Patrick Ng

Experience

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  Singapore Technologies Electronics (Info-Software Systems) Pte. Ltd.

  Jan 1995 - Apr 1997

  Financial Analyst

  Achievements• Successful end-to-end system implementation of the Oracle 8.0 Costing to automate the manual weighted average costing for the semi-conductor manufacturing operations. • Partnered with external Oracle consultant and MIS team on transition planning of legacy process manufacturing system for semiconductor production “PROMIS” and BAS Order Processing to Oracle Costing.

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  Seagate Technology

  May 1997 - Mar 2000

  Senior Financial Analyst

  Achievements• Successful implementation of the SAP Internal Order (IO) and Fixed Assets to automate the factory capital expenditure tracking and reporting process.• Managed the data conversion and migration of Capital Projects and Fixed Assets into SAP.• Developed SAP Work Instructions and Month End Forecasting Standard Operating Procedures.• Designed and implemented the Capital Forecast Excel application for the FPA team. Improved forecast accuracy for capital expenditures and depreciation by 10%. Show less

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  Cisco

  Mar 2000 - Dec 2005

  Project Oracle 11i ‘Everest’: Global ERP initiative to upgrade the Supply Chain, Order Management, billing and collection applications from 10.7 to 11i that included the deployment of Quoting, Advanced Pricing (QP), Order Management (OM) and Oracle AR interfacing to Enterprise Data Warehouse and Sales Applications. Achievements• Successful deployment of Oracle 11i system upgrade that interfaced to 120+ Market-To-Order (M2O) downstream systems and applications. • Engaged with Quote-to-Cash (QTC), Issue-To-Resolution (I2R), Sales & Service Marketing (SSM), Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and Operational Data Store (ODS) to manage the transition for 8,500 users, End-Of-Life for 6 Programs and re-engineered 97 business workflows. • Partnered with Stakeholder management and developed Change Management strategies and execution plans that facilitated the transition to the new ERP platform. Show less Project Manager for all regional systems and process initiatives. Led a team of 2 junior project managers and 7 contract staff on planning and execution of Finance and Sales application deployment.Achievements• Successful implementation of the B2B Channels Rebate Claim system that led to more efficient claims cycle and improved productivity.• Managed the system integration of Australia wholesale price list to B2B Channel systems that resulted in improvement in the 2-Tier rebate claims cycle time from 6 weeks to 10 days.• Successful deployment of the Asia Pac sales commission process via automated financial model that resulted in 30% productivity improvement in forecasting monthly commissions.• Led the Asia Pac Cisco Customer data audit project and achieved 8% improvement in sales crediting accuracy. • Successful implementation of the sales hierarchy (SHARE) application that helped to improve sales operations productivity by 13%.• Contributed to the achievement of Sarbanes Oxley Compliance readiness for the fiscal year 2004. Show less

  • Global ERP Implementation Lead

    Dec 2004 - Dec 2005

  • Business System Analyst

    Mar 2000 - Dec 2004
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  Cisco Systems

