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Wong Sue Yuen

Wong Sue Yuen

Summary

Experienced in finance reporting in a multinational company and providing service to various clients globally from different business
units. Adaptable and able to rotate in various roles with exposure to report consolidation lead role, finance and operations closing and analysis activities.

Keen to explore on digitalization and loves to solve problems that can cater to client requirements.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Associate AnalystASF

BASF
05.2021 - Current

Main activities including but not limited to Global BASF Automotive business unit reporting on Sales and Margin, Profit and Loss, Supply Chain, fixed costs, EBIT and ROCE performance for Global companies.

  • Perform monthly RBIS reporting to G-ECO and G-ECR controlling team by providing reports on time following business-specific requirements.
  • Supported EC restructuring and reporting changes based on requirement of controlling needs.
  • Closely communicating with controlling to clarify issue and resolve in agreed timeline.
  • Update dashboard templates and maintain queries to support EC restructuring and recently NGBA for EC Global region reports.
  • Structure and reconcile G-ECO forecast template for further integration into G-ECO Daily Sales dashboard to support global restructuring for EC.
  • Updated more than 5 PBI dashboards to various stakeholders related to daily sales report and COINS reports.
  • Support ad-hoc PBI dashboard queries and checking into SQL for data discrepancies to highlight any issue and raise up to EC Global team, including EC NGBA with recent Spain go-live.
  • Transformed MARIS reports in support of restructuring to extract data from EC LAB instead of manual SAP AO.
  • Resolve large data for excel as required by controlling team by hosting backend data in MS Access DB, reduce monthly maintenance effort.
  • Perform EC initiative to drive automation in ECR Direct Import daily sales report with data preparation and modelling (utilizing Alteryx), develop BI front end template with the requirements of the controlling team.
  • Current RBIS AoC member to provide support and also as an opportunity for knowledge gaining related to topics for technology and automation.
  • Also provide operational closing and year end tasks for PCIV in support of AU and NZ companies.

Greater China Group Coverage Finance Analyst

IBM Malaysia Sdn Bhd
05.2018 - 01.2021
  • Manage and maintain complex Global Market and Cloud (J2C) business performance report by various customer segmentation and product portfolios to provide financial insight for various sales and finance leaders
  • Provide client data analysis to sales leaders and operations team to support them in their sales, pipeline and closing reviews (e.g., by industry, coverage, customer, revenue size, etc.)
  • Collaborate with multiple product and country planners during budget planning to ensure business targets are communicated and maintain various complex budget files to load financial data with accuracy within dateline
  • Perform finance closing activities to track key revenue deals with values over $1M to support CFO for closing review and decision making
  • Key tasks include analyzing ledger, working with sales and operations pipeline, consolidating and preparing charts on revenue outlook by segment and product and reviewing with Controller and CFO
  • Took on additional task to manage expenses with yearly budget over $10M for Global Incentive and Digital Sales Team reporting directly to CFO
  • This include managing resources, financial gatekeeping and budgeting, facilitating funding and expense forecasting by performing journal transactions per accounting guidelines, intercompany billings, cost center maintenance, allocation update, etc.
  • Involve in business transformation to align business reports with current business models and perform knowledge transfer to team members as part of effort to improve overall finance function
  • Certified IBM Agile explorer
  • Involve in task/project management by managing tasks in Trello Board, conducting daily stand up with squad members and performing retrospective focusing on tasks issues and process improvements
  • Manager's choice award 1H2019 and 2H2019

