Chia Yean Lim Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore

Overall responsibility as a finance business partner to contribute organizational performance outside finance core work through local business planning and drive financial strategies to help growth in business. Responsibilities and skills include:• Trusted advisor for Finance and Sales Director in commercial negotiations and strategy by providing highly relevant insight into business performance. • Provide business expertise to develop new and optimize existing internal accounting processes/systems to ensure more timely, accurate and accessible information to facilitate decision making. • Ensure compliance to internal controls and role as catalyst to stimulate behaviors across organization in driving forward initiatives.• Financial lead responsible for managing country P&L and overseeing financial forecasting by monitoring current KPI across all areas of revenue, cost and expenses. Achievements:• Sole Finance representative in monthly operational meetings as a lead consultant to the management on financial performance and key person in alignment of financial decisions and strategies.• Lead in Sales budget development by implementing new and improved budgeting system and process to drive stronger internal controls, tracking and compliance resulting YTD spending reduction by 200bps vs prior year. • Active inventory planning as part of NWC management to ensure payment from distributor and successfully reduced average stockholding by -8.3% vs prior year.• Developed and automated daily sales tracker by brand against forecasted stocks to ensure optimal gross margin achievement.

Singapore

Responsibilities and skills include:• Drive operational efficiency through simplified and automated financial reporting processes. • Partnership with trade marketing and sales to optimize spending by customer and drive controls to ensure expenses are properly and timely booked. • Provide monthly assessment to sales heads to gauge and highlight any potential risk to management and ensure timely clearance of all trade expense claims.• Ensure stronger financials forecasting and controls are in place. Achievements:• Successfully taken over Singapore commercial role and trained successors in Malaysia while overseeing the portfolio during the transition.• Provided preliminary financials and closed monthly P&L with minimal supervision while ensuring timely and accurate booking of financials in the system.• Project leader in MYSG IMS cube system to automate monthly sales reporting and provided like for like sales data based on new GTM by working closely with global IS team.• Reduction of 59% outstanding trade spend claims within 10 working days and established controls to ensure all bills received above 90 days are cleared.

Malaysia

• Core responsibilities include commercial sales portfolio which covers preparation of monthly reporting (sales and inventory holding) and assist in quarter financial forecasting alongside other projects and ad-hoc support to provide financial data for marketing and sales department. Achievements:• Monthly financial consolidation of newly acquired business to ensure like for like comparison for sales growth.• Lead internal distributor audit initiative where 100% physical stocks are verified, in-depth documentation audit performed and post-audit reporting to management and recommendation to audit findings for process improvement and compliance to RB policies. • Lead in external distributor audit engagement which includes sourcing and training to familiarize with RB business and products and communicating expected audit deliverables.