Xavier Liaw

Chartering Manager at Bery Maritime
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Singapore, SG
Languages
  • Chinese -
  • Malay -

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Experience

    • Norway
    • Maritime Transportation
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Chartering Manager
      • May 2018 - Present

    • United States
    • Maritime Transportation
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Shipbroker
      • Sep 2011 - May 2018

      Chemicals broker Sep 2015 - CurrentDry cargo broker Jan 2012 - Current

    • Chemical Manufacturing
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Financial Analyst
      • 2008 - 2011

      Financial Analyst (Dow Coatings Materials, ANZ & SEA)• Responsible for evaluating the profitability of the business, financial planning, interim financial forecasting, budgeting and feasibility studies for ad-hoc investment projects for ANZ & SEA. • Monitoring of actual performance against targets, improving forecasting accuracy, and minimizing financial performance surprises via in-depth understanding of business financial performance drivers and close partnership with sub-region business teams. • Analytical support activities include providing timely financial and business analysis on pricing, sales, profitability, product line performance, selling & administrative and R&D expenses. • Month-end closing activities

    • Business Analyst Supervisor
      • 2005 - 2008

      Business Analyst (Supervisor, Revenue Management)• Coordinate and oversee all F&A Revenue Management activities. These activities may relate to monthly profitability reporting and analysis, Business Plan, customer evaluations and bid evaluations• Work with other business functions to come to an agreement in terms of bid approvals, discount approvals, waiver approvals and special waivers requested by customers• Approve bids on behalf of APAC Region Finance• Evaluate strategic customers’ profitability• Evaluate the impact to the country, district and/or region for the approval of certain bids / customers• Review of existing customer contracts to ensure compliance to performance indicators• Project Lead for design and implementation of Staffing / Payroll online interface• Ensure appropriate costing models are adopted by various subsidiaries / JV in Asia-Pacific Region• Finance liaison to all departments in Asia-Pacific Region and contact point for WorldCAM support• Perform high level audit on the validation of Unit Costs, Average Unit Costs and WorldCAM bids• Involved in the Functional Audit and Execution of the Annual Release of WorldCAM• Business Planning / Reporting• Co-ordinate process of preparing Annual Budget, Quarterly Forecast and Monthly Outlooks for Asia-Pacific region• Financial Modeling / Long Term Plan Projections for various business requirements• Weekly / Monthly Profit & Loss forecasts• Revenue & expense review / analysis with districts & countries• Setup the financial reporting hierarchies for districts & countries using UPS enterprise database• Restructured the monthly financial reports to incorporate UPS enterprise database system for greater timeliness and accuracy• Khalix database administrator & trainer• Monthly management reporting & analysis• Chairman for UPS Team Building 2006 Committee

    • Germany
    • Semiconductor Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Financial Analyst
      • 2004 - 2005

      Financial Analyst (Logistics)• Financial controlling of Asia-Pacific Logistics• Consolidation and analysis of financial management reports for regional cost centres (forecasts and actual)• Controlling of regional freight & hub invoices to ensure accuracy prior to billing• Planning and controlling of investments through HIM module in SAP• Month-end closing activities

    • Business Development Executive
      • Apr 1999 - Jun 2000

      Business Development Executive• Targo Singapore is the sole-distributor for DuPont Automotive Refinishes and 3M Automotive in Singapore• Handled operations of 3M Automotive Division, doing sales and marketing• Responsibilities included Business Development and providing technical support

Education

  • University of Sheffield
    BA (Hons), Finance & Economics
    1995 - 1998
  • Raffles Institution
    1989 - 1992

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