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About Vaneesa Veerappan, ACMA
Vaneesa is an Associate Member of the prestigious Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has with her over 20 years of working experience in Education, Finance, Risk Management, Business Continuity Management and Internal Audit. Her core expertise is in the fields of Corporate Governance, Risk & Policy Management, Compliance & Internal Audit.
Vaneesa spent a significant number of the following years carving out a hugely successful and memorable career with our esteemed national carrier, Malaysia Airlines. Here, Vaneesa started out as a Chartered Accountant, leading a team of 40 staff in the Passenger Sales & Revenue Accounting Department.
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During this time, she was awarded a Green Belt Certification in Six Sigma for her instrumental role and efforts in achieving process improvements in transactional accounting.
Never one to rest on her laurels, Vaneesa moved within Malaysia Airlines to explore her interest in the field of Risk & Policy Advisory. Here, she contributed largely to developing a number of key corporate policies and frameworks. One such instrumental policy was the Passenger Delay Handling policy.
Subsequently, this policy was tested in several Malaysia Airlines offices worldwide including the United Kingdom, Italy, Australia & the Middle East where she provided training and awareness sessions on Risk Management and Company Internal Control Manuals. Following the implementation of the DelayHandling Policy, it was reported that the number of complaints in terms of Passenger Delay Handling had reduced and better handling of passengers during delays was noticed. In view of this and the successful implementation of this policy, Vaneesa was awarded the much-coveted MH Star Award given by the Managing Director of Malaysia Airlines.
Again in her quest to keep pushing the frontiers, Vaneesa then moved on to yet another exciting chapter in her Malaysia Airlines career. She took on the role of an Internal Auditor. Within this ambit, she was involved in conducting several corporate audits to ensure corporate objectives and strategies were achieved in compliance with corporate policies and procedures. During this time she prepared audit reports and identified significant audit issues to be presented to the Board Audit Committee.
After calling time on her Malaysia Airlines career, Vaneesa scored another feather in her cap. She was offered the role of Risk Management Practitioner and trainer at Astro Malaysia, a leading broadcasting organization. Vaneesa relished this role, where she regularly trained staff on Risk Management and Corporate Governance. Her experience, drive and unbridled passion as a trainer was recognized and lauded by her peers and superiors when she was awarded the much-coveted “Excellence in Training” award by the Human Resources division of this organization.
Some of her accomplishments in risk management include implementation of enterprise-wide risk management (ERM) framework, providing risk advisory support to MAS Group in terms of risk identification, monitoring and reporting in accordance with the compliance framework; Leading in the facilitation of risk profiling sessions with key business divisions which involve risk identification, assessment and prioritization; effectively assessing and reviewing the Corporate Risk Management Policy and framework to ensure effective implementation and operationalisation of enterprise risk management; Periodically preparing ERM reports to the Divisional Heads & Board highlighting key risks facing the organisation and developing management action plans to mitigate risk exposures; Content developer and executor for in-house training programs; Facilitating risk workshops and briefings.
During her tenure in Internal Audit, her key roles were in the planning of The Annual Audit Plan within the Assurance team to ensure the achievement of corporate objectives/strategies were in compliance with corporate policies and procedures as well as statutory requirements & regulations; Ensuring adequacy of controls and their effectiveness, including identification of financial improvements arising from audit engagements performed; Reviewing audit findings and action plan(s) recommendation by Assurance Team to ensure adherence to internal control mechanism; Providing information in audit reports and confirming significant audit findings with relevant stakeholder; Reporting on the status of audit engagements and delivering audit reports; Monitoring team activities to ensure deliverables are timely completed and within budget; Providing sufficient training, knowledge, skills and experience to meet organisation’s requirements through coaching programs and knowledge sharing.
Having spent so many great years in the corporate world-building experience, knowledge, skill-sets and people management capabilities, Vaneesa followed through with her fierce passion in the field of training and development. This is where she innately excels and is able to contribute the most. She thrives in a facilitation and training environment.
Committed and driven to the cause, Vaneesa went on to obtain a formal training certification from HRDF. She followed this up with formal training and certification by the Basel Institute of Governance, Switzerland in Corporate Governance, Risk Management, Compliance Management, Ethics & Culture and Anti-Corruption and now is an endorsed trainer by the Basel Institute of Governance Switzerland. With these certifications on hand coupled with her vault of experience, she’s been actively training both local and international participants from Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kenya & Bhutan, to name a few, in the areas of Risk Management, Corporate Governance, Compliance Management & Internal Audit.
Recently, Vaneesa received the prestigious award of Risk Practitioner and Certified Trainer under the category of Women Leadership by CMO Asia. She is a certified online/virtual trainer and carries the title Virtual LearnCaster. She has conducted various online training over the last year.
As a professional, Vaneesa is extremely adaptable, a keen learner, and constantly aspiring to broaden the horizons of her experience and knowledge base. She is driven, passionate and always raring for a challenge which makes her an asset to any organization. As a person, her affable qualities and excellent interpersonal skills have provided the platform for many successful relationships. A supremely balanced individual with a healthy sense of camaraderie. A true people person, which is clearly evident amongst the radiant smiles and enthusiasm on the faces of the people she trains.
