  • 200 - 300 Employee

  • Manager, Accounting Systems

    • Mar 2009 - Jul 2013

    As the Finance Systems Manager reporting to the CFO, managed a team maintaining the daily operations of our SunSystems ERP, Cognos BI Reporting and Cognos TM1 Planning tools. In conjunction led work effort to develop and enhance our Data & Reporting capabilities through the development of TM1 data stores accommodating all our key financial metrics including performance metrics such as Earnings, Revenue, Expenses, Sales and Value metrics such as VNB. During the time in Australia I was seconded to Hong Kong operation to lead an MIS initiative to transform their Planning and Projection process

  • Systems Accountant

    • Apr 2006 - Mar 2009

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  Professional Advantage

  • Sydney, Australia

  • Senior Applications Consultant

    • May 2004 - Mar 2006
    • Sydney, Australia

    As a senior consultant worked with clients across various industries including financial services, healthcare and retail to implement SunSystems ERP and related modules and tools. This includes General Ledger, Payments & Receipts, Contract & Service Billing and Planning & Projection processes. Contributed to growth of firm through identification of new clients and business through pre-sales presentations, vendor and customer conferences and new software opportunities

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  Serco

  • United Kingdom
  • IT Services and IT Consulting
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Applications Consultant

    • Sep 1998 - Mar 2004

  • Systems Accountant

    • Sep 1998 - Dec 2001