  Jul 2006 - Nov 2010

  Controller, Finance Ops - Asia Pacific, China & Japan, Financial Controller for Cisco’s complex deals in the telecommunications market segment.Achievements• Collaborated with Business Development, Sales and Systems Engineering on the Singtel Cloud services deal that was launched by Singtel as a commercial offering for both IaaS (Infrastructure-As-A-Service) and SaaS (Software-As-A-Service).• Key Finance contributor to the Vodafone India IP/RAN (telecommunications network infrastructure) commercial deal for India’s nationwide 3G Mobile Telecommunications upgrade.• Developed P&L and pricing model for Pay-As-You-Use service offering for the Vodafone India deal.• Designed and implemented the financial model for Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Cloud initiative for the SingTel deal. Show less Regional Project Manager (Asia Pacific & Japan) Played key role in the regional Finance management team in the End-to-End systems planning and implementation of cross-functional systems and process initiatives. Achievements• Drove 5% in productivity for Financial Planning analysts through the automation of data extraction in conjunction with change management of financial reporting processes. • Contributed to the planning of Asia Pacific and Japan Systems and Process Roadmap to drive strategic objective of Finance and Sales organization productivity.• Developed the Finance 2.0 interactive web portal for Asia Pacific Finance organization that resulted in improved collaboration between Country Finance teams and Regional Finance HQ. • Conducted training on Cisco systems and processes in the annual Finance Bootcamp. Show less Project Manager (San Jose, USA) 2005 – 2006Project Asia Customer Migration (ACM): Quote-To-Cash project to migrate Asia Pacific Customer ordering data pertaining to 12 countries for product and service from Cisco Systems Inc. buy-sell legal entity to Cisco Systems International BV (Netherlands) buy-sell legal entity in Oracle 11i. With the migration, the tax exposure was reduced from 38% (Cisco Inc) down to current BV tax rate of 3% (Total tax exposure reduced by $140 million per year).Achievements• Led cross-functional team of 7 core team leads, 7 IT Functional Leads, 10 extended Business Leads and external consultants to successful deployment of ACM migration for 77,000 ERP customer records to the BV Legal Entity.• Developed Change Management strategies and plans to prepare stakeholders for the system migration and process transition to the new legal entity.• Recommended customer data mapping strategies for migrating legacy data into new Buy-Sell entity.• Conducted end user training and senior executive briefing sessions (English and Mandarin) on functional workflow changes, system impacts and Go Live transition guidance. Show less Project ICE (Incentive Compensation Excellence): Asia Pacific and Japan implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Oracle Incentive Compensation (OIC) module. The project is part of the Worldwide OIC implementation to enable the automation of sales employee compensation operations.Achievements• Successful implementation of the Oracle Release 12 OIC module for the Asia Pacific sales organization of 13,000 commissionable sales employees.• Partnered with sales management and developed effective transition strategies and execution plans in conjunction with systems deployment to minimize impacts to selling activities.• Developed new standard operating procedures (SOP) and business process documents for Finance and Sales Operations stakeholders.• Conducted English and Mandarin end user training on OIC compensation modules. Show less

  • Controller, Finance Ops

    Jan 2009 - Nov 2010

  • Regional Project Manager (Asia Pacific & Japan)

    Jul 2007 - Jan 2009

  • Project Manager (San Jose, USA)

    Jan 2006 - Jul 2007

  • Oracle ‘ICE’ Sales Compensation Project Manager (APJ)

    Jul 2006 - May 2007
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  Apple

  Dec 2010 - Jun 2017

  Senior SAP Project Manager

  Senior Project Manager for the Regional / Global implementation of SAP Statutory Reporting & Tax Compliance projects (Record-To-Report), Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash and Management Reporting that support the Apple Retail Store expansion plans and statutory tax compliance. Lead cross-functional project teams of between 10 to 20 subject matter experts and core leads.Achievements• Managed the planning and implementation of Japan Consumption Tax compliance project that was delivered on time and within capital budget.• Successful deployment of China Branch Accounting solution that enabled timely statutory tax compliance and Management Reporting of China Apple Retail Store P&L performance.• Implemented SAP Big Data (“HANA”) for China Record-to-Report that led to improved data integrity, increased productivity in back office processes and higher accuracy in Management Reporting.• Collaborated with Finance Shared Services to develop new reporting process for China Record-to-Report that has achieved 5% improvement in end user productivity.• Key Finance contributor to the successful setup of Apple Retail Stores in new locations within China. • Recommended improvement in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) methodologies that resulted in higher efficiency in test execution. • Introduced the Change Management Guidance framework that helped to drive consistency in stakeholder messaging and pre-Go Live business readiness.• Key member and contributor to the annual capital budget planning process for the Asia Pacific systems roadmap planning, project portfolio and resource prioritization. Show less

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  HoCH Solutions

  Jun 2017 - now

  Founder & Director

  HoCH is a project management advisory firm that provides project management outsourcing services, project management training programs, change management for FMCG, IT & Electronics industries. As a customer-focused company, our service offerings are customised to cater to each clients’ unique business requirements, providing results-oriented solutions and industry best practices to optimise organizational performance and effectiveness.

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  ANALYTIIX

  Jan 2018 - now

  Single Family Office