Finance and Accounting

SKILLS:

Regional Roles in Asia Pacific Account Receivable collection, credit control and risk mitigation, manage DSO.

Treasury role in cash flow control, cash pooling, corporate credit card and intercompany loan and fund control.

Finance Shared Service for Asia Pacific region in providing accounting services in Account Receivable, Account Payable, General Accounting and budgeting.

Foreign exchange control and indirect tax compliance in Asia Pacific countries.

Financial Planning and Analysis. Cost Reductions Projects.

Oracle ERP System Separation, Integration and Migration Projects.

SOX and Internal Control Audit Compliance.

Develop Standard Operating Procedures.

Supply Chain Planning and Analysis. Bonded warehouse operations.

Purchasing. Inventory Control. Costing. Price Masking Margin Accounting and Releases.

Oracle ERP and Financial System. Microsoft Excel, Words. PowerPoint. WORK EXPERIENCE:

Zebra Technologies Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (27-Oct-14 to 30-Jun17) Motorola Solutions Singapore Pte. Ltd. (8-Jun-92 to 27-Oct-14)

(Zebra Technologies acquired 1/3 of Motorola Business) Senior Finance Manager - APAC

Reason of leaving: M&A Restructuring

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Senior Finance Manager (Mar-2012 to Jun-2017)

Finance Manager (May-2005 to Mar-2012)

Manage corporate banking facilities including trade financing and corporate credit cards management.

Company secretarial services pertaining to board resolution, authority delegation and banking facilities authorization.

Work with internal legal counsel and Asia Pacific legal entities on intercompany loans requirements and loan repayment, including cash pool management. Monitor interest and loan repayment to ensure timely settlement.

Manage and review cash flow for Singapore operation.

Lead a team of 8 AR Analysts on Asia Pacific region Account Receivable management, collection and cash application.

o Average monthly collections of USD600 Million in 2006 and 2007. o Average monthly collections of USD120 Million after 2011. o Average monthly collections of USD40 Million after 2014

Lead the AR team in Oracle ERP “order to cash” system migration project. o Separation – Motorola businesses separation

o Integration – Zebra businesses integration

o Migration – Motorola to Zebra data conversion and migration.

Account receivable credit control and risk mitigation.

Monthly Accounting and Operations review on AR aging, bad debt reserve, cash application

Lead the set-up of an Account Receivable and Collections Shared Service Centre team in Penang.

Work with business operations team to provide advice on Asia Pacific entities local indirect taxes

(GST/VAT/JCT) treatments, ensure all taxes are correctly reported and accounted.

Work with Trade Compliance team to ensure compliance to trading requirements. Proper documentation for Tax Invoicing and shipment requirements.

Ensure invoicing is processed in accordance to accounting requirements and compliance to revenue recognition.

Ensure authorization process for any credit adjustment is strictly in accordance to company credit policy.

Prepare department cost budget, monitor and analyze variance on monthly basis.

Participate in monthly pre close and post close balance sheet review.

Initiate and lead the cross functional finance and business team on process improvement and process flow set up.

Ensure compliance to SOX and internal control requirements.

Work with internal and external auditors on audit requirements and compliance testing. Accountant / Senior Accountant (Jun-98 to May-05)

Responsible for Financial Planning and Analysis on cost management project. Provide management trend reports for budget and cost control purposes.

Prepare monthly Analysis of materials, labor and variable cost for manufacturing cost reductions project.

Provide recommendation on manufacturing cost reduction.

Responsible for contract manufacturing price masking buy sell business margin accounting and margin releases.

Responsible for inventory management, inventory costing, purchasing price variance review and analysis.

Work with cross functional planning team to reduce inventory balances and manage obsolete inventory. Supply Chain Planning Analyst (Feb-95 to Jun-98)

Purchasing Executive (Jun-92 to Feb-95)

Responsible for Asia manufacturing factories and contract manufacturers’ production capacity planning and scheduling to ensure products are available to meet revenue target.

Responsible for purchasing and materials planning to ensure materials are available to meet production requirements and revenue target. Obsolete inventory control and management. ACHIEVEMENT:

Strategized and smoothened the Asia Pacific legal entities cash flow position by reprioritizing inter-companies payable and receivable payment.

Lead in the successful implementation of Asia Pacific “order to cash” Oracle ERP system separation, integration and migration project.

Facilitated with business team, legal counsel, banks and judicial managers, recovered $38.6M of doubtful debt.

Worked with Tianjin State Administration of Foreign Exchange Bureau, Tianjin Custom and Tianjin Bonded Warehouse Service Provider YCH, mitigated USD550M collection risks by resolving custom inward declaration documentation disputes.

Improved and maintain AR balances current bucket % from 73.5% to above 95%. Lauw & Sons Pte. Ltd.

Department Head for Purchasing, Distributions and Warehousing Sep-1989 - May-1992

Reason for leaving: Scaled down business operations RESPONSIBILITIES:

Purchase of all materials and foods required the by 7 restaurants.

Identify opportunities for cost reductions without impacting the qualities.

Identify recommend alternative sources of purchases.

Manage and plan for delivery schedules and routes with 2 delivery team mates and 1 store keeper. PERSONAL STRENGTH:

• Steadfast and diligent.

• Tasks and solutions oriented.

• Quick to identify problems and root cause and propose solutions.

• Ability to lead, facilitate, collaborate in resolving issues promptly.

• Good social and communication skills.

• Ability to work as business partners with all management level.

• Have good crisis management skills.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Professional Degree - The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK)

Diploma in Management Studies - Singapore Institute of Management

Diploma in Production Engineering - Singapore Polytechnic MEMBERSHIP:

Non-Practicing Member, Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants

Fellow Member, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants REFERENCE:

Theresa Williams, Senior Director, Global Credit and Collections

Michael J. Budzik, Director, Global Treasury

Melos Loke, APAC Senior Finance Director

Pauline Lim, Director, APAC Credit

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