Kok Meng Tan (Chartered Accountant) Email & Phone Number

Singapore

• Act as the business partner for cross functional team (commercial, operations, finance, etc) for all tax (including transfer pricing) and structuring (debt and corporate) matters and in the APAC region.• Explore, investigate and study potential tax optimisation opportunities in the APAC region enabling millions of cash savings for the group.• Conducted due diligence and deal structuring exercise for global mergers and acquisition exercises. M&A projects include multiple disposals and acquisitions of companies globally including Europe and Asia. One major completed disposal is a deal of USD 280m involving jurisdictions in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, Chile and Argentina. • Improved efficiency of transfer price setting by implementing a transfer pricing engine in 2021 to automate transfer price setting. Pricing no longer require manual computation, saving previous time for all countries and personnel involved.• Analysed Pillar II requirements, conducted impact assessments and planned for future compliance reporting.• Appointed as the key change agent to run the program for the first implementation of Project Pride (a continuous improvement initiative for finance function) in Asia. As an example, an improvement made was increased accuracy of product costing for which proportion of products with costing variance of more than 15% dropped from 20% to less than 5% in one plant and 40% to less than 20% in another.

Singapore

• Oversaw all aspects of the finance function in the Asia region (10+ countries/50+ legal entities/30+ plants) with a revenue of USD 250m.• Act as the business partner for senior management for development of strategic plans, capex investments and translating this into financial plans with constant monitoring of KPIs. • Led the annual budgeting, external audit processes as well as all reporting requirements in IFRS to head office.• Conceptualised, developed, implemented and continuous monitoring of new policies such as hedging policy, working capital improvement and inter-company service fees recharging policy. • Led the integration process for finance function of newly acquired subsidiaries, by reviewing, developing, recommending and implementing policies, practices and process changes.• Obtained and managed the bank credit facility needs (including hedging) in the Asia region as well as all insurance coverage. • Managed a team of 7 staff, including 4 direct report (Finance Manager and Group Accountant in the Singapore office, a costing manager in Korea and a ERP manager in Malaysia).

Antwerp Area, Belgium

Overseas assignment to Sibelco Belgium headquarters for 21 months.• Worked closely with the strategic development team as well as the finance department in the 5 regions for planning and industry analysis purposes.• Conceptualised and implemented a long term forecasting tool to consolidated data in different formats in 5 regions, with the ability to simulate data quickly, reducing report generation from 3 months to 3 weeks to maximise productivity.

Singapore

• Employed as a Group Accountant in charge of the consolidation of the group in 2006.• Promoted to Regional Finance Manager in Jan 2008, to Senior Regional Finance Manager in Jan 2011 and subsequently to the Regional Financial Controller in Jan 2012.• Responsible for high quality and timely of IFRS reporting standards to the head office, with full compliance to group policies• Prepared, administered and directed the full process of the yearly budget and quarterly forecast within the region and across the functions• Planned and served as a presenter for 4 years of Asian finance conference.• Completed the transfer pricing documentation of the Singapore entity.• Finalised the tax assessment with IRAS for YA98 – 11, which were opened for more than a decade.

• Prepared and analysed monthly/quarterly/ad-hoc management reports (projects, resource utilization, forecasts etc), including preparing the annual budgets.• Identified and implemented areas of improvement to the SAP system.• Reviewed and documented policies and procedures of the department.• Conceptualised, implemented and presented to the board of directors, an Executive Information System which is a self-service system for managers to have an easy and timely way to monitor their KPIs.

Singapore

• Planned and provided external audit services to clients, with a portfolio value of more than SGD 250k in fees.• Audit clients include MNCs such as Matsushita Electric Asia and SGX listed companies such as Sembcorp Industries and Sapphire Corporation.• Acted as the internal trainer for stock-take procedures and internal control documentation and testing.

Bachelor'S Degree, Accountancy, Honours (2Nd Class, Lower)

Education record

Education record