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Responsibilities:Accounts Payable & Receivable and Reconciliations:● Accounts Payable and Payroll for 22 staff paid fortnightly.● Accounts Receivable including monthly invoicing and debtor management.● Reconciled General Ledger accounts and completed Bank reconciliations.● General Journal entries including accruals and prepayments.Monthly & Statutory Reporting & Co-ordination:● Completed financials including cash position, profit & loss and balance sheet.● BAS and PAYG returns.● Assisted the external advisors with the FBT returnForecasting, Analysis & Management Reporting:● Preparation of the annual budget.● Preparation of a rolling forecast and cash flow forecast● Prepared Monthly and Weekly Management reports● Cash and working capital management.● Fixed asset register.● Developed new ad-hoc reporting from management requests.● Cost reduction initiatives● Assistance with R&D Tax Concession.Human Resources & Administration Activities:● Manage induction process of new staff members● Preparation of employment contracts and other HR documentation● Preparation of employment visa applications including liaison with migration agents● Provide advice to management and staff on current HR issues● Manage company insurance policies ● Check staff timesheets to ensure they are complete and billable hours have been entered.● Participation in senior management meetings.● Manage staff key and building pass access● Ad hoc administrationKey Achievements:● Reduced external accounting costs by 55% by taking on more work● Established a regular forecasting process by preparing a 3-year rolling and cashflow forecast from scratch● Cleaned up the accounts and got the BAS lodgements up to date on one of the associated companies saving thousands of dollars in ATO fines and interest charges.● Established regular weekly and monthly management report packs● Improved the capture of costs● Got staff super contributions up to date and automated the process

Reconciliation of data between MYOB and MS Excel.Audit of electronic and cheque payments.Audit of purchase register.

I began as an Assistant Accountant in June 2008 and was promoted to become the Company Accountant in February 2011. As Company Accountant I was responsible for both Management and Financial Accounting, and managing two accounts staff, reporting to the Chief Financial Officer. After five years with the company, my role was made redundant as part of a restructuring process.Responsibilities:Monthly & Statutory Reporting & Co-ordination:● Completed financials for month-end including cash position, profit & loss, balance sheet, forecast, sales and project reports and consolidations.● Prepared half-year and annual statutory accounts including the Director’s Report with notes to accounts.● Completed annual income tax files to be sent to tax accountants.● Completed FBT, BAS and PAYG returns.● Completed Balance Sheet reconciliations and reviewed Bank reconciliations.● Completed Customer and Supplier rebate calculations and accruals.● Completed FBT analysis and prepared FBT Returns.Forecasting, Analysis & Management Reporting:● Assisted with the preparation of the annual budget.● Prepared Monthly Management reports for Management.● Raised P&L accruals, conducted analysis and provided commentary about the results.● Conducted Monthly Sales and GP Analysis.● Cash and working capital management.● Analysed inventory for slow moving stock and report findings to management.● Analysed sales of all products and report any low margins or sales or products to management.● Developed new ad-hoc reporting from management requests.● Prepared reports and provided comments to Senior Management and Sales departments including cash flow analysis, aged stock analysis, sales and margin analysis and divisional P&L statements.Staff Management & Training:● Supervised two bookkeepers (1 full-time and 1 part-time).

The Assistant Accountant role was mainly focused around statutory and monthly reporting and supporting the Chief Financial Officer.Responsibilities:Accounts Payable and Reconciliations:● Responsible for Accounts Payable and Payroll for 25 staff paid monthly.● Reconciled General Ledger accounts and completed Bank reconciliations.● Completed General Journal entries including accruals and prepayments.Monthly & Statutory Reporting & Co-ordination:● Completed financials for month close including cash position, profit & loss, balance sheet & consolidations.● Completed annual income tax files to be sent to tax accountants.● Completed FBT, BAS and PAYG returns.● Assisted with the preparation of the half-year and annual statutory accounts.● Assisted with preparing Monthly CFO Report for the board.Grant Applications & Other Activities:● Assisted with gathering information and liaison with external auditors.● Prepared quarterly returns for the Commercial Ready and P3 Grants.● Completed Export Market Development Grant application.● Maintained the Fixed Assets Register.

● Reconciled large volumes of debtor accounts by investigating any discrepancies and passed them on to the relevant departments for resolution.

Despite the title of Financial Accountant I actually performed more of a Management Accounting role.Highlights:Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable:● Responsible for Accounts Receivable, managed relationships with debtors and debt collection.● Completed Bank reconciliations and reconciled inter-company creditors● Backup for Accounts Payable and payroll processing.● Successfully cleaned up accounts receivable by collecting old debts some of which were over 2 years old. Management Accounting & Statutory Reporting:● Prepared monthly expense reports for various departments.● Created the monthly sales and gross profit report analysing various profit centres, products and customers.● Produced Monthly Production summary analysing production levels against budget and previous year.● Created the Monthly Highlights Report analysing profit and loss against budget and prior year.● Assisted with quarterly testing of internal controls to ensure compliance with the USA Sarbanes Oxley Act.● Calculated monthly royalties and commission payments and preparing relevant journal entries.● Produced the Daily Cashflow Report.● Assisted with analysis of production variances.● Prepared the monthly BAS returns.

This was a contract role post redundancy with Smorgon Steel that has since amalgamated with One Steel.● Processed numerous accounts payable invoices into SAP.

This was my first role after graduating as an Accountant from Monash University.Highlights:Accounts Payable:● Processed accounts payable invoices.● Completed supplier statement reconciliations.● Completed the Monthly creditor/supplier payment run and any urgent manual payments.● Arranged supplier payments through third party financiers.● Reconciled the Bartercard account.● Dealing with queries from suppliers.

This was a holiday job while studying Accounting at Monash University.

I held a variety of jobs in accounts, administration and secretarial roles while on a working holiday in London.Companies:● fj Cleveland (Patent and Trade Mark Law Firm).● Royal Mail (UK postal service).● Salvation Army (charity)● Edexcel (Educational assessment board)● Time Educational Supplement (Weekly newspaper supplement featuring jobs in the education field)● London Borough of Tower Hamlets (Local government authority).● London Borough of Southwark (Local government authority).

Responsibilities:● Corrected errors on Business Activity Statements.● Answered queries from the public and tax accountants about completing the BAS form.● Telephoned clients who made errors on their BAS forms about how to complete the form correctly

Responsibilities:● Accounts payable.● Accounts receivable.● Bank reconciliations.● Payroll

● Reconciliation of bank general ledger and suspense accounts for a portfolio of branches.

● Processed credit card disputes.