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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Contributed to the fast, efficient and effective month-end finance activity for multiple bank and credit card reconciliations.• Manage the AP and AR full-cycle function with accuracy, completeness, and validation of data in a high-volume retail environment.• Coordinate the collection efforts of past-due customers resulted in an increase of liquidity/working capital. • Responsible for daily management reports such as cash flow, AR/AP, aging status.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- During my 3rd year in Sahara Group, I’ve been commended for promotion based on 2020 goal setting result. After a rigorous written exam & virtual interview, I successfully pass the performance appraisal & has been promoted to Assistant FM.- While the new role still includes the same set of responsibilities as a Finance Supervisor, the ff are my key achievements as an Assistant FM:• LEAD & SUPERVISE: Manage a proper and smooth handover of the accounting function to new staff. Prepare a complete set of handover guide/checklist with the acctg workflow and process improvement to be in place. Arrange weekly meeting & ensure the new staff is thoroughly supported during the transition.• SYSTEM MIGRATION: Assists with system migration from manual Excel accounting to Oracle. Reconciled several vendor & customer accounts to tally with audited figures against the new software.• EXTERNAL AUDIT: Completed the first three financial year external audit of our start-up company in Uganda via remotely working with Deloitte Ug. Worked with complex accounting for foreign exchange gain/loss, stock reconciliation, AP & AR confirmation & reconciliation with vendors and clients, & intercompany reconciliation.• PAYROLL: Process the monthly payroll of local and offshore staff, seek approval from FMs and ensure timely process via Swift. Supervise compliance of payment of local taxes (PAYE, VAT, withholding taxes) & staff pension.• TAXATION: Review annual corporate income tax of entity in East Africa, coordinate with local tax consultant & ensure timely submission for compliance.• FIXED ASSET: Maintains fixed asset register, records monthly depreciation & ensure cost are valuated correctly with estimated remaining useful life• MNGT REPORTING: Prepares the monthly management accounts, supports FMs for the review and analysis of quarterly MIS reporting to the Directors, & arrange a monthly FMs meeting for all location. Prepares the minutes of meeting to be sent out to all FMs.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• GENERAL ACCOUNTING: Execute the end-to-end process using Tally ERP based on IFRS. Ensure complete, accurate & updated account ledgers and coordinate with internal stakeholders during closing activities.• FINANCE SUPERVISION: Supervise the accounting and financial reporting via remote working of East Africa start-up entities. Prepares working capital report & management accounts including financial ratio analysis and commentary of key movements for management’s decision making.• BANKING: Manage the banking platforms and directly coordinate for any set-up changes necessary. Attend meeting with banks for opening account, set-up a trade finance facility, corporate credit cards and compliance with annual KYC.• CASH FLOW MNGT: Plan the daily/monthly cash flow budget & forecast & investigate any material variance. Prepares monthly bank & petty cash reconciliation, ensure complete documentation & proper approval.• REPORTING:- Production of monthly individual management accounts of 4 different entities in East Africa for review & consolidation of FMs.- Prepares a complete set of financial report for the 3-year of a start-up entity in Uganda (Statement of Financial Position, P&L, Cash flow, & Equity) in conjunction with statutory audit.- Facilitate the annual budget preparation, analyze costs & coordinate with different departments on key changes for specific costs.• INTERCOMPANY: Manage the intercompany accounting including billing, cost apportionment, off-setting & refund amongst all sister entities. Ensures intercompany reconciliation of balances every month-end & participate with on-going reconciliation of past transactions.• ACCOUNTS PAYABLE (AP): Perform invoice processing, negotiate cost/terms with supplier, review accuracy, verify the validity of expense, ensures complete approval, & process with bank for payment.• VAT (GST): Ensure quarterly compliance and submission of VAT report to FTA portal. Review invoices and seek final approval from FM.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- FINANCIAL CLOSE: Perform month-end financial integrity review procedures to ensure accurate and complete financial reporting based on GAAP/IFRS.- MANAGEMENT REPORTING: Execute a monthly comparative P&L report including detailed revenue performance, expense, and margin analysis vs budget/forecast.- CASH FLOW MANAGEMENT: Conduct monthly cashflow budget including petty cash administration and monthly bank reconciliation. Monitor and optimize the inflow and outflow to avoid material budget variance and deficiency.- BANKING: Maintains the access administration and coordinate with bank for any issues encountered. Ensures annual compliance with KYC to keep an active relationship with banks.- GENERAL ACCOUNTING: Perform journal entries in Quickbooks, maintain the general ledger and document a quarterly report such as Trial Balance, Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, and Cash Flow Statement.- ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE (AR): Maintain ageing of receivable. Facilitate collection of overdue accounts through follow-up calls and emails while maintaining good business relationship with clients.- ACCOUNTS PAYABLE (AP): Review invoices, issue local purchase order (LPO) if necessary, negotiate prices, issue cheque upon Director’s approval and ensure supplier’s acknowledgement of payment.- PAYROLL: Prepares monthly payroll, calculate staff overtime & deduction, and process via bank WPS.- PROJECT ACCOUNTING: Facilitate the project’s financial performance by accounting the projected margin target, pricing, billing and revenue, estimated cost of material, labor and overhead. Reporting to the Director of the result including the final P&L and provide detailed analysis including recommendations.- INVENTORY: Perform monthly review and reconciliation of stock including surprise count, analyze and investigate material variances, and ensure corrective action to avoid error.- AUDIT: Ensure compliance with annual audit and coordinate with external auditors until completion.

