1. PERSONAL DETAILS
Ronnie Ng Keng Ti
Marital Status Married
Home Address No 1, 11/3H Jalan Kenyalang, Kota Damansara, 47810 Kuala Lumpur
Nationality Malaysian
Contact Details Off Tel: 03-8995 6726
HP: 012-373 0319
Hse Tel: 03-6143 9330
E-mail: ronnie760411@yahoo.com.my
Qualifications Year School/College/ University Qualification
1989 Sekolah Alam Shah SRP / SPM
1996 University of New South Wales Foundation Studies
1997 University of New South Wales Bachelor of
Commerce
(Major Finance &
Accounting)
2008 CPA Australia 9493059 CPA Australia
Current Position
Finance Manager – Operations IT Services
(Senior Manager; Finance Business Partner)
Current Company British American Tobacco GSD( KL) SDN BHD
EMPLOYMENT TRACK RECORD
Period: 07/2008 – Current
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2. Company: British American Tobacco Global Services Delivery
Position: Finance Manager – Operations IT Services (Senior Manager; Business Partner)
Main Area of Responsibilities:
Background : Size & Scope of IT Services
IT Above Market legal vehicle is BASS GSD Ltd
Services provided to 130+ End Markets as per agreed Definitive Services
Agreement
Cost base of £350+mn, 80+ IT servicelines
400+ external suppliers (9 Strategic Suppliers, payment of approximately
£20m/month
Receipts are in Sterling £, payments are in 10 various currencies
Cost base in Sterling £, USD, EURO, South African Rand (ZAR), Brazilian Real
(BRL), Malaysian Ringgit (MYR), Canadian CAN, Russian Rouble, Australian AUD
and Singapore SGD
Back office supported by Finance Shared Service (BASS ASPAC)
Finance Business Partnering
• Key stakeholders : General Manager of IT Services, IT Services Head of Functions,
Finance Director, IT Delivery, Regional and End Market IT Functions
• Leading IT Services Finance Business Partnering team of 4 for Global IT Services
• Overall control and management of Total IT Services Spend and Operations
• Financial Review / Yearly Company Plan / Quarterly Performance Reviews
• Cost Management / Cost Savings e.g. cost drivers, 5-year strategic cost model
• Cost Drivers : Review IT Consumptions, drive resource allocation and cost savings
• Finance Support for IT Transformation Projects : Business cases and consultation
• Key Contract Negotiation and Vendor Hot House
• Conduct commercial/finance awareness training (Finance Academy Programme)
Drive and Support Key Transformation Projects
• OneIT : Drive convergence of IT Financials across all BAT companies
• Enterprise Integration Support Programme : Global Wide Area Network, Global Service
Desk, Global Data Centre, Global Desktop and Global Security
• TaO Project : Global OneSAP System Cost Model
• Cloud Initiatives, Office 365 transformation, Platinum and Plastic Service Review and
Structure
• Drive and support implementation of Global SAP system in IT Services including
embedding of new finance processes within IT Services Functions.
Processes and Communications
• Drive operation and improvement of billing process (quarterly and flat fee billing
approach)
• Drive implementation and enforcement of global recharging process for IT Services
• Drive Strategic Cost model development and review with IT Services Head of
Functions
• Drive financial review process and finance process automation including change
management with functional users
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3. • Drive communication and engagement session with Regional IT Management on
Global Services Recharges
• Drive and coordinate overall Budget and Company Plan process for IT Services
BASS GSD Operational Finance & Management Reporting (prior to Sep 2009)
• P&L and Balance Sheet Management for BASS GSD UK Limited
• Company Plan / Quarterly Performance Reviews cycles
• Financial Reporting (i.e. cost driver and Hyperion Financial Management)
• Management Reporting (i.e. monthly Financial Review)
• Finance Business Partnering for Corporate Functions (Legal, Commercial, Human
Resources)
Period: 06/2007 – 07/2008
Company: British American Tobacco Malaysia
Position: Corporate Services Finance Manager
Main Area of Responsibilities:
• Business Partnering: Provide timely, proactive financial evaluation, information and
advice that enables Corporate Departments (e.g. Finance, Human Resource,
Information Technology, Corporate Regulatory Affairs & Legal, Business Development
and Business Security) management to develop and execute effective plans and take
informed decisions, as well as to help build strong financial and commercial awareness
within the respective functions.
• Performance Management: Financial control (P&L) and Overheads Reporting and
Management (internally as well as to external parties), including the overall Budgeting
and Planning process of the Corporate Departments as well as take proactive steps to
ensure effective resource allocation.
• Internal Controls: Ensure transactions are properly accounted in accordance to IFRS
(e.g. capitalization of intangibles, etc.), ensuring effective internal controls in place to
safeguard BATM’s interest.
Principal Accountabilities:
a. Business Partnering
• Together with Head of Corporate Finance and Corporate Planning Manager, constantly
participates and drive decision making processes of the Corporate Departments,
bringing financial / business focus to activities.
