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Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Additional Information
Accomplishments
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Wai Sze Ho

Reconciliation Manager
Petaling Jaya

Summary

Well-qualified financial systems leader offering demonstrated skill and success in managing reconciliation processes, improving controls and strengthening systems for optimal performance. Gifted in building and leading solid teams to handle high-volume operations with consistency, accuracy and full compliance with regulatory requirements.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
3
3
Languages

Work History

Manager

OCBC Bank Sdn Bhd
Kuala Lumpur
06.2017 - Current

- Facilitate in Projects and ITSR of taking over new Nostro reconciliation from Wing Hang HK and Macau branches.
- Involve in migrating new reconciliation process for Other Operations from OCBC Singapore.
- Initiate process improvement and enhancement by eliminating manual reconciliation.
- Undertake data analytics assignments to identify and solve issues facing in workplace.
- Involve in multiple user acceptance testing (UAT) of projects, analyze data to check for errors.
- Manage and mitigate risk in current work processes.
- Being the contact point: Prepare audit documents and walkthrough with auditor
- Achieve strong MCOR rating with no audit finding.
- Volunteer in documenting new reconciliation processes in procedures.
- Coach, mentor and transfer knowledge to team members for all reconciliations.
- Nominated as the Lead of Training team and member of Compliance team to manage related matters.

Freelance Translator and Proofreader

Borneo Tiger Sdn Bhd
Petaling Jaya
11.2020 - 01.2021

- Translate web novels from Mandarin to English.
- The genres include urban romance, fantasy and martial arts.
- Review modern fictional culture references to ensure consistency and accuracy in translation.

Assistant Manager

OCBC Bank Sdn Bhd
Kuala Lumpur
01.2016 - 01.2017

- Train and share first-hand knowledge regarding new Singapore Treasury reconciliation process to the team.
- Assist in expanding Hub team BAU by learning International Nostro and China reconciliation from Malaysia team.
- Take up multiple tasks such as Treasury and Nostro reconciliation.
- Master knowledge in reconciliation tools such as TLM, Oracle database and Intellistor system.
- Handle administrative tasks in the department and appointed as Quality and Digital Coordinator.

Associate

OCBC Bank Sdn Bhd
Kuala Lumpur
06.2015 - 01.2016

- Join a new Oversea Hub team and undertake business-as-usual (BAU) task in International Treasury reconciliation.
- Identify, investigate and escalate reconciliation outages on time.
- Liaise with Business Units from various countries.
- Being the pioneer in migrating the new Hub Treasury reconciliation process from OCBC Singapore.
- Attend cross-country training for the new reconciliation process in OCBC SG Tampines Center.
- Facilitate departmental activities to improve well being of staff.

Education

Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) Accounting - Accounting

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)
Kampar, Malaysia
05.2012 - 05.2015

Foundation in Arts - Arts (Management and Accountancy

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)
Kampar, Malaysia
05.2011 - 05.2012

Skills

Data Analysis

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Certification

Introduction to Data Science

Additional Information

  • AWARD - , EXSA SG Award 2017-2022 - Risk Award 2020, 2021 - Process Improvement Award - Monthly Individual Award - Yearly Spot-on Award

Accomplishments

Risk Award, 2020 - 2022

- Champion for Thought Leadership and Innovative Culture.
- Establish prevention measures and strengthen controls for lack of monitoring for inactive accounts.

- Challenge the status quo to introduce changes and new ideas.
- Automate the manual statement reconciliation to eliminate human error.
- Modify entry references and enable the TLM system to auto-match entries with common references.
- Reduce work defect by 95%.


Process Improvement Award, 2019 and 2021

- Introduce automation for current reconciliation work.
- Integrate month-end reporting template in the daily template by Excel formulas to streamline process steps.
- Achieve time savings of 18 hours/year.
- Improve work accuracy by 70%.


Excellent Service (EXSA) Star Award, 2018 - 2021

- Deliver excellent service to business units by understanding their needs and work out solutions for them.


Spot On Award, 2015 - 2021

- Go the extra mile in enhancing work quality.


Monthly Individual Award
- Be an all-rounder to cope with work, projects and extra initiatives assigned by supervisor.


Gen-I Award

- Drive quality initiatives in the Bank.

Projects

Wing Hang Hong Kong and Macau Nostro Reconciliation

- Take over new reconciliation from Wing Hang HK and Macau branches.
- Involve in the end-to-end process of the project.
- Work collaboratively on user requirement specifications (URS).
- Conduct an in-depth analysis of the reconciliation approach and matching rules adopted by branches.
- Produce the report format needed by branches.
- Prepare and clean source data for testing purpose.
- Carry out UAT to test out all matching rules and source code.
- Detect all errors, evaluate test results and work closely with IT and stakeholders.
- Discuss with stakeholders on their expectations and document the service-level agreement.


Automation on Hong Kong Faster Payment System (FPS)

- Decommission of manual reconciliation for FPS.
- Implementation of TLM reconciliation.
- Achieve time saving by 240 hours/year.
- Improve efficiency and eliminate human error.

CNAPS Reference Enhancement (Auto Match in TLM)

- Modify CNAPS ledger references by adding common reference of statement entries.
- Enable TLM system to auto-match according to the common reference of ledger and statement entries.
- Achieve time saving of 480 hours/year.
- Improve accuracy by 90%.

Timeline

Introduction to Data Science

03-2022

Freelance Translator and Proofreader

Borneo Tiger Sdn Bhd
11.2020 - 01.2021

Manager

OCBC Bank Sdn Bhd
06.2017 - Current

Assistant Manager

OCBC Bank Sdn Bhd
01.2016 - 01.2017

Associate

OCBC Bank Sdn Bhd
06.2015 - 01.2016

Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) Accounting - Accounting

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)
05.2012 - 05.2015

Foundation in Arts - Arts (Management and Accountancy

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)
05.2011 - 05.2012
Wai Sze HoReconciliation Manager