eamonn chan
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CHAN YEW CHEONG | EAMONN
C.A. (M)
Chartered Accountant
Malaysian Institute of Accountants (16655)
CPA
CPA Australia (5502157)
6 Lorong 1A/71B, Jalan Carey
46000 Petaling Jaya
Selangor
Malaysia
MY +6012-3333-230
 eamonn.chan@gmail.com
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Profile | Achievements
Eamonn holds a Master Degree with more than 10 years of consulting, technology and business
experience in financial services and financial management.
Cost & Management Accounting
Within the scope of management accounting,
Eamonn’s major functional activities cover the
preparation and review of management reports,
line of business, business area and management
profitability reporting, cost allocation and variance
analysis, budget compilation and business
performance forecasting.
 Timely preparation and review of periodic
management reports and ad hoc management
inquiries.
 Implemented the SAP solution for expense
allocation and cost assessment.
 Implemented and supported firm wide
management reporting systems and procedures in
the capacity of a consultant.
Risk Management & Internal Controls
This functional area concentrates on the provision,
maintenance and management of the best
practices of internal operational systems and
procedures. Eamonn’s core activities include
managing compliances of the treasury and rates
market middle office standard operating and
guidelines on trading-room based activities. His
monitoring mechanisms encompass profit & loss
reporting and reconciliation, treasury product
controls and risk position monitoring.
 Timely reporting, review, reconciliation and
resolution of trading-settlement-accounting profit
and loss and risk position.
 Documented the middle office standard operating
procedures.
 Acted as the location liaison officers with regional
products controls at Singapore and Hong Kong.
 Implementation of two funds transfer pricing
systems.
 SFAS133 (Accounting for Derivatives Instruments
and Hedging Activities) Implementation.
 Rolled out of the corporate control policy on
general ledger reconciliation and substantiation
and corporate self assessment framework.
Financial & Statutory Reporting
In the role of financial reporting, Eamonn’s main
deliverables are German Bundesbank and Bank
Negara Malaysia (Central Bank of Malaysia)
reporting as well as general ledger financial
reporting.
 Timely and accurate reporting of financial and
statutory accounts.
 Implemented and supported financial system and
procedures of general ledger, accounts receivable,
accounts payable, and fixed asset accounting in
the consulting capacity.
Information Systems Implementation & Supports
Eamonn has extensive experience in implementing
financial modules (FICO) of SAP in various
industries. His experience includes team leading in
various implementation projects. Besides, he was
involved in several SAP support initiatives. All
activities are managed through systematic full
implementation cycle methodology.
 Five full cycle of SAP implementation and support
projects in the leading and supporting roles.
 Assisted client with the reconciliation of clearing
account involving MYR9 million with more than
300,000 open items
 Lead the financial process and procedure
development of a group business blueprint
assignment.
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Professional Experience1
Deloitte Consulting (SEA) Sdn Bhd
FICO Consultant, Contract (Sep/2006 – Mar/2007)
Senior Consultant, Enterprise Application Consulting (Dec/2005 – Jul/2006)
Scope: SAP System Implementation & Supports
KLA-Tencor Corporation (Feb/2007 – Mar/2007)
KLA-Tencor Japan Ltd (Aug/2007 – Sep/2007)
Travel Management System Implementation
Eamonn participated in this project at its earliest phase, concerning the collection of user requirements. He
was assigned to this project’s business blueprint workshop conducted in Singapore, with the participation of
the client project team and key user from around the world. The workshop’s main concentration was to
collect and standardize worldwide travel system and policies. Eamonn led the workshop and discussion in
the financial integration aspects. He was later participated in the training workshop at the client’s Yokohama
office in Japan.
Deloitte Consulting (SEA) Sdn Bhd (Jun/2006 – Feb/2007)
Financial System Replacement Project
Eamonn was the Finance consultant to this Deloitte Consulting’s global internal system replacement project
for Engagement Management, Human Capital Management and Finance. His modular responsibility covers
general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cost center accounting modules. The scope of this
project encompasses 8 regional company codes.
His role is to ensure global template is implemented while local requirements are taken into development
considerations. He managed the Finance stream of the implementation from configuration to go live support
covering integration testing, user acceptance testing, and customized development for inter-firm auto billing
process as well as financial data conversion.
HTL Furniture (M) Sdn Bhd (Dec/2005 – Jun/2006)
HTL Kulai Rollout Project
This is a group template rollout project for a Singaporean furniture manufacture’s plant in Malaysia.
Eamonn is a FICO team lead in this SAP implementation project, covering general ledger, accounts
receivable, accounts payable, asset accounting, cost center accounting, profit center accounting, product
costing and profitability analysis.
His roles involve managing the time and resources of the team in providing project deliverables in a timely
manner. His main deliverables are business blueprint documentation, system configuration, unit testing,
authorization, data conversion and cut-over planning.
