Hannah Ngo

CPA-qualified Commercial Analyst with 8 years of success in transforming complex financial data into clear, actionable commercial strategies across diverse sectors (Pharmaceuticals, Retail, FMCG, Advertising and Logistics).

Proven track record in driving financial performance by developing robust financial models, automating reporting, and constructing commercial frameworks that demonstrably improve margins, reduce costs, and accelerate growth. Expertly manage company investments, budgeting, and strategic planning tasks. Highly adept at partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure data integrity and translating complex business issues into clear, strategic recommendations that directly influence and enhance executive decision-making.

• Automated and optimized critical financial reporting processes, decreasing report generation time by 40%. This shift allowed the finance team to reallocate 15 hours monthly to high-value commercial analysis and strategic planning tasks.
• Engineered process improvements within finance operations (e.g., expense tracking), ultimately reducing processing cycle time by 25% and freeing up analytical capacity for forward-looking business support.
• Developed new ERP functionality to automate the matching of price, quantity, FX between Purchase Orders and Supplier Invoices against tolerable variance matrixes.
• Recovered over $10,000 in overcharged insurance expenses by conducting a deep-dive analysis of historical billing data, identifying systemic billing errors, and implementing new validation controls to prevent future errors.
• Managed an insurance budget exceeding $8 million, consistently maintaining variance analysis. Provided strategic commentary on spending deviations to budget owners, enabling proactive cost control and resource allocation decisions.