Makati, National Capital Region, Philippines

My key responsibilities include the following:• Monitored inventory movements within business and third companies of Shell Oil Products in the U.S. Validate movements scheduled in inventory tracking system (IO) against actual movements in system application (SAP/GSAP) and investigate discrepancies as soon as identified. • Collaborated and worked with internal and external customers in order to deliver organizational targets.• Support and participate in Continuous Improvement activities that aim to improve HSSE, service-, and cost-effectiveness and efficiency• Proactively coordinated with the business/stakeholders for issues, suggests items for improvements, and note discrepancies to resolve and clear open issues.• Performed analysis, examination, and validation of quantity-related discrepancies, customer-related disputes/inquiries, and processing of deemed necessary adjustments enabling accurate sale transaction accounted in books.• Reconciliation of product sales to customers ensuring invoices is issued and collected from customers in a timely and efficient manner.• Processed manual booking of truck sales in GSAP.• Delivered all month-end activity commitments.• Support all focal roles and activities that will be beneficial in meeting day to day targets/deliverables.• Ensure documentation and filing is accurate, up to date and accessible.

Quezon City, National Capital Region, Philippines

My Key Responsibilities are:• Conduct the audit planning and orientations/briefings of the audit team on the difficulty/complexity of the client. Briefings shall focus on client profile; expected risks/problem; scope and focus of audit; primary and/or alternative substantive procedures to be performed; audit requirements; timetable and meeting deadlines.• Guide audit team in the performance of audit work. Advise and give instructions from the Audit Manager and the audit teams in resolving difficulties encountered during audit and in overall handling of audit clients.• Attends with audit staff during scheduled Exit Conferences meeting with client to discuss audit adjustments, material control findings and recommendations.• Review audit working papers, analysis and major findings found during the audit.• Review and proofread the audited financial statements including notes, mandatory disclosures, and income tax computation.• Supervise and monitor Junior Auditors in the preparation of audit reports and financial statements. Ensure timely submission for final review of Audit Manager.• Interact with clients to ensure that the information flow from client to the audit team is efficient.• Performs the same roles as a Junior Auditor for complex clients such as financial institution and large-size corporation.

Quezon City, National Capital Region, Philippines

My Key Responsibilities are:• Carry out high quality financial audit as a team member to clients in a specific industry sector (eg. financial institutions, retail, manufacturing, university, and non-profit organizations)• Conduct substantive audit detail tests including physical inventory count, surprise cash count, verify and investigate loan documents/promissory notes, land/property title, sales deeds, tax documents, bank confirmation, and contracts.• Compile all analysis, source documents, evidence and audit procedures performed and ensure completeness through audit working papers.• Review material transactions, documents, records, reports, and methods for test of accuracy and effectiveness of control.• Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls to ensure valid, properly authorized transactions are completely and accurately processed.• Prepares the complete set of audited financial statements (Auditor's Report, Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Financial Performance, Cash flow Statement, Equity Statement) in accordance with IFRS and the related mandatory disclosures.• Perform non-assurance engagement to clients such as bookkeeping, accounting, taxation (corporate income tax, withholding tax and VAT), and agreed-upon procedures.• Holds preliminary discussions of apparent deficiencies with client accountant/bookkeeper to verify and obtain explanations of and reasons for each apparent deficiency and documents responses.• Identify and communicate all material audit findings and other matter to Seniors and Partners.

Associate Member, Cpa Program On-Going

As an Associate Member, CPA Australia has assessed my Philippines Bachelor degree as academically comparable to Australian's Bachelor.

Certified Public Accountant (Cpa), Accounting And Finance

Successfully passed one of the most difficult licensure exam in the Philippines (Batch May 2011) in one take, immediately after a month.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Accountancy