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Shanghai, China

Built up the first shared service center outside Europe and America to take over the accounting, taxation, treasury, purchase-to-pay and order-to-cash function of the manufacturing and sales/marketing entities in Notth Asia with five direct-reporting finance managers and over sighting a 30-persons staff. - Led the green-field implementation as the project leader, built strong rapport with the headquarter experts and with the CEOs and heads of finance of the Notth Asia operating units. - Pivotal role in formulating the project plan and schedule, and change management strategy. - Drive internal control system in North Asia. - Built a high performing team with diversified profiles, motivated and eager to grow with Hilti. - Put in place world-class systems and processes twice faster than the European implementation.

Shanghai, China

Reporting to the General Manager, assumed overall responsibility for financial management of the organization, covering the whole spectrum of finance including budgeting and business planning, budgetary control, statutory and management reporting, tax compliance, transfer pricing and treasury. Acted as local compliance officer on governance and legal compliance. Additional responsibilities included IT, administration, quality management (ISO9001). Took additional responsibilities of Logistics, Customer Services, and After-sales Services for one year. Project leader for successful implementation of SAP. - Turned around the loss-making business. - Drove the achievement of annual and mid-term business plan playing the role of a business partner to the CEO and executive management team. - Bottom-line responsibility. Steering the profitability of the business operations. - Co-piloted with the CEO in running the business, addressing business topics from both strategic and operational perspectives. - Instrumental in the roll-out of SAP, took the role as project leader.

Hong Kong

- Responsible for the ful spectrum of finance and accounting.- Run the company for six months when there was no CEO, in a core managment team of three.- Spear-headed the down-sizing of Hong Kong operation during SARS period, protecting bottom line - while preserving the overall employee morale and retaining key talents.

Taipei, Taiwan

- Responsible for the full spectrum of finance anda accounting.- Turn around the loss-making business.

Reporting to the CFO of Asia Pacific regional headquarter in Hong Kong, leading five dotted-line reporting financial controllers in ASEAN countries and New Zealand, driving both profitability and quality of financial controllership. - Expanded the Group’s footprint in Asia through acquisition, took leading role in financial and legal due diligence, financial modelling, negotiation and deal-closing. - Maximized ROCE with optimized capital structure of new business operations. - Uplifted the competence of ASEAN financial controllers through strong leadership and coaching.

Shanghai, China

Functioning in a small team with CEO coming from the Koll Group and Deputy CEO coming from CP Group, played instrumental role in building up the company from green field, putting in place the systems and processes on accounting, financial reporting, business planning, budgeting, human resources, administration. - Within a tight time frame, successfully set up the PRC legal entity, navigated through the process for business licensing, tax registration, foreign exchange registration and other formalities.  - Proactively contributed to the business, acting as financial advisor to the CEO and the board of directors. - Play a pivotal role in deal structuring and financing, investment analysis and evaluation, contract negotiation, and dealing with potential equity/debt investors. - Built up from scratch a competent and highly motivated finance and administration team

Hong Kong

Independently prepared timely and accurate group consolidated accounts for the Hong Kong head office and 9 overseas offices in Asia, the USA and UK. Took primary responsibility of daily P/L reporting, product costing and profitability analysis. Contributed through proactive team work to the implementation of ERP system and MIS module. - Contribute to management decisions through timely preparation of group management accounts and management report. - Professionally prepared financial reporting to London head office, meeting voluminous and tight deadlines. Handle head office liaison tactfully and satisfactorily under a tight time frame.