Experience

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  Self employed

  • Auckland

  • Business Owner

    • Jan 2012 - Present
    • Auckland

    Running my own business importing fuel and oil additives from the USA and selling to the Industrial and Commercial sector. Company name is: Let's Clean Up New Zealand.

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  Skids Ltd Head Office

  • Mt Wellington, Auckland

  • Financial Accountant

    • Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
    • Mt Wellington, Auckland

    In charge of all accounting functions and a key advisor to the franchisees of all things Aimy - a software program that handles all the parent and children details and does the booking of the Skids Before & After School Care programs. Carried out an analysis on Royalty payments and recovered some $150000 in underpaid Royalties.

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  TPI Waste Management

  • Business & Data Analyst

    • Sep 2009 - Dec 2011

    Responsibilities·Provide information for all of the Northern Division using Crystal Reports.·Help develop a new budget template in Excel·Help produce the 2012 budget.·Do stock reconciliations on all Northern waste bins.·Produce a monthly graphical dashboard for the Month end reportingAchievements·The sales teams were split into 2 teams, one for Key Accounts and one for Small and Medium Accounts but the accounting software didn’t provide any way to report separately on them. I devised a system to flag them differently and over 12000 account records were flagged some manually and most by data upload. For the first time the sales team were given concise reports applied only to each sales person. ·While doing the bin stock reconciliation I initiated a search for missing bins which found a reasonable number of steel bins worth over $100000s of value.·I produced crystal reports that for the first time gave many users the data they had needed but didn’t have. This lead to big increases in productivity.

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  Smith and Smith

  • Contract Accountant

    • Nov 2008 - Jul 2009

    Responsibilities·Start and develop a new assistant accountant role.·Take on all the stock accounting roles.·Analyse the unmatched items from the stock matching account.·Match and reconcile the numbers in the Suspense account, the Refund account and all the Stock accounts (21 branches).·Reconcile the bank statement. ·Split the USD import invoices into their respective GRNs and combine GRNs from different invoices together.·Manage the USD bank account, the financing requirements and the payments.·Handover and train the new Assistant Accountant. Achievements·The many reasons for the errors were given to Management who took steps to correct the processes leading to the errors. Thus the problem was likely to be far less in the future.·I have had the prices of many stock items corrected to the invoice values.·I have had some reports used in the stock reconciliations changed to make them very more useful.·I took over the daily, weekly and some of the monthly reporting from the business analyst who was away for a month over yearend.

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  Enviromax Ltd

  • General Manager

    • 2003 - 2009

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  Waste Management

  • Contract Accountant

    • Dec 2007 - Oct 2008

    Responsibilities·Keep the Management Accountant role going until the new accountant arrived.·Train the new Management Accountant in both the role and the software.·Be part of the Review team for the P&L and Monthly statistics.·Bring the disposal tonnes report up to date (30 months) ·Bring the environmental statistics database up to date (9 quarters)·Reconcile a large cashbook that was complex and difficult (10 months) ·Reconcile the bins stock take ·Many other adhoc jobs Achievements ·I successfully did the management accounting role such that I was complemented by Senior Management who didn’t think it could be done with the short training (7days) I had.·I had a number of reports written in Crystal which made many of the jobs easier (including the GST req and the bank recs) ·I brought the tonnes report and environmental stats up to date despite having no guide. I trained people to carry these on. ·I reconciled the steel account and found errors of over $350000, which was subsequently collected.

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  Fleet Partners

  • Contract Accountant

    • Sep 2007 - Nov 2007

    Responsibilities·Fix the suspense accounts. This was after new software (Leasebase) was implemented and went wrong. The result was any payment and receipt from the bank that wasn’t posted on the day it was uploaded from the bank was dumped in any one of 24 suspense accounts. My job was to identify them and get them moved to the right place. Achievements ·I successfully cleaned out the suspense accounts again and again.·I set up a system to reconcile and post the LTSA charges which hadn’t been done since change over.

