Our People

Hasnoel is a Director and founding member of BAC. He has has assumed Senior Leadership roles in the areas of public policy, corporate finance, investment advisory, strategic reviews, financial advisory and risk management in various engagements for Multinationals, Public Listed Companies, Government Ministries, Government Linked Companies, Agencies and Statutory Bodies, and SMEs.

Hasnoel has provided Principal Leadership to the following engagements:

• Structured numerous Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs) for several huge undertakings to the Government of Malaysia in areas related to education, healthcare, infrastructure, transportation, defence, technology, waste management, water and utilities, facilities management, energy and renewable energy.
• Initial Public Offering (IPO) advisory on several listings on the Main Market and ACE Market of Bursa Saham

• Advised on financial and operational restructuring schemes for a number of companies listed in Bursa Malaysia in the ICT, manufacturing and ship building industry

• Performed fund raising exercises for major infrastructure projects in water, sewerage, education and healthcare related industries

• Performed analysis on various funding option for a massive military hardware acquisition on behalf of a listed company in their proposal to the Government of Malaysia

• Performed Strategic and Financial Diagnostic Review for the Independent Power Producer (IPP) of a Large Public Listed Conglomerate.

• Reviewed the process of procurement of military hardware in the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Malaysian Navy for Ministry of Finance

• Developed a strategic blueprint for the Government's acquisition of the listed property company.

• Developed the acquisition plan and subsequently formulated a strategic transformation blueprint for a private university on behalf of an education fondation.

Hasnoel was previously a Manager with Financial & Commodity Risk Consulting practice of Andersen, spearheading the establisment of the unit in the KL office. His career experiences include serving as a Senior Manager within the UEM Group and in the risk management, treasury and internal audit functions of CIMB Bank.

Hasnoel graduated from University of Southampton, UK in BUsiness Economics and Accounting. e is also Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a member of the Association for Investment Management & Research (AIMR, now CFA Institute, US), the Global Association of RIsk Professionals (GARP), UK, and the Malaysian Society of Financial Analyst (MSFA). He holds a Capital Markets Services Representative's License issued by Securities Commission Malaysia.

Azhim is a Director and founding member of BAC. His area of expertise covers financial advisory services, process improvements, risk management and technology advisory services. His clients include those operating in financial services, power generation, aerospace design, maritime services, healthcare, mining, manufacturing and the public sector.

Azhim has provided Principal Leadership to the following engagements:

• Upgraded and migrated an upstream and downstream analytics solution for multinational oil & gas company.
• Developed an automated activity-based costing solution for the trans-shipment of gas.
• Developed an automated activity-based costing solution for the generation of power for a local oil & gas company.
• Developed an automated solution to analyse the financial results of production sharing contracts for an oil & gas company.
• Designed and implemented the automation of management financial reporting and budgeting for an oil & gas company.
• Developed a solution to store and analyse engineering projects and costs for an oil & gas company.
• Developed a financial economics management system for the national central bank of Malaysia.
• Developed an Investment Risk Management System for the national civil servant’s pension fund.
• Performed data cleansing for subscriber profiles for the largest tele-communications company.
• Developed a reporting dashboard, cube, ETL package for a multinational company.

Prior to Numa and BAC, Azhim was a Manager at Ernst & Young, Kuala Lumpur's Assurance & Advisory Business Services practice, specialising in the financial services industry. Then, he had over seven (7) years of experiences mainly involving financial management, operational reviews and process improvements in a varietry of industries. Those industries include banking, Islamic banking, insurance, takaful, reinsurance, investment & asset management, unit and property trusts, venture capital, leasing, factoring, precious metals trader, securities and card services. is exposure extends to clients in Brunei and Indonesia.

Azhim holds a Degree in Accounting and Finance from University of Lancaster, UK and is a Fellow Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA). He is also a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA). He holds a Capital Markets Services Representative's License issued by the Securities Commission Malaysia. He is also a certified IBM Cognos TM1 Data Analyst and IBM Cognos Foundational Sales Professional.