Seek a position utilizing my Audit, Accounting and Finance skills
B.A. Degree, Monash University
CPA Certification
Skills:
Accounting
Finance
Computer Skills
CPA
Known languages (and levels):
English-Very Good
Chinese-Good
Other: Malay
Type of Employment wanted:
Full Time
Minimum Yearly Salary in Numbers:
Unspecified
Current Location:
Malaysia, Petaling Jaya
Education & Experience
Education History, Qualifications & other additional information:
Level of Education:
Masters
Certified Practising Accountant (CPA)
Deakin University (in association), 2008
Bachelor of Business and Commerce
Monash University, Australia, 2004
- Major: Accounting
South Australian Matriculation (SAM)
Taylor’s College, 2001
Work History & Experience:
Years of Work Experience:
3 to 5 Years
Financial Analyst Hewlett-Packard (HP) July 2008 – Present
Part of the pioneer finance team responsible for the setting up of the finance centre in Malaysia. Responsible for the migration of Hong Kong finance work back to Malaysia, reporting directly to the Hong Kong Country Controller.
- Provides comprehensive financial analysis and consulting to business units and industry managers.
- Provide financial services and consulting on processes, programmes and project, primarily to business managers, execute month-end close processes and contribute to planning, forecast and trend analysis.
- Exercise independent judgment within defined practices and procedures to determine appropriate action.
- Facilitates information validation analysis of information.
- Check and validate pricing deals and update pricing details if necessary in accordance with HP pricing guidelines, before submitting to respective business units’ managers for approval.
- Perform various actual, forecast, billing and headcount analysis.
Financial Analyst Ibm Oct 2007 – July 2008
Responsible for the analysis of revenue forecast, budget, actual and business dynamics for the global financing operations in the ASEAN region (Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand), reporting to the ASEAN CFO.
- Designs, prepares and presents detailed analysis of business issues and recommend solutions to senior management.
- Monitor and track execution of roadmap actions to meet financial objectives and goals laid down in the region’s yearly budget.
- Interact and work closely with business units’ and geographies executives, region and country leaders on the forecast, budget, actual and business metrics.
- Consistently prepares forecast with very close accuracy to actual.
- Monthly tracking and verification of revenues and expenses actual to ensure accuracy and validity.
- Prepares and analyze; revenue and expense forecast reports, volumes reports, sales commission reports, resource report and accounts receivables report on a monthly basis. Validate credit procedures and ensure compliance with SOX, monthly.
- Prepares and analyze; financial scorecard and initiate intercompany billing on a quarterly basis. Also, ensure timely validation of volume per signings guidelines, quarterly.
Accounting Analyst Ibm Apr 2005 – Oct 2007
Manage month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities with in country team and functional teams to ensure timely and accurate closure of accounts. Analyzed and reconciled up to 30 accounts monthly with an average of 350 line transactions per account. Posted high volumes receipts, payments, treasury funds, and intercompany payments and receipts on a monthly basis.
- Awarded for Outstanding Accounting Achievement
- Engaged in handling the accounts for Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore over this period, reporting to the Treasury Accounting Manager.
- Backup two headcounts for two months smoothly with no issues.
- Manage General Accounting & Reporting transaction processing support and ensuring delivery quality in terms of accuracy, completeness and timeliness on a daily basis
- Execute month end close steps in accordance with work instructions and month end close checklist
- Resolve general accounting and reporting issues.
- Identify, recommend and implement solutions for all re-engineering projects which led to a significant reduction in open items aged >90days.
- Prepare, analyze and reconcile balance sheet accounts with its subsidiary ledger.
- Perform self-inspection on work areas and implement measures to ensure compliance with IBM accounting and country practices & guidelines.
- Assist in helping the team achieve satisfactory control rating for corporate audit, SOX compliance, peer review and PwC audit.
- Work closely with in-country Treasury team on the movement and allocations of treasury funds.
- Manage and handle migration of individual countries (Hong Kong and Singapore) accounting back to the accounting centre in Malaysia
- Cut accountant journal booking time by over 10 hours per month by simplifying working spreadsheets.
- Reduced clerical workload of manually inputting data, by embedding formulas in spreadsheets to automatically pick up data.
External Auditor Kpmg Jan 2005 – Apr 2005
To work as part of an audit team for conducting external audits for clients. Audited large accounts such as Carrefour, Zublin International and World of Sports.
- Prepare draft audit reports on the findings including recommendation of corrective and preventive actions.
- Undertake ad-hoc audit, investigation and other assignments as directed by Manager and Seniors of the Audit Department
- Ensure assignments are completed within set deadline and to achieve Company’s annual audit plans.
- Assisted in various other external audit fieldwork
- Managing a small audit project for a small maintenance management company.
