Senior Financial Accountant

• Dec 2021 - Present

Financial Accountant

• Oct 2021 - Dec 2021

Accountant

• Jul 2018 - Oct 2021

Key responsibilities• Preparing and reviewing financial statements, income tax returns, BAS, IAS, FBT returns, Payroll Taxes for a range of client structures, including individuals, partnerships, companies, trusts, and self-managed super funds.• Reconciling accounts, analysing significant income and expenditure variances, ensuring accuracy, and investigating discrepancies between source documents and accounting records.• Dealing with a wide variety of SMEs and related tax issues (Div 7A, CGT, FBT, GST).• Year-end tax planning for clients, including preparing trust distribution minutes and dividend documents.• Assessing clients’ eligibility and lodging applications for a business grant.• Identifying areas where clients and businesses can reduce tax, make claims and increase profit.Achievements• Saved a client $79,000 by fixing a tax-reporting error.• Helped improve efficiency by creating an Excel template that reduced time spent on manual processes by 50%.• Assisted the team in the migration of accounts into the new MYOB system successfully.

Project Finance Controller

• Jun 2016 - Oct 2016

• Prepared project-based budgets and forecasts according to company standards• Produced monthly project financial performance analyses to monitor the variance between targets, forecasts, and actuals, aligned with key performance indicators• Ensured all products and services covered in the contracts were reflected in the project budgets and forecasts • Prepared project-based budgets and forecasts according to company standards• Produced monthly project financial performance analyses to monitor the variance between targets, forecasts, and actuals, aligned with key performance indicators• Ensured all products and services covered in the contracts were reflected in the project budgets and forecasts

Senior Associate

• May 2013 - May 2016

Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) PhilippinesMay 2013 – June 2015Key responsibilities• Supervised and reviewed the work of seven staff in preparing accurate and timely financial reports.• Managed accounting activities to ensure compliance with accounting principles, policies, internal controls, external audits, and taxes.• Performed and oversaw accounts payable function and month-end closing activities such as preparation and review of accounting entries, accruals, prepayments, provisions, fixed asset register maintenance, intercompany journals, accounts reconciliation, and cost centre allocation.• Prepared and reviewed monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports per International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and tax statements for internal and external reporting with 100% accuracy.• Produced detailed variance analyses of Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet with commentaries.• Performed reviews of payroll and related statutory reports• Coordinated with external auditors during the annual audit.Achievements• Promoted after two years for exceeding goals and supporting the partnership’s culture.• Helped reduced time spent on month-end closing activities by 3 hours each month by successfully migrating clients to SAP and utilising import function.• Developed and refined my staff management, team building, and client-relationship building skills.

Accounting Technician II

• May 2012 - Dec 2012

• Updated IT asset database daily.• Audited and tracked the movement of assets.• Performed internal billing functions and cost centre analyses.• Prepared and posted journal entries for IT cost recovery. • Updated IT asset database daily.• Audited and tracked the movement of assets.• Performed internal billing functions and cost centre analyses.• Prepared and posted journal entries for IT cost recovery.