Finance Lead of Planarization Business Field in Versum Materials - a business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.- Monthly financial analysis, rolling forecast, annual planning and 5 year strategic planning- Capex investment analysis- New product launch support

Finance Lead of Global Surface Preparation & Cleans Business

• Assisted in spin-off from Air Products on fixed assets movement and SAP migration. • Participated in the SAP+ implementation project, assisted in shaping the future of the new reporting cube. • Performed Annual Budgeting and major factor analysis from top line to bottom line to align our strategic goals with operating plans. • Build monthly P&L models, conducting variance analysis and preparing review package for senior management team.• Perform ROI analysis on capital projects. • Create profitability reports for JV partners and assist in JV strategy planning. • Assisted in due diligence for an M&A project.• Cooperates with AR & Commercial team to improve AR cycle and support account credit analysis.

• Deliver interpretation and market forecast on industry trend as well as competition intelligence to drive business strategy planning.• Support and coordinate within-function/ cross-function to develop both short term and long term strategic planning, including rolling forecast, budgeting, and 3 Year Plan. • Perform provision and reporting of performance measures across price segments and channels, including business updates, performance commentary, profitability analysis, etc to RHQ in Hong Kong.• Provide top management and relevant stakeholders with various variance reports and ac-hoc analysis to facilitate effective decision making.

Specialized in Process and Performance Management. Responsibility Accounting• Identified interlocks among responsibility centers through focus group interview, designed and built transfer pricing as well as cost allocation models for a government-owned corporation. • Created product P&L reports by profit centers, enabling management to conduct performance management in a more timely fashion.Business Process Management• Conducted BPM for a manufacturing firm by identifying issues in product development and introducing Deloitte Industry Print to its R&D process to increase communication efficiency, shorten development lead-time, and reduce risks in daily operations.• Defined business requirements for Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management implementation.

Enterprise planning• Cooperated with Deloitte Germany office to re-design the budgeting model for a global software company by introducing multidimensional planning, project costing, and driver based planning to its planning model and facilitated its global rollout. • Implemented Oracle Hyperion planning system to realize the conceptual design by configuring planning dimensions, drivers, and calculation rules. • Consolidated regional requirements on planning forms and designed input forms and gap analysis reports templates.

• Analyzed the cost structure of the firm and its peers to assess its current market standing and identify its competitive advantages. • Analyzed the financial strength and the financial performances of the firm and presented to the management board.

• Developed footwear products with Nike and delivered samples within planned milestones to enable design verification and ensure manufacturing feasibility. • Coordinated cross-functional teams and vendors to provide instant engineering feedbacks to Nike and initiated EC process when necessary.• Piloted and developed a LEAN project to shorten development lead-time.