Before becoming an Auditel Consultant Kien spent 13 years in a number of senior finance, commercial and general management roles across various industries, including automotive manufacturing, telecoms and private healthcare. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, he spent 6 years at Toyota Motor Manufacturing as a cost management specialist, where he acquired his interest in proactive and sustainable cost management. He also has significant commercial experience of the telecoms industry with Vodafone, where he was responsible for managing the commercials for the various B2B routes to market. Prior to joining Auditel, he held a number of Finance Director and Executive Director roles with the UK’s largest private hospital group.
As a former FD, Kien understands that even the most proactive of organisations will only ever be able to focus on managing their core cost base, and will rarely be able to give equal attention to overhead costs whether it is due to lack of time, resource, expertise or other priorities. As an Auditel Consultant, he is now keen to offer other managers or business owners a risk-free resource to deliver sustainable and best value to their organisations, directly improving their bottom lines.
With this cost management grounding and wide business experience Kien is ideally placed to provide his Auditel clients with specialist support on managing their business overheads that is relevant and tailored to the individual clients’ needs.