Wenli Yu

14+ years of financial and compliance management experience with a dual background in Finance, Law, and International Risk Management. Currently serving as Head of Risk & Compliance, built the company's compliance system and 11 fund products (AUM ~RMB 1.2Bn) from scratch. Previously at a German industrial company, responsible for credit control in Northwest China, SAP system operations, and localization of German headquarters' internal control policies, with regular participation in cross-time-zone meetings in English.

Trilingual in Mandarin, English TOEIC 820, and French TCF B2. Coverage includes enterprise credit & transaction risk, compliance & internal control, investment & funding risk, ongoing monitoring, and complex risk incident handling. Proven ability to coordinate matrix departments and translate complex risks into executable control measures, improvement plans, and management decision recommendations without direct reporting authority.

Head of Risk & Compliance at Huiyin Chengtou Investment Equity Investment Fund (2019-09 – Present)

Compliance / Middle-Back Office / Post-Investment Management

• Led investment and operational risk reviews; identified key risks from business, financial, legal, compliance, and governance perspectives; produced risk registers, impact analysis, control recommendations, and alternatives for reporting to the General Manager and decision-making bodies.
• Built 11 funds from scratch (scheme design, regulatory filing, business compliance, monitoring, ongoing management); revised policies, procedures, and operating standards per regulatory changes; cooperated with regulator inspections; zero major compliance complaints during tenure.
• Established risk monitoring and early-warning mechanisms covering financial, legal, operational, compliance, and market factors; drove risk analysis, solution assessment, and execution for contract triggers, repurchases, guarantees, and emergencies.
• Coordinated investment, finance, legal, back-office, investees, and external experts to manage due diligence, contracts, approvals, filings, remediation, and post-investment tracking.
• Translated risk issues into actionable management conclusions and boundary conditions; drove cross-departmental collaboration for self-checks, remediation, and delivery; experienced in leading without authority in matrix organizations.
• Participated in risk assessment and transaction structuring for a RMB 500M mining investment (involving cross-border fund supervision, sanctions screening, and multi-jurisdictional contract review); structured milestones, repurchase, and escrow arrangements; coordinated equity transfer, compliance filing, and approvals; project achieved 100% investment target.
• On a biopharma convertible bond project (license-in model, involving cross-border technology license compliance review), completed issuance on a domestic trading platform; structured credit enhancement measures including put options and guarantees; project achieved 100% investment target.
• Participated in due diligence, risk review, and ongoing monitoring for semiconductor equipment manufacturing, semiconductor materials, new energy battery R&D, and biopharma projects; supported investment and risk decisions across diverse scenarios.

Investment Manager at Huiyin Chengtou Investment Equity Investment Fund (2016-11 – 2019-08)

• Participated in commercial viability, cash flow, solvency, transaction structure, and compliance risk assessment for infrastructure projects (expressways, municipal wastewater treatment), involving total investment over RMB 700M.
• Coordinated law firms, accounting firms, and external experts for legal, financial, and business due diligence; advanced professional opinions, internal review, and decision-making milestones; project has 100% achieved targets and entered operation phase.

Treasury Supervisor / Credit Control at Roto Frank Building Hardware (Beijing) (2013-12 – 2016-11)

Foreign-invested Industrial Enterprise (German HQ)

• Managed credit assessment, policies, and dynamic limit adjustments for dealers in Northwest China; built customer credit risk rating and early-warning mechanisms. Operated SAP for customer master data maintenance, credit limit setup, and receivables aging monitoring to support compliant cross-regional sales operations.
• Collaborated with Sales, Finance, and Legal to improve accounts-receivable collection and exception escalation processes; achieved executable balance between compliance bottom lines and business demands.
• Led working capital planning and rolling cash flow forecasts to support funding arrangements and business decisions.
• Participated in localizing German headquarters' internal control and management policies for the China business context; contributed to anti-fraud compliance reviews; promoted embedding localized standards into sales, credit, and cash management processes.

Risk Control Supervisor at Urumqi Tianrong Micro-credit Co., Ltd. (2013-06 – 2013-12)

• Managed credit approval and pre-lending risk assessment for SME clients (reviewed 30+ applications; NPL <1%); established standardized credit approval forms, a negative-list screening framework, and completed local financial regulator filing.

Risk Control Specialist at Xinjiang Chuanhuida Financing Guarantee Co., Ltd. (2012-01 – 2013-05)

• Performed pre-guarantee due diligence and risk rating for SME guarantee cases; established counter-guarantee verification checklists (real estate mortgage, equipment pledge, personal joint-liability); contributed to drafting the Guarantee Business Operating Guidelines and standardized contract templates.