Experience

EML

• Australia
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Financial Accountant



EML

• Australia
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Financial Accountant

  • Sep 2016 - Present

  Responsible for preparation of quarterly APRA submissions, monthly monitoring of APRA prescribed capital amount, preparation of annual FBT return, preparation of annual tax returns, monthly balance sheet reconciliation with profit and loss analysis and monitoring of weekly cash flows. Assisted Senior Financial Accountant in annual consolidation of group financials.o Lead project to create a customised general ledger reconciliation module for TechnologyOne softwareo Created script in half a day to convert payment file to remittances for a new payment account that was not set up as intendedo Created interactive visual tool to assist offshore staff in correctly identifying relevant account codes and cost centres for regular processing of invoices.

• Senior Scheme Accountant

  • Sep 2015 - Sep 2016

  Secondment to lead 4 person scheme accounting, while continuing to Scheme Accountant dutieso Oversaw transition to paperless system for scheme accounting team.o In one week was able to create an electronic submission file to amend PAYG summaries after IT was unable to build such functionality in the claims system in the timeframes required.o Assisted in educating the claims specialist in the use of excel formulas to improve the process for identifying payments that would need to be reviewed before ATO submission.

• Scheme Accountant

  • Oct 2011 - Sep 2015

  Responsibility for preparation of financial statements and reconciliations for insurance scheme accounts, monthly account reconciliation, monthly BAS submissions, fortnightly PAYG payment to ATO, assisted team leader in management of team, assisted with queries and analysis of accounts. o Actively encouraged using technology to replace existing manual business processes eg. Created a macro to prepare raw data for import into TechnologyOne, spearheaded initiative to encourage business to switch to electronic stop cheque procedureo Also backup for every other team member duties included receipting, daily processing of payments, daily bank reconciliationso Identified to business the disproportionate amount of cost between cheques and EFT and provided monthly report to identify most common suppliers that staff could target to move to EFT

• Finance Administrator

  • Mar 2009 - Oct 2011

  Responsibility for daily receipt entry and daily bank reconciliations. Assisted team leader in monthly balance sheet reconciliationso Designed and prepared a variety of templates to ease the transfer for information between claims management teams and finance to reduce the number of errors, improve time frames for processes and increase accountability. Eg. Tracker for recoveries received for claimso Designed and built a variety of macros in excel to reduce the amount of time spent transforming data from the claims system to import into accounting software

• Senior Business Administration Officer

  • Aug 2008 - Mar 2009

  Responsibility of managing a team of 6 Business Administration Officers, including reaching daily targets, training of new staff in processes and rotating responsibility for setting roster for the wider team of 42 people while ensuring that essential tasks are staffed (eg. Reception, new claims, fax inbox) and while taking into consideration the various team’s leave considerationso Improvements to use of MS Excel between Seniors Business Officers and Team Leaderso Aware of the sensitivities that we must be mindful of when receiving calls regarding worker’s compensation matters.

• Business Administration Officer

  • Nov 2007 - Aug 2008

  Data entry of medical certificates, payment invoices and wage reimbursements in addition to handling payment query calls and initial data collection for new claims