Azlina Nordin Torji

• Lead TM Group’s Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) function being the force in supporting TM Group Management in shaping strategic budgets, forecasts, and financial insights in ensuring sustainable and transformational growth.
• Played a key role in TM Group’s internal reorganisation, ensuring smooth execution of system changes and securing alignment with key stakeholders, including the Ministry of Finance and tax authorities. This critical groundwork set the path for the Group to move towards structural efficiencies and a converged, seamless customer experience, while also paving the way for single CGU reporting, reducing compliance costs, licensing fees, and administrative redundancies.
• Bridge financial strategic directions to enhance execution efficiency, enabling the Group to capitalise on new opportunities while maintaining cost discipline through review and involvement of critical business cases e.g. Data Center expansions and JVs, GPUaaS, 5G etc

Financial & Management Reporting

• Oversee TM Group’s quarterly and annual financial consolidation & reporting to Bursa, ensuring alignment with Investor Relations and delivering transparent and consistent financial narratives.
• Directed the Group-wide implementation of MFRS 15, 16, and 9, ensuring seamless adoption across complex contract structures and high-volume transactions, working cross-functionally to enable smooth execution.

Tax Planning & Operations

• Oversee Group-wide tax compliance and planning, engaging with tax authorities in India and the US and leading critical tax audit settlements, securing significant recoveries from IRB in 2019.
• Secured Investment Tax Allowances for HSBB2 and SUBB, optimizing TM’s effective tax rate below statutory levels.
• Led TM’s GST (2015) & SST (2018) implementation, ensuring compliance while minimizing financial, marketing, and operational risks.

Special Projects, Initiatives & Advisory

• Provided strategic accounting advisory on the Group’s mergers and acquisitions, new products, promotions, and intra-Group transactions, ensuring optimal financial impact while maintaining regulatory compliance.
• Advised on inter-company agreements & intra-Group pricing strategies, aligning structural changes with transfer pricing compliance

• Leading roles in audit of key accounts from diversified industries namely telecommunications, plantation, broadcasting and automobile manufacturing
• Extensive exposure on special audits which included due diligence exercises, mergers and acquisitions as well as forensic audit

• Company Overview: MNC supplier of Medical Equipment and Facilities
• The experience provided a strong foundation and comprehensive end to end view of the operations in a trading company with exposure on credit management, accounts receivables, payables and GL accounting
• MNC supplier of Medical Equipment and Facilities