Experience

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  Cope Construction

  • Central, Fiji

  • Senior Finance Officer

    • Apr 2023 - Present
    • Central, Fiji

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  Central Pacific Chemicals Pte Limited

  • Central, Fiji

  • Accountant

    • Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
    • Central, Fiji

    • Manage all accounting transactions.• Prepare budget forecasts.• Publish financial statements in time.• Handle monthly, quarterly, and annual closings.• Reconcile accounts payable and receivable.• Ensure timely bank payments & Bank Reconciliation.• Compute taxes and prepare tax returns.• Manage balance sheets and profit/loss statements.• Report on the company’s financial health and liquidity• Audit financial transactions and documents• Reinforce financial data confidentiality and conduct database backups when necessary.• Comply with financial policies and regulations. • Preparation and analysis of monthly management financial reports for the group.• Stock take coordination for the whole group on monthly basis and variance verifications, system stock adjustments.• Daily cash flow forecasting.• Performing bank reconciliations for the whole group.• Accounts Payable checking before cheques were signed and accounts receivable age analysis, follow-ups and recoverability of debtors identified.• Setting staff job descriptions and training staff on the required duties.• Participate in staff recruitment process- taking job interviews and selections.• Preparing standard operations procedure manuals for the group.• Preforming job costing & Import Costing.

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  Dulux Paints

  • Suva, Central, Fiji

  • Accounts Payable Officer & Credit Controller

    • Feb 2018 - Feb 2022
    • Suva, Central, Fiji

    • Budget and Expenditure Management - Ensure the execution of proper expenditure control and processes are facilitated and that all commitments are incurred within budgetary limits.• Revenue Management – Coordinate and facilitate revenue checks.• Coordination of Procurement and Payment - Ensure that all payments and procurement within the approved provision and Trust Fund are remitted in accordance with set guidelines. • Reporting - Ensure the compilation and submission of the monthly Expenditure Arrears Report to Management• Advice and Support - Ensure the provision of additional advice and support to the Financial Controller to assist in achieving Finance corporate outputs.• Facilitate the External audit.• Facilitate and Conduct Annual Stock Take• Evaluating new credit requests and conducting client credit checks.• Managing and collecting debts from company debtors.• Setting up the terms of credit for new clients.• Negotiating payment plans.• Managing the collection of all payments and debts• Actively manage monitor and assess staff performance to enable business continuity and the delivery of quality outcomes aligned with individual and business objectives.• Actively contribute to the Management and Corporate Requirements including Planning, budgeting

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  Daltron Fiji

  • Central, Fiji

  • Accounts Payable Officer

    • Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
    • Central, Fiji

    • Post business transactions, process invoices, verify financial data for use in maintaining accounts payable records.• Provide other clerical support necessary to pay the obligations of the organization.• Maintain meticulous records of outstanding payables.• Ensure the accuracy of an organization’s financial documents for payment, auditing, and tax purposes.• Protect businesses against unintentional overpayment.• Practice effective monitoring to ensure payments are made to vendors in a timely manner.• Clarify any questionable invoice items, prices or signatures.• Assemble and review invoices to be completed for payment.• Maintain copies of vouchers, invoices or correspondence necessary for files• Type periodic reports and other records• Obtain proper information and/or data regarding invoice payments.• Check vendor files for any previous payments and assign voucher numbers.• Prepare vouchers listing invoice number, date, vendor address, item description, amounts and coding per accounting policies and procedures.• Reconcile bank statements.• Input daily bookkeeping and record keeping.• Verify invoices against purchase orders and ensure goods or services were received before issuing payment to vendors.

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  Vinod Patel Group

  • Suva, Central, Fiji

  • Internal Auditor

    • Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
    • Suva, Central, Fiji

    • Execute audits of all branches, departments, subsidiaries, and partnerships in Fiji.• Make reports to present to the management on the existence and effectiveness of internal controls.• Ensure maintenance of high standards and quality for audit projects/reports.• Review and evaluation of supporting documents of completed projects/reports.• Make recommendations to resolve audit findings requiring corrective actions.• Evaluating the cost effectiveness and risks of operational processes and activities.• Liaise with members of the senior management to identify and assess their philosophy to align the same to make effectiveness of the current system/process of risk assessment.• Perform special audit related projects as assigned.