AS Watson Group
- Head of Financial Controls and System (Europe)
Fo Tan, Shatin2006 - 2011Part of a two office team (Paris & Hong Kong), primarily responsible for the geographical coverage of European Business units, in charge of:
•Reducing financial and operational risks focusing on highest value areas (margin, supplier funding and inventory)
•Acting as project manager on specific optimisation projects to address performance and control issues
•Performing reviews and reporting on status of controls (adequacy, efficiency and compliance thereof) in different businesses throughout the Group
•Working with line management in a hands on support and leadership role in the development and implementation of effective, practical and cost-effective solutions
•Leading in establishing and rolling out the Group’s operating standards
Accenture
- Manager
Paris1999 - 2006Experience of 6 years in Finance and Performance Management area: financial processes transformation, finance shared services implementation, Change Management and Project Management.
Marionnaud – Project Duration: March 2005 – March 2006, Paris
Supervision of a team of 5 consultants
In charge of accounting processes, data flow and integrity review (Mars 05 – November 05)
•Review and redesign of Finance and Accounting processes (Invoice matching, Sales reporting, Margin calculation)
•Assessment of Marionnaud capabilities to produce timely and accurate reporting
•Identification of recommendations to automate and secure reporting production
•Coordination of project meetings (Finance, IT and Operations)
Thomson, Paris
Project Duration: November 2004 – March 2005, Paris
Accounting outsourcing Service Manager
•In charge of the coordination of the Continuous Improvement Program for the Thomson Delivery centres
•Supervises the accounting processes stabilization program
•In charge of the business reporting to Thomson Senior Finance Management
ESC Dublin – Volvo Trucks, Mauritius Island
Project Duration: January 2004 – October 2004
Managing a team of 70 accountants
In charge of Accounting Process transfer to Mauritius
•Validation of AP processes design, IT architecture (scanning process, Optical Character Recognition …)
•Knowledge Transfer Management
•Accountants recruitment
•Accounts Payable Operations Management
The Mauritius Commercial Bank – Mauritius Island
Project Duration: August 2001 – December 2003
Managing a project team of 12 resources (Accenture and client)
In charge of the functional design of the Bank Profit Model (Financial Controlling):
•Implementation of a Profit/Cost centre accounting
•Design and implementation of the Budgeting process (Strategic Plan, Budget, Forecasts)
•Design of the Financial and operational Reporting
•Product costing implementation using the Activity-Based Costing methodology
•Multidimensional Profitability Analysis (Business Units, Products, Customers and Distribution channel)
•Configuration and implementation of Hyperion Essbase, Planning and Analyzer
