Development cost modelled
Integrated cost, profitability, pricing and liquidity architecture
Finance Project Portfolio
Finance across decisions, controls and evidence
Finance that moves capital, not just reports.
Nine years of professional experience across accounting and finance, audit and assurance, finance management, independent financial-statement preparation and systems-design work in Cambodia.
Professional thesis
Commercial grounding creates context. Assurance strengthens judgement. Structure turns both into clearer decisions.
FoundationCalibrationArchitecture
Audit engagements
Senior-in-charge and field-in-charge experience across Woori and KPMG
Financial statements
CIFRS, CIFRS for SMEs, CFRS for NFPEs and donor reporting
Reporting-cycle reduction
Delivered while building a four-entity finance architecture
Where I create value
Three connected finance lenses.
FP&A and capital
Scenario design, pricing, liquidity, unit economics and deal structure that expose the real choice.
Finance leadership
Close, reporting, working capital, systems, policy and accountability designed to run without a hero.
Assurance and fiduciary finance
Financial reporting, audit, Cambodian statutory depth and donor requirements that keep the evidence defensible.
Profile
Commercial capability balance sheet
Assets for capital, control and operating decisions.
Commercial finance built on accounting discipline, audit judgement, systems thinking and an increasingly strategic decision lens.
Commercial accounting and control foundation
Accounts payable, payroll inputs, accounting systems, bank reconciliation, reporting support, Cambodian tax processes and documented controls.
Evidence
Reviewed early-career operating evidence and a fixed-assets-control first draft.
Audit-informed diagnostic discipline
Assurance progression that strengthened my focus on evidence, financial reporting, control gaps and defensible judgement.
Evidence
Audit and assurance roles at Woori Accounting and KPMG Cambodia.
Finance management
Finance Manager experience across real-estate development and logistics, connecting accounting foundations to operating decisions.
Evidence
Finance Manager chronology across two capital-intensive sectors.
FP&A and capital strategy
Scenario design, cost, pricing, liquidity and deal structure used to make capital choices more legible.
Evidence
USD 250M–USD 300M of development cost modelled through integrated decision architecture.
Finance systems and model architecture
Linked calculations, control accounts, traceable assumptions, modules, reconciliations and integrity checks.
Evidence
Recurring reporting-model structures and an observed version-0.1 draft architecture.
Controllership
Close, reporting, working capital, policy, controls and accountability considered as one operating system.
Evidence
Accounting and control foundations extended through Finance Manager roles.
Finance leadership and governance
Bring supported options, make authority explicit, keep evidence inside the instrument and reduce dependency on any one person.
Operating principle
Clear options, explicit authority, embedded evidence and durable ownership.
Donor-funded capability balance sheet
Assets for fiduciary reporting, accountability and evidence.
Donor-funded finance built around structured reporting, recurring client delivery, bilingual outputs, reconciliation controls and clear scope boundaries.
Nonprofit financial-statement preparation
Material involvement in recurring financial-statement preparation for two nonprofit clients.
Evidence
Five bilingual report-year packages totalling 85 pages.
Recurring engagement continuity
Repeat work across two nonprofit clients, including three consecutive report years for one client.
Evidence
Directly supported repeat-client re-engagement for another annual cycle.
Bilingual reporting
Structured bilingual reporting connecting source accounting data to comparative statements, schedules, notes and control totals.
Evidence
Five bilingual packages under the applicable nonprofit-reporting context.
Models and reconciliation controls
Source-to-report logic, separate adjustments, category mapping, comparative presentation, supporting schedules and tie-outs.
Evidence
Six working files showing a recurring implementation pattern.
Structured intake and disclosure tools
Owned information-request and disclosure tools designed to make client inputs structured, visible and traceable.
Evidence
A 19-item request list and an eight-part Khmer-language questionnaire used in live work.
Assurance-informed fiduciary finance
Audit and assurance experience applied as context for evidence quality, reporting discipline and accountability.
Evidence
Accepted audit-role chronology and documented learning in audit quality and reporting.
Confidentiality and evidence governance
Keep preparation separate from assurance, retain the limits with each achievement and protect restricted source information.
Operating principle
Clear scope, careful attribution and client-safe public communication.
Selected finance projects
Selected finance projects, with scope and evidence attached.
Each project sets out the business context, my role, the work performed and the decision it supported.
FP&A · Capital strategy
Making a USD 250M–USD 300M development decision-readable
A live, integrated architecture connecting first-principles cost, profitability, liquidity, pricing and deal structure.
7 costed scenarios
Material outcome range
4 cash-flow scenarios
2019–2027 integrated model
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- Built the cost master from first principles, cross-checking PMO, business, finance, market and specialist valuation inputs.
- Mapped scenarios spanning loss to profit and showed why more revenue did not necessarily produce more profit.
- Built zone-specific pricing across six residential and two commercial product segments, with margin tracking and five escalation cases per zone.
- Modelled a reciprocal contractor transaction from both parties’ perspectives using NPV at 9% and IRR, plus a 15-year with-or-without-operator feasibility case.
- The CEO and CFO presented the models to the Board. I was in the room and reran challenged assumptions live; management made the decision.
