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NICHOLAS CHIANG

NICHOLAS CHIANG

FINANCE TRANSFORMATION LEAD

Summary

Strong analytical skills and robust knowledge in the subjects of Accounting and Business. Experienced in project management and excels in stakeholder management. Looking to create business value and accelerate growth through better digitalising processes and gain better insights through data

Overview

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Languages
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Certification
3
3
years of post-secondary education
5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Finance Transformation Lead

Prudential Singapore
07.2019 - Current

- End-to-end leading and supporting Anaplan implementation projects across functions in Finance and Distribution (focus on sales planning and forecasting models)
- Creation and management of Confluence/Jira workspaces to support documentation on various projects
- Co-ordination with multiple stakeholders to understand the data requirements to support data flow and integration with Anaplan
- Support live-models by working on bug fixes, enhancements, user support
- Facilitate the on-boarding of new users to Anaplan platform and provide learning sessions for new builders

Management Associate

Prudential Singapore
07.2017 - 06.2019

(Jul 2017 - Dec 2017) Partnership Distribution
- Coordinate with various stakeholders in fulfilling bankers incentives and evaluate the overall effectiveness of the schemes
- Drive marketing initiatives and half-yearly planning sessions with partners to co-create action plans to propel the business forward
- Winner of the inaugural company-wide 'Ignite[d]' challenge that focused on internal process improvement (amongst over 100 ideas)
- Coordinate with stakeholders to kick-start the implementation of the in-house employee mobile application

(Jan 2018 - Jun 2018) Human Resource, Culture
- Design of the on-boarding experience for new hires and facilitated the initiation of the buddy programme with the inception of over 100 buddy candidates
- Plan and execute a 3-month pilot programme to test the usage of a bite-sized learning application
- Project manage the deployment and subsequent evaluation of culture sharing sessions (30 sessions with 850 participants across 11 divisions)
- Facilitate and manage the organisation-wide employee engagement survey for the 1,000 corporate staff

(Jul 2018 - Jan 2019) Finance, Financial Planning & Management Information Systems
- Prepare daily, weekly, monthly reports for management reporting
- Automate reporting templates with VBA to speed up and ease repetitive tasks
- Perform reconciliations between reports and systems
- Generate system reports through SAP Business Object BI
- Champion Microsoft Office365 to drive adoption across the division

(Jan 2019 - Jun 2019) Corporate Actuarial, Reinsurance & Development
- Review current reinsurance treaties and facilitate signing of new treaties, slips
- Perform profile analysis of sales mix for the development of new products
- Reconcile monthly reinsurance settlement accounts
- Automate the extraction and preparation of system data through VBA script (reducing import time from half a day to half an hour)
- Develop MS SQL script to export and calculate monthly Actuarial data

Audit Associate

EY Singapore
09.2015 - 04.2017

- Conducted comprehensive financial audits for MNCs and listed companies.

- Performed detailed analytical procedures to detect unusual financial statement relationships.

- Established good client relations for smooth and efficient audit work flows.

Education

BACHELOR OF ACCOUNTANCY -

Nanyang Technological University
06.2012 - 07.2015

Skills

    Project Management

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Affiliations

Institute of Singapore Charted Accountant

Chartered Accountant

Oct 2016 – Present

Chartered Insurance Institute

Dip. CII

Aug 2017 – Present

Certification

CAPM

Interests

Reading, Music, Learning

Timeline

CAPM

06-2021

Finance Transformation Lead

Prudential Singapore
07.2019 - Current

Management Associate

Prudential Singapore
07.2017 - 06.2019

Audit Associate

EY Singapore
09.2015 - 04.2017

BACHELOR OF ACCOUNTANCY -

Nanyang Technological University
06.2012 - 07.2015
NICHOLAS CHIANGFINANCE TRANSFORMATION LEAD