Evelyn Lee Jwen Yee

Responsible for the review of monthly accounts of the various operating centres (OC) under KLK Plantation Group and monthly management accounts of a subsidiary company to ensure compliance with both financial reporting standards (IFRS/MFRS) and group's accounting policies. Involved in income tax and deferred tax computation and review monthly cash flow and budgets/estimates for management's decision making and planning for a subsidiary company. Experienced in completion of monthly profit and loss reports for plantations with a wide variety of crops for upper management’s review and group estate hectarage reconciliation involving all KLK owned plantations. Responsible for directly dealing with company secretaries, tax agents, internal and external auditors for matters relating to the subsidiary company under my care.

Key Achievements include:

• Detected and highlighted instances of fraud, conflict of interest and manipulation at the operating centre (OC) level (OC manager creating fraudulent invoices, relative of OC clerk falsifying receipts etc)
• Was able to point out opening retained earnings of a subsidiary company not agreeing to prior year audited financial statements and able to suggest solutions to rectify the issue.
• Managed to quickly pinpoint, identify and rectify areas of non-compliance to group accounting policies in the OC monthly closing of accounts.
• Skilled at working with and guiding the various OC chief clerks / estate managers to better continuously improve their monthly closing of accounts.
• Introduced a more organized deferred tax working to accounts closing procedure for the subsidiary under my care which was slowly implemented by other subsidiary companies within the accounts department.
• Was able to very quickly learn and adapt to a new inventory / ERP system introduced in 2022 across all OCs in KLK.

Responsible for planning, execution and concluding of the audit process. Involved in allocation of audit sections to juniors and peers and reviews of juniors’ audit work-done / documentation and provided training and guidance to them on the job. Experienced in performing detailed risk assessment and the evaluation of control effectiveness.

Key Achievements include:

• Has good communication and interpersonal skills whereby able to quickly and effectively build professional relationships and rapport with client personnel to speed up the audit. Especially good at communicating and following up with client personnel to facilitate ease of obtaining data and audit evidence for the audit team. Able to tackle and help bridge communication gaps with difficult clients.
• Able to present audit findings to the audit partner and other superiors on a timely basis. Good in brainstorming solutions for accounting and audit issues encountered.

Being a general assistant to seniors and managers in audit engagements of various industries. Experienced in completion of audit testing procedures for the different profit & loss or balance sheet audit sections in standalone and group audits and documentation of business process flows and walkthrough testing. Familiar in completing audit documentation in compliance with the Deloitte Way Workflow (DWW) methodology.

Key Achievements include:

• Managed to complete dormant and small to medium sized company audits
• Involved in various group audits and was able to handle specific audit testing for selected audit section when was assigned to be the auditor in charge of smaller subsidiary companies in the group.
• Able to quickly adapt to and navigate the various accounting softwares used by clients (eg. SAP, SQL, AutoCount and UBS
• Known as best assistant in following up outstanding items from clients regularly and ensure all audit engagements involved in were ready for archival on time