Chee Mun Fen
Bright Kids School House Pte Ltd
2
Languages
1
Certification
26
years of professional experience
Finance Manager with experience across budgeting, management reporting, FP&A, payroll, and statutory compliance in charitable and corporate settings. Partners with senior leaders to shape annual budgets, monitor costs, and present monthly financial analysis that supports faster decisions. Combines audit training, strong Excel skills, and practical system knowledge in QuickBooks to keep finance processes accurate and compliant.
Work History
Accounts Manager
5 Years- Maintained proper and accurate accounting records for 5 childcare centres.
- Reviewed financials of 5 centres with Principals monthly to ensure every month-end close is free of mistakes.
- Led financial planning and budgeting processes to ensure resource allocation aligned with strategic objectives.
- Developed and implemented policies to enhance operational efficiency and compliance within the organization.
- Mentored junior staff and promoted best practices in accounting management.
- Prepared financial statements and analyzed financial reports, identifying trends to support Directors' informed decision-making for school operations.
- Prepared schedules and supporting documents for annual audits conducted by the Early Childhood Development Agency and the Ministry of Social & Family Development and was the main liaison for all audits.
- Submitted quarterly reporting to the Early Childhood Development Agency including financials and financial ratios
- Represented the company and handled all queries from the Early Childhood Development Agency.
- Handled payroll processing, CPF Contributions and IR8A Forms
Auditor
2 Years 1 Month- Reporting to the Audit Engagement Partner
- Team lead/ member in client audit engagements
- Auditor for a Portfolio of Diversified Clients
- Plan, execute and complete statutory financial audits
- Perform system review and walkthrough of client’s internal controls
- Review client’s GST computations and returns
- Perform corporate tax computation to verify client’s tax provision
- Interact proactively with client’s key management personnel to gather information and resolve audit issues
- Make recommendations for business and process improvements or when non-compliance to company’s policies and procedures is detected
- Prepare statutory financial statements and audit finalization reports in accordance with Singapore Financial Reporting Standards and other regulatory and reporting requirements
- Auditor for Sales Certification Audit
- Verify client’s sales figures for the purpose of certifying to the landlord in accordance with the clauses in lease agreement
- Perform system review and documentation of client’s sales cycle
- Check sales invoices, daily sales reports, Z-transaction reports, Nets, Credit Card Control slips and bank-in slips for selected samples
- Liaison with External Component Auditors
- Review component auditor’s audit evidence and work
- Ark Alliance LLP (provides accounting, auditing and taxation advisory services)
- Eyden Assurance PAC (provides auditing and special auditing services) (2 different audit firms as I followed the audit partner when she started her own firm)
- Achievements
- Wide exposure to various industries and corporate structures
- Companies audited:
- Eternal Life Assembly (non-profit organization)
- Gold Global Pte. Ltd. (precious metals industry)
- DKSH South East Asia Pte. Ltd. (luxury goods industry)
- Success Formation Pte. Ltd. (construction industry)
- Fidecs Building Maintenance Pte. Ltd. (construction industry)
- Agape Holdings Pte. Ltd. (management consultancy services)
- Old Chang Kee Ltd. (food and beverage industry)
- OSIM International Pte. Ltd. (healthcare industry)
- ONI Global Pte. Ltd. (healthcare industry)
- TWG Tea Company Pte Ltd (food and beverage industry)
- Proficient in SFRS, Companies Act and Charities Act
- Proficient in preparing financial statements
Finance Controller
3 Years 2 Months- Reporting to both the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Hon. Treasurer
- Oversee a team of 2 accountants to manage the accounting and finance function of the organization
- Managed income and expenditures of organization amounting to SGD17M and SGD9M respectively
- Financial Planning & Analysis and Payroll
- Oversee and direct the annual budgeting cycle for BMDP
- Together with the CEO, help set expenditure budgets for every department
- Help control costs to ensure BMDP meets annual budget
- Oversee pricing process (for transplant services) to ensure BMDP’s long term growth and objectives are met
- Full Statement of Financial Activities responsibility for BMDP
- Perform monthly financial analysis and management reporting
- Present monthly complete financial reports to CEO and staff to help drive improvements and promote awareness of overall operations of BMDP to various functions
- Facilitate and present financial reviews for various meetings with Executive Committee members, organizations giving out grants and funds i.e. Ministry of Social and Family Development, Tote Board, FIL Foundation, etc
- Oversee the monthly payroll and bonus function in BMDP
- Liaison with External Auditors and Personnel and Auditors from Ministry of Health (MOH)
- Liaise with external auditors to complete statutory audit
- Help coordinate and compile answers to all queries from auditors commissioned by MOH to ensure BMDP’s Institutions of a Public Character (IPC) status is continuously renewed
- Help ensure BMDP follows legislation set out in the Charities Act and implement good governance practices set out in the Code of Governance for Charities and IPCs.
