OBJECTIVE & PROFILE

Searching for Investment Analyst, Financial Analyst and Banking related positions based upon my MBA in Finance and 7 years of business experience in Accounting, Financial & Prospective Analyses, Sales and Marketing. Expertise in financial reporting, business strategy analysis, cost analysis, variance analysis, profitability analysis and GAAP. Candidate for CPA Exam in 2008. Effectively use empowering, participatory management style that breeds accountability, teamwork, continuous improvements and results.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

SUNTAR MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY (S) PTE LTD

Investment Analyst (May – June, 2007)

• Perform strategic, financial and operational analysis to facilitate management decision making for investment projects.

• Assist management in developing and executing the Group’s business and investment strategies.

PHOENIX ASIAN CUISINE, INC.

Financial Analyst (2005 - 2006)

• Responsible for most areas of accounting and management reporting.

• Provide insightful information on financial performance through analysis on variance and trends to support management strategic decision-making.

• Develop and manage the planning process for business review and financial forecasting.

Accomplishments:

• Implemented and provided corrective action plans to operation on financial and administrative process in order to achieve a turned around from an operating loss position.

• Analyzed, standardized and improved financial reporting to generate timely reporting in formats immediately useful to executive management.

MARKET AMERICA INC

Accountant (October, 2007 – Present)

• Input General Journal entries including adjustments and closures; maintain books, Fixed Assets, G/L, A/P subsidiary ledger for day to day operations and month end closing.

• Perform bank reconciliations and the Accounts Payable role via Microsoft Great Plains and HSBCnet.

• Ran commission disbursements to distributors via DMC

• Ran inventory status reports in Microsoft Great Plains for audit requirements

HAGEMEYER (S) PTE LTD

Sales Executive (1999 - 2001)

• Achieved 125% of Quota; generated over $1,000,000 in sales revenue for the year 2000.

• Secured large multinational corporations such as Hewlett Packard and Cable & Wireless as Hagemeyer’s long-term customers through flexible payment plans and complete solutions.

• Experienced in collecting outstanding payments from customers.

• Teamed with Sales Manager in marketing Fujitsu plasma display panel in terms of promotion, advertising, positioning, and packaging.

WYWY PTE LTD

Sales Representative (1995 - 1999)

• Achieved 108% of Quota; culminated in the award of Top Salesperson for February, 1999.

• Expanded market penetration sales by 35% for 1997 during which personal sales revenue totaled $305K.

• Possess comprehensive understanding of how to sell successfully in the office equipment industry.

• Performed numerous financial analyses on customers’ running costs in comparison to those of the competitors in order to position Ricoh Products as more effective than the competition in terms of benefiting the customer with more advantageous features at higher cost savings.

TAT LEE BANK PTE LTD

Associate (1995)

• Advised potential customers on how they could use their social security to invest in the bank’s products.

• Entered customer data into a database

• Conducted bookkeeping of checks received and sent to brokerage houses by keying entries into the cash journal and properly filing the checks to be received by the Treasury Department.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Urbana-Champaign, IL

Master of Business Administration, May 2003 GPA: 3.63/4.0

Major: Finance

ACADEMIC COUNCIL Representative for 1st Year MBA Int’l Students (2001 - 2002)

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN Madison, WI

Bachelor of Business Administration, May 1995

Major: Marketing

Member, MU KAPPA TAU (membership restricted to 3.2 GPA and above. 1994 - 1995)

SELECTED PROJECT EXPERTISE/KNOWLEDGE:

• Whole Foods Market project in which my team completed business, accounting, financial (ratio performance and cash flow analysis) and prospective analyses on the company whose assets totaled close to $829.2 million with a ROIC of 9.27% and an estimated equity PV value of $608 million in 2001.

• I led the Motorola project where my team performed a historical financial analysis (ratios and performance); determined the company’s EVA; developed respective sets of 5 year pro forma cash flow projections based on corresponding sales growth, working capital, cost and profitability assumptions in order to determine the company’s present stock value and implemented a brave yet innovative restructuring plan that was designed to cut costs and return the company to profitability by the end of the next fiscal year.

• Dow Chemical Project whereby our team decided that Monsanto was a suitable takeover target over Dupont due to better growth prospects and stronger market share with an under-priced stock combined with attractive synergies (complementary products, shared market; client base, economies of scale and scope) which would impact Dow Chemical’s EPS growth rate by 13.62% using an all-cash financing plan.

• Extensive experience in modeling in terms of Cash Flow Analysis, NPV, Duration, Black Scholes Real Options, Binomial Models for Interest Rate Derivatives and Options, Black-Derman Toy Model, Prepayment models such as Salomon Brothers Model and other Decision-Risk analytical models aimed at making the right decision given the constraints, risks and at times, the needed arbitrary weight of importance on each option.

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

Understand SAP, Oracle, Siebel’s CRM solutions and their purposes; Proficient in AS400 (IBM inventory management), Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access), Microsoft Great Plains and Quattro-Pro where I built up an entire decision support system for purchasing consumer products.

LANGUAGES

English and Mandarin

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