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Professional Experience2
IBM Malaysia Sdn Bhd
Consultant/Advanced, Business Consulting Services (Oct/2004 – Dec/2005)
Consultant, Business Consulting Services (May/2002 – Oct/2004)
Scope: SAP System Implementation & Supports
Sime Solution Centre Sdn Bhd (Jun/2005 – Dec/2005)
Group SAP Business Blueprint Design
In this client engagement, Eamonn’s role was to undergo business process studies of 8 selected
companies from the client’s group of companies in the development and recommendation of common
business process and their mapping for the SAP implementation project. He was responsible in delivering
business blueprint design documents for organization structure, general ledger accounting, account
receivable accounting, account payable accounting, asset accounting, cash management, cost center
accounting, profit center accounting and order processing analysis. He also assisted client in meeting
users, business process owners and CFOs of the selected companies.
Amkor Technology Singapore Pte Ltd (Jun/2004 – Apr/2005)
Amkor Technology Taiwan Ltd (Apr/2005 – Jun/2005)
SAP Implementation Phases I, II & III
SAP Implementation Business Blueprint Localization
Eamonn was part of the project team in the SAP implementation projects with the client in Singapore and
Taiwan leading the modules of accounts receivable, accounts payable, and asset accounting, with
secondary role in general ledger module. His involvements and deliverables included business
blueprint/process definition document, system configuration, the preparation and conducting
Train-the-trainer sessions, data conversion, and other customized development such as SAP-Oracle
interface development and barcode label printer integration with SAP scripts. The subsequent stage of
the SAP implementation involves the Finance business blueprint design for the rollout to the client’s
Taiwan facility.
Kuala Lumpur City Hall (May/2002 – Dec/2003)
Customized SAP R/3 Training
Assistance to Financial Accounts Closing
He was a team lead to the project for the tenure of more than one year in the delivering of consulting
assistance to the Kuala Lumpur City Hall. During the course of the project, Eamonn’s prime tasks were
planning of team activities and reviewing of team deliverables. Eamonn involved in the entire project cycle
for this government assignment from project preparation, business blueprint, realization, to go live and
post implementation support.
ABN AMRO Bank N.V. Singapore (Mar/2004 – Apr/2004)
WCS Finance Transformation Program
In this short term assignment, Eamonn assisted the project team in delivering the end user training
materials for all the financial modules implemented including general ledger, accounts receivable,
accounts payable, asset accounting, cost center accounting, internal orders, and profit center accounting.
Malaysian Sheet Glass Berhad (Dec/2003 – Mar/2004)
MSG mySAP.com Implementation
Eamonn has also worked with this manufacturing concern, in the supports for post SAP implementation,
covering the all implemented financial modules.
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Professional Experience3
J.P. Morgan Chase Bank Berhad
Associate, Financial Management & Controls (Sep/2000 – May/2002)
Scope: Middle Office, Internal Controls, Treasury Profitability Reporting
Eamonn was an Associate/Assistant Manager in the Financial Management & Controls Department with
J.P. Morgan Chase Bank Berhad with core responsibility in the management of the middle office functions
of the Bank. His duties included managing the compliance activities of the Middle Office standard operating
procedures and guidelines on trading-room based activities including Foreign Exchange, Money Markets,
Treasury and Derivatives products. He has core involvement in the following middle office activities:
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Managed, attended to and resolved issues arising from the trading-room and the back office
settlement operations department.
Daily performance reporting of trading and funding profit & loss.
Attended to the resolution of profit and loss difference from the front-end trading system and the
back-end general ledger system.
Monitored permitted and approved regional & local market risk thresholds.
Foreign currency and money markets products risk positions monitoring and reconciliation.
Managed the reconciliation processes of daily front office-back office positions & P&L.
Monitored compliance & operations of the corporate transfer pricing policy.
Functioned as a focal point for multi-party co-ordinations.
Performed trading room internal control checks.
His secondary line of responsibility was the delivery of management reporting for revenue that include the
management of the reporting and reconciliation processes of revenue by lines of business, in both statutory
and management views.
Besides, Eamonn has involved himself in several corporate initiatives and systems and procedures
implementation:
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Rolled out corporate self-assessment framework and internal control matrices for bank-wide
operations risk management.
Implementation of new corporate accounting standards: General Ledger Reconciliation &
Substantiation.
Designed and implemented Microsoft Access database for the rollout of corporate general ledger
reconciliation and substantiation policy.
Implemented new procedures for new 5-Year Malaysian Government Bond Futures in Mar-02.
Implementation of the new US GAAP SFAS 133 Accounting for Derivatives Instruments and Hedging
Activities.
