Experience

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  MTALX Energy

  • United Arab Emirates

  • Head of Finance

    • Nov 2023 - Present
    • United Arab Emirates

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  MONTFORT

  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • Treasury Controller

    • Aug 2022 - Nov 2023
    • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Key Achievement: Managed overall performance of the Treasury Team solely despite of just being new in the company. Able to perform key roles and responsibilities without any supervision. Able to catch fraudulent transaction amounting 10M $ by performing due diligence before settling the payment.- Oversee forecast cash flow positions, related borrowing needs and funds available for investment. Ensure sufficient funds are available to meet ongoing operational and capital investment requirements. Responsible for cash forecasting, bank reconciliation, invoice review and preparation of payment before settling in online banking portals.- Allocation of payments and receipts against related and correct invoices to ensure correct cash position reporting.- Develop internal control policies, monitor financial activities and details, such as cash flow and reserve levels, to ensure that all legal and regulatory requirements are met, monitor flow of cash or other resources, monitor organizational compliance with regulations.- Maintain strong communications with banks and other financial service providers. Primary responsible for bank account opening and closing. Serve as the primary contact with commercial banks in cash management services, trust, custody and with business managers regarding day-to-day treasury needs.- Oversee electronic cash receipt and cash disbursement processing and accounting. Support FX front office processes including loading FX trades and rates, maintaining settlement instructions, and updating FX mandates with counterparty banks.- Adhere to month-end cut-off schedules by cash department personnel for reconciliations of all cash-related accounts, all month- end processes, and all related journal entries.- Assist with risk management by identifying/recommending strategies to minimize foreign currency, interest rate and commodity exposures. Recommend and implement solutions to strengthen operational controls and incorporate best practices.

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  NetSuite

  • Makati, National Capital Region, Philippines

  • Principal Functional Consultant

    • Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
    • Makati, National Capital Region, Philippines

    Key Achievement: Managed overall planning and development of project implementation of Expense Allocations and Amortization in NetSuite for a SaaS client and received perfect customer satisfaction (CSAT) survey during the stay in engagement. - Primary Functional Consultant for several US based clients in Oracle NetSuite ERP system initiatives in resolving systems issues by providing requirements documentation, root cause analysis, user testing support, implementation and leading practices to improve controls.- Conducted personalization sessions, requirements gathering and presentations thru zoom calls with client's management executives such as CFOs, COOs, Controllers, Finance Directors, Senior Accounting Managers, Director of IT etc. for customizations needed in management ad-hoc reports, saved searches, KPI's, dashboards and other MIS reporting needs.- Determined requirements within internal processes, understanding the flows of revenue and receivables transactions, and recognizing the accounting and general ledger impacts - including optimization of recording these transactions within NetSuite.- Implemented and tested advanced approvals forintercompany and non-intercompany journal entries improving consolidation process and post technical consultants' development of workflow and scripts.- Provided assistance to complete and maintain the integrations between NetSuite and the third party's software(Salesforce, Shopify, Avalera, Chargebee).- Tested end-to-end manufacturing flows of work assembly builds/work orders and routings in ERP system to validate and resolve clients' cost accounting issues, inventory accounting, COGS reporting and variance analysis. - Worked with technical team in developing automation solutions of price level mass updates for 30,000+ items for an e-commerce client.

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  Shell

  • Credit Risk Specialist - Trading and Supply

    • Jul 2018 - Nov 2021

    Credit Risk Management for Various Trading Networks - Manage whole credit trading portfolio for Shell Trading Rotterdam by providing credit advice on limit utilization for all deals and ensuring that securities were received to mitigate credit risk.- Provide first time right credit check advice for various trading networks and businesses within 30 minutes turn around time.- Exceed control operator that ensures that all counterparties doing business within their approved credit limit. Ensuring that exceed and approvals are retained and maintained prior execution of deals.

