Kathy Chen Email & Phone Number

Camberwell, Victoria, Australia

• Play Team leader roll in the financial service team and banking team, provide training and mentoring for financial accountants and financial services administrator;• Review and monitor all bank reconciliations, such as pool cash reconciliation, reserve accounts reconciliation, Cheque clearing reconciliation, Custody Share reconciliation and Dealer trade reconciliation;• Provide support for investigating/clearing all exceptions/variances in a timely manner and ensuring any aged items are escalated via the proper channels; • Prepare monthly financial reports, including process general ledger journals, reconcile fees and prepare accrual; • Play an import role in the Successor and Intra-fund transfer (SFT and IFT) projects, make sure all funding are correctly calculated and transfer to the new funds;• Support year end audit process, in collaboration with other teams, auditors and other stakeholders;• Prepare half yearly and yearly financial statement for funds, including notes disclosures and supporting schedules;• EOFY Tax preparation, including communicate with platform developer for fix defeats, align with group tax and tax agent for any inquiry;• Prepare Non-resident withholding tax for the members;• Prepare Quarterly and Yearly APRA returns and any compliance/governance reporting;• Provide Fees reconciliation and reporting;• Prepare/Review BAS on monthly basis;• Undertaking ad-hoc reporting and providing assistance to other departments when necessary.

Scoresby, Victoria, Australia

Key Responsibilities:• Ensure the timely and accurate completion of all month end process and tasks in accordance with reporting timeframes, including prepare journals (accrual, prepayment and provision);• Ensure the monthly balance sheet is reconciled in the timely manner;• Fix asset management, including fix asset reconciliation, depreciation, disposal, Capital Works in progress review and budgeting/forecasting;• Provide business partnering and support to third-party clients, including prepare RCTI and monthly reports, provide professional level of customer services to our clients;• Managing foreign currency transactions, such as calculating FX revaluation, prepare FX exposure report;• Prepare the monthly BAS calculations, assisting taxation accountant with FBT and income tax return;• Prepare sub-rights income, CAL, ELR, PLR income;• Ensure all ABS compliance obligations and Payment Time Reporting obligation are completed accurately within lodgement timeframes;• Regularly keeping an open line of communication with internal and external stakeholders, including auditors, ABS, copyright agency, Australian Lending Right;• Undertaking ad-hoc reporting and providing assistance to other departments when necessary.

Melbourne, Australia

Key responsibilities：• Responsible for month end and year-end financial reporting, including P&L statement, balance sheet and cash flow statements, managing and completing the balance sheet reconciliations;• Assisting Finance Manager to complete budgeting and forecasting whilst jointly preparing KPI reports and management reports to the senior management team, thus perfecting my analytical skills in a cross functional environment;• Preparing General Ledger Journals (prepayment, provision and accrual) and submit financial reports to the group financial department through Hyperion(HFM) within a tight timeframe; • Undertaking foreign currency transactions, such as purchasing foreign currency, foreign currency exchange gain and loss, also in charge of inter-company recharges transactions;• Managing the monthly BAS calculations and lodging, assisting taxation accountant with FBT and payroll tax preparation;• Fixed asset management;• Analyzing P&L variances, including net sales, margin and overall operating cost analysis;• Preparing monthly sales reports and KPI reports along with the bi-annual Business Review for the board meeting;• Communicate and assist internal and external auditors throughout the financial year to promptly respond to any accounting inquiries, whilst jointly assisting our external accountants in preparing statutory accounts;• Treasury management, optimize commercial cash flows and working capital;ACHIEVEMENTS• Awarded the “Jotun Encouragement Award” for my excellent contributions to the company;• Successfully shortened the month-end close time from 6 days to 4 days;• Noted for my key role I played throughout the transitioning of our ERP systems. I was held responsible for setting up the new system, transferring data, testing the new system and training other staff members;• Represented the organisation on behalf of the Finance Manager when attending a Finance Conference in Thailand

Melbourne, Australia

Key responsibilities：• Matched purchase order with invoices and process invoices/credits with high accuracy;• Obtained authorization for payments within the authority matrix and Process weekly and monthly payment to local and overseas suppliers;• Prepared the daily cash flow report and weekly cash run reports • Managed foreign currency accounts and transactions including reconciling foreign currency gains and losses;• Liaised with internal and external stakeholders to setup new suppliers according to company policy;• Reconciled supplier accounts, transit accounts and age trail balance accounts;• Prepared and posted journals relating to reallocation of employee credit card statements;ACHIEVEMENTS• Successfully set up an excel spreadsheet to enable reconciliation for suppliers. This utilized pivot tables and sum-ifs to reduce the overall process from 2 hours to 15 minutes. This was recognized by senior management for the time and money saved for the organization as well as improving general efficiency for the accounting department;• Set a high standard with my management reporting skills and ability to work in a cross-functional environment. My achievements in this position resulted in my promotion to Company Accountant;

Melbourne, Australia

As Australia’s largest outdoor entertainment and camping retailer Ray’s Outdoors offers families everything they need to enjoy the outdoors from the backyard to the bush. Throughout a network of over 50 stores across Australia Ray’s Outdoors has a vast range of camping gear, tents, outdoor furniture, BBQ’s, kayaks and apparel including footwear and work wear.Key responsibility• Provided a comprehensive Accounts Payable function to Rays Outdoors. This involved processing payments, investigations and reconciling of supplier invoices & credits; • Processed creditor invoices, including matching of purchase orders, delivery dockets and ensuring documents have been appropriately authorized;• Processed creditor payments by both EFT and cheque, ensured creditor payments are made on a timely basis to both maximize payment terms offered and discounts available;• Maintained Excel reconciliation spreadsheets to help check the accuracy of accounting numbers and to keep an eye out for key business issues that may need to be raised to stakeholders and management team;ACHIEVEMENTS• Was able to prove my adaptability and ability to operate successfully under stress when adapting to an important role within this busy retail organisation;• Utilised my negotiating skills to resolve a supplier enquiry which had been disputed for over two years;

Derrimut, Victoria

Lamcons Developments is a local construction company, which provide customized services to their niche market. Lamcons has turnover of $10 million and employ 4 employees. Key responsibilities:Accounts-payable:• Set up vendors card file and maintain information up to date• Check and investigate invoices to make sure authorization and accuracy• Processing company invoices• Make invoice payment by Cheque; EFT and credit card• Dealing with credit note issues• Doing accounts-payable reconciliation according the statement provided by suppliersAccounts-receivable:• Set up customer card and maintain information up to date• Payment collection• Communicate with customers regarding their inquiries and disputes • Bank reconciliationTax• Prepare BAS, FBT and help outsourcing accountant complete income tax returnsACHIEVEMENT• Have better understanding how small business operate & improve problem solving skills

Master, Accounting

Bachelor, Business