Controllership · Systems
Building a finance function from zero to audit-ready
A complete order-to-cash, record-to-report and compliance operation for a new Cambodia logistics entity reporting to a Chinese HQ.
5 months to audit-ready
80+ service orders
180+ containers in Q1
14 → 30 day supplier terms
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- Authored the 2025 CIFRS-for-SMEs accounting manual and designed a COSO-aligned control framework beneath it.
- Connected quotation, performance evidence, revenue recognition, invoicing, receivables, ageing, statements and collection to the same underlying dates.
- Cut reporting turnaround by up to 90%, extended supplier credit terms from 14 to 30 days and operated on USD 80K paid-in against USD 200K registered capital.
- Built a labour-compliance programme, operated it monthly with receipts, stood two inspections and handed it over.
Assurance · Financial reporting
Turning audit depth into a reusable diagnostic system
Assurance work across statutory, component, group and donor-funded engagements—then codified into team and practice systems.
74 engagements
Woori + Big Four assurance
55 statutory filings
14 component packages
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- Prepared 100+ general- and specific-purpose financial statements under multiple Cambodian and donor frameworks.
- Led fieldwork, communicated findings to department heads and at times CEOs or directors, quantified misstatements and obtained revisions before opinion.
- Designed and delivered a sole-authored 16-module curriculum to an audit team of up to nine.
- Built a practice-management workbook spanning pipeline, eleven-stage statement production, assignments, client history, team capability and CPD.
- Scoped a purchase-price-allocation proposal, developed the diligence questionnaire and led the client meeting.
Donor finance · Independent practice
Working both sides of fiduciary-grade finance
Donor expenditure assurance as an employee; recurring financial-statement preparation as an independent practitioner.
~USD 3.4M tested
2 recurring clients
5 report-year packages
WB · ADB · INGO
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- Tested expenditure eligibility, statements of expenditure, fund utilisation, donor covenants, procurement and credit or grant classification.
- Supported World Bank- and ADB-financed work and a consolidated INGO group audit.
- Materially contributed to five bilingual financial-statement-preparation packages for two recurring nonprofit clients.
- Built structured intake, source review, reconciliation, classification, drafting and revision into a repeatable reporting workflow.
Commercial finance · Controls
Carrying the commercial cycle end to end
The operating foundation beneath later models: cost, contract, delivery evidence, collection, retention, payroll and tax.
2 tax-audit mandates
12-month supplier deferral
5–10% retention cycle
BOQ → contract → cash
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- Prepared construction BOQs from technical drawings and specifications, coordinated engineering checks, priced the final quantities and issued them to clients.
- Drafted and administered contracts, held protective clauses under client pressure and managed milestone payment requests through final handover and warranty retention.
- Negotiated a COVID-era supplier deferral into a mutually agreed twelve-month interest-bearing instalment plan.
- Represented a limited FY2018 GDT audit and co-represented a comprehensive FY2018–FY2020 audit with a licensed tax agent.
How I lead
Answers, not just alarms.
The objective is to install decisions, controls and accountabilities that make the function stronger over time.
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Options before escalation
Bring the problem with two or three supported routes. Lead with the compliant option and make the trade-offs visible.
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Authority made explicit
Decide within the assigned threshold and explain the basis. Escalate decisions that bind the company or create material exposure.
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Evidence inside the instrument
Versions, sources, assumptions and control points belong in the model or document—not only in the author’s memory.
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Reduce single-person dependency
Build what is missing, define the control point, hand it to the proper owner and make the process reusable.
Experience
A career built sideways as well as upward.
Formal roles and month-year periods, showing deliberate capability moves across accounting, assurance and finance management.
Urban Foods / Golden Million Mall setting
Accounts Officer → Senior responsibilitiesAccounting processes, systems, controls and a limited company tax matter
Laska Du Co., Ltd.
Accounting & Finance SupervisorRoad-construction sector
Woori Accounting Co., Ltd.
Assistant Manager, Audit & AssuranceProfessional audit services
KPMG Cambodia Ltd.
Senior, Audit & AssuranceProfessional audit services
Sir Stamford Raffles (Cambodia) Co., Ltd.
Finance ManagerReal-estate development
Channelton Logistics Development (Cambodia) Co., Ltd.
Finance ManagerLogistics
Credentials and learning
Completed, current and intended—kept separate.
Qualification status is part of the claim. Planned milestones are not presented as earned credentials.
Diplomas in Cambodian Tax, Cambodian Business Law and IFRS for SMEs
CamEd Business School · 2022–2023
Professional Taxation in Tax on Income
9 credits · GPA 3.44
Undergraduate Certificate in Accounting
9 credits · GPA 4.00/4.00
ACCA Foundations in Professionalism
Completed Jul 2023
ACCA pathway
Registered from Apr 2023 · exemptions recorded in Corporate and Business Law and Taxation
Working languages — self-reported: Khmer and English; basic spoken Chinese with stronger listening comprehension.
Next question
What can you see today, what needs to improve, and what do you wish you could see?
The gap may sit in performance, cash, capital, risk, controls or execution. I help structure the information, expose the trade-offs and make the next decision clearer.
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