Michelle Tham

Experience

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  Foo Kon Tan Grant Thornton LLP

  Jun 2010 - Oct 2013

  Audit Senior
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  Keppel FELS Ltd

  Oct 2013 - Nov 2016

  Accountant

  - Led a team of financial executives to manage a portfolio of 17 companies with diverse business activities - Prepared quarterly and annual budget forecast reports for the Management - Worked with Project Managers and General Managers to ensure fair projection of quarterly and annual budget forecasts- As part of the Keppel Corporation’s Young Financial Professionals Committee, organized Post – Conference Dinner and networking sessions for 300 Accounts Professionals to interact with the Management Performed payroll function and job costing for a company of 60 employees while maintaining oversight of the various projects’ expendituresMentored and coached financial executives to develop their accounting competencies Reviewed and approved payments and invoices to ensure timely payments Show less

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  Yale-NUS College

  Dec 2016 - Jul 2020

  Manager

  - Led a team of financial executives to manage the College’s funds utilization and payments- Created an automation for the College’s financial reporting by using Microsoft Excel- Piloted the project implementation of new business area by collaborating with various departments of the College and NUS Research and Controllership Team to establish new funding codes- Collaborated with various departments of the College to create a one-stop staff portal for easy access to important forms and eservices.- Created an automation for the Yale advancement expenses for monitoring of the fund utilization- Performed financial assessment of the vendors for the tender process- Assisted the annual external and internal audit to be completed within the timeline effectively and efficiently- Mentored and coached financial executives to develop their accounting competencies - Reviewed and approved payments and reimbursement to ensure timely payments Show less

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  E2i, Employment & Employability Institute

  Jul 2020 - Mar 2022

  Senior Accountant

  - Led a team of financial executives to manage the Government Grant utilization and payments- Collaborated with various departments to establish indirect costing to ensure the grants are utilised appropriately-Created an automation for the budget exercise and reporting by using Microsoft Excel- Assisted the annual external and internal audit to be completed within the timeline effectively and efficiently- Secured a government budget to procure a new financial and procurement system for the company- Led a team to procure a new system within the timeline to ensure that the system can be procured before its obsoletion- Collaborated with the operations team to locate resources to maximise the administration grants that allow the project disbursements to disburse effectively and efficiently.- Performed quarterly disbursement request from the governments in order for the funds are disbursed on time- Performed annual renewal of the company’s insurances- Prepared monthly financial reporting on manpower expenses for the management meeting-Established manpower costing for requesting government funds to operate the government grants within the timeline.- Mentored and coached financial executives to develop their accounting competencies - Reviewed and approved payments and reimbursement to ensure timely payments Show less

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  Freelance

  Apr 2022 - now

  Freelance Account Manager

  -Prepared companies’ annual financial reports and tax computation in order for them to be audited on time-Prepared monthly transactions data recording for investment companies within timeline