Jiahui Lee Email & Phone Number

In my role at Barry Callebaut, I have leveraged over 12 years of finance expertise to champion strategic pricing and costing approach while enhancing operational efficiency. With strong business acumen and an in-depth understanding of finance dynamics within the food manufacturing industry, has led to notable achievements:Pricing Strategy & Cost Analysis: My leadership in ensuring accurate cost information for Chocolate products has sharpened margin analysis and customer pricing, allowing for strategic pricing decisions.Raw Material Cost Transparency: I initiated key improvements in the transparency of raw material purchase price variances, successfully reducing them by half from 10% to 5%. This is pivotal in ensuring we are competitive in our pricing strategies amid market volatility.Contract & Portfolio Management: By making improvements to contract and portfolio management reporting, I achieved a 50% reduction in expired volume, ensuring higher contract fulfillments.Operational Efficiency: My drive to enhance process efficiencies led to the streamlined process in generation of quotes for faster turnaround to customers.

I was appointed to supervise 70 employees with 3 direct reports in the Customer Service (CS) department.I am responsible for collaborating with partners and stakeholders to develop tender strategies, ensure profitability, negotiate contract terms and conditions, and recapture contracts.My responsibilities include preparing annual budgets, overseeing AR collection and reporting the CS business to the HQ, and training the finance team on best practices in other countries along with the tools and skill development.In my time here, we successfully grew the revenue by 44% and profitability by up to 7% between 2017-2021Additionally, I implemented the new IFRS 15 requirements and drove process improvements, including facilitating information sharing (job done, parts changed) in the SAP, contributing to the revenue increase.

Singapore

My responsibilities were to generate financial reports and oversee projects, including budgets & contract reviews, to maintain profitability.I was responsible for leading budgets planning, including In-Vitro Service KPIs (service revenue, total service cost), capacity utilisation forecast and hourly rate forecast.In my time here, I was the Finance Lead for Productivity @ CS (PCS), a three-year project which commenced in 2014; I identified and implemented cost-saving measures, which exceeded the cost-reduction target by 10%

Singapore

My responsibilities were to generate financial reports, including budget reports, financial data and quarterly capacity utilisation.I was responsible for supporting the BA manager in the Invivo business, providing recommendations for business development.Additionally, I track the annual budgets and analyse accuracy & variances on reports monthly.Key Projects in my time here include the Nantucket Project, where we promptly carved out the healthcare business and SAP UAT for Singapore.

Singapore

Singapore

My responsibilities were to generate financial reports, including budget reports, financial data and quarterly capacity utilisation.I was responsible for supporting the BA manager in the Invivo business, providing recommendations for business development.Additionally, I track the annual budgets and analyse accuracy & variances on reports monthly.Key contribution in my time here include achieving compliance to financial reporting standards for In-Vitro business. This was done by implementing a new process in SAP to allow customer billing via contract and automated monthly revenue recognition via WBS.

Responsibilities: • Join the TP Vision after the disentanglement of TV business to form a joint venture• Oversee multiple reporting functions and drive month-end closing for Malaysia Sales Organization (SO)• Generate reporting package for consolidation into group accounts• Prepare weekly cash flow forecast, balance sheet schedules and monthly bank reconciliations• Submit GST F5 form to IRAS and ensure internal controls during a quarterly review• Perform license reporting and analysis, make accruals of monthly license cost based on global TV sales• Generate quarterly reports and support the UAT for Qlikview

Responsibilities: • Oversee month-end closing, make accruals of monthly license cost and submit GST F5 form to IRAS• Generate reporting package, weekly cash flow forecast, balance sheet schedule and monthly bank reconciliations• Perform license reporting and analysis and generate quarterly reportsProjects: • System migration from Philips’ SAP R/3 to TPV’s SAP ECC 6.0 as key-user for Singapore and SO – UAT, end-to-end testing on the new system for SD, MM, and FICO module

Singapore

Responsibilities: • Create variance analysis of project cost/cost centre versus budgets• Generate monthly financial reports and gather yearly budget requirements• Perform cost analysis and ensure internal controls in the quarterly review• Manage numerous Non-Product Related (NPR) purchasing processes, including minimising amount of open POs, GR, PO approval by authorised ManagersProjects:• System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for the NPR process

Bsc (1St Hons), Accounting And Finance

Awards/Honors: ► Bronze Award by Singapore Institute of Management (SIM)

Diploma With Merit, Accounting, 3.7985

Awards/Honors: ► Academic Merit Award by Lorong Koo Chye Sheng Hong Temple Association ► Ngee Ann Polytechnic Outstanding Academic Award.