Jack Chiu

Jack is a financial reporting leader with 10+ years' experience in financial services, property and infrastructure sectors with a global footprint in UK, EMEA and APAC. He experts in managing multi-jurisdictions audits, preparing consolidated group annual reports and accounts for listed companies in IFRS, in UK GAAP for entities' statutory reporting and US GAAP for SEC reporting, regulatory compliance, entity controllership and collaborations with senior stakeholders at Board/ ExCo level. Jack was an ex-Big4 auditor, has been leading multi-national teams of chartered accountants for 8 years, delivering financial statements timely and carrying out finance transformation initiatives in a global landscape.

Vice President, International External Reporting Manager at Tradeweb Europe Limited (2022-11 – Present)

• Senior finance partner to ExCo presenting financial performance and regulatory issues for entities in UK, EMEA, APAC. NASDAQ-listed financial services multi-national company.
• Manages 4 direct reports who are qualified accountants and developed the team from scratch
• The primary contact point for 7 Big4 firms and manages 13 multi-jurisdiction audits with audit partners and managers
• Manages timeline of annual report and annual reports and accounts filing including xbrl tagging and board approvals
• Owns and coordinate the reporting process of consolidated annual reports and accounts in IFRS, UK GAAP (FRS101, FRS102) and local GAAPs on Workiva, including director's report, MD&A, primary statements and disclosure notes
• Direct inputs to the regulatory disclosure of the Tradeweb Group SEC reporting in 10-K/ 10-Q under US GAAP
• Leads engagement across Finance (e.g. CAO, Payroll, Treasury, Corporate Accounting Controllership and Tax) and beyond (e.g. Company Secretariat, Compliance, Risk, HR, and Legal) at department heads level
• Makes decisions on dividend and funding decisions and regulatory capital and liquidity planning for regulated entities
• Prepares GAAP conversion and reviews month-end reconciliation as part of statutory reporting process
• Reports identified risks to senior leaderships and supports subsequent assessments and remediation works
• Drives efficiencies by standardising financial statements and regulatory returns templates with Workiva and Excel
• Designs financial statement and regulatory reporting review internal controls per SOX and FTSE requirements
• Provides technical accounting advice on IFRS and UK GAAP e.g. IFRS 2 and authored policy memos e.g. IFRS 15 for technical Head sign-off, most recent one being IFRS 18 new standard adoption paper
• Reviews monthly restricted capital and regulatory liquidity positions to determine funding needs
• Owns ICARAs, ICAAPs annual update including wind-down plans and recovery and resolution plans preparation
• Manages and signs off regulatory FINREP and COREP returns reporting to FCA, DNB, AFM, ESMA, ACPR, DFSA & JFSA
• Leveraged tools like Alteryx for automation and Tableau for data visualisation

Audit Manager at KPMG United Kingdom (2021-09 – 2022-11) Big4 audit practice.

• Earned the annual firm-wide Silver Award in audit quality in recognition of the technical knowledge.
• Led 4 audit projects in the housing and funds, healthcare and public sectors
• Direct managed 4 appraisees and approximately 15 fellow colleagues in the audit projects
• Provided 2 technical accounting trainings on IFRSs, UK GAAP (FRS101, FRS102), especially on new standards on IFRS
• Key contact point to liaise with internal stakeholders e.g. shared service centre staff, valuation, tax, IT support team and external stakeholders, e.g. FD, CFO, statutory regulator
• Reviewed 15 sets of financial statements for listed companies drafted in IFRS and UK GAAP
• Audited consolidation procedures and the appropriateness of all financial reconciliations
• Monitored internal budgets and expenses approvals

Audit Manager at KPMG Hong Kong (2015-09 – 2021-08) Big4 audit practice.

• Earned internal recognitions, "high performance" title in 3 consecutive appraisals plus 2 ovation awards.
• Led 15 audit projects covering transportation, infrastructure, property development & management, investment funds and media sectors and ad-hoc support to bidding events
• Co-led two IPO projects in the US and collaborated with external lawyers, sponsors and valuers
• Reviewed and prepared over 40 sets of financial statements based on IFRSs, HKFRS and US GAAP/ SEC reporting
• Named as the People Champion leading the discussion with very senior internal management teams
• Direct managed 2 appraisees and oversaw over 15 audit projects concurrently
• Developed accounting treatments advice over complex transactions to clients' finance management team
• Provided 3 technical trainings on IFRSs, HKFRSs
• Hands-on experience with SEC listing rules and regulations, PCAOB auditing standards and IFRSs
• Designed 7 internal controls procedures e.g. related party, consolidation, month-end by adopting COSO2013 internal control framework and drafted reports and recommendation

Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance – The University of Hong Kong (2012-09 – 2015-06)