Amy Lam, Finance Director of Jardine Airport Services Limited, is a high-flyer who has pursued lifelong learning throughout her career. She has successfully climbed up the career ladder in the accounting industry from an accounting assistant to a senior management position.
Lam recalls joining Jardines as an accounting assistant after graduating with a Management Accounting degree. “In my first year at college, I thought that it would be nice to be an accountant just like my father because every company needs a capable accountant to take care of the financial matters. So, I switched from general business studies to management accounting after the first year.”
Her decision and effort paid off. It took her one and a half year to get to a management position as her background in management accounting fit well with what was required back then for the development of job costing and inventory control systems. Advancing from a manager of a small unit to controller of the logistics group and now being finance director of Jardine Aviation Services Group, Lam comments that her CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) background and internal training at Jardines certainly helped a lot. Those in-house training courses have equipped Lam with the relevant management skills.