Sai Choong Loo FCPA
Risk and Compliance Advisor at St John of God Hauora Trust- Claim this Profile
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Gayle Abel
Sai Choong can be relied on to provide sensible practical advice on risks and controls, and has an ability to bring diverse stakeholders together with his disarming and respectful approach. I worked with Sai Choong to establish a new an risk and assurance function, and he earned the trust and confidence of senior stakeholders across the South Island during the time we worked together, and was a valuable sounding board for me. Sai Choong comes with my heartfelt recommendation.
Gayle Abel
Sai Choong can be relied on to provide sensible practical advice on risks and controls, and has an ability to bring diverse stakeholders together with his disarming and respectful approach. I worked with Sai Choong to establish a new an risk and assurance function, and he earned the trust and confidence of senior stakeholders across the South Island during the time we worked together, and was a valuable sounding board for me. Sai Choong comes with my heartfelt recommendation.
Gayle Abel
Sai Choong can be relied on to provide sensible practical advice on risks and controls, and has an ability to bring diverse stakeholders together with his disarming and respectful approach. I worked with Sai Choong to establish a new an risk and assurance function, and he earned the trust and confidence of senior stakeholders across the South Island during the time we worked together, and was a valuable sounding board for me. Sai Choong comes with my heartfelt recommendation.
Gayle Abel
Sai Choong can be relied on to provide sensible practical advice on risks and controls, and has an ability to bring diverse stakeholders together with his disarming and respectful approach. I worked with Sai Choong to establish a new an risk and assurance function, and he earned the trust and confidence of senior stakeholders across the South Island during the time we worked together, and was a valuable sounding board for me. Sai Choong comes with my heartfelt recommendation.
Credentials
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Member
Institute of Directors in New ZealandJun, 2021- Nov, 2024 -
Full Member
RiskNZApr, 2012- Nov, 2024 -
Fellow of CPA Australia
CPA AustraliaNov, 2000- Nov, 2024 -
Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) - Currently Inactive Status
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)Oct, 2000- Nov, 2024 -
Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA)
CPA AustraliaDec, 1987- Nov, 2024
Experience
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St John of God Hauora Trust
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New Zealand
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Risk and Compliance Advisor
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Aug 2022 - Present
Reports directly to the CEO and works with the Executive Leadership Team to provide specialist leadership in risk and compliance matters. Responsible for: - Developing and implementing systems that identify, allocate, report and advise risk and compliance obligations. - Ensuring that the enterprise risk management policy and framework with clearly defined risk appetite is current and ISO 31000 compliant. - Systems administration for the risk management and compliance systems. - Advising and evaluating the adequacy, effectiveness and efficiency of systems and processes used by SJGHT. - Contributing to a culture of continuous quality improvement and strategic direction of SJGHT. - Acting as the Privacy and Complaints Officer. Show less
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Gravitas Professional Services
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New Zealand
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Principal Consultant
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Jan 2022 - Present
Gravitas Professional Services (GPS) provides effective value based professional consultancy and advisory services on risk management, internal audit, controls and fraud prevention matters - in New Zealand and all over the world. GPS solutions are tailored to fit your unique business needs as we recognize and acknowledge that every business is different. As depicted by the two touching hands on the company logo, GPS strives to cultivate long-term partnership relationships. Specializations include leading and facilitating risk management workshops to: - better understand risks and its impact on the business' - determine and establish risk appetites for businesses. - document risk management policy and framework, including the risk appetite. For more information, please click on the website link below: Show less
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Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Head, Risk and Assurance
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Mar 2009 - Dec 2021
Headed and managed a team of staff to provide internal audit, consulting and risk management services over the operational and financial areas of the (now defunct) Canterbury District Health Board (RIP). Role expanded to include the West Coast District Health Board (also now defunct, RIP too!) in April 2018. Some highlights: * Architect and designer of the risk register module used by South Island DHBs * Content creator and owner of CDHB Risk Management Policy and Framework * Created and conducted risk management workshops for Board and Management * Content creator and owner of the CDHB Fraud policy * Created and conducted fraud awareness training for the CDHB * Investigated fraud cases * Personally performed special reviews as directed by Audit Committee and Executive Management * Aligned risk based internal audit work in the Internal Audit Program with the CDHB risk management methodology compliant with latest ISO risk management standard * Managed a small yet high performing internal audit function (acknowledged by Board members) with limited and constrained resources Show less
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Ministry of Social Development (MSD)
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New Zealand
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Government Administration
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700 & Above Employee
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Risk and Assurance Advisor - South Island
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Jul 2003 - Feb 2009
Provided risk management, assurance, internal audit and consulting service at a regional level, as the sole R&A advisor, to all of MSD’s service lines in the South Island, covering the main centers Christchurch, Nelson and Dunedin. These service lines included Work & Income, the then Child Youth & Family, Family & Community Services and Ministry of Youth Development Provided risk management, assurance, internal audit and consulting service at a regional level, as the sole R&A advisor, to all of MSD’s service lines in the South Island, covering the main centers Christchurch, Nelson and Dunedin. These service lines included Work & Income, the then Child Youth & Family, Family & Community Services and Ministry of Youth Development
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Singapore Power Limited
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Singapore
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Vice President and Head, Internal Audit Department
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May 2002 - Nov 2002
SP owns and operates electricity and gas generation, transmission, and distribution networks. Recruited as a change agent. Managed and led the IA Department of 20 staff. Revamped entire department to be in-line with current standards and best practices in risk-based audit methodology within a set and challenging 6 months time-frame. SP owns and operates electricity and gas generation, transmission, and distribution networks. Recruited as a change agent. Managed and led the IA Department of 20 staff. Revamped entire department to be in-line with current standards and best practices in risk-based audit methodology within a set and challenging 6 months time-frame.
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Keppel TatLee Bank Limited (KTB)
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Singapore
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First Vice President and Head, Audit Division
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Jun 1992 - Apr 2002
KTB was the fifth largest publicly listed full commercial bank in Singapore. It was taken over by OCBC Bank in Feb 2002. Appointed to and set-up a completely new internal audit function to align its focus to the organization’s business and strategic needs. Managed and maintained the IA division which grew to an eventual size of 26 staff, fully in-line with business and revenue growth. KTB was the fifth largest publicly listed full commercial bank in Singapore. It was taken over by OCBC Bank in Feb 2002. Appointed to and set-up a completely new internal audit function to align its focus to the organization’s business and strategic needs. Managed and maintained the IA division which grew to an eventual size of 26 staff, fully in-line with business and revenue growth.
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Education
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Deakin University
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Accounting, Management, Legal Studies
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