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SHUHAILA ABDUL RAZAK

SHUHAILA ABDUL RAZAK

Sepang

Summary

LIFE OBJECTIVE: To explore, to improvise and to develop knowledge, expertise and experience in accounting, Finance and Planning, transformation, innovation and human resource related field by maximizing opportunity, skill and resources.

Insightful Lead Analyst known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Specialize in data interpretation, strategic planning, and predictive modeling skills. Excel in problem-solving, communication, and team collaboration, ensuring seamless project execution and decision-making support.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

APAC FP&A Lead Analyst

Philips Malaysia Sdn Bhd
Petaling Jaya
04.2024 - Current
  • Driving FP&A initiatives, promoting best practices and elevating professional competency of Finance function.
  • Get exposure and gain experience on wide range of finance & FP&A across APAC region.
  • Experience the most advanced SAP Analytic Cloud tool.
  • Design and build up reports & templates for APAC with core focus on P&L, Advertising & Promotion cost, Transportation cost, Fixed cost, Working Capital, Cashflow, Trade stock.
  • Responsible for timeliness and accuracy of core deliverables (annual budgeting, rolling forecasting, analysis & reporting process and MEC related activities).
  • Responsible for monthly consolidation for APAC countries (P&L and Balance Sheet), ensure consolidation accuracy.
  • Responsible for reconciliation between different reports & data sources to ensure accuracy.
  • Support APAC FP&A Lead on accounting month-end-closing activities for APAC regional office.
  • Support APAC FP&A Lead to drive the setup of harmonized framework and process across markets to enable efficient and effective financial analysis.
  • Building an internal network with close link with local market BPs across APAC countries, APAC FP&A Lead, APAC HoF, and other FP&A finance pillars.
  • Support strategic decisions by means of sound business analysis (business modeling, opportunity & risk assessments, scenario analysis, etc.).

APAC SG&A Planner

IBM MALAYSIA SDN BHD
05.2022 - 07.2023
  • Support a centralized Cost Centre Management team which responsible to manage budget forecasting, recovery and tracking to drive transparency and accountability for IBM Financing.
  • Support Headcount management & planning team when required.
  • Approve procurement and payment request.
  • Provide consolidated gross and net spending forecast per scheduled timeline.
  • Articulate detailed analysis on forecast vs actual, variances quarter to quarter, month to month and year to year with key spending element breakdown. Example : Resources related, program spend, travel, occupancy, transfer in, Initial Direct Cost assessment etc.
  • Assess risk and upside potential.
  • Guide team member on action required for respective country / region to generate positive impact base on analysis and recommendation when necessary.
  • Prepare Gross and Net Spending forecast and actuals to respective leaders by function such as KLCOE Spending reporting, Business Support Operations reporting, Financing reports etc.

Global HR Spending Management - Business Analyst

IBM MALAYSIA SDN BHD
11.2013 - 04.2022
  • Support a centralized Cost Centre Management team which responsible to manage budget forecasting, recovery and tracking to drive transparency and accountability.
  • Support Headcount management & planning team when required.
  • Prudently manage within the HR spending guidelines.
  • Provide consolidate WW gross spending forecast per scheduled timeline.
  • Articulate detailed analysis on forecast vs actual, variances quarter to quarter, month to month and year to year with key spending element breakdown. Example : Resources related, program spend, travel, occupancy, transfer in etc.
  • Assess risk and upside potential.
  • Guide team member on action required for respective country / region to generate positive impact base on analysis and recommendation when necessary.
  • Working with related functions to ensure cost is recorded timely & accurately.

Human Resource Finance and Operations - Financial Analyst

IBM MALAYSIA SDN BHD
11.2013 - 04.2022
  • Support a centralized Cost Centre Management team which responsible to manage budget forecasting, recovery and tracking to drive transparency and accountability.
  • Support Headcount management & planning team when required.
  • Prudently manage within the HR spending guidelines.
  • Provide consolidate WW gross spending forecast per scheduled timeline.
  • Articulate detailed analysis on forecast vs actual, variances quarter to quarter, month to month and year to year with key spending element breakdown. Example : Resources related, program spend, travel, occupancy, transfer in etc.
  • Assess risk and upside potential.
  • Guide team member on action required for respective country / region to generate positive impact base on analysis and recommendation when necessary.

Accounting SWG and Cust Set Operations Team Lead

IBM MALAYSIA SDN BHD
08.2011 - 08.2013
  • Involved in monthly closing activities to support Distributed Software (DSW) revenue recognition, deferred income amortization and reporting.
  • Advises Sales team on accounting treatment for Promotion Active Board on incentives given to IBM Business Partners.
  • Supports Internal and External (PwC) Audit request.
  • Key participants for Appliances project (enhancement to add machine serial number).
  • Key participants for DSW enhancement testing/new release testing.
  • Key participants for Legal Entity change in R1.0 SAP deployment testing.
  • Project member and a certified Yellow Belt for Lean Six Sigma project to improve To-Go Revenue Estimate process for APAC.
  • Project Lead for Software Harmonization for DSW Accruals.

Accounting Re-engineering Project Lead

IBM MALAYSIA SDN BHD
09.2006 - 07.2011
  • Handled 3 projects for IGF (IBM Global Financing) for accounting system enhancement.
  • Provides accounting requirements to IT developer to automate Compliance checks (ei EITF checks, Yield Analysis, GRMG rating and Extended Payment).
  • CRD-IGF is a common tool to store and review IGF incepted contracts based on predefined set of conditions.
  • Provides IGF accounting requirement to project team.
  • Key tester to verify and validate the automation of General Tool Balance Sheet Reconciliation.
  • Provides IGF accounting requirement to IT specialists, performed setup and accounting mapping in IRFS.
  • Project leader to verify and validate accounting results that was send by IRFS to ledger.

