Sharon Kwok
Senior Accountant at Raffles Lease- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Raffles Lease
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Singapore
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Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Accountant
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Feb 2020 - Present
HR and Administrative Functions Administer all office related matters for offices in Singapore, Shanghai and Hamburg. Liaise with overseas service providers on accounting and tax related matters. Manage payroll process for Singapore office and liaise with payroll service providers for employees in Shanghai and Hamburg office. Financial & Statutory Reporting Responsible for maintaining full sets of accounts, including General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Accounts Payable (General expense) functions for the entities in the group (Singapore, Shanghai and Hamburg). Prepare and review monthly management accounts for all the entities in the Group for reporting to the head office in Paris. Ensure discrepancies are investigated and reconciled. Prepare quarterly and monthly cash flow forecasts for the head office. Maintains cashbooks and bank reconciliations, ensuring healthy bank balance in respective bank accounts. Submission of reports to respective statutory boards Responsible for preparing and submitting the quarterly GST/VAT reports to the tax authority. Liaise with corporate secretary on annual filings, ad-hoc lodgements and board resolutions and review of all intended lodgements. Liaise with tax agents and auditors on GST/VAT, corporate tax filing and the annual audit for entities in the Group. Reviews returns, disclosures and accounting treatments resulting from accounting standard changes. Show less
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Assistant Manager Finance
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Jun 2018 - Dec 2019
Supervision of junior staff in the General Ledger and Accounts Receivable team in their daily work. Review monthly financial reports prepared by the General Ledger team and ensure that information reported is on a timely and accurate basis. Review quarterly submission of GST reports prepared by the General Ledger team, and reconcile any discrepancies or errors identified by conversing with the team. Prepare statistics reports requested the Singapore Department of Statistics (DOS). Liaise with auditors for preparation of year end audited financial reports, ensure all calculations and data entries are correct. Liaise with tax agents for preparation of year end tax computation filing to the tax authority. Attend finance department and company-wide meetings when required. Answers question and provide assistance to management, stakeholders, customers, and clients as needed. Assist the Finance Vice President on ad-hoc management reporting matters as needed. Show less
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Treasury Reporting, Accountant
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Oct 2013 - Dec 2017
Responsible for preparing and reporting accurately the financial underlying activities of the company with full analysis of significant deviations. Liaised with auditors and tax advisors for Statutory and Tax reporting purpose. Oversaw annual reporting to Economic Development Board (EDB) for FTC Tax incentive requirements, monitoring and maintaining compliance with the tax incentive requirements. Responsible for preparing and reporting accurately the financial underlying activities of the company with full analysis of significant deviations. Liaised with auditors and tax advisors for Statutory and Tax reporting purpose. Oversaw annual reporting to Economic Development Board (EDB) for FTC Tax incentive requirements, monitoring and maintaining compliance with the tax incentive requirements.
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Corporate branding/ Marketing Executive
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Jul 2012 - Sep 2013
Responsible for co-ordinating with event organisers, coordinators, media and publishers with any upcoming events or exhibitions and planning the budget with finance department to run these events. It also include managing brand compliance, ensured correct use of corporate fonts, logo and colour in media and paper publishing and supporting the administrative department with logistics and inventory control. Responsible for co-ordinating with event organisers, coordinators, media and publishers with any upcoming events or exhibitions and planning the budget with finance department to run these events. It also include managing brand compliance, ensured correct use of corporate fonts, logo and colour in media and paper publishing and supporting the administrative department with logistics and inventory control.
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"K" Line Pte Ltd
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Singapore
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Assistant Accounts Manager
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Jun 2003 - Jun 2012
Supervised 2 junior accounting staff in preparing financial and statutory reporting, forecast and variance comparison analysis report on Tanker/ Bulker-Carrier/ Container Division accounts. Responsible for managing company’s core function cash flow, preparing management reports and external reports to the various regulatory bodies. Supervised 2 junior accounting staff in preparing financial and statutory reporting, forecast and variance comparison analysis report on Tanker/ Bulker-Carrier/ Container Division accounts. Responsible for managing company’s core function cash flow, preparing management reports and external reports to the various regulatory bodies.
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Mitsui O.S.K Lines (S.E.A.) Pte Ltd
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Singapore
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Accounts Executive
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Jan 1998 - Jun 2003
Responsible for handling Accounts Payables and Receivables, issuance of invoices and reconciliation of Statement of Accounts Responsible for handling Accounts Payables and Receivables, issuance of invoices and reconciliation of Statement of Accounts
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Education
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Deakin University
Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting and Finance Major