Expert - Financial Accounting
Taguig City, Metro Manila
First level of escalation for process issues and process deviations and analyzes possible solutions based on standard procedures. Responsible for the timely and accurate processing of specific accounting transactions. Contributes to process improvements and documentation. Coordinates with different departments, the Legal Entity, and external customers/vendors. Builds process expertise through providing guidance and trainings.• Led the analysis of a year’s worth of entries (involving 167,013 line items and completing the task within the one-month deadline) being the Regional contact for US, as part of a company-wide project to standardize the manual posting process• Created an Account Reconciliation template that aided the standardization of the account monitoring process across Financial Accounting – Manila• Authored various standard documentations under General Ledger and Closing modules• Helped reduce the Percentage of Old Open Items for LEs handled within the North America team from 43.6% to 3.4% in a span of two months• Prevented Account Re-openings (an FA KPI) through collaboration and proper knowledge on process alternatives• Approved manual postings ranging from 200 to 300 requests a closing period, within defined SLA• Conducted General Ledger Process Jour Fixes with accountants to identify process issues, coaching needs, and to receive overall feedback• Streamlined the process of providing quarterly account flux analysis, as part of an audit requirement for US• Provided effective process trainings within Financial Accounting as well as across departments• Recipient of both Individual and Team RnR