Darren Kok

Head Office Financial & Management Reporting

• Review monthly management reports before submitting to Head Office.
• Liaise with Head Office in Japanese should they have any queries.
• Prepare & review quarterly financial reports to Head Office in accordance to their accounting standards (i.e. Japanese Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (JGAAP) and US GAAP).
• Prepare quarterly P/L estimate for Head Office.

Local Regulatory Reporting

• Assist with the preparation of financial statements in accordance to Singapore Financial Reporting Standards (SFRS).
• Assist with MAS regulatory reports.

Tax compliance

• Manage GST returns and in-charge of Assisted Compliance Assurance Programme (ACAP). Collaborate with cross-functional teams sto resolve issues identified during the review by external auditors.
• Advise another department who is charge of filing withholding tax should they have any issue.
• In charge of transfer pricing documentation and work closely with another team in charge of corporate income tax matters.

Financial closing activities.

• Lead the monthly & quarterly closing activities and collaborate with other departments to troubleshoot should there be any data discrepancy.

Window person for Head Office

• Liaise with Head Office in Japanese for queries either raised by them or local side.

Management Reporting & Forecasting

• Managed internal forecast meetings to produce reports outlining financial data to assist management with making strategic plans and operational decisions.
• Prepared some audit schedules and support Accounts Section Head with the yearly statutory financial audit.
• Reviewed the contracts with external parties and assess the financial impact on the company.

CAPEX Management

• Collaborate with purchasing department and various CAPEX project owners to prepare cashflow forecast.

Monthly financial closing

• Prepared reports and checked journals prepared by staff for the monthly accounts closing to ensure data completeness.
• Liaised with other departments to investigate should there be any outlier identified in preliminary financial results.

Tax Compliance

• Reviewed the schedules for quarterly GST return prepared by staff.
• In-charged of renewal of Major Exporter Scheme (MES) by liaising with external auditors and IRAS.
• Reviewed the schedules for withholding tax prepared by staff and ensure it is filed before the deadline.
• Liaised with external consultant for yearly transfer pricing documentation preparation.

Corporate Secretarial function

• Liaised with external Company Secretary for the preparation of Board of Directors' Meetings, Annual General Meeting and other company secretarial matters.
• Hosted the aforementioned meetings and prepared the meeting minutes.

Payment function

• Checked the payment vouchers prepared by staff and approved the payments in the banking system.

Window Person for Head Office

• Liaise with HO in Japan with regards to any queries on monthly, quarterly and half-yearly reporting.

Management Reporting

• Performed monthly financial analysis and variance analysis.
• Prepared and verified data of monthly business performance (KPI management report).
• Prepared reports for management audit by Audit Committee from Head Office.

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Collaborated with other departments to prepare the yearly budget and Mid Term Plan (quantitative & qualitative reports).
• Updated the forecast as and when requested by Head Office.

Financial Reporting

• Prepared reconciliation report for monthly closing between Sales Operations system and accounting system.
• Assisted Accounts Manager during the annual financial audit.

Company Secretarial function

• Liaised with company secretary in preparation for Board of Directors' Meetings and Annual General Meeting.
• Hosted the meetings and prepared meeting minutes.

Others

• Assisted in internal audit by external auditors.
• Assisted in establishing and changing of accounting policies.
• Prepared reports for management audit by Audit Committee from Head Office.

Financial & Management Reporting

• Analyzed and prepared rolling business plans.
• Liaised with external auditors for annual financial audit and preparation of financial statements for Singapore.
• Prepared consolidated financial reports to parent company on a quarterly basis.
• Liaised with Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) for Finance and Treasury Center Award annual reports and ensured the terms and conditions stipulated in the agreement were satisfied every year.

Financial Audit

• Liaised with external auditor and prepared documents for annual financial audit.

RHQ function

• Managed group loans on behalf of Amsterdam office.
• Conducted payment operations on behalf of Amsterdam office.
• Provided support to Indonesian subsidiaries during their annual financial audits.
  
  

Supplier management

• Built relationships with vendors to negotiate ideal terms for purchases.
• Input, analyzed and reported on data covering all aspects of procurement operations.
• Set up and negotiated contracts to obtain favorable pricing and delivery structures.
• Developed and strengthened supplier relationships.
• Assisted customers to perform quality audit as and when.

New Business Development

• Developed new raw material suppliers for Panasonic Battery production around the world (US, Canada, Australia, France, China, India, South Africa, Malaysia) and conducted factory audits with customers.
• Developed a new solar panel source based in Singapore for Head Office over the course of one year by driving through technical meetings, quality meetings, sales meetings etc.