Derek Tran

International Programs - Assistant Accountant at Save the Children Australia
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Ashwood, Victoria, Australia, AU
Languages
  • English -

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Experience

    • Australia
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • International Programs - Assistant Accountant
      • Sep 2018 - Present

      Responsibilities: Aid in the development and debugging of key management & program reports. Board Budgets and Forecast: Liase with key stakeholders across the department, creating a schedule, ensuring template files are rolled over accurately and loaded into ERP on time. Review program budgets and forecasts ensuring they meet donor expectations. Working closely with Financial Accounting to prepare journal entries and reports for month end by due date. Working with program staff to ensure programmatic budgets are correctly loaded into ERP for BvA report. Various process improvement initiatives to speed up key tasks above. Outcome: Created various reports: Automated tracker of staff recovery against budget/forecast targets, Self-service report that staff can run to see how much time and what program they have recovered against. Vastly improved existing reports: Streamlined budget/forecasting templates by consolidating existing tabs and re-creating the template to be more automated, ensured the month end BvA report reconciled to P&L report and expanded on report to provide information through different lenses. Successfully met the deadline for 9 different budget/forecast cycles. Show less

    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Customer Service Officer
      • Jul 2018 - Sep 2018

  • Kumon Australia & New Zealand
    • Melbourne, Australia
    • Teaching Assistant
      • Nov 2017 - Jul 2018

      Assisting tutor in Maths in English for students in kindergarten to year 6. My main role is to ensure that students are doing their work in a timely manner. Key skills gained are time management, multitasking and patience. Assisting tutor in Maths in English for students in kindergarten to year 6. My main role is to ensure that students are doing their work in a timely manner. Key skills gained are time management, multitasking and patience.

    • Australia
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Finance Assistant
      • May 2017 - Jul 2018

      Working as part of the Financial Performance and Analysis team, I undertake accounting tasks using Excel and Agresso. Tasks include forecasting, report creation, capitalizing assets, journal entries, credit card and expense claims. Working as part of the Financial Performance and Analysis team, I undertake accounting tasks using Excel and Agresso. Tasks include forecasting, report creation, capitalizing assets, journal entries, credit card and expense claims.

    • Australia
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Academic Mentor
      • Jul 2015 - Jun 2017

      I have used my knowledge in Accounting and I.T to help students who are struggling academically with Accounting in Organizations and Society and Business Computing, by volunteering at Student Learning Advisor Mentors (SLAMS) at RMIT. SLAMS has enabled me to meet and network with like minded business students, as well has helped me develop my leadership and interpersonal skills by giving me the opportunity to mentor and guide students academically. I have used my knowledge in Accounting and I.T to help students who are struggling academically with Accounting in Organizations and Society and Business Computing, by volunteering at Student Learning Advisor Mentors (SLAMS) at RMIT. SLAMS has enabled me to meet and network with like minded business students, as well has helped me develop my leadership and interpersonal skills by giving me the opportunity to mentor and guide students academically.

  • Mates at RMIT
    • Melbourne, Australia
    • Team Leader/ Mentor
      • Feb 2016 - Apr 2017

      Mates is a LEAD accredited volunteering program which aims to assist international and rural students transition into both Melbourne and RMIT. Mentees and Mentors are paired up as a way to ease the settling in process. As a team leader my role is to ensure that my team of mentors are driven and engaged with their mentees. A major responsibility of my position is the coordination of events that are used to host the social interaction between both mentees and mentors, another of my duties is to solve potential issues before they escalate.Through these experiences I have developed my knowledge of being culturally, socially and environmentally aware. Show less

    • Education Administration Programs
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Events Commitee Member
      • Feb 2016 - Dec 2016

      The BSA is the largest student run business association that hosts a number of events both professionally and socially. As a proud member of the events team my role is to work with my team in planning, organizing and executing events. As a member, teamwork is key in ensuring that the coordination of events goes smoothly. Due to the large amount of attendees at events I often have to deal with people from all types of backgrounds and this has lead to my development customer service skills. The BSA is the largest student run business association that hosts a number of events both professionally and socially. As a proud member of the events team my role is to work with my team in planning, organizing and executing events. As a member, teamwork is key in ensuring that the coordination of events goes smoothly. Due to the large amount of attendees at events I often have to deal with people from all types of backgrounds and this has lead to my development customer service skills.

Education

  • CPA Australia
    CPA
    2021 - 2024
  • RMIT University
    Bachelor’s Degree, Professional Accountancy
    2015 - 2017
  • Roxburgh College
    High School, VCE
    2009 - 2014

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