Jolene Kendekali
PNG Tax Manager at Puma Energy Papua New Guinea- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Certified Practising Accountants
Certified Practising Accountants - Papua New Guinea (CPA PNG)Feb, 2017- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Puma Energy Papua New Guinea
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Papua New Guinea
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Oil and Gas
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100 - 200 Employee
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PNG Tax Manager
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Jun 2023 - Present
Ensure consistent management of tax and customs issues within Puma PNG Group, together with local management and Puma tax department. 1. Ensure Tax and Customs regulations are properly followed up by PNG entities in line with local legislation. Ensure that returns and processes are correctly prepared and followed. 2. Follow up actively any litigation with local management and take any measures to ensure resolution of cases. 3. Analyses and proposes recommendations in terms of tax management to local management and supports them to define most optimized methods. 4. Support controlling department in verifying tax figures in consolidation and deferred tax calculation. 5. Support Group Tax department in the setup of Group tax policy, optimization and structuration. Show less
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EY PNG
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Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
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Senior Tax Consultant
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May 2022 - Mar 2023
1.Provide business clients with tax advisory and tax compliance services. 2.Working with a market leading client list, advising on tax matters and help clients practically respond to a complicated environment. 3.Drawing on my skills and experience in Corporate Tax, to help some of PNG’s leading organisations to mitigate tax risk and comply with tax laws in the most effective way. 4.Through developing strong and broad relationships with clients, to provide the highest level of technical advice on the application of tax law and contribute to winning new clients. 5.Work across multiple projects and clients, both autonomously and as a team member, collaborating with EY's global network. 6.Liaise with Internal Revenue Commission to assist our clients on all aspects of their corporate tax affairs 7.Mentor and supervise junior staff members Show less
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Tax Accountant
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Sep 2018 - Jul 2021
1. Review and or assist with the preparation and lodgement of the Group's: *Annual income tax returns - assisting with provision of accounting detail for the detailed breakup of disclosure schedules, *Monthly GST Returns, *Provisional tax schedules - payments of instalments, *Various withholding tax re remittances, *Stamp duty, customs and excise duties, and *training levy returns 2. Preparation of monthly deferred tax and tax effect calculations including posting of tax entries at each End of Month and maintaining tax fixed asset registers manually (excel version) for two entities of the Group. 3. Deliver payments, returns, remittances and notices, letters issued by IRC, PNG Customs and external tax advisors or auditors 4. Attend to various correspondences, notices, letters issued by IRC, PNG Customs and external tax advisors or auditors including attending to GST refund submissions. 5. Ensure the accuracy, integrity and timely delivery of taxation information to support commercial decision-making and meet PNG tax compliance requirements 6. Assist in reaching tax matters including tax consulting 7. Attend to various administrative duties required by Business Services division such as: *Assisting the financial accounting team by attending to the month end tasks, extracting GL reports and trial balances from Navision (NAV) to do end of month GST transfers, reviewing the GST returns, deferred tax and tax effect calculations, preparing related journal for GST transfers and tax calculation entries including the maintenance of all other tax accounts - addressing any hanging entries and resolving issues in GL accounts for example incorrect postings etc, *Prepare and reconcile month end reconciliation of GL accounts for balance sheet review including the provision of commentaries of the movements in various tax accounts each month end, *Investigate and resolve discrepancies in accounts / system-generated reports etc - example reports from sub-ledger to reports from GL. Show less
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Santos Ltd
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Australia
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Oil and Gas
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700 & Above Employee
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PNG Tax Base Compliance Officer
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Nov 2017 - Aug 2018
1. Collating and assisting in preparation of: *PNG Joint Venture Tax reporting obligations to partners (JVTS, TCS) *Annual Training Levy Return *Preparation of schedules to the annual PNG Income Tax Returns 2. Assist POM AP, finance & Procurement & Supply Chain (P&C) teams with GST, FCWT and BIPT queries 3. Review of monthly and annual (where applicable) FCWT, Business Payments Tax, GST and IWHT lodgements and reconciliation of IRC statement of accounts for all monthly/annual lodgements 4. Assist POM P&C group with queries in relation to tax clauses within the PNG contracts 5. Liaise with the IRC on outstanding tax issues 6. First contact point for all tax notices received from the IRC 7. Assisting the tax team with providing regular in house tax training to POM P&C and finance group Show less
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Puma Energy PNG Ltd, Puma Energy PNG Refining Ltd & Puma Energy Pacific Shipping Pte Ltd-PNG Branch
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Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
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Tax Accountant
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Mar 2016 - Nov 2017
