My goal as a server is to deliver an excellent dining experience to my customers by ensuring that their wants and needs are met. My tasks include:- Explaining the dining process of our restaurant, what they need to know and which ones they can select based on their expectations.- Actively listen for any special requests to accommodate food preferences by adding, removing or substituting certain ingredients.- Make sure food allergies are considered when taking orders and carefully consider which approach will keep the customer safe.- Participate in maintaining the order and cleanliness of the restaurant and ensuring supplies are constantly replenished.- Mentor new hires by demonstrating proper conduct and transferring skills necessary to become an asset in the workplace.

Working as a Staff Accountant at a boutique accounting firm, I have gained extensive experience in closely collaborating with Canadian-incorporated small business proprietors. In this capacity, I manage a diverse portfolio of clients spanning multiple industries, effectively multitasking to deliver exceptional financial services. My key responsibilities encompass:- Using Xero and QuickBooks to execute accounting functions, including the preparation of journal entries, bank reconciliations, categorization of bank statements, and the generation of Financial Statements.- Preparing sales invoices, ensuring accurate reflection of sales and receivables, carefully updating recurring templates to align with client agreements, and regularly checking to confirm the completeness of issued invoices.- Documenting bills from client's suppliers, noting payable amounts and due dates, and validating all recorded bills to ensure their alignment with company obligations; proactively rectifying inaccurately recorded entries for accounts payable accuracy.- Prepare GST/HST returns in accordance with client filing schedules (monthly, quarterly, or yearly), validating recorded sales taxes, and ensuring netting of input taxes against sales taxes- Adhering to exacting standards while preparing T2 Returns for corporate income tax filings, ensuring reconciliation of opening balances with prior returns, and providing transparent explanations for any adjustments spanning previous fiscal years.- Managing payroll functions through the utilization of Humi software, observing pay run deadlines, managing payroll account funding, and seamlessly coordinating with relevant approvers for immediate transaction execution.- Regularly meeting with the Managing Director to deliver comprehensive updates on client portfolios, promptly escalate critical issues, and request expert guidance for challenges encountered during the bookkeeping process.

I joined Rockwell Land Corporation as a Financial Analyst in November 2020. The company is known in the Philippines for developing High-end Residences, Commercial, and Retail spaces. The company is also developing projects that cater to the upper-mid range market. My duties include:- Preparing and consolidating the company’s annual budget that will be presented to the top management and the Board of Directors- Regularly calculating the latest estimates based on the most recent information and assumptions available, to provide a clearer picture of the company’s bottom line figures for the year and the succeeding periods- Analyze key performance indicators considering the information and assumptions used in the latest forecasts and discuss with Top Management its effect on the company.- I also prepared forecasts to include effects of existing and planned acquisitions on the Company’s Financials in both short term and long term.

I started my career in Accounting as an Audit Associate because of the potential growth and opportunity that comes with it. I always wanted to join the biggest accounting firm in the world through its branch in the Philippines, hence I joined Deloitte Philippines as an Audit Associate as my first job. With Deloitte, I had the unique opportunity to work with highly skilled professionals who shared with me their skills and taught me valuable work traits such as Integrity, Professionalism, and Proper Ethics. I was also exposed to different industries through my clients that helped me understand how their business process worked. My tasks include:- Understanding the entity’s industry practices, nature of business, and processes by engaging on interviews with the contact person and conducting background checks on the client.- Performed walkthrough to evaluate the effectiveness of the design of controls identified, tested its implementation, its overall effectiveness and proposed effective controls to mitigate risks and improve business processes.- Participated in planning the audit by identifying Material classes of transactions, account balances and disclosures that are to be tested in the audit and performed Preliminary analytical Review where significant or abnormal fluctuations are identified.- I also performed tailored audit procedures such as test of details, substantive analytical procedures, and fluctuation analysis of Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss accounts to ensure risk of material misstatements are addressed.