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New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

• Responsible for the Accounts for the New Zealand Operations of Beach Energy including the preparation and analysis of accounting statements and reports for both operated and non-operated Joint Ventures as well as.
• Development of consolidation templates to enable efficiency when incorporating all the subsidiaries for completion of statutory financial statements.
• Met all key monthly, quarterly and annual reporting deadlines for the New Zealand entities and achieved clean audit reports for both financial data and financial controls.
• Coordinated and monitored the external audit function to enable them to conduct half year and annual activities to comply with reporting requirements.
• Implemented the change in functional and presentation currency for the New Zealand reporting entities from USD to NZD to better reflect revenue and costs that were denominated and settled in.
• Contributed to the streamlining of processes to enable shorter turn-around times for month end reporting from 5 working days to 2 working days after a month end close off.

New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

• As financial accountant, I was responsible for providing timely and accurate financial statements for NZ management, group reporting and company filing.
• Preparation of the financial statements for the NZ entities at a consolidation and subsidiary level that make up the NZ operations, which manage onshore and offshore assets and exploration activities.
• Preparation of financial reporting notes and commentary, half yearly and annual results to meet corporate requirements, NZ IFRS and legislative requirements, including monthly forecasting.
• Support the internal and external audit functions with financial information and proof of policy/procedure compliance.
• Work with teams to plan and produce annual budgets.
• Preparation of tax effect accounting entries and financial accounting journals in accordance with all corporate deadlines.

New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

• Responsible for the Annual Report preparation and Audit compilation work. Ensuring the Bank is complying with all statutory requirements for financial reporting and prudential supervision. Prepared monthly management.
• Responsible for the conversion, implementation and completion of the company’s fully compliant NZ IFRS financial statements.
• Responsible for Annual Report preparation covering 8 financial years. Achieved clean audit reports for both financial data and financial controls.
• Prepared off-quarter, half year and full year disclosure statements in accordance with Registered Bank Disclosure Statement Orders.
• Responsible for taxation compilation work – GST, Company Tax Returns, Deferred Tax calculations.
• Advised with day to day management of and having overall responsibility for monthly reporting of treasury activities.

New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

• Responsible for the internal audit function incorporating all aspects of the Bank’s operations, its Branches and Realty, Travel and Foreign Exchange Divisions.
• Designed new risk-based audit programme.
• Adapted exception reporting suite to provide daily reports of key risk areas for proactive follow up.
• Executed new reporting format for audit reports to key stakeholders.
• Improved the awareness of the internal audit role and encourage staff engagement through the process.
• Implemented the audit plan and amending the audit plan to deal with new issues and to fit organisational needs as they developed.

New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

• As accountant to the Tax and Business Advisory service group, I was responsible for a wide variety of accounting work for entities across the firm’s broad client base.
• Processed and reported on management and financial accounting information.
• Upgraded tax training modules to support training across national offices.
• Researched tax compliance work and provided tax advice to a wide variety of clients and staff members.

New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

• Assisted the Group Accounting Manager, which included the preparation of the annual statutory financial statements, management reports, budgets and forecasts.
• Completed PAYE, FBT, GST and Withholding Tax returns for the Group.
• Supervised the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable functions within the Group.
• Maintained monthly reconciliations of the Bank and Balance Sheet accounts.
• Administered the company’s insurance programme (including managing and ensuring insurance renewal and other changes in cover where appropriate).

Diploma In Business Studies, Accounting

Bachelor Of Business Studies, Finance

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