Gary Lam Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic

• Marking Financial Planning Fundamentals papers• Mark NAPLAN & UK GCSE papers • Invigilate ACARA online item trial. • Mark CPA Global Strategy & Leadership papers • Marked CPA Malaysia Tax papers and set exam multiple choice items.

Melbourne, Australia

A CPA public practice which provides accounting and tax services to different clients including sole traders, individuals, partnerships, trusts, and small companies. Hands-on experience in the following accounting functions:• Cost centres analysis including the use of pivot table while working on the company expenses of different cost centres.• BAS preparation including the calculation of GST, PAYG and FBT• Full AP & AR functions including invoices and receipts processing, tax and account coding, preparing ageing reports at the end of the month and filing it away.• Credit cards and petty cash reconciliation monthly including the preparation of the approval sheet, matching all transactions between the statements and internal accounts, and filing away with reconciliation reports.• Perform Bank reconciliation daily basis by matching transactions between bank statements and MYOB records.• Update fixed assets register including the calculation of depreciation expense and posting general journals onto MYOB every month end.• Process stock purchases and sales as well as posting stock adjustment journals for several retail clients.• Assist in payroll processing including the calculation of PAYG tax withheld, superannuation and leave entitlements.

Clayton, Victoria

Responsibilities:• Reporting to ANZ Decision Support Manager to ensure control of stocks is effective, costing is accurate to support commercial pricing of SKUs and handling month end costing processes required for the variances analysis of the overall manufacturing operations• Reporting to Financial Controller in handling intercompany AP-AR reconciliation for month end closing, Balance Sheet reconciliation, journal entries, reconciling Corporate Purchase Cards and adhoc corporate accounting projects• Reporting to Finance Director in fleet and travel management and production of management reporting packsAchievements: • Provided financial data extracted from Oracle, Cognos, MS Access, Qlikview and Excel advance tools for decision making analysis• Member of the Finance team that has achieved month end closing within 3 working days after month-end• Provided costing support to achieve competitive commercial pricing for both purchased and manufactured items (8,000+ SKU items for 7 SBUs) • Coordinated the stocktake covering raw materials, WIPs, finished goods both purchased for sale and manufactured), labels and containers (total worth $75 million) over 4 plants locations, 40 company stores, 20 consignment stores and 25 warehouses of which 8 is run by 3PL• Compiled FBT return to achieve minimum FBT tax for 350 cars (operating cost method vs statutory formula method) and employees taxable fringe benefits• Work closely with fleet management companies, travel management company and car rental company to monitor effectiveness in achieving desired cost savings

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Reporting to Managing Partner regarding group consolidation, group budget, weekly cashflow reporting, payroll, group monthly management reporting and tax planning.• Managing regional financial and management reporting for Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, UK, and IndiaAchievements: • Generated annual budgets for 20 profit and cost centres within the group and conducted monthly variance analysis & reporting in a timely manner.• Generated annual tax savings (A$100k) on cross-border transactions by planning around relief granted in Double Tax Treaties• Successfully developed financial dashboard into board papers catering for non-financial directors

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Responsible for the full range of financial and management reporting for the manufacturing unit and retailing unit of the group.

Master Of Financial Planning, Finance, Dean Award

Bachelor Of Accounting, Accounting And Finance, Honours Degree