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Soon Kim Lin

Summary

To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Audit Manager

Mazars LLP
12.2019 - 01.2024
  • Enhanced audit efficiency by implementing new audit procedures and streamlining existing processes.
  • Lead several audit engagements involving industries such as recruitment services, digital advertising, re-insurance, logistics, investment holding, trading, renewable energy, semiconductor, shipping, cryptocurrency, etc.
  • Being assigned as superuser for Atlas – audit software, assisting to resolved issues encounter by the users for whole audit department
  • Engaged and in-charged of PCAOB engagements and US GAAP.
  • Developed junior staff members by providing ongoing training, mentorship, and performance feedback.
  • Holding portfolio serves as manager-in-charge and nurture senior-in-charge of the engagement.
  • Assisted in the development of annual audit plans, prioritizing high-risk areas and focusing resources accordingly.

Audit/Tax Manager

SAT Services Sdn. Bhd.
11.2016 - 08.2019
  • Improve audit and tax working paper presentation and documentation and embracing softcopy documentation which result in greater workflow efficiency.
  • Streamlined tax reporting processes for increased efficiency and accuracy in financial data.
  • Conduct review on audit and tax working papers.
  • Keeping up to date with latest updates from publications and circulars relating to tax and audit and implementing them in to work.
  • Resolved various tax audit cases where one of the cases resulted in a reduction tax payable of up to RM250,000 to be paid by the client.
  • Develop, nurture and coach audit and tax members.
  • Involved in audit, corporate taxation, individual taxation and other related services.

Senior Associate

BDO Malaysia
04.2014 - 10.2016
  • Develop audit plan and strategies for various audit engagement during audit planning.
  • Understand, assess and test internal controls and identify risk relating to the controls, addressing the risk and provide recommendation on the deficiencies identified.
  • Assess compliance with financial regulations and controls.
  • Examine wide range of documentation by vouching various financial documentation and reports to ensure existence and accuracy of the figure reported.
  • Review provisional tax computations and deferred tax computations.
  • Review consolidated accounts and related supporting consolidated schedules and notes to accounts.
  • Organise, manage, co-ordinate and lead audit team.
  • Exposed to various industries including IT, Trading, Logistics, Mining, Investment holdings, Shipping, Plantation and etc.
  • Involved in special audit and Initial Public Offering (‘IPO’).

Education

Professional Qualification - Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

Sunway University College
Malaysia
02.2014

Professional Qualification - Certified Public Accountants (Malaysia)

Self-study
Malaysia
02.2015

Skills

  • Variance Analysis
  • Continuous improvement
  • Analytical skills
  • SFRS knowledge
  • Regulatory compliance
  • PCAOB/GAAP knowledge
  • Financial Reporting
  • Microsoft Office proficiency
  • Audit Planning
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Problem solving
  • Time management

Timeline

Assistant Audit Manager

Mazars LLP
12.2019 - 01.2024

Audit/Tax Manager

SAT Services Sdn. Bhd.
11.2016 - 08.2019

Senior Associate

BDO Malaysia
04.2014 - 10.2016

Professional Qualification - Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

Sunway University College

Professional Qualification - Certified Public Accountants (Malaysia)

Self-study

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