  • Hydrocarbon Senior Financial Analyst

    • Jul 2015 - Jul 2018

    Stock Recorder and Reconciler- Primary responsible in ensuring completeness, existence and accuracy of recorded inventory of gasoline/fuels in GSAP through performance of stock reconciliation on a daily and monthly basis on a plant-material level.- Investigate any discrepancies noted between what was recorded in books and what was reflected in terminal reports. Timely escalate issues to appropriate action owners (e.g. terminal operators of US based depots and pipelines). Provide solutions if possible. - Ensure compliance with SOX controls with first-time-right mindset. Follow documented work instructions.- Ensure delivery of process metrics and global key performance indicators (GKPI) for stock reconciliation.Prepare and validate pipeline transportation and terminaling charges on a timely basis.- Identify pain points in the process and generate ideas for continuous process improvements if necessary.- Provide reports to various stakeholders such as Tax, business partners and external auditors. Participated on all audit process related event to ensure that we are following WOW.

  • Hydrocarbon Contract and Pricing Analyst

    • Jul 2014 - Jul 2015

    Contracts and Pricing - Create and maintain/update Sales and Purchase contract in GSAP related to Hydrocarbon Inventory.- Validate the completeness and correctness of contract details from the request sent by the business negotiator based on the standard rules.- Ensure that request is appropriately approved base on approvers role and Manual of Authority.- Manually set-up the contract and pricing in GSAP accurately based on set out in the standard work instruction as well as in the agreed-upon country specific guidelines.

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  Accenture

  • Junior Team Leader - Cash Applications

    • Sep 2012 - Jul 2014

    - Helps organization to solve issues, create value, maximize growth and improve business performance. - Identify options for the organization and suggest recommendations for change, as well as advising on additional resources to implement solutions. - Carrying out research and data collection to understand the organization.- Preparing business proposals and presentations.- Implementing recommendations/solutions and ensuring the client receives the necessary assistance to carry it all out.- Leading and managing those within the team, including analysts.- Communicating with the client to keep them informed of progress and to make relevant decisions.- Responsible in updating and reporting about the Operational Excellence board.

  • Senior Cash Application Analyst

    • Jul 2011 - Aug 2012

    - Posting daily bank received payment and maintains cash sheet for clients, collector and managers visibility.- Performing daily reconcilation of cash sheet against bank statement.- Resolving internal and external customer queries on a professional manner.- Booking of ad-hoc journals - Bank charges, interest, etc.- Participating in cross functional teams to resolve business / process issues. - Supplying consistently accurate information to all inter-dependent groups and adhearing to strict deadlines.- Provides support to any queries collectors and finance team may have in regards to reconciliation issues.- Processing and managing Withholding tax functions.- Processing and manage reversals for various entities. - Undertake other tasks that may deemed necessary from time to time in fullfillment of the role. - Accountable for posting payments with 24 hours SLA period of researching of unapplied payments. - Posting all payments during month end with allowable small identified amount in unapplied cash.

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  Skyway O and M Corporation

  • Toll Auditor

    • Oct 2010 - Apr 2011

    - Ensures that all the income generated by the company is well accounted and recording by the toll tellers.- Monitors and prepare daily receivable transaction report.- Conduct account research and analysis for business and Audit Manager. - Make daily collection calls to follow up toll collections from different partners and interact with customers to resolve outstanding issues. - Maintain an accurate aging report to help minimize floating balances. Identify and execute the necessary process adjustments.- Motivate and develop 8 accounting employees.

  • Accounts Receivable Analyst

    • Sep 2009 - Oct 2010

    - Prepares monthly statements by collecting data, analyzing and investigating variances, summarizing data, information, and trends.- Prepares state quarterly and annual statements by assembling data.- Complies with state and tax filing requirements by studying regulations; adhering to requirements, advising management on required actions, calculating quarterly estimated tax payments, assembling data for quarterly and annual tax filings.- Responds to financial inquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data.