Asia Pacific Marketing Expense Finance Analyst and Consolidation Lead

IBM Malaysia Sdn Bhd
05.2016 - 05.2018
  • Promoted to support AP Finance Controller and AP Marketing leader
  • Manage AP Marketing resource and program expense with annual budget over $80M
  • Key tasks include analyzing and managing Marketing financial actual and forecasts, facilitating program funding, managing resource and program spending by performing various financial activities such as ledger analysis, purchase order tracking, intercompany billing, headcount analysis, cost center maintenance, etc.
  • Lead, communicate and provide guidance to 4 regional Marketing planners to fulfill AP Marketing leader's requirements in accordance to business direction to optimize marketing operational budget and funds
  • Plan, prioritize and organize timeframe and dateline to consolidate regional Marketing planners financial insights for productive reviews with Controller and Marketing leader to improve decision making
  • Build trust and collaboration with AP Marketing team to influence business decision while achieving financial target
  • Act as trusted business advisor to highlight any risks in financial transactions that will affect business result and commitment
  • Achieved full year financial close within Asia Pacific expense target in 2016 and 2017
  • Manager's choice award in 2017.

Asia Pacific Storage Revenue Finance Analyst

IBM Malaysia Sdn Bhd
08.2014 - 05.2016
  • First consolidation and revenue role that focuses on AP Storage performance
  • Perform finance closing activities to track key revenue deals with value over $1M each to provide CFO with informed decisions
  • Key tasks include ledger tracking, attending sales closing calls, working with sales and operations pipeline, consolidating regional revenue outlook and reviewing finance forecast with AP Storage CFO and Storage Finance HQ
  • Manage AP Storage revenue report by maintaining complex data file and preparing charts into PowerPoint highlighting business performance and finance insights for AP Storage sales leader and CFO
  • Support and manage CFO requirements in accordance to business needs and models by performing various revenue trend analysis by product line such as Storage DS8000, Flash Systems Storage and Tape or by customer group
  • Handle revenue budget process and loading by performing trend studies, reviewing with CFO to ensure budget splits are communicated and agreed by AP and regional sales leaders while maintaining accuracy and dateline
  • Perform load-report by various products prior to month-end close with information based on sales order stages and product revenue projection to provide AP Systems Hardware CFOs informed decision on current revenue status.

Greater China Group Systems Hardware Expense Finance Analyst

IBM Malaysia Sdn Bhd
08.2012 - 08.2014
  • Work with team lead to perform expense closing activities in timely manner
  • Key tasks include expense reporting, financial data ledger tracking and analysis, journal transactions, intercompany billings, accruals, cost center maintenance, etc.
  • Manage over 30 Executive resource funding of value more then $500K a year to ensure expenses are fully funded and communicated with Growth Market Unit (GMU) planner and CFO
  • Manage and maintain total GCG resource report to help CFO in resource management and productivity reviews
  • Facilitate and coordinate hiring process by consolidating hiring managers and HR requests prior to resource review meetings with CFO on weekly basis.

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) Banking and Finance -

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
06.2012

Skills

  • SAP BW and Analysis Office
  • SQL Server Management Studio
  • Power Query
  • Power BI
  • Power Automate
  • Think-cell
  • Microsoft Excel

Accomplishments

  • Manager's choice award 1H2019 and 2H2019
  • Manager's choice award in 2017

Languages

English
Proficient
C2
Bahasa Malaysia
Proficient
C2
Mandarin
Elementary
A2
Cantonese
Elementary
A2
Hokkien
Elementary
A2

References

  • Rika Watanabe, APAC & Japan Marketing Operations Leader, rika@my.ibm.com, 017-8756535
  • Hoi Wheei Jenn, Worldwide Global Sales Incentive Transformation, hoiwj@my.ibm.com, 012-9533846

Timeline

Senior Associate AnalystASF

BASF
05.2021 - Current

Greater China Group Coverage Finance Analyst

IBM Malaysia Sdn Bhd
05.2018 - 01.2021

Asia Pacific Marketing Expense Finance Analyst and Consolidation Lead

IBM Malaysia Sdn Bhd
05.2016 - 05.2018

Asia Pacific Storage Revenue Finance Analyst

IBM Malaysia Sdn Bhd
08.2014 - 05.2016

Greater China Group Systems Hardware Expense Finance Analyst

IBM Malaysia Sdn Bhd
08.2012 - 08.2014

Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) Banking and Finance -

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
Wong Sue Yuen