The post-pandemic era CFO: An interview with Sheila Ng, CFO of Raffles Medical Group
Financial Officers

The post-pandemic era CFO: An interview with Sheila Ng, CFO of Raffles Medical Group

Sheila Ng shares her insights on how organizations should think about their finance function in order to prepare themselves for an ever-changing world, hiring and cultivating high-performing teams, and how CFOs should think about succession planning.
Fabian Tan

In this video, Heidrick & Struggles’ Fabian Tan sits down with Sheila Ng, the CFO of Raffles Medical Group, a private healthcare provider in Asia, operating medical facilities in thirteen cities in Singapore, China, Japan, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Ng shares her journey at Raffles Medical since joining at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and shares her perspective on how organizations should think about their finance function in order to prepare themselves for an ever-changing world and the incorporation of dynamic forecasting. She also discusses her philosophy of hiring and cultivating high-performing teams in what many are calling a war for talent and her perspective on how CFOs should think about succession planning and offers advice to future aspiring finance leaders to stay ahead of the curve.

About the Interviewer

Fabian Tan (ftan@heidrick.com) is a principal in Heidrick & Struggles’ Singapore office and a member of the global Industrial and Financial Officers practices.

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