ACCOUNTS ASSOCIATE

SHELL SHARED SERVICE CENTRE KUALA LUMPUR SDN BHD
02.2005 - 08.2006
  • Participated in Project Arowana (SITI Migration), which have been successfully migrated to SSSC-KL in June 2005.
  • Attended three months training at Shell Cyberjaya to learn the overview of the business processes.
  • Ensured desk procedures are updated while work-shadowing with incumbent.
  • Ensured knowledge transition done smoothly.
  • Performed on-job training with incumbent's supervision.
  • Migrated task to SSSCKL and performed task without supervision.
  • Ensured all critical issues or abnormalities highlighted to OU for supervision.
  • Managed invoice errors and corrections.
  • Handling of Invoice related Queries.
  • Update Master file for tickets logged/Adjustment in Shared Drive.
  • Identify root cause of an issue, checking and verification from MyBill, Directory Administrator (DRA), Shell Disk Quota Tool (Uniquest), Scripting Application for GID Environment (SAGE), GID Data Integrity Reports, Who's Who in Shell (Directory for users) tools and checking online orders from True Procurement (GI-Shop) with Service Center.
  • Involved in problem solving of the issue.
  • Raise adjustment (credit notes, debit notes and sales orders) for the dispute upon approval from Service Managers and Finance Business Support.
  • Monitoring GID Billing Queries - Functional Mailbox.
  • Produce Report.

Education

ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS (ACCA) -

University Technology of MARA
06-2003

Bachelor of Accountancy - Accountancy

University Technology of MARA
Shah Alam
01-2002

DIPLOMA IN ACCOUNTANCY -

University Technology of MARA
10.2000

Skills

  • SPSS Moduler (Advanced)
  • Win-Automation robot
  • Data Analytic and Data Mining
  • Automation Project
  • Microsoft Word
  • Power Bi
  • SAP Analytic Cloud S/P Hana
  • Microsoft Excel 365
  • Microsoft Power Point
  • Microsoft Project Management
  • Microsoft Photo Editor
  • IBM DB2 Universal Database (Windows NT)
  • SAP - iERP FFirIBM Badge Certification
  • Financial planning
  • Budget forecasting
  • Data analysis
  • Variance analysis
  • Cost management

Certification

  • IBM SPSS Modeler V18.2.x Essentials, The successful badge earner can read data into IBM SPSS Modeler from external sources, set measurement levels, and perform operations on the records and fields.
  • IBM Automation Practitioner, Badge earners help our client embrace extreme automation technology to deliver better, faster, more securely, and with higher quality.
  • People Analytics - Essentials, The badge earner has a solid understanding of People Analytics in general, plus a detailed understanding of the four key steps in the People Analytics process.
  • Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner, The earner has acquired knowledge of applying Enterprise Design Thinking and its value.

Accomplishments

  • 1st runner up in HR KL Hub Innovation Project Award on Simplification and Automation of Global Tuition Recovery Process
  • IBM Eminence and Excellence Cash Award Recognition on automating Cost Management learning tuition recovery process via IBM SPSS.
  • Project Lead for Non-Standard Recovery Automation via Win-Automation
  • Project Lead for IGF projects: Contract Review Database (CRD) certified by ASCA, Project Ferrari with General Tool for Reconciliation across APAC
  • International Remarketer Financing System (IRFS) interfaced to ledger.
  • ELS deployment for ASEAN - Bravo Award.

Character And Personalities

  • Eager to take new challenges, fast learner, easygoing person, committed, responsible, has leadership skill, pleasant inter-personal skill, highly motivated to achieve desired goals and good in team working as well as individually.
  • Traveling - Improves social, communications skills and broaden your horizons.
  • Reading - Nurturing your mind and continuous learning.
  • Watching movies - Work of Arts, development of imaginations and thinking out of the box.
  • Mother of 3 beautiful daughters.

Languages

  • Bahasa Malaysia, proficient
  • English, proficient

References

  • Chee Via Ho, Manager, Global HR Spending Management, IBM Malaysia Sdn Bhd, +6012-2130389
  • Melati Baharuddin, Senior Audit Manager, RBC, Kaplan Financial, Kuala Lumpur, +6010-4078200

Proficiency

SPSS Modular (Advanced), Win-Automation Robot, Data Analytics and Data Mining, Automation Project, Windows 11 Pro, Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel 365, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project Management, Microsoft Photo Editor, IBM DB2 Universal Database (Windows NT), SAP - iERP, IBM Badge Certification

Personal Information

Notice Period: 1 month

Languages

English
First Language
Malay
Proficient
C2

Timeline

APAC FP&A Lead Analyst

Philips Malaysia Sdn Bhd
04.2024 - Current

APAC SG&A Planner

IBM MALAYSIA SDN BHD
05.2022 - 07.2023

Global HR Spending Management - Business Analyst

IBM MALAYSIA SDN BHD
11.2013 - 04.2022

Human Resource Finance and Operations - Financial Analyst

IBM MALAYSIA SDN BHD
11.2013 - 04.2022

Accounting SWG and Cust Set Operations Team Lead

IBM MALAYSIA SDN BHD
08.2011 - 08.2013

Accounting Re-engineering Project Lead

IBM MALAYSIA SDN BHD
09.2006 - 07.2011

ACCOUNTS ASSOCIATE

SHELL SHARED SERVICE CENTRE KUALA LUMPUR SDN BHD
02.2005 - 08.2006

ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS (ACCA) -

University Technology of MARA

Bachelor of Accountancy - Accountancy

University Technology of MARA

DIPLOMA IN ACCOUNTANCY -

University Technology of MARA
SHUHAILA ABDUL RAZAK