Chanpen Charoonwuthitham

- Headed the preparation of Finance Planning and Analysis, delivering comprehensive monthly, quarterly, and annual management reports. - Conducted in-depth analysis to assess current and future financial performance, gathering, analyzing, and presenting recommendations for financial plans, actual performance, trended future requirements, and operating forecasts. - Led the charge in Commercial Finance, focusing on Revenue and Cost optimization to meet and exceed deployed targets. - Handled detailed analyses and provided insight into financial performance and contractual conditions, delivering impactful presentations and engaging in discussions with executives to drive strategic decision-making and optimize business outcomes. - Oversaw the Monitoring of the Management Self Assessment of Controls, conducting evaluations of internal controls, communications, risk assessments, and documentation maintenance within the internal control environment. - Identified risks, evaluated deficiencies, and implemented effective risk mitigation strategies to fortify the organization's resilience. - Collaborated seamlessly with cross-functional teams, including HR, Accounting, Statutory, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Procurement, Fixed Assets, Quote-to-Cash, Intercompany, Taxation, Treasury, Legal, Solutions, Delivery, etc., providing proactive assistance and effectively resolving concerns or problems as needed, thereby fostering a collaborative and supportive work environment.

- Led the preparation of financial planning and budgeting, delivering timely and accurate actual financial performance and analysis for management review, thereby providing strategic insights and facilitating informed decision-making to drive the company's financial success. - Controlled company expenses within the approved budget, ensuring financial stability and adherence to financial targets, resulting in efficient resource utilization and contributing to the overall financial health of the organization. - Prepared standardized accounting practices for the company in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), ensuring accuracy and compliance, thereby establishing a solid foundation for financial reporting integrity and regulatory adherence. - Managed the tax submission process for the company, including VAT, Withholding Tax, and Corporate Tax, and facilitated tax refunds from the Revenue Department for overpaid taxes, streamlining financial processes and optimizing the company's tax efficiency. - Reviewed and monitored process health, implemented and improved internal control programs, and enhanced workflow efficiency. - Oversaw the quality of office administrative functions, providing essential support to the team for seamless operations, while also monitoring transaction compliance through an effective review and approval process, ensuring adherence to established protocols. - Safeguarded company assets, both financial and physical, against fraud, loss, or misuse, contributing to a secure organizational environment. - Advised and assisted teams in various reviews, including Corporate Audit, peer review, and ASCA review, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and compliance, thereby enhancing overall organizational efficiency and accountability.

- Reviewed process controls for each business unit to identify control risks/exposures, enhance customer satisfaction, reduce cycle time, improve process effectiveness, and decrease risk and additional workload, thereby ensuring a strong control environment. - Conducted root cause analysis of control failures and facilitated timely, accurate, and complete implementation of corrective actions. - Provided support for Country Manager, Finance Planning & Administration Manager, Line Management, and Process Owners, ensuring the reliability of financial statements, compliance with laws and regulations, and efficient execution of IBM controls programs. - Assisted in key areas, including the design, documentation, testing, and evaluation of control effectiveness through the Quarterly Controls Close, the Quarterly Certification of Management, Management Self-Assessment of Controls, and other control programs. - Spearheaded the deployment of controls-related guidelines and developed controls awareness within the country/Asean. - Worked with ASEAN to implement the Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) of the respective processes. - Organized reviews and KCO/KCFR/compliance testings to ensure ongoing control readiness, identifying weaknesses and providing advice to process owners, fostering a proactive approach to continuous improvement and maintaining a resilient control framework. - Performed interface/liaison role during the Corporate Audit and other reviews.

- Supported to Accounting processes and analysis, financial systems and process controls. - Provided timely and accurate actual financial performance resulting for country to New York AP Accounting and regional Planning units, which is consistent with US GAAP, IBM Accounting Policy and local country GAAP. - Controlled in under-run assigned headcounts and department expense budget. - Continued self inspection and process improvement resulting in efficient and effective best practice as to attain audit ready, achieving SATISFACTORY control rating for Corporate audit, external audit and significant reduction of age open items > 90 days for B/S reconciliation and analysis plus zero B/S item age more than 180 days. - Completed update and testing conduct of disaster recovery plan. - Identified and completed the projects implemented which include:- B/S report/analysis via Accounts Reconciliation Management Systems (ARMS), accounting migration projects, new accounting instruction implementation. - Motivated team via good people management practices that optimized employee involvement and commitment, built or enhanced valued skill via Individual Development Plan, resource balancing, promoted and encouraged high performance standard, promoted positive working environment and work-life balance, recognized and rewarded excellence practices, effective coaching and motivated and created/participated in educational opportunities to enhance technical skills. - Supported to accounts payable process to achieve payment timeliness target.

- Coordinated for Accounts Payable process and migrated the process to IBM Asia Pacific. - Coordinated with External audit and Joint Venture. - Contacted with IBM Worldwide to proceed the Intercompany transactions. - Analyzed the balance sheet accounts on monthly, quarterly and yearly basis. - Submitted the Corporate income tax, year end and tax reports.

- Planned the audit schedule and audit process. - Conducted the audit : Analyzed the Financial Statement, assessed the risk / issue and provided advice / recommendations. - Led team to issue the Financial Statement to customers.