• Increase the level of financial / commercial awareness within the functions by
educating non-finance managers to raise the level of objectivity behind decisions.
• Provide financial / commercial advice and analysis for projects of the Corporate
Departments (e.g. capital expenditure and payback, net present value analysis, return
on investments, capital appraisal and costs vs. benefits analysis).
b. Performance Management
• Coordinate and preparation of the Corporate Departments budget / plan and to provide
accurate and timely information to help management monitor ongoing performance.
• Report on, and analyse overheads and other spend (e.g. capex and recharges to help
identify inefficiencies or opportunities for cost reductions).
• Assist Corporate Planning Manager in sharing financial analyses and tools to ensure
that the Finance functions is incorporated into the core business activities of Corporate
Departments and is recognised as a value-adding business partner.
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4. • Identify, analyse and report relevant measures that track progress towards corporate
goals, including driving the appropriate use of performance metrics (e.g. Big Ticket
Items (BTI) Reporting.
c. Internal Controls
• Assist Corporate Overheads management with the development and implementation of
practical procedures to ensure that a high level of internal control exists both within the
department and where appropriate within external parties working on our behalf e.g.
service providers.
• Conduct internal controls training for non-finance manager to enhance awareness.
Achievements:
a. Business Partnering
• Provided leadership and influencing skills to peers and stakeholders via successful
driving of Key Projects (e.g. Project Plc, Project Internal Order, Project Van Hijack,
Project Booster).
b. Performance Management
• Effective and timely coordination, consolidation and delivery of Corporate Overheads
budget for the annual Strategy & Budget cycle.
• Reduced budgeting cycle for corporate departments by designing and implementing
effective information systems (efficient and effective templates) to support Corporate
Departments during the annual Strategy and Budget cycle.
• Effective and successful implementation of Quarterly Financial Review process for
Corporate Departments to assist them in rigorously monitoring actual spends vs.
budget to ensure appropriateness and effectiveness of spend.
• Effective and timely coordination, consolidation and delivery of monthly Corporate BTI
Report and BTI Exception Report for presentation and circulation to Top Team
members.
• Successfully assisted Corporate Departments to resolve financial system issues with
Finance Shared Services Centre - FSSC (e.g. wrong posting and utilisation of
provisions) by establishing a focal point of contact within FSSC for issue escalation
and resolution.
c. Internal Controls
• Successfully assisted Corporate Departments in coordinating yearly internal control
self assessment on key business processes and functional sign-off of key control
checklist by Top Team. This initiative helped in achieving improved rating on internal
control by PwC.
Period: 02/2006 – 05/2007
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5. Company: Johnson & Johnson Sdn Bhd
Position: Financial Analyst
Key Responsibilities:
• Perform monthly financial reporting of Sales, Gross Profit, Operating Expenses and
Management Net Income.
• Coordinating yearly Business Plan / Strategic Plan cycle and quarterly business plan
updates for submission to Regional Office.
• Working closely with Senior Management to develop Johnson & Johnson’s business
plan and strategic plan.
• Coordinating annual Sarbanes Oxley certification process.
• Assess adequacy of company’s internal controls and identify opportunities for
improvement via performance of internal controls assessment.
• Coordinating and performing testing on effectiveness of control activities for each
business cycle to ensure compliance to Sarbanes Oxley’s requirements and identify
potential control exposures for close-out before internal audit team’s arrival.
• All control exposures are documented, corrective action plans and target close-out
dates are also included and monitored.
• Maintain close working relationship with other business divisions acting as their
business partner in tracking all control exposure; understand the associated root cause
and implementation of corrective action plan.
• Responsible for review of standard operating procedures and setting up of Sarbanes
Oxley’s Policies & Procedures for Johnson & Johnson Sdn Bhd.
• Responsibility as Records Management Coordinator.
• Responsible for coordination and completion of mid-year and year-end stock take
process.
• Responsible to support and provide advisory services to Sales & Marketing function in
all finance and business policies compliance matters (Finance Business Partner to
Sales & Marketing function).
• Responsible for drafting and setting up of distributor agreement for sales and marketing
function.
Period: 07/2001 – 01/2006
Company: Esso Malaysia Berhad / ExxonMobil Exploration & Production
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6. Position: Accountant
Key Responsibilities:
• Job rotations and exposures in different finance / accounting activities since
commencement of employment. Refer below for details of work experiences and key
responsibilities.
Upstream Financial Reporting & Analysis (10/2003 –01/2006)
• Primary responsibility for reporting of total ExxonMobil Exploration & Production
Malaysia Inc’s monthly operating expenses.
• Perform comprehensive operating expenses factors analysis of actual results vs. plan /
prior period and related commentaries.
• Responsible for monitoring compliance to all Upstream Financial Coordination group’s
(located in Houston, U.S.A) reporting requirements.
• Responsible for preparation and presentation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial
and operating expenses reviews to Senior Management.
