Hng-Boon-Keng

H'ng Boon Keng

Partner, Audit & Assurance

Executive Summary

H’ng Boon Keng is a Partner in Audit and Assurance at BDO Malaysia. He has over 29 years of professional experience in audit, accounting advisory, and corporate reporting.

Prior to joining the firm, Boon Keng held senior leadership roles including Managing Partner of an audit practice and Independent Non-Executive Director of public listed companies. He spent over two decades with Ernst & Young in Kuala Lumpur and London, where he built deep expertise in statutory audits of public listed companies, multinational corporations, and government linked entities across diverse industries including investment holding, retail, property development, construction, hospitality, education, automotive, manufacturing, food and beverage, manufacturing, and plantation.  

His professional experience also spans through reporting accountant engagements, IPOs, corporate restructuring, due diligence, fraud investigation, review of financial statements, agreed upon procedures and accounting advisory under MFRS and IFRS engagements within a wide-spectrum of sectors. During his tenure as an independent director of public listed companies, he worked with fellow board members to provide strategic leadership and oversight. Together, they safeguarded financial integrity, upheld corporate governance, and protected the best interests of the companies and their stakeholders. His board roles in these public listed companies included Senior Independent Director, Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committees, and member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committees.

Boon Keng brings valuable international exposure, having worked in London and undertaken audit and special assignments across multiple jurisdictions including the United Kingdom, Scotland, Finland, the Netherlands, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Jakarta, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China (such as Quilin, Yang Shuo, Qingdao, Lianyungang, Nantong, Jiangyin, Shanghai, Chang Chun, Dalian and Beijing).

Boon Keng is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA), a member of Certified Public Accountant (MICPA), a Certified Financial Planner, a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia, and holds a Bachelor of Accounting (Hons) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / EDUCATION

  • Member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA)
  • Member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA)
  • Certified Financial Planner, Financial Planning Association of Malaysia
  • Member of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia
  • Bachelor of Accounting (Hons), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia