John Cheong

Current

• Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting SEA
• Senior Consultant, Strategy & Operations at Deloitte Consulting

Past

• Corporate Finance Executive at Arab-Malaysian Investment Bank
• Senior Auditor, Consumer Business at PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Education

• Deakin University
• University of Southern Queensland

Connections

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Industry

Management Consulting

John Cheong’s Summary

1. Documentation of Finance Business Processes and optimizing standard business processes into Standard Operating Procedures for Oil and Gas MNC.

2. Benchmarking of key performance indicators of Oil and Gas MNC SSC against established SSC and other worldwide SSCs.

3. Develop the financial memorandum to spearhead “Centre of Excellence” project and manage preparatory workshops on risk mitigation / risk management prior to implementation for Oil and Gas MNC

4. Develop Benchmarking guidelines, “cookbook” and workshop for Pharmaceutical MNC undertaking an Asia Pacific Benchmarking Initiative.

5. Review and rectification of financial system and financial reporting for Oil and Gas MNC.

6. Documentation, Testing and Remediation Plan of IT processes for SOX compliance for an engineering firm

7. Developing cash flow forecasting tools for Semi-conductor MNC by identifying and collating cash flow items from 50 geographical cost centres.

8. Managing the US GAAP financial reporting for Deloitte Consulting SEA (SSC).

9. Multiple business advisory and commercial experience in public accounting practice, corporate finance, financial/accounting management, organizational change, cost rationalisation, cost controls, acquisitions and disposals.

John Cheong’s Specialties:

Business advisory and commercial experience in management consulting, public accounting practice, corporate finance, financial/accounting management, organizational change, cost rationalisation, cost controls, acquisitions and disposals.

John Cheong’s Experience

• Senior Consultant

  Deloitte Consulting SEA

  (Management Consulting industry)

  2004 — Present (5 years )

• Senior Consultant, Strategy & Operations

  Deloitte Consulting

  (Partnership; 201-500 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  December 2003 — Present (6 years 1 month)

  •Assist businesses to plan, manage and implement Strategic and Operational related initiatives.
  •Assist CFOs in developing business cases, financial models, risk assessment and implementation of Finance related initiatives.
  •Shared Services study and implementation
  •Cost and performance management, benchmarking, financial modeling, financial management, internal processes and controls

• Corporate Finance Executive

  Arab-Malaysian Investment Bank

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Banking industry)

  January 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 11 months)

  • Conceptualising schemes for corporate exercises, i.e. Bonus Issue and Rights Issue, Acquisitions and Disposals.
  • Preparing submissions to the Securities Commission, the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange and other relevant authorities.
  • Advising client on Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Listing Requirements and Securities Commission Regulations.
  • Coordinate Due Diligence for the corporate exercises.
  • Evaluating proposals for acquisitions and disposals.

• Senior Auditor, Consumer Business

  PriceWaterhouseCoopers

  (Partnership; 501-1000 employees; Accounting industry)

  October 1996 — December 2001 (5 years 3 months)

  •Planning audit engagements and developing strategies to meet our audit objectives and clients' needs.
  •Advising client on Companies' Act requirements, Accounting Standards, Taxation issues and risk management issues.
  •Assessing the clients' control environment to identify inherent risk and suggest solutions to mitigate these risks.
  •Coordinating the allocation of audit personnel for the audit engagements under the team portfolio.
  •Due diligence review for acquisitions.

John Cheong’s Education

• Deakin University

  CPA Australia , Accounting , 1996 — 1998

  Obtained Certified Practising Accountant, Australia

• University of Southern Queensland

  1993 — 1996

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