- Main liaison person with personnel from MOH
- Answer financial queries and provide other information to MOH on a frequent and fast basis
- Liaison with Fund-raisers
- Liaise with the relationship manager from APPCO, BMDP’s third party fund-raisers
- Review financial and analysis reports from APPCO to ensure all funds raised are properly captured
- Analyze and present demographics of financial donors and donor drop-outs for meetings with Executive Committee members
- Oversee audits conducted by the finance function on APPCO’s financial reports and other documents
- BMDP, a voluntary welfare organization
- Achievements
- Resolved audit queries and concluded long outstanding statutory audit for YE 2011
- Transited BMDP from a manual to an automated accounting system in early 2013
- Successfully backtracked and completed GST Form 5 returns for BMDP’s business activities from YE 2008 – YE 2012
Senior Financial Analyst
2 Years 9 Months- Reporting to both the Senior Finance Manager and Business Unit (BU) Head of the Electronics & Communications Business Unit (ECB)
- Integral and most senior member of the financial analyst team in Singapore
- Held a portfolio of USD70M and was the analyst of the largest BU in Singapore
- Business Partnership
- Help set strategic direction and determine annual objectives of ECB
- Partner with the BU Head to improve ECB’s financial and operational performance, with focus on relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Coordinate with the BU Head to drive growth of ECB by having a strong understanding of its markets and customers
- Interact and provide financial advice to wide variety of personnel i.e. BU Head, BU Division Managers, BU marketers and sales team as well as 3M personnel located in other countries
- Provide financial training to BU personnel to ensure awareness of key financial concepts and measures
- Financial Planning & Analysis
- Oversee and direct the annual budgeting cycle for ECB
- Partner with the BU Head to help ECB exceed annual sales and income targets
- Help control costs to ensure ECB meet annual budget
- Oversee pricing process to ensure ECB’s long term growth and profitability targets are met
- Full Profit & Loss responsibility for ECB
- Perform monthly financial analysis and management reporting
- Present monthly complete financial report with KPIs to ECB personnel to help drive improvements and promote awareness of overall operations of ECB to various functions
- Facilitate and present financial reviews for various meetings with BU, US Head Office, Managing Director, CEO, Leader's Team, etc
- Perform Return on Investment analysis to support key decision-making of ad-hoc projects
- A wholly owned subsidiary of 3M Company
- Achievements
- Awarded a special note of recognition from the SEA Managing Director and the Senior Finance Manager in 2007
- Awarded the Merlion Award in 2008 which is an award that recognizes significant performance, contribution and accomplishments by non-sales and marketing staff in 3M
- Promoted to Senior Financial Counsel in January 2008
- Successfully supported ECB in achieving sales and income targets and major KPIs during tenure
Financial Analyst
1 Year 3 Months- Reporting to the Asean Finance, Planning & Analysis Manager
- Financial Planning & Analysis
- Analyze financials for various special bids raised for Thailand/ Singapore/ Cambodia/ Vietnam and recommend prices for these deals based on the hardware margins
- Analyze financials for monthly promotions for the brands: Desktops/ Laptops/ Options/ Visuals/ Projectors/ Warranty Services and determine prices for Asean for these promotions
- Analyze financials for various promotions relating to customer-returned goods and sale of demo assets and determine prices
- Prepare monthly actuals report for the brands: Desktops/ Laptops/ Options/ Visuals/ Projectors/ Warranty Services
- Prepare monthly forecast report for the brands: Desktops/ Laptops/ Options/ Visuals/ Projectors/ Warranty Services
- Analyze financials for various new product announcements
- Analyze financials for various price actions to existing products
- Oversee the common database for all financial analysts in Asean
- Prepare and analyze various ad-hoc reports required by Asia Pacific Office or World Wide Office relating to the brands: Desktops/ Laptops/ Options/ Visuals/ Projectors/ Warranty Services
- Now known as Lenovo
- Achievements
- Was Champion for the Regional GOING FOR GOLD Citius Altius Fortius Non-Sales Award in Q4 2005
- Implemented various improvement changes to improve work efficiency and effectiveness i.e. streamlined the Global Bids Process to reduce repetitive checking of prices by various functions in Lenovo, amended Special Bid Compliance Testing Process to ensure segregation of duties, etc.
