About Us
Eddy Quah
B.Sc (Computer & Management Studies)
MBA
Licensed HeartMath® Coach
email: eddy@quahassociates.com
Eddy spent his professional career, spanning three decades, in numerous Senior Leadership roles in Finance, Procurement, IT, Change and Project Management, within a global Oil & Gas and a Big-4 Accounting Firm based in Malaysia, Australia, Singapore and the United Kingdom.
Adept in building rapport and trust, Eddy provides effective Finance Business Partnering with his sincere and supportive approach. His affable disposition has attracted many to confide in him; sharing their issues and challenges in both their personal and professional life. This is successfully practised in his coaching, counselling and mentoring processes as well.
Eddy is mindful of the everyday challenges faced by corporations and executives at all levels; experiences which he gained from leading global and diverse teams based across the globe; stretching from the US to Europe, Asia and Australasia.
Apart from providing Financial Management & Stress Management consultancies, Eddy has also volunteered his time in developing individuals to increase their public profile and confidence; in public speaking clubs and even at a local prison. He sits on the Board of a UK-based Charity helping vulnerable children & families in Russia & Georgia. This is a true testament to his passion towards helping individuals in their personal development to have a happier, more fulfilling and meaningful life.
Kwa-Chea, Yong
B.Sc (Computer & Management Studies)
email: kc@quahassociates.com
Kwa-Chea (KC) spent her early career in the Information Technology industry and has extensive experiences in the Banking and IT industries; both in the vendor and end user environment.
She has strong project management and business analysis skill in implementing business applications; with seven years experiences at IBM in Malaysia. Three of these were spent in the Systems Integration department providing project management services and business analysis services to IBM corporate clients, with the remaining years as a Systems Analyst for IBM Malaysia Internal Information System Department.
With many years living and working in both an Eastern & Western environment, she has the ability to contribute to corporations where global presence is critical to its success.
Our Achievements
- Transformed Performance & Financial Management practices for Procurement in a big-4 Accounting Firm with the delivery of Data Analytics, introduction of KPIs and implementation of Balanced Scorecard and insightful Financial analytics
- Delivered procurement audit to identify contracts’ non-compliance, audit recoveries and improvements in procurement processes
- Implemented robust Value Definition & Assurance processes for raising confidence in PSCM Value measurement & reporting to stakeholders
- Provided strategic leadership, commercial steer and governance for the successful delivery of savings of $450m arising from Procurement and Group Real Estate Sourcing & Negotiation strategies
- Provided programme management expertise to support projects in minimising “corporate stranded cost” of c. $3b
- Directed project team of 40+ Business & IT professionals to deliver an ERP project 3 months ahead of schedule with a $3m budget savings; 1st ERP implementation to have achieved this in the corporation
- Designed a regional Business Support Group organisation to provide regional ERP and application support to group companies in multiple countries
- Successfully developed a Government Security Systems to manage the portfolio of government securities owned by the banks, and a Central Bank Reporting System extracting data from multiple operational applications for statutory reporting.
- Successfully managed and implemented an enhanced Employers’ Contribution Form Processing System involving pioneering imaging technology for the Malaysian Social Security Organisation.
- Directed a team of project leaders, IT specialists, sub-contractors and customer personnel to deliver the business systems design for an Integrated Assessment and Collection System for the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) in Malaysia.
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