1. Preparation and lodgement of the Group's: *Annual income tax returns - assisting with provision of accounting details for the detailed breakup of disclosure schedules, *Monthly GST returns, *Provisional tax schedules - payments of instalments, *Various withholding tax remittances, *Stamp duty, customs and excise duties, and *Training levy returns 2. Preparation of monthly deferred tax and tax effect calculations including posting of tax entries at each End of Month and maintaining tax fixed asset registers manually (excel version) for two entities of the Group 3. Deliver payments, returns, remittances and submissions to IRC and PNG Customs by the relevant due dates 4. Attend to various correspondences, notices, letters issued by IRC, PNG Customs and their external tax advisors or auditors including attending to GST refund submissions 5. Ensure the accuracy, integrity and timely delivery of taxation information to support commercial decision-making and meet PNG tax compliance requirements 6. Assist in researching tax matters including tax consulting 7. Attend to completion and submission of Business Liaison Surveys from BPNG and any other related queries 8. Attend to various administrative duties required by Business Services Division such as: *Assisting the financial accounting team by attending to month end tasks, extracting GL reports and trial balance from Navisions (NAV) to do end of month GST transfers, prepare the GST returns, deferred tax and tax effect calculations, preparing and posting the related journals for GST transfers and tax effect calculations entries including the maintenance of all other tax accounts - addressing any hanging entries and resolving issues in GL accounts for example incorrect postings etc, *Prepare and reconcile month end reconciliation of GL accounts for balance sheet review and commentaries, *Investigate and resolve discrepancies in accounts/system generated reports etc. - example reports from sub-ledger to reports from GL. Show less
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InterOil Corporation PNG
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Papua New Guinea
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Taxation Accountant
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Oct 2014 - Jan 2016
1. Preparation and lodgement of the Group's: *annual income tax returns *monthly GST returns *provisional tax schedules *various withholding tax remittances *stamp duty. customs and excise duties, and *training levy returns 2. Review of tax reconciliations on a monthly/quarterly/annual basis 3. Deliver payments, returns, remittances and submissions to IRC and PNG Customs by their respective due dates 4. Attend to various correspondences, notices issued by the IRC, PNG Customs and external tax advisors or auditors 5. Ensure the accuracy, integrity and timely delivery of taxation information to support commercial decision-making and meet PNG tax compliance requirements 6. Assist in researching tax matters 7. Attend to various administrative duties required by Business Services Division such as: *Vendor maintenance - setup of new vendors and modifying existing vendor accounts in the Financial system - AX. Document the source document for SOX control purposes, *Entering the daily foreign exchange rates into AX, *Grant of Authority Master (GOA) List maintenance of budget holders - adding and removing delegated holders and providing month end reports to the GM. Also checking the Chris21-HR site employee listing against the GOA Master List records, *Assisting the financial accounting team by attend to month end tasks, extracting GL reports and trial balance from AX to prepare the GST returns, FCWT returns and preparing journals - for FX difference for FCWT paid to IRC and as per the return, remapping of GST transactions back to the cost center, remapping of intercompany and GST transactions to the correct GST account for the corresponding entity etc. Show less
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Gore Accountants & Business Advisors
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Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
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Senior Tax Accountant in the Taxation & Compliance Services division and Auditor
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Apr 2013 - Oct 2014
Tax work - from 01/04/2013 to 01/03/2014 1. Preparation and review of income tax and training levy returns 2. Preparation and assistance to tax consulting services - providing advice to clients 3. Preparation and review of month GST returns, GST paper work, receipts for GST payments 4. Preparation and forwarding group tax - month remittance slips, monthly group tax receipts, annual employer group stationery and statement of earnings 5. Preparation and forwarding of remittance slips - management fees, royalty tax, paying authority, interest withholding tax and attendance to business income tax statements, annual income reporting statements etc. 6. Notices from IRC - notice of assessments, company provisional tax assessments, advance payments tax notice, reminder notices, demand letters, tax clearance and foreign exchange regulations etc. 7. Maintenance, preparation and review of statutory compliance work - IPA and ROC registration, register of directors, register of shareholders, company extracts, annual returns, six monthly reports, minutes etc. 8. Maintenance of client's trust accounts Audit work - from 01/03/2014 to 17/10/2014 1. Preform Special Purpose Financial Statements Audits *Understand and audit receipts and payments *Understand and audit cash & cash equivalents *Perform Consistency Checks on Financial Statements *Draft Management letters 2. Perform General Purpose Financial Statement Audits *Understand and audit revenue & expense items *Understand and audit various balance sheet items *Draft financial statements *Perform Consistency Checks on Financial Statements Show less
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PwC
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Professional Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Tax Accountant
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Jan 2008 - Apr 2013
Started out as a graduate accountant and promoted to grade 61 accountant in the Tax and Legal division at PricewaterhouseCoopers. 1. Preparation and assistance to tax consulting services - providing advice to clients 2. Preparation and review of monthly GST returns, GST work papers, receipts for GST payments 3. Preparation and forwarding group tax - monthly group tax remittance slips, monthly group tax receipts, annual employer group stationery and statement of earnings 4. Preparation and forwarding of remittance slips - management fees, royalty tax, paying authority, interest withholding tax and attendance to business income tax statements, annual income report statements etc. 5. Notices from Internal Revenue Commission - notice of assessments, company provisional tax assessments, advance payments tax notice, reminder notice, demand letters, tax clearance and foreign exchange regulations etc. 6. Maintenance, preparation and review of statutory compliance work - IPA and ROC registration, register of director, register of shareholders, company extracts, annual returns, six monthly reports, minutes etc. 7. Maintenance of clients' trust of accounts. Show less
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Education
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2004 - 2007
University of Papua New Guinea
Bachelor's degree, Accounting
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