Nina Pan

NINA HUYNH M ( - E -www.linkedin.com/in/msninapan + CAREER PROFILE Nina is a Manager in PwC Advisory Services with over 10 years of management consulting and in-house FP&A experience. Most recently she has focused on Consumer and TMT industry clients across Australian and the Asia Pacific. She joined PwC in 2018 as a Subject Matter Expert in the fields of Enterprise Performance Management, finance transformation and budgeting and planning best practice implementation. With a strong commercial background, her experience and insights help in identifying the opportunities and risks from a client centric perspective. Nina is a qualified professional member of CPA Australia and holds a Bachelor degree in Commerce – Professional Accounting from Macquarie University. She is a native speaker of English and fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. + EMPLOYMENT      Apr 2018 – Present 2 years Jun 2016 – Mar 2018 2 years + TECHNICAL SKILLS PWC (HK) VERIZON (HK) FP&A Consultant Jun 2014 – Mar 2016 2 years STOCKLAND (SYDNEY) Dec 2010 – Jun 2014 3.5 years GOODMAN GROUP (SYDNEY) Jul 2009 – Nov 2010 1.5 years CENTRIC WEALTH (SYDNEY) Sep 2012 Management Accountant Assistant Financial Accountant Dec 2010 o Workday Adaptive Insights (Certified) o Tagetik (Certified) o Anaplan (Power user) o Hyperion Planning (Power user)  BI/ Analytics - TM1, Cognos, Alteryx  ERP Management Accountant o o Oracle SAP o MS Dynamics, JD Edwards o Yardi Voyager  Visualization - Power BI, Tableau  Microsoft – Advanced Excel, Powerpoint, Visio  Robotic Process Automation + EXPERTISE  Budgeting & Forecasting  Business Process Re-engineering  Management Reporting & Analysis MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY  System Implementation Bachelor of Commerce Major in Professional Accounting  Project Management  KPI & Target setting  Headcount Planning  Month-end close CPA AUSTRALIA Professional Level  Planning Manager - Management Consultant + QUALIFICATIONS   References are available upon request + WORK EXPERIENCE PWC ADVISORY SERVICES Manager – Management Consulting  Hong Kong Industry: Professional Services – Consumer, Industry Products & Services, TMT Responsibilities:  Enterprise performance management including advising multi-national companies on strategic plans, budgeting and forecasting and re-engineering business processes according to industry best practices  Designing and implementing solutions across a variety of EPM platforms, current state assessments, strategic roadmaps, business requirement scoping, vendor selection, overall governance and finance transformation. Recent consulting projects: i) Swire Pacific (MNC) - Budgeting and Forecasting assessment and vendor selection  Blueprint assessment for the end to end planning process, across 5 regions (US and Asia) to identify improvement areas and develop business requirements and vendor selection for a cloud-based budgeting solution  Maturity assessment to identify initiatives and design a roadmap for transformation in areas including IT, governance, management and operations. ii) Chopard (Luxury Swiss watch and jeweler) - Back office and logistics optimization  Redesigned the Asia operating model by optimizing the logistics flows, inventory policy and streamlining finance processes and systems to deliver future state leading practices by eliminating waste  Recommended solutions in Finance Shared Service Centre, management reporting, robotic automation and Oracle application enhancements iii) Adidas/ Bowker (MNC) - Supply Chain and Operational Excellence assessment  Introduced and rolled out an Annual Business Planning event which engaged over 100 stakeholders across Asia  Assisted the client to set up a FP&A function and developed the capabilities within their Finance teams, designed the governance structure and piloted the monthly and quarterly business reviews to improve P&L performance.  Recommendations include enhancements around S&OP demand and supply planning, production efficiency, customer engagement, governance structure and information systems iv) Public Sector division in Hong Kong - Budgetary Review and Cost Structure Design  Engaged in designing an effective costing structure and management reporting practices that can substantiate the collection of fees, while adhering to government regulations  Developed a financial model with cost drivers and traceable allocations mechanisms v) Business Development initiatives  Delivery of a Post-Merger Integration project for a B2C Telecommunications company  Co-ordinated Catalyst workshops for Process streamlining and Cloud readiness VERIZON Regional Financial Planning & Analysis  Hong Kong  Fortune Top 20 Industry: Information Technology and Telecommunications Responsibilities:  A dedicated regional finance manager to the Asia Pacific region managing over US$460 million of turnover, providing business intelligence and decision support to achieve corporate objectives  Partnering with the Managing Director of APAC and regional sales leaders in driving profitability to top line growth, P&L performance, customer and product level performances  Facilitating regular business reviews with sales teams on key financial metrics, trending and abnormalities, identifying key drivers and issues and providing recommendations to deliver measurable results.  Weekly revenue forecasting to derive meaning insights, reporting and generate monthly presentation decks for the business operations reviews with US Head office. Value add achievements:  Revenue Dashboard – Improved business efficiency by 90% using financial modelling, automation and BI tools to develop a revenue forecasting and reporting tool that were adopted by 200 users across the region. Overhauled the forecasting framework and methodology to improve forecasting accuracy by 50%.  Sensitivity Analysis Model – Developed a scenario based financial model used for budgeting and forecasting to determine best vs worst case what-if scenarios based on a set of assumptions and drivers. Allowed for delivering better business insights and analytics to help with decision-making. STOCKLAND Management Accountant  Sydney NSW, Australia  ASX Listed Industry: Property investment & development Responsibilities:  Business partnering – A trusted business advisor to C-suite executives, Head of Operations and IT, providing insights to monitor and deliver group P&L budgets, headcount analysis and Capex management.  Budgeting & Forecasting – Financial planning, analysis and execution of 5-year strategic plan. Driving the assumption setting process and providing top down guidance on the annual budget process for 26 business units.  Management reporting - Delivering timely and accurate monthly management reports, providing insights and recommendations by analyzing variances, trends, financial metrics and identifying risk and opportunities.  Business improvement initiatives – Delivering solutions to improve inefficiencies and resolve procedural/system issues. Implementing strategies and facilitating change across finance projects i.e. Centralisation, offshoring and SAP integration. Value add achievements:  Dashboard reporting – Reduced 70% of the time on management reporting by automating standard reports and headcount reports using Excel modelling with TM1, Dashboard reporting and financial metrics.  Finance transformation – Undertaken lead roles on finance transformation projects i.e. workforce model, forecasting tools, budget model (planning & scoping, building & implementing, user acceptance testing & process documentations) resulted in better streamlined activities, effective tools, increased controls and stakeholder confidence. GOODMAN GROUP Fund Accountant  Sydney NSW, Australia  ASX Listed Industry: Property Development & Asset Management Responsibilities:  Consolidation of investment assets across the Australian portfolio and reporting monthly profits/losses and capital expenditure results to investment fund managers, asset managers and GMs.  Internal valuation - Perform quarterly internal valuation analysis on asset book values.  Property accounting - Conduct capital and operational expenditure analysis, outgoings reconciliation, arrears analysis, NPI reviews, amortisation and straight-lining calculations on incentives.  Fund management - Prepare balance sheet reconciliation, related party schedule (intercompany transactions – loans, management commissions, JV cost recharges) and AFSL reporting requirements.  Financial reporting - Preparation and lodgment of monthly, quarterly and annual financial accounts and reporting, which include income tax returns, GST/VAT returns, trust distribution models. Liaising with external auditors on year-end audit.