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Chee Ming Lam

Chee Ming Lam

Kuala Lumpur

Summary

Dedicated to providing full support to organizations, leveraging experience and capabilities to achieve goals while fostering mutual benefits. Proven ability to lead and manage teams effectively, ensuring organizational objectives are met. Skilled in accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payables (AP) operations, with extensive experience in reconciliation, audit management, and process improvement. Expertise in managing cross-functional projects and collaborating with stakeholders across regions. Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities. Finance professional with a track record of accuracy and efficiency in managing complex financial operations. Skilled in optimizing financial workflows and ensuring compliance with accounting standards. Known for strong collaboration with teams and delivering reliable results. Highly analytical with a focus on strategic problem-solving.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
2034
2034
years of post-secondary education
7
7
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Lead Accountant (Accounts Receivables & Accounts Payables)

Amway Business Services Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd
12.2019 - Current
  • Manage end-to-end order to cash activities including orders/sales processing, sales recognition, Accounts Receivable, products returned and refund processing.
  • Ensure bonus payments to Distributors are paid in a timely manner on a monthly basis.
  • Monitor and review all periodic reporting to ensure timely and accurate compliance on Service Level Agreements (SLA) and monthly Key Performance Indicators (KPI) metrics are met.
  • Ensure timely and accuracy in daily sales vs. receivable reconciliation and send to stakeholders.
  • Monitor overall Accounts Receivable ledger and sub-ledger reconciliation including bad debt provisions and write-off.
  • Review journal entries posted by team members and monthly accounts reconciliation.
  • Focal point for internal and external audit matters and coordinate timely submission of required supporting documents and information to auditors.
  • Maintain a strong financial control environment and ensure timely escalation and remediation of any control deficiencies identified.
  • Review risk assessment and mitigation of operations with O2C & Bonus Manager.
  • Work closely with Affiliates and Technology Team in the migration of legacy system to new system (Oracle).
  • Ensure a high standard of customer service is maintained at all times.
  • Implement and drive continuous processes improvement to promote efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Provide SME expertise to Affiliates, Management, and any internal team pertaining to O2C/Bonus operations if required.
  • People Management related tasks:
  • Maintain a high level of employee engagement, provide coaching and training to team members.
  • Manage daily work allocation and performance appraisal to all direct reports.
  • Recruitment of new team members with the right skill set and experience.

Associate Manager

MapaGlobal (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd(CIMA)
07.2018 - 11.2019
  • Assure timely collection of monies due to corporation.
  • Responsibility to assign task member
  • Manage the volume by ensuring all team member are equally utilized
  • Manage cash application making sure all cash receipts are applied properly
  • Provide assistance, coaching and guidance for the team member.
  • Monitor SLA and ensure adherence to SLA at all times.
  • Managing escalations and ensure minimum escalation at all times.
  • Participate in management meeting
  • Make recommendations to improve quality of cash receipts application and collection procedures.
  • Monthly reporting of invoicing totals/aging totals/cash receipts/invoice adjustments
  • Manage the process that identifies and implements significant Continuous Improvement opportunities to support division and corporate objectives
  • Managing 16 staff.

Team Lead - OTC & RTR

International SOS Malaysia Berhad
07.2017 - 06.2018
  • Record Inter-company transaction
  • Issuance of inter-company DN/CN
  • Perform"Account Allocation" regularly to inter-company rechargeable accounts
  • Ensure clearance of inter-company rechargeable accounts during month-end
  • Apply allocations to settled inter-company transaction
  • Ensure smooth completion of month-end closing process
  • Handle Inter-company inquires promptly
  • Ensure inter-company reconciling items are recorded promptly and aged items are properly followed up
  • Prepare monthly inter-company rechargeable aging report.
  • Record receipt accordingly
  • Liaising with countries on incoming funds allocation
  • Handle AR inquires
  • Perform month-end activities - AR revaluations, revaluation allocations, prepare AR aging/ receipts reports
  • Ensure complete and proper records retention
  • Perform backup activities for one's for one's peer/department as and when required
  • Perform ad hoc assignment
  • Manage a staff of 7.

Team Lead - OTC & Intercompany

International SOS Malaysia Berhad
07.2016 - 07.2017
  • To obtain inter-company balance confirmation after month end closing
  • To extract transactions listing from various Accounting system (SUN, Oracle etc)
  • Perform monthly Inter-company Reconciliation
  • Prepare report of unmatched balance &got;USD 5k
  • Monitoring unmatched items, unposted invoices, unallocated receipts, uncleared payments or any other reason for the differences
  • Analyse the unreconciled items and communicate with different stakeholders to clear the variance
  • Follow up closely with respective team to ensure unreconciled items is rectified
  • Check/match monthly inter-company Netting file provided by corporate
  • Upload netting file into SUN/Oracle
  • Ensure complete and proper records retention
  • Perform backup activities for one’s peer/department as and when required
  • Perform ad hoc assignments
  • Manage a staff of 9.
  • Record Inter-company transaction
  • Issuance of inter-company DN/CN
  • Perform"Account Allocation" regularly to inter-company rechargeable accounts
  • Ensure clearance of inter-company rechargeable accounts during month-end
  • Apply allocations to settled inter-company transaction
  • Ensure smooth completion of month-end closing process
  • Handle Inter-company inquires promptly
  • Ensure inter-company reconciling items are recorded promptly and aged items are properly followed up
  • Prepare monthly inter-company rechargeable aging report.
  • Record receipt accordingly
  • Liaising with countries on incoming funds allocation
  • Handle AR inquires
  • Perform month-end activities - AR revaluations, revaluation allocations, prepare AR aging/ receipts reports
  • Ensure complete and proper records retention
  • Perform backup activities for one's for one's peer/department as and when required
  • Perform ad hoc assignment



