The relationship between Zhang Jinping and TOPSFLO began in 2011. At that time, she was engaged in financial work in a pharmaceutical company in Changsha, and her work was relaxed and comfortable. With plenty of spare time, she decided to find a part-time job to enrich her life. As a result, she met someone who would have a profound impact on her future career——Richard Wang, the founder of TOPSFLO Pumps.
After working part-time in TOPSFLO for a period of time, Zhang Jinping decided to join the TOPSFLO team. “Compared with the ease of work, I value the company’s development prospects more. After understanding this period of time, I have seen the rapid development of the company’s performance, and I have also seen Mr. Wang’s behavior in the world. He has a clear direction for the future. I am willing to follow, and I am full of energy!” Thus, Zhang Jinping officially became the financial staff of TOPSFLO Pump Industry.
“Loyal minister” awakening——
Finance shouldn’t just be about accounting
Sticking to the financial post for 10 years, Zhang Jinping witnessed the development of TOPSFLO from several leased offices and 1500㎡ factory building to a spacious and atmospheric office space and a 16000㎡ self-owned modern factory. The country has developed to cover 65 countries and regions around the world, and has witnessed the company’s employees growing from more than a dozen to hundreds of employees in R&D, production, manufacturing, marketing, business, operations and other departments.
Seeing the rapid development and growth of the company, she was both happy and apprehensive. I am happy that I made the right choice at the beginning, but I am worried about my own growth rate. “Watching the company grow bigger and stronger step by step, I suddenly realized that our finances should not just do accounts, but link the work of various departments from the perspective of the overall operation of the company. This made me feel the bottleneck.” Zhang Jinping believes that he is a As a “loyal minister”, he can complete all the work assigned by the leader with high quality, but it is far from achieving the same growth rate as the company. She felt an urgent need to recharge her studies.
Zhang Jinping’s concerns have long been included in the visionary leader’s plan. Soon after, the company arranged for relevant personnel including Zhang Jinping to go out to study financial system courses. “After professional study outside, I realized that I have always been a frog at the bottom of a well. It is a pity that my thinking and pattern have not been opened before.”
With the transformation of cognitive thinking and the blessing of systematic learning, Zhang Jinping decided to start the reform of the financial system.
“Good generals” grow up——
ERP system upgrade breaks the passive situation
As early as many years ago, TOPSFLO pumps have started to integrate into the ERP system. As the so-called “soldiers and horses are not moved, food and grass go first”, the key to the ERP system is to optimize the resources of the enterprise from the scope of the supply chain and optimize the operating mode of the enterprise. However, under the management of ERP system, the grim situation of inventory is in front of TOPSFLO people.
“Messy” and “out of control”, Zhang Jinping used these two words to describe the company’s inventory management status at that time. “Because the management of material procurement is not standardized enough, there is a serious backlog of inventory. After an inventory, everyone was shocked. The material inventory on the production line alone is 400,000 to 50,000. The inventory possession is like a bloodsucking bug, and it is slowly disappearing. eroding the company’s assets…” Zhang Jinping recalled that in those years, monthly meetings were held to formulate plans and eliminate inventory, but the problem of inventory backlog has not been completely resolved.
Now that the reform has been decided, Zhang Jinping will make the first shot on the inventory management front. She realized that in order to completely break the limitations of traditional financial data information lagging and passive information reception, build a clearer financial system, and accurately integrate data information from various departments, the ERP system must be upgraded.
This is not a simple matter. The company raised it to an annual strategy, hired financial experts and teachers to guide it, and the financial team has grown to 6 people. As a financial manager, under the guidance of the teacher, Zhang Jinping put into practice the acquired knowledge and put it into practical use. She and the team have been sorting out for more than a month, meeting late into the night every night, looking for loopholes, thinking of solutions, and improving mechanisms and processes… At that time, Zhang Jinping’s daughter was in the critical period of the high school entrance examination, and she was under the double load of work and childcare. Now, she is often busy like a spinning top, her feet never touch the ground. In the end, her efforts were not in vain, and her hard work paid off in exchange for ideal results.
After a long period of preparatory work for the introduction, the Kingdee Cloud•Xingkong project was officially launched. The upgrade of the ERP system has further improved the company’s financial process, sales, procurement, production, and warehouse management are more transparent, material data is clear, the company’s efficiency has been greatly improved, and the delivery of large quantities of customers has also been guaranteed. “Internal problems can be directly reported through financial analysis. Of course, inventory management is not a problem!” Zhang Jinping said with high spirits.
The ERP project was successfully launched and achieved remarkable results. The financial teacher also gave a very high evaluation to the TOPSFLO financial team: “When I first came to TOPSFLO, I felt that this was a relatively difficult team in the team I coached. The team was short of staff and lacked experience. They are not skilled at work, and now I want to say that this is the fastest-growing and most relaxed team in the company I coach.” And all of this is inseparable from Zhang Jinping’s enterprising spirit of humbly learning and the preciousness of “bowing his head and being a willing ox”. character.
“Proficient in finance, jumping out of finance”, through continuous learning and improvement, Zhang Jinping has truly learned to analyze, plan, and design the financial system from the height and perspective of the entire enterprise. She led the financial team to comprehensively sort out the business processes of each department, promoted the calculation of standard working hours, sorted out financial indicators and operating indicators, improved the accounting, collection, and refinement of accounts, and achieved clear and well-founded financial statements. It can be checked, which has promoted the implementation of the equity structure and planning plan…After the growth and transformation, Zhang Jinping is making great strides towards the goal of “establishing a comprehensive, complete and modern financial accounting and management system”!
The next ten years—
Firmly follow the same frequency development
In 2021, the TOPSFLO pump industry did something that made many workers jealous. The company awarded 3 Hongqi luxury cars to outstanding employees. And Zhang Jinping is one of them. At the awards ceremony, Zhang Jinping was holding flowers, with a happy smile on his face.
In the past ten years, Zhang Jinping often heard Mr. Wang talk about the concept of “a sense of happiness in both work and life”. In TOPSFLO, she really felt it. The height of the leadership structure makes her feel happy about the future, the company’s humanistic care makes her life full of happiness, and the friendship and happiness among colleagues makes her work full of happiness. “I used to go to work for the sake of going to work, but now I am looking forward to going to work. My state is different, and I am full of energy every day.” Now, Zhang Jinping is also passing on this sense of happiness to more TOPSFLO people, giving team members work Space, care for colleagues around you, and contribute to the happy family of TOPSFLO.
For the next ten years, Zhang Jinping has long planned.
Based on the present, her goal is to make the financial system truly play a role in supporting business management and decision-making. In 2022, it will optimize and improve from multiple dimensions such as the company’s top-level design, comprehensive budget system, accounting system, cost accounting system, financial analysis and management accounting statements, and financial internal control system.
She modestly said that financial thinking is easy to solidify, and she still needs to keep learning. She hopes that ten years from now, she can become like an expert teacher hired by the company, who will be in charge of TOPSFLO’s future group operation system, transfer knowledge and experience to newcomers, and help more people improve.
“Following for ten years has verified that the leader’s direction is always right! In the future, I will continue to follow the leader’s footsteps and achieve the same development as the company.” Zhang Jinping said firmly.