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Professional Experience4
United Overseas Bank (Malaysia) Bhd
Senior Officer, Management Accounting Department (Jun/1999 – Sep/2000)
Scope: General Ledger System Replacement
Eamonn joined UOB as a key team member in the implementation of the new Enterprise Planning System
(SAP) as a replacement to the legacy general ledger system.
He participated in all phases of the project from project preparation to business blueprint, realization, and
final preparation and goes live. His main involvement was documentation of the “as-it” and “to-be” user
requirements. He has assisted in the design of future management accounting requirements to incorporate
the concepts of business units, profit centers, cost centers, and products and recommended new reporting
structure for branch reporting.
He has represented the project team in the preparation and presentation of the prototyped system to the
Working Group Committee and Steering Committee that comprises CEO and all Heads of Division.
Eamonn’s other project deliverables were:
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Testing activities include Unit Testing, Functional System Integration Testing, Customized Report
Testing, User Acceptance Testing, and Authorization Profile Testing.
Documentation of user procedures, SAP system tasks procedures.
Planned & prepared training manual in accordance to the training strategy.
Conduct train-the-trainer training.
Performed reports checking and signoff for data conversion.
Preparation of helpdesk procedures and planned communication session with the helpdesk
personnel.
Pre-production preparation.
Post-production trouble-shootings.
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Professional Experience5
Deutsche Bank (Malaysia) Berhad
Officer, Controllers (Apr/1998 – Jun/1999)
Assistant Officer, Controllers (Mar/1997 – Mar/1998)
Scope: Management Accounting, Financial & Statutory Reporting
Eamonn’s first employment was with Deutsche Bank (Malaysia) Berhad with prime responsibility in the
Management Accounting in the Controllers Department. His duties include:
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Prepared and analyzed the monthly Group UBR (Management Accounts) for Deutsche Bank
(Malaysia) Berhad & Deutsche Bank AG., Labuan Branch.
Prepared the monthly divisional profit and loss & variance analysis reports.
Performed budgetary monitoring and controls using the periodic cost variance analysis technique.
Prepared and compiled the quarterly customer profitability analysis report for core customers.
Administered and performed manual cost allocation processes via Excel spreadsheets.
Assisted in the preparation and compilation of the annual budgets and latest estimates.
Prepared the monthly custody services profit and loss report, performing variance analysis against
budget.
Prepared the daily treasury, trading, and money markets (funding) profit & loss reports.
Managed the reconciliation processes of daily front office-back office positions & P&L.
Performed the bi-weekly reporting of asset-liabilities maturity report and computation of average yield.
He has also performed the following financial and statutory reporting activities:
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Prepared the monthly German Bundesbank statistical reports (including Banking Statistics, Monthly
Returns, and External Positions).
Prepared/reviewed the Bank Negara Malaysia’s liquidity controls report including the monitoring of the
eligible liabilities, statutory reserves and liquid asset ratio.
Eamonn has participated in several finance initiatives including the implementation of new funds transfer
pricing information system (KONDOR+) (and its predecessor, MMPL (Money Market Profit and Loss
System)) for Deutsche Bank (Malaysia) Berhad and SAP system (general ledger, accounts payable, asset
accounting and cost center accounting) for expenses recording and controlling.
His main implementation deliverables were to assist the implementation team in confirming the local
business requirements especially cost allocation and assessment methodology, data conversion exercise
and post implementation supports.
Eamonn was also a department coordinator for the Y2K initiative.
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Education
Kyoto University, Japan
Master of Economics (Apr/2008 – Mar/2010)
Graduate School of Economics
Research Student (Apr/2007 – Mar/2008)
Graduate School of Economics & The International Center
Japanese Government Scholarship 2007
CPA Australia
CPA Program (Jan/1997 – Dec/1998)
The University of Western Australia, Australia
BCom, Bachelor of Commerce (Jan/1994 – Dec/1996)
Double Majors: Accounting, Finance
Minor: Business Law
Taylor’s College, Subang Jaya
South Australian Certificate of Education (Jan/199 – Dec/1993)
South Australian Matriculation
Confucian Private Secondary School, Kuala Lumpur
Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia/S.P.M. (Jan/1991 – Dec/1992)
Sijil Rendah Pelajaran/S.R.P. (Jan/1988 – Dec/1990)
Secondary Education
Languages
Written
English Language, Chinese Language, Bahasa Malaysia, & Japanese
Spoken
English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay, & Japanese
I.T. Proficiencies
SAP
Enterprise Resource Planning System
Financial Accounting and Controlling: General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable
(AR), Accounts Payable (AP), Asset Accounting (AM), Cost Center Accounting
(CCA), Internal Order (IO), Profit Center Accounting (PCA)
Others: Treasury-Cash Management (CM), Industry Solution-Real Estate (IS-RE),
Logistic Invoice Verification (LIV) and Financial Integration
Microsoft Office
Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Outlook, Visio Technical, Project
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