• Responsible for completion & submission of Annual Census of Crude Oil And Natural
Gas Mining Industries to Department of Statistics.
• Responsibility as Records Coordinator and conducting Annual Records Disposition
Review.
• Responsibility as Management & Protection of Information (MPI) advisor.
• Responsible for completion and presentation of ExxonMobil Exploration & Production
Malaysia Inc.’s Statutory Accounts to Senior Management and filing with CCM.
• Key contact for preparation & completion of volumes and operating expenses forecast
for the yearly Planning & Budgeting (P&B) cycle.
• Working closely with business functions and Senior Management to develop
ExxonMobil’s 5 years volumes and operating expenses forecast.
Downstream Operations & Financial Accounting (12/2002 – 09/2003)
• Responsibility as Inter-company Accounting Team Lead.
• Implement STRIPES Inter-company Reconciliation Program (SAP R3) to shorten and
improve time spent on monthly reconciliation process.
• Monitor & ensure all inter-company outstanding items are being followed-up with the
Business Lines and resolved.
• Resolving pending inter-company issues.
• Mapping of all incoming inter-company charges to end account to reduce manual
posting activities.
• Focus on process improvements and eliminate all outstanding inter-company items.
• Key contact / Subject Matter Expert for transfer of all intercompany accounting activities
to Bangkok Business Services Center.
Downstream Controls & Processes (12/2001 – 12/2002)
• Monitoring business function's compliance to ExxonMobil's Business Policies.
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7. • Coordinating updates of ExxonMobil’s Controls Information System database.
• Coordination of ExxonMobil's Business Policies training.
• Involve in process improvement project such as streamlining petty cash process via
implementation of Procurement-card process.
• Setting up of Esso Malaysia Berhad’s audit committees report framework.
• Responsible to support and provide advisory services to all business functions (i.e.
Fuels Marketing, Lubricants and Specialties, Supply and Distributions).
• Responsible as Master Local Organization Design Contact (LODC) for newly
implemented SAP R3 financial system.
• Provide system support to all business functions to develop and maintain system
authority profile within SAP R3 framework.
• Setting up performance scorecard and monitor KPIs for ExxonMobil subsidiaries in
Malaysia.
• Responsible for submission of performance scorecard to ExxonMobil Headquarter in
Houston, USA.
• Key contact for yearly Controls Representation Letter between local Management and
external auditor.
• Conduct controls presentation at the quarterly Controls Advisory network meeting.
Downstream Financial Reporting & Analysis (07/2001 – 11/2001)
• Perform financial reporting activities for ExxonMobil subsidiaries in Malaysia, which
includes analytical review of earnings, sales volumes, capital & operating expenses and
inventory data.
• Perform comprehensive factors analysis of actual results vs. plan / prior period and
related commentaries.
• Responsible for consolidation of financial data (earnings, sales volumes, operating
expenses, capital expenses) for submission to Head Office in Fairfax, USA.
• Prepare & present monthly review package to Local / Regional Management.
Period: 11/2000 – 06/2001
Company: Deloitte KassimChan
Position: Audit Assistant
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8. Key Responsibilities:
• Involved in providing financial assurance and advisory services i.e. statutory audit and
special audit, examining the financial statements prepared by the clients.
• Also involved in examining the entity's policies, operations, internal controls to provide
advisory on the effectiveness and efficiency of the entity's operations or activities.
• Responsible for preparation and completion financial accounts for clients post audit
fieldwork.
EXPERIENCE, SKILLS and KNOWLEDGE
• Strong leadership capabilities in both business leadership and people leadership
• Big picture and overall / comprehensive understanding and articulation of Company
Strategy.
• Connecting, linking and aligning business operations to Company Strategy.
• Robust and excellent communication skills
• Innovative and creative thinker with excellent problem solving skills
• Strong experience in project management
• Management experience and the flexibility to deal with people at a variety of
levels, across functions, internally and externally
• Ability to mesh well with existing management team by being proactive, challenging and
a team player
• Energetic and passionate
• Capable of making formal presentations
• Flexible about work content and able to work independently
• Self-managed
• More than ten years working experience in MNC environment plus having external audit
experience with Big 4 auditing firm
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Computing/Systems
• Well versed in Windows and Microsoft Office Applications. (i.e. Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Words, Microsoft Access, Microsoft PowerPoint)
• Integrated Financial Systems (i.e. SAP R3, SAP R2. JD Edwards)
• Reporting Systems (Hyperion)
Language
English, Malay and Chinese
TRAININGS / COURSES / SEMINARS ATTENDED
03/2002 Oil & Gas Introductory Course, ExxonMobil
11/2004 Year-End Reporting Process (YNY), ExxonMobil
08/2005 New Financial Reporting Standards Awareness, PwC
10/2005 Financial Reporting Standards Improvements Project, PwC
11/2006 Microsoft Excel
11/2010 Finance Excellence Programme
11/2011/12/13MIA Conference, CPA Conference
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