Yap Choo Cheng, a Malaysian female aged 46, is our Chief Financial Officer. She is responsible for overseeing our Group's financial functions which include financial planning and review, cash flow management and financial reporting. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Accountancy from the Queen's University of Belfast in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in July 1996. Choo Cheng has more than 20 years of working experience in accounting, finance, corporate finance, strategic planning, treasury and auditing across a variety of industries covering oil and gas, trading, manufacturing, construction and hospitality.
She began her career with KPMG Desa Megat & Co in September 1996 as an Audit Assistant where she was involved in statutory audit as well as transaction services for listing exercises and mergers and acquisitions. She left KPMG Peat Desa Megat & Co in December 2000 as an Audit Senior and subsequently joined Petra Resources Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Petra Perdana Berhad (now known as Perdana Petroleum Berhad) ("Perdana Petroleum"), a company then listed on the Main Board of Kuala Lumpur Securities Exchange (now known as Main Market of Bursa Securities) as an Assistant Accounts Manager where she was responsible for the financial reporting and taxation matters of the company. She was promoted to Group Accountant in March 2005 where she was in charge of the group's financial reporting, tax planning and corporate treasury management In April 2012, she was promoted to Financial Controller of Perdana Petroleum. During her tenure with Perdana Petroleum, she was involved in a number of the company's corporate exercises which include transfer listing, initial public offering, mergers and acquisitions and fund-raiSing activities. She left Perdana Petroleum in December 2015 to pursue her personal interests.
She returned to the corporate sector in June 2017 when she joined Only World Group Berhad, a company listed on the Main Market of Bursa Securities as its Chief Financial Officer. She was responsible for managing the finance department where she oversees the financial planning, budgeting, implementation of accounting policies and procedures of the company and its subsidiaries. She left Only World Group Berhad in October 2018 and subsequently joined TCS Construction and assumed her current position.
She is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants since May 2000 and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants since June 2001. In May 2005, she was admitted as a Fellow Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountant.