MIT Sloan School of Management

Harvard Business School

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

University of Macau

CFO  -  CPA  -  CGMA  -  MIT Sloan MBA

• Worked with Long-Z Investments (美团龙珠) deal team partners to manage fund raising, risk control and assessment, cash management, covering from early VC to mid - growth stages；
• Led Financial Due Diligence（FDD），legal and operational compliance, post-investment portfolio MGMT;

美团

CFO of Long-Z Investments（美团龙珠）

• Led Meituan Corp FP&A Team and worked closely with CEO/CFO and Senior Executive team on Annual Budgeting/Quarterly Earnings Support/Monthly Operating Review;
• Spearheaded 35+ team members and worked with all BGBU Finance Heads to implement corporate guidance and to share best practices;
• Drove different Corporate Finance initiatives, including “Unit Economics” benchmarking, New Retail modeling Dashboard, Sales & Marketing ROI Analytics, etc;

Head of Corporate FP&A

SEA Start-up -> Global Player -> IPO-ready Asian Business -> Acquired by Tencent in 2020

iflix is the leading online video streaming service in 22 Emerging Market countries across Asia-Pacific.
• Led IPO preparation in ASX(Australia Stock Exchange) and Series C fund-raising/investor updates with PE and Corporate Ventures
• Spearheaded 20+ Finance team and worked with Investment Banker/Auditors to prepare FDD and Prospectus write-up
• Benchmarked with iQiyi/Tencent Video/ByteDance to achieve “Freemium” biz model via AVOD+SVOD monetization   
• Re-engineered performance drivers from MAU growth to “Path to Profitability” based on “Unit Economics” model

iflix

Chief Financial Officer

• Spearhead for all aspects of Finance, from Financial Planning, Business Data Analytics, Strategy, P/L management to Controllership
• US$ 1.5 Billion GMV and cover total 8 countries, including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Japan and Israel.

eBay

Head of Finance as Regional CFO, Southeast Asia/Japan/Israel

•	Industrials: Chinese stake-backed's US$2.7bn acquisition of Australian coal assets 
- Investigated the client’s strategic priorities to identify investment rationale, evaluated the global scale and position for cash flow generation, and examined the benefits of increasing exposure to favourable market dynamics 
- Conducted rigorous analysis on potential operating synergies, identified potential improvement across the pro-forma metrics, and examined the feasibility of deleveraging the balance sheet from funding structure arrangement

•	Consumer: Chinese nutritious company’s potential US$600mm HK IPO 
- Performed trading comps and precedent transactions valuations focusing on revenue, earnings, and operating metrics 
- Benchmarked KPIs through competitor analysis, and recommended selected operating metrics to investors
- Identified potential investor concerns, formulated mitigants and recommendations based on management interview

J.P. Morgan

Investment Banking Summer Associate

•  Investment opportunities assessment
    - Conducted due diligence on target companies and constructed financial models to evaluate investment feasibility
    - Cooperated with management to formulate synergies arising from investment, benchmark performance, and assess future asset operating efficiencies

• Post-investment performance management 
    - Established a KPI monitoring framework to measure drivers of investment portfolio, and implemented in systems
    - Performed back-testing of historical returns against expected returns in financial models, prepared management dashboard in shaping investment decisions, and quarterly reported to CFO

Temasek

Business Performance Manager and PMO

Managed one of the largest projects (US$1.2billion) in the GE Oil &Gas Subsea business in Asia Pacific and demonstrated commercial finance leadership for overall project spread across UK, Norway, Singapore & Indonesia. 

Highlights:
• Been fully authorized and granted Power of Attorney with the right of President Director to sign documents in relation with the implementation of 1.2 billion contract between GE and Chevron
• Partnered GM to highlight financial risk and provide revenue/cost/profit forecasting
• Forecasted overall cash flow for the project across 6 product lines from customers to suppliers
• Managed monthly billing activities and identified root-cause for variance against plan

APAC Finance Manager

GE Corporate Audit Staff (CAS) is the premier CFO Leadership program within General Electric. It is an Organization with +400 individuals focusing on strategic consulting, financial management, risk assessment, business acquisition integrations/dispositions, and operational turnarounds. Over a two-year period, associate travels around the world on GE's diverse businesses, changing locations a minimum of three times per year.

Multiple rotations across different projects across 7 countries in 6 industries 
• GE Oil & Gas Software Capitalization Advisory project……............…….....…………Boston, USA
• GE Power Conversion Post M&A integration review…….....…Paris, France/Birmingham, UK
• GE Global Growth Organization restructuring review….........…......……......…..Shanghai, China
• GE Power & Water audit and compliance review…….......……...Philadelphia, USA/Singapore
• GE Transportation financial audit review…………......................Florence, Italy/Kansas City, USA
• GE Aviation Systems financial audit review………………...…….............…………Brisbane, Australia

GE CFO Leadership Program - Senior Associate

•	Partnered with CEO of a US$100 million P/L to deliver +26% Sales & +3% margin growth
•	Conducted 5-year long-term & 1-year short-term strategic budgeting plan, monthly reviewed with Global CFO to delivery better P/L visibility estimates through visiting headquarters in US/France
•	Reviewed with controller & accounting team to ensure quarter-end book closed accurately
•	Received Global Healthcare CFO annual award for demonstrated leadership and change management

Greater China FP&A Leader

FMP is the most well-known entry level trainee program within GE and have been around for over 100 years. The program spans over two years during which you perform different type of financial roles within various businesses in GE.

Multiple rotations across different finance functions
•	GE Healthcare regional commercial finance analyst……..………….......…........................Shanghai
•	GE Energy Optimization & Control Inventory & costing analyst…………...................Shanghai
•	GE Healthcare China HQ Product line FP&A analyst……………...…............…......................Beijing
•	GE Capital Private Equity Asia HQ Financial planning analyst……..…......................Hong Kong

James (Zichen) Qiu