Experience

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  Heritage Hotels

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Group Accountant

    • Jan 2019 - Present
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Consolidation of monthly financial statements, including variance analysis and BS reconciliation for the group.Provision of accurate statistical information to residents managers and body corporate on a timely basis. Delivering of monthly returns to property investors. Monthly BAS returns including KPIs.● Managed a finance team of 3 staff, being actively involved in their career development● Consolidation of monthly financial statements for 3 managed properties, 7 franchises and a parent company.● Establishing BI tools for deep analysis in payroll and KPI for the group● Preparation of rolling forecast and annual budget● Reviewing and approving payroll for more than 50 staff● Reviewing and approving of IRD returns including GST, FBT and PAYE

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  Technopak Limited

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Company Accountant

    • Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Preparation of monthly financial statements including P&L, variance analysis, and BS reconciliations. Using of BI tools for rolling forecasts and annual budgets. Monitoring daily banking transactions including cash flow analysis and settlement of loan transactions. Monthly BAS returns including KPIs. ● Manage project accounting in more than 14 manufacturing projects, all of them greater than 500,000 dollars● Managing and mentoring a team of 2 staff● Consolidation of financial Statements between a parent company in New Zealand and a subsidiary company in the US.● Monthly presentation to the board of directors of the analysis of financial data, providing the business with useful information and insights.

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  Air Liquide

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Financial Accountant

    • Aug 2016 - Nov 2017
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Review of GL accounts. Manage monthly BS reconciliation and other quarterly and annually statutory reporting. Assess business performance and provide operation insights to improve and control the costs. ● Update and improve the stocktake reporting method, achieving more accuracy and lowering the time process in 50%.● Maintain the integrity of General Ledger. Ensure the compliance to local tax legislation.● Improve accounting work flow practice by implementing paperless processes; resulting in a reduction of 25% on financial department overhead costs.

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  Ernst & Young

  • United States / Argentina

  • Tax Analyst

    • Nov 2011 - Aug 2014
    • United States / Argentina

    Prepare tax returns according to US federal law. Evaluate the taxable income for companies and individuals for the states of Texas and New York. Responsible for calculation of depreciation and amortization of fixed assets for real estate companies in the New York area.● Prepared sales and use tax returns for over 20 states and jurisdictions in the United States.● Used SQL query to address the different components of the compensation breakout with the accurate US federal legislation, reducing the processing time more than 50% during the first month of implementation.● Obtained a recognition award within the first year of working in the company due to performance and efficiency.

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  Halliburton

  • Bogota,D.C., Capital District, Colombia

  • Financial Analyst

    • Sep 2009 - Sep 2011
    • Bogota,D.C., Capital District, Colombia

    Understanding of financial systems in use, and being the “go to” person for decision support and the country management team for monthly and weekly costs tracking, reporting and analysis, commentary on expense variance vs last periods and forecasts and any ad-hoc analysis. The role was critical to the development support systems with the objective to optimize resources, costs and accelerate profitable growth.● Key resource for costs tracking and analytics for Colombia & Latin America Business Unit● Assisting decision support team on tracking actuals and modelling for business expenses for Latin America during forecasting cycles● Supporting role for ad hoc analysis on costs for Colombia.● Developing efficient processes for producing accurate and timely costs reports and variance analysis.