Lay Choo Khoo


Malaysia Office Managing Director

Lay Choo Khoo is the Office Managing Director at CNM Malaysia and is responsible for the management of the CNM office in Kuala Lumpur. She has 20 years of experience in public accounting, with a primary focus on CFO advisory services.

Prior to joining CNM, Lay Choo spent 15 years at Deloitte. She was most recently associated with Deloitte Malaysia for over three years, where she spent the first two years setting up and managing the operations of Audit and Assurance within Deloitte’s Regional Capability Centre, based in Kuala Lumpur. She also spent over a year at Deloitte Malaysia and 10 years at Deloitte UK in London, where she managed CFO advisory projects, supporting clients on finance process improvements, financial reporting excellence, and automation. Lay Choo also has commercial finance experience as an investment controller in a publicly listed telecommunications company in Malaysia, as well as 5 years of external audit experience gained during her tenure at Ernst & Young Kuala Lumpur. 

Education, Certifications and Associations

  • Oxford Brookes University, BSc. (Hons.) in Applied Accounting
  • Sunway University, CAT & ACCA
  • Fellow, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA)

Industry Specialty

  • Telecommunications
  • Services
  • Consumer Products
  • Property
  • Public Sector