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  Book Systems International

  • Accountant

    • Jan 2004 - Sep 2007

    Responsibilities·Produce monthly financials with the help of one accounts assistant.·Run monthly payroll for 14 staff.·Calculate and pay GST, PAYE, FBT and Kiwi saver Achievements·We had not been able to charge the cartage back to jobs because the jobs were based on imports and the cartage was charged by distribution customer. I designed a spreadsheet to replace the manual form and from this I was able to extract the correct cartage cost per job. For the first time we could look at job P&L’s that were realistic.·Similarly GST charges were on 1 import batch but had to be broken down for recharges. This was done manually so I designed a spreadsheet that would split the GST accurately once the basic data was entered. ·We upgraded our accounting software from Deliverance to Enterprise and after the initial training I became the troubleshooter and trainer for the rest of the staff. This was done successfully.

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  Tranzlink Distribution

  • Contract Accountant

    • Jul 2002 - Sep 2003

    Responsibilities ·To identify outstanding invoices from 4 self-billing customers who owed very large amounts.·To collect the outstanding amounts. ·To continue to reconcile payments of their current transactions.·To reconcile a number of other debtors and collect the outstanding amounts.·To redesign the General Ledger for subsidiary company Tranzlink International.Achievements·I collected 98% of a $4 million debt from their biggest customer who claimed to have settled. ·I put in a new process which ensured this customer would pay in full in the future.·Trained a number of staff on the correct procedures for dealing with self-billing customers.

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  Interweave

  • Accountant

    • Apr 2001 - May 2002

    Responsibilities ·To put in a new accounting system and a new payroll.·To produce the monthly financial accounts using Pastel.·To produce a payroll and pay 43 staff using Comacc. ·To collect the debt of our customers, many of them offshore. ·To produce and pay the GST, FBT, and PAYE returns.·To assist with the budgets including collation and entry into Pastel.·To produce a range of monthly report on sales, orders and sales by region and by customer done in Excel.·To handle the offshore payments.Achievements·Debtors were very uncertain when I arrived but I soon got them sorted out and was regularly getting 90% of our money by 30 days. By the time I was made redundant every debtor bar one was current and that one was in financial trouble.·I took over the duty drawback which was too hard to do manually and by persuading NZ Customs to agree to a new system I was able to claim $150000 in back duty, and thereafter an average of $10000 per month was claimed.

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  Winfield Clothing Manufacturers

  • Harare, Zimbabwe

  • Accountant

    • Jun 1999 - Feb 2002
    • Harare, Zimbabwe

    A large clothing manufacturer with 1000 + employees including a chain of 23 retail clothing shops.Responsibilities·I was the accountant for 5 companies including clothes manufacturing, zip manufacturer and 3 retail chains. This covered all the normal financial and administrative activities involved with a company of this size. I had a staff of 4.

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  MacDonald Group of companies

  • Harare, Zimbabwe

  • Accountant

    • Apr 1993 - May 1999
    • Harare, Zimbabwe

    Responsibilities·I was the accountant for 3 companies. I selected and installed Accpac plus and used it to report the P&L on up to 85 projects. This job involved all the stress experienced by any sub contractor accountant and I stayed until all the outstanding money was collected.

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  Lashbrook Holdings (Pvt) Ltd

  • Harare, Zimbabwe

  • Accountant

    • Apr 1989 - Feb 1993
    • Harare, Zimbabwe

    Responsibilities·My first accounting position was with a large meat business. I had 7 staff and we produced P&Ls for all the different outlets and produced bonus calculations for each branch monthly. I also handled the administrative jobs including dealing with the lending banks and finance companies.Prior to starting my accounting career I worked in Agriculture from 1975 to 1989 firstly for The Ministry of Agriculture and finally I was running a very large dairy farm. I changed to office work and accounting because I had damaged my back and was unable to do physical work any longer.