Chris Huang

Experience

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  Deloitte

  Nov 2013 - Sept 2017

  Assistant Manager

  • Led a team of up to six auditors and performed audits across multiple industries such as healthcare, banking, aviation, & hospitality, and thus having exposure to various practices such as hedge, lease, assets impairment, customer loyalty programs, acquisition of major equipment, and contingencies.• Support clients on period end closing, financial statements, and the transition from GAAP to IFRS & building up online financial reporting platform.• Noticed the increase in a client's tax penalties and proactively initiated a full review on client's tax practice, provide improvement plans, saving at least NT$5 million for clients, and strengthened client relationship.• Collaborated with FAS Department on DD over M&A, and evaluate company value in different accounting assessments (principle, estimates) scenarios and provide advisory to help client's decision.• Performed ratio and cost analysis to evaluate changes in company’s financial condition and the alignment between business strategies and financials.• Participated in the IPO for a local bank to sort out processes, improve deficiencies & policies/procedures, and successfully applied to Taiwan SEC.• Using data analysis tool such as Excel VBA & Power Query to enhance efficiency and liaise with clients on enhancing their cost breakdown for better analysis and financial reporting automation. Show less

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  科法斯集團 Coface

  Sept 2017 - Dec 2018

  Finance Risk Manager

  Coverage: Taiwan & S. KoreaCoface is a leading trade credit insurance provider, known as the big 3 in the industry, and specializes in evaluating buyer payment risk. Coface partners with several local banks such as Fubon, Hua Nan, and Shin Kong bank, and also provides service to factoring business for financial institutions like Standard Chartered bank.• Lead financial planning/budgeting as part of capital adequacy monitoring and compare actual financial results against target and identify trends and provide insights to highlight risks and opportunities for commercial decision making.• Drive the development and improvement of forecasting and work inter-departmentally to ensure credit analysis model is improving and adjusted timely to be nimble enough to seize the opportunity or reduce potential claims, so performance is constantly raising. • Maintain a good knowledge of key market legislation and ensure that the obligations are met but not exceeded, and bridge the gaps between global and local policy and procedure.• Conduct risk self-assessment & control reviews for Taiwan and S. Korea to understand business in a holistic view and suggest improvement actions.• Report issues/emerging risk, and business insights in local & regional risk committees to business leadership, and effectively drive business progress.• Strong regional/global support to implement personal data and information security management framework. Responsible for Business Continuity planning and testing. Show less

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  AllianceBernstein

  Dec 2018 - now

  AVP/ Risk Manager

  Coverage: Asia ex Japan• Sharp business acumen to identify the widening of performance drag for same-strategy products in different jurisdictions after 2020 market drawdown, and proactively created a comparison report to sort out attributes and partner with broader teams for actionable solutions on enhancing operational efficiency & regulation relaxation to effectively reduce gap.• Strong business mindset to keep up business demands and proactively created a global Power BI performance dashboard for investment teams, incl. analyzing needs, creating automatic data feed to SQL server & building stored procedures that flow downstream for forming Power BI dashboards which enable users to interact with consolidated data visuals in one platform.• Strong partnership with investment teams to form financial/statistical modeling for performing ad-hoc macroeconomic & market simulation/scenario analysis for market themes (inflation, rates, US election etc.) and impact portfolio construction to reduce potential harm to product performance.• Manage highly sensitive errors in investment operations and sort out root causes, coordinate across teams to resolve conflicts, and determine preventative measures by understanding risks behind and provide responses to clients or regulators promptly to ease their concern.• Assess regulatory change/resolution from a specific jurisdiction in a regional perspective and identify potential violation/impacts of non-compliance to other jurisdictions to affect portfolio construction and build up ongoing monitoring.• Monitor portfolio liquidity and provide periodic/ad-hoc liquidity scenario analysis for the clients promptly, and eliminate client's concern for liquidity drying up in Mar 2020 sell-off.• Various regional/global supports for projects such as setup of system logic for calculating regulatory defined country exposure, product derivative exposure, system automation migration. Show less