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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ottawa, Canada Area

● Process Canadian payrolls and US payrolls for 100+ employees; manage payroll accounts● Post payroll journal entries and reconciled payroll general ledger accounts● Supervise AP Specialist and help the employee improve by answering inquiries, explaining principles and policies and instructing problem solvings; review AP files and AP work● Performed trouble shooting of operation accounting; investigate and account for difference of operation transactions

Ottawa, Canada Area

● Performed full cycle accounting operations including AR, AP, general ledgers, payroll, banking, capital assets, financial leasing, equity, monthly closing, and year end closing● Prepared financial statements; prepared period and ad-hoc financial reports for internal and external stakeholders; improved existing reports and created new report models● Forecast cash flow to assist CEO’s decision making on a daily basis; determined priority of accounts payables and scheduled payments with tight cash flow● Analyzed and determined timing and amount of foreign exchange transactions, and performed foreign exchanges; processed CAD and USD payments to US and Canadian vendors via different remittance methods while ensuring efficiency and minimizing costs● Responded to executives, and internal and external stakeholders’ inquiries; initiated account reconciliation with customers, vendors and shareholders; investigated doubtful transactions; discovered and corrected mistakes in previous periods; significantly reduced overdue AR ● Filed quarterly GST/HST returns, T2 corporate tax returns and SRED applications● Administrated employer account of health insurance in liaison with insurance agent: responded to employees’ inquiries, registered new employees, claimed life insurance for deceased employee, etc● Recruited, trained and supervised accounting clerk

Ottawa, Canada Area

● Filed tax returns for eligible people during tax season

Ottawa, Canada Area

● Worked with the Financial & Budget Manager on producing project budgets and providing ad-hoc cost analyses and forecasts● Analyzed payroll budgets and performed budget allocation; balanced project deficit and surplus under project guidelines to optimize fund utilization● Prepared Project Claims, Cash Flow Forecasts and Financial Monitoring Reports to external funders (federal government and provincial government)● Prepared detailed and consolidated financial reports for Board of Directors’ meetings● Assisted in year end auditing; prepared financial workbooks as per auditors' requests; answer auditors' inquiries; verified the accuracy of the audited financial statements and auditor’s report; identified and corrected the errors in the report● Monitored accounts receivable and reached out to collect accounts receivable● Explain internal expense policy and tax regulations to staff and external consultants; reviewed expense claims and vendor invoices ensuring compliance with the internal policies and resolved non-compliance issues.● Performed project accounting; maintained timely and accurate accounting records for AR, AP, payroll and General Ledgers; performed bank deposits and reconciliation; issued T4A slips to 50+ consultants, filed T4A returns and GST/HST returns.

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Verified goods delivery with packing slips; issued sales invoices and credit memos accordingly; • Performed monthly billings to 33 branch stores; reconciled accounts receivable and accounts payable; prepared AR and AP reports• Performed bank reconciliations

Beijing, China

• Administrated 52 credit accounts in liaison with clients; managed credit limits and terms; reconciled accounts receivable with clients; made ongoing efforts to collect payments and negotiated terms for overdue accounts• Performed on-site visits on customers; in liaison with internal sales people to promote sales and customer relationships• Performed credit insurance applications and follow-up

Beijing, China

• Performed Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and bank reconciliations• Prepared internal and external financial and statistical reports• Filed monthly, quarterly and yearly tax returns; monitored changes on national or provincial tax acts and proposed adjusting plans

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting

College Diploma, Professional Accounting