Senior Finance Analyst

International SOS Malaysia Berhad
10.2014 - 06.2015

• Record Inter-company transaction

• Issuance of inter-company DN/CN

• Perform"Account Allocation" regularly to inter-company rechargeable accounts

• Ensure clearance of inter-company rechargeable accounts at month-end

• Apply allocations to settled inter-company transaction

• Ensure smooth completion of month-end closing process

• Handle Inter-company inquires promptly

• Ensure inter-company reconciling items are recorded promptly and aged items are properly followed up

• Prepare monthly inter-company rechargeable Aging report.

• Record receipt promptly

• Liaising with countries on incoming funds allocation

• Handle AR inquires promptly

• Perform month-end activities - AR revaluations, revaluation allocations, prepare AR aging/ receipts reports

• Ensure complete and preper records retention

• Perform backup activities for one's for one's peer/department as and when required

• Perform ad hoc assignment

Team Leader

CMA CGM Sdn Bhd
04.2014 - 09.2014

• Record receipt promptly

• Liaising with countries on incoming funds allocation

• Handle AR inquires promptly

• Ensure complete and preper records retention

• Select, groom, coordinate training and retain the Accounting Services- Quality control and reporting team

• Support implementation of short and long-range departmental goals, policies and operating procedures

• Provides effective leadership in regard to the best accounting practices

• Manage a staff of 7.

Accounts Executive

CMA CGM Sdn Bhd
04.2012 - 04.2014
  • Doing allocation receipt for the previous date.
  • Create new account in the system.
  • Create Manual invoice for the customer.
  • Create Manual receipt/unloading the receipt in the system.
  • Sending daily report & Monthly report to the Local country
  • Assist manager in day by day job operation.
  • Reconcile daily report for those invoice which is unable to be proceed in the system.
  • Maintain & manage up-to-date billing system,follow up and allocation of payments.
  • Carry out billing and reporting activities according to specific deadlines & reconciliation of accounts.
  • Investigate and resolve customer queries in order to process further adjustments.
  • Communicate with local agent via phone, email, mail or personally.
  • To attend to all queries concerning the payments from customers.
  • To upload and review/analyse the Unapplied and Unidentified report from Ocean support.
  • To work closely with local Documentation, Bank Accounting staff and Local Finance staff.

Finance Operation/Account Executive

DHL Asia Pacific Shared Service Sdn Bhd
01.2010 - 04.2012

• Doing Review for the previous shipment date.

• Doing the adjustment for the customer account.

• Doing billing for the customer account.

• Doing monthly reporting for customer charges

• Doing reporting for local country.

• Assist Team Lead in day by day job.

• Preparing of monthly report for the local country.

Education

Bachelor of Business in Accounting - Business Accountancy

Wawasan Open University
Penang, Malaysia
04.2001 - 12.2023

Diploma - Accounting

Eu Institute
Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
12-2011

Skills

Problem-Solving

Certification

Blackline Accounting Innovation Workshop

Accomplishments

  • Best team leader in Finance and accounting – GBS ASIA Award 2021.
  • Recognition from Amway Global on providing support and Partnership with US in Sep 2022.
  • 3 years top performance in Amway.
  • Collaborated with the team to develop automation for the Accounts Receivable balance reconciliation, resulting in a savings of 3 FTEs.
  • Implementation of System Migration from SUN System to Oracle
  • Outstanding Contribution to Project Atlas (Singapore , Malaysia & Hong Kong)
  • Continuous Improvement - Worked with Project team to produce new report to reduce manual work and time saving.
  • Employee of the Quarter 1 2014(Outstanding Performance,Service and dedication).
  • Successful work shadowing for CMA CGM Canada.

Software

Alteryx

Oracle

Blackline

Salesforce

Timeline

Lead Accountant (Accounts Receivables & Accounts Payables)

Amway Business Services Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd
12.2019 - Current

Associate Manager

MapaGlobal (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd(CIMA)
07.2018 - 11.2019

Team Lead - OTC & RTR

International SOS Malaysia Berhad
07.2017 - 06.2018

Team Lead - OTC & Intercompany

International SOS Malaysia Berhad
07.2016 - 07.2017

Senior Finance Analyst

International SOS Malaysia Berhad
10.2014 - 06.2015

Team Leader

CMA CGM Sdn Bhd
04.2014 - 09.2014

Accounts Executive

CMA CGM Sdn Bhd
04.2012 - 04.2014

Finance Operation/Account Executive

DHL Asia Pacific Shared Service Sdn Bhd
01.2010 - 04.2012

Bachelor of Business in Accounting - Business Accountancy

Wawasan Open University
04.2001 - 12.2023
Blackline Accounting Innovation Workshop
Strategy Realization Workshop (DDI World)
Virtual Coaching Workshop (Amway HR)
Lean Discovery Workshop (GBS Service and Process Excellence)
Limited Risk Distributor (LRD) Project Training
APAC Top Talent Development Program

Tech & Managment Training

Diploma - Accounting

Eu Institute
Chee Ming Lam