Ting Lin

Experience

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  Tesco

  Jul 2008 - Jul 2017

  Store Manager

  • Store Manager for various Tesco stores with average annual turnovers of £4M• Managed, developed & motivate 5 direct reports who in turn managed a total of 40 staffs• Undertook new store opening programme achieve 8% surpassed return on investment• Defended a direct competitor that opened a new store next to my existing store, with great tenacity, and focus on service, not only grow the business under competitor impact, but result in competitor closed down within 12 months of trading• Produce management analysis report for Area Directors, using Excel to manipulate raw data and produce summary analysis that enable accurate business forecasting for sale, payroll and expenses for a business group annual turnover surpass £80 million • Assume HR function of the store, undertook recruitment, execute company disciplinary process, manage holidays, staff career development and control annual staff payroll of 350K • Established extremely stringent controls for cash handling, minimise cash losses to near zero• Surpassed year-on-year growth targets, delivering sale growth at over 10% a year• Turned around a failing store by improving team culture and delivering 7 consecutive 90%+ Safe and Legal audits Show less

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  Inchcape plc

  Jul 2017 - now

  Assistant Accountant

  Improve bank statement posting allocation completion from 94% to 99% for Audi main account, achieving 100% allocation for all payment every month for Porsche main Account. Set up and maintaining an easy reference system to assist efficient cash posting.Reduce any outstanding VWFS finance commission allocation for Audi and Porsche from 60+ days to less than 7 days. Ensure all finance commission are allocated within 3 working days. This is achieved by collaborating with sales administrator resolve any mismatch information from VWFS and our records; being persistent with requesting information from sites; feedback any ad-hoc experience to all ensure knowledge is shared and celebrate success when we achieve 100% posting in a month.Deep dive analysis of each POA and outstanding invoice on deposit contribution account, summarise root causes of each and presented to site accountants, contribute to reduction of 30 day+ POAs and invoices from 50 to less than 5.Allocating complex finance income, improve accuracy of profit forecasting in management accountManaged accounts receivable and through robust approach to customer relations, reduce unduepayment by over 1% in 6 monthsManage new process in allocation of fund provided by major financial service. Conduct root causeanalysis into the previous process, develop new operation flow chart; engage and motivate branchaccountants to implement new process. Result in 10% reduction in disputed invoice. Show less