Royce Huang

Royce is an accomplished big four trained CFO/ General Manager with 15+ years’ experience in managing entrepreneurial organisations through both strong growth and downturn.

Royce joined The Empower Wealth Group in November 2020 and as a key member of the Executive Leadership team he works closely with the Managing Director and CEO.  He is also responsible for providing effective financial leadership and support to the broader leadership team and business. This involves the development, implementation and embedding of financial strategies, processes and disciplines that contribute to the continued success of the business.

Royce is a hands-on business leader. The solid knowledge and extensive skills of full financial/accounting functions and experiences of managing key business operations enables him excellent capability of analysing financial data to identify business inefficiency, plan strategies to deliver commercial results in line with budget, control operating costs, drive financial capacity, improve profitability and interpret/present financial reports to the board and those with little or no background in finance.

Being CFO, a strategic business partner to the Managing Director and the CEO, Royce directs and controls the financial and administration operations of the company, to ensure timely, accurate and efficient financial systems, processes, reporting and statutory compliance. Royce also oversees the Financial Planning Division and provides visible leadership for managing commercial business operations and functions; developing and implementing business growth strategies; evaluating performance and productivity; researching and identifying growth opportunities.

Acting as Company Secretary, Royce ensures all information of the company is updated with ASIC and supports the corporate governance framework by assisting the board and the CEO to meet its governance and compliance obligations. Royce has comprehensive experience and solid knowledge of full finance functions especially in M&A, ERP system planning and implementation, Fund Raising, ASX reporting and IPO. Since 2007 Royce played a key role in managing 16 business acquisitions including 11 in Australia and 5 overseas.

Before joining the Empower Wealth Group, Royce had more than 20 years of financial/accounting experience including 15+ years as senior financial management in large private enterprise and listed multinational company with industry background across Waste Management, Civil Resource Operations, Infrastructure Development, Agriculture, Mining, Telco/SaaS, Media and Public Practice. Most recently from 2013 to 2020, Royce held the Group CFO and Division General Manager position at United Resource Management Group which is one of the largest privately-owned waste resource and infrastructure management companies in Australia and United Kingdom. Before that, Royce was the Regional Finance Director of Cloud Services Division of NTT Group (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone; NYSE/TSE: NTT) from 2010 to 2013.

Royce is fellow member of CPA Australia, he holds a Master Degree of Business Administration, a Bachelor Degree of Commerce and a Certificate of Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.