Big Four firm PwC appoints 13 new partners in Singapore
Big Four giant PwC has beefed up its partnership in Singapore with 13 new members.
Described as the largest cohort of new partners in the last five years, the intake comes on the back of strong growth for PwC’s Singapore organisation, which today has over 3,500 partners and staff across its Audit, Assurance, Tax, Consulting and Legal business units.
Marcus Lam, Executive Chairman of PwC in Singapore, congratulated the new partners, stating that their career milestone was “well deserved” and “strengthens PwC’s leadership team at a time when “the role of leaders has never been more important as businesses tackle long and short-term challenges.”
Andrew Bronshtein
Risk Services
Specialising in financial services risk, with a focus on the banking, capital markets, and asset and wealth management sectors, Andrew works closely with clients to help them across governance, risk management, internal controls and internal audit.
Chiang Shann Wei
Consulting with a focus on SAP
Shann specialises in driving SAP digital transformation initiatives, leveraging technology to tackle industry-specific challenges and enhance business operations. He provides clients with advisory services, solutions and oversees technology implementations across diverse industries such as real estate and hospitality, higher education, shipping, aerospace and defence, offshore marine and healthcare.
Christina Mason
Assurance in Financial Services
With extensive assurance and advisory experience in the asset and wealth management sector as well as in banking and capital markets, Christina specialises in assurance with a focus on private markets (particularly infrastructure fund audits) and leads PwC Singapore’s ESG offerings within the asset and wealth management sector.
David Hodge
Strategy and Operations Consulting
David specialises in helping businesses with their procurement challenges across various industries. He focuses on optimising clients’ procurement functions through strategic sourcing, team enhancement, technology selection and implementation among other solutions.
Jerry Quek
Assurance
Hailing from an assurance background, Jerry specialises in US initial public offering (IPO) advisory, internal controls, financial reporting and audit with a particular focus in the tech industries.
Lim Lian Cheng
Tax
Specialising in tax advisory, Lian Cheng works closely with his clients, assisting them in areas ranging from international tax structuring to comprehensive Singapore tax compliance. A Singapore tax practitioner by training, Lian Cheng is well-versed with overseas tax laws and has been advising companies in the transportation and logistics and in the technology, media and telecommunication sectors on their expansion into Asia Pacific.
Lim Shu Ning
Assurance in Financial Services
Shu Ning specialises in assurance services for financial services clients (including financial reporting, audit and advisory) with a focus on the banking and capital markets and insurance sectors. She is well-versed with risk and governance around disruptive technologies and has extensive experience helping fintech and startup companies develop their business and growth strategies.
Satu Aavikko
Workforce Transformation Consulting
Satu specialises in helping organisations across industries implement complex, strategic change and realise workforce transformation outcomes. She also helps her clients align large-scale technology and cloud investments with organisation outcomes through change management and digital adoption strategies, as well as helping integrate emerging technologies (such as GenAI) in ways of working to optimise costs and boost productivity.
Shuchi Mehta
Salesforce Consulting
Shuchi specialises in large-scale front office transformations powered by Salesforce, helping clients transform and execute their marketing, sales and service strategies. She focuses on the government and public services (including education and health), financial services, and retail and consumer industries.
Tan Si Ying
Tax
Si Ying is a tax practitioner with broad experience in helping companies with corporate reorganisations across the pre to post-deal spectrum. She is also a subject matter specialist on Singapore stamp duty matters relating to legal entity restructurings and research & development tax claims, where intellectual property ownership is in Singapore, amongst other areas.
Tay Xiu Ming
Assurance
Xiu Ming specialises in assurance and financial reporting and has extensive experience working on large global audits for both listed and private companies. While primarily focusing on the real estate and hospitality industries, she also has experience across a diverse range of industries including engineering and construction, retail, trading, and technology operations.
Tomas Varga
Tax
Tomas has worked with some of the largest companies across the tech, automotive, industrial manufacturing and consumer sectors by helping them in transfer pricing and advising on intellectual property and principal structuring, value chain assessments and dispute resolution strategies.
Vaibhav Bhatia
Tax
Specialising in transfer pricing and tax, Vaibhav advises some of the largest multinational enterprises across the healthcare, semiconductor and consumer goods sectors. His key focus is to create value in strategic M&A transactions – pre and post deal – aligning transfer pricing and tax outcomes with transformative operating models.