Accountant & Human Resource Manager
1 Year 8 Months- Reporting to the Chairman/ Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
- Accounting and Finance
- Perform monthly closing of accounts for integra2000 and three of its subsidiaries
- Perform monthly reconciliations of inter-company balances
- Prepare GST Form 5 quarterly
- Review tax computation and Form C prepared by tax agent
- Make announcements required by SGX including half and full year result announcements
- In-charge of circulars and abridged prospectus to shareholders
- Liaise with auditors to complete statutory audit
- In-charge of annual report of integra2000
- Oversee Annual General Meeting of integra2000
- Human Resource Management
- Oversee the monthly payroll & bonus process
- Manage the company’s training & development, performance appraisals, compensation & benefits, and talent retention
- Prepare IR8A for all employees
- Handle insurance matters of the company
- A SGX SESDAQ listed Company
- Achievements
- Awarded Best Employee of the Year 2004
- Was involved in the IPO of one of integra2000’s subsidiary, idexCLS Ltd
- Would be the Chief Financial Officer of the newly-listed entity should idexCLS Ltd be successfully listed on the SGX SESDAQ
- Was in-charge of the Share Consolidation Exercise and Bonus Warrant Exercise for integra2000 in 2004
- Proficient in FRS, Companies Act and the Listing Manual
Audit Senior
2 Years 10 Months- Reporting to Audit Manager
- Assurance & Advisory
- Team leader in audit engagements
- Perform risk assessment on client’s business processes and environment
- Provide ideas for improvement on client’s internal controls and business processes i.e. raise management letter points
- Prepare financial statements (balance sheet, profit & loss statement, cash flow and statement of changes in equity) that comply with FRS and The Companies Act for clients
- Prepare Auditor’s Report for financial statements
- Review and perform client’s corporate tax computation
- Assess clients’ deferred tax assets and liabilities as at balance sheet date
- Perform analytical review analysis on client’s performance and balance sheet position
- Correspond with other auditors (internal and external) for clients with foreign representative offices or subsidiaries
- Review client-prepared consolidation
- Perform budgeting and monitoring duties for audit engagements
- Attend management meetings with clients to facilitate audit process
- Perform reissue audits for clients audited by foreign auditors
- Ensure clients’ compliance to debt covenants for various bank financing schemes
- A member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited
- Achievements
- Supervisory experience in leading a group of audit assistants in various engagements
- Prepared qualified Auditor’s Reports for clients undergoing cash flow problems or under judicial management
- Wide exposure to various industries and corporate structures
- Companies audited:
- Vikay Industrial Ltd (high tech industry)
- Singapore Aerospace Manufacturing Ltd (aerospace industry)
- Pokka Corporation Ltd (food & beverage industry)
- The Polyolefin Company Pte Ltd (olefin manufacturing)
- Chevron Phillips Singapore Chemicals & Chevron Phillips Chemicals Asia (petrochemical products trading and manufacturing)
- Proficient in FRS and Companies Act
- Proficient in preparing financial statements
Education
Degree (Major) - Accountancy (with Honours), Information Technology
Skills
FP&A skills and Budgeting
Microsoft Excel
QuickBooks
Business partnering
Management reporting
Audit planning
Financial statement preparation
Statutory audit
Singapore Financial Reporting Standards
Tax compliance
Certification
Chartered Accountant of Singapore
Languages
English & Mandarin – spoken and written
C2
Bilingual or Proficient
Chinese dialects (Hokkien, Cantonese) - spoken
Timeline
Accounts Manager
Bright Kids School House Pte Ltd
08.2021 - CurrentRead More
Auditor
Ark Alliance LLP / Eyden Assurance PAC
07.2019 - 08.2021Read More
Finance Controller
Bone Marrow Donor Programme
11.2012 - 01.2016Read More
Senior Financial Analyst
3M Technologies (S) Pte Ltd
06.2006 - 03.2009Read More
Financial Analyst
IBM (Singapore) Pte Ltd Personal Computers Division
02.2005 - 05.2006Read More
Accountant & Human Resource Manager
Integra2000 Ltd
05.2003 - 01.2005Read More
Audit Senior
Ernst & Young
07.2000 - 05.2003Read More
Nanyang Technological University of Singapore
Degree (Major) from Accountancy (with Honours), Information Technology
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PERSONAL DETAILS
- Name CHEE Mun Fen
- Date of Birth 8 November 1978
- Gender Female
- Nationality Singaporean
- Contact Info 96805182
- Zenith100@rocketmail.com
- Education Nanyang Technological University of Singapore
- Degree (Major) in Accountancy (with Honours) – 2000
- Degree (Minor) in Information Technology – 2000
- Professional Qualifications Certified Public Accountant, Singapore
- Languages English & Chinese (Mandarin) – spoken and written
- Chinese dialects (Hokkien, Cantonese) - spoken
- Most Recent Company Eyden Assurance PAC
- Most Recent Position Auditor
WORK EXPERIENCE
Awarded a special note of recognition from the SEA Managing Director and the Senior Finance Manager in 2007, Awarded the Merlion Award in 2008 which is an award that recognizes significant performance, contribution and accomplishments by non-sales and marketing staff in 3M, Promoted to Senior Financial Counsel in January 2008, Was Champion for the Regional GOING FOR GOLD Citius Altius Fortius Non-Sales Award in Q4 2005, Awarded Best Employee of the Year 2004