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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

In my current role, I direct accounting for financial transactions, overseeing a team of four, performing acquisitions, disposals, and financing initiatives ensuring adherence to the Australian Accounting Standards. I execute payroll reconciliation for 500 plus employees, and prepare annual and monthly financial statements including consolidations, cash flow, and financial statement analyses. Furthermore, I collaborate on corporate month-end processes such as completion and revision of company and business unit profit and losses; and prepare annual FBT returns, as well as monthly Business Activity Statement (BAS), and NTER.Selected Achievments:• Resolved long-standing vendor-SAI global issue, saving close to $40K in bad debt, and establishing better services and price for client.• Analyzed lease agreement with City of Greater Bendigo, saving $200K retrospectively.• Revamped GST claimable process, reducing cost and retrospectively claiming GST from the Australian Taxation Office.• Established monthly reconciliation process, solving balance sheet reconciliation backlog.• Devised process for revenue recognition, resolving complex issue with Transport Accident Commission.• Led successful external audit and revitalized team engagement and synergy.• Created written procedures for Balance Sheet reconciliation, month-end duties, and various revenue recognition processes.• Reduced turnaround time by two days through publishing profit and loss, balance sheets, and cash flows.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

In this role, I oversaw financial management including financial and month-end processes, balance sheet preparation and reconciliations, management reporting, financial analysis, and year-end forward planning. I collaborated on solutions and controls detected in internal and external audits, and conducted business unit budgeting process in partnership with internal stakeholders. Finally, I prepared budget templates for both capital expenditure and depreciation, and revenue and expenditure.Key contributions:• Completed full year balance sheet reconciliation within two months of appointment.• Reduced FBT payment by $30K annually as well as claiming refund of $60K for previous two years.

Melbourne, Australia

As the Acting Team Leader, I supervised nine direct reports overseeing VCAT exams and Client payments, quality and service issues, service level agreements, account and invoice management, and external partner relations. I updated team on unapproved payments and delivered monthly report to outsourcing partner to follow up with errors or business complaints.My accomplishments included:• Tested and improved VCAT exam system, resolving accounting and reporting issues to deliver project under budget and on-time.• Created reporting for built payments to assist management in overall evaluation and process improvement.• Resolved payment issues for NDIS clients, collaborating with IT department to adjust client records platform and allocate specific account codes.

Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

As a VCAT examiner, I examined financial accounts and supporting documents, reporting examination findings to VCAT. I performed peer reviews to ensure accuracy as well as compliance with legislation, policies, and best practices, and liaised with VCAT, private administrators, and further representatives to allow for accurate information gathering. Futhermore, I executed account management, including solving issues and concerns fielded from administrators.My achievements in this role include:• Devised records keeping process for VCAT examination accounts, creating a centralized database and reducing high debtors, client concerns, and bad debt previously written off each year.• Reduced VCAT exams debtors from $45K to $12K within two months of hiring date.

Melbourne & Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

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