Yang Li
Financial Controller at Waterlogic Australia- Claim this Profile
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English Full professional proficiency
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Chinese Mandarin Native or bilingual proficiency
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Lisa O'Sullivan
I worked with Yang in KPMG Ireland. Yang is a highly competent accountant and auditor. She is very well organised with excellent work ethic and interpersonal skills. Working with Yang was always a pleasure.
Russell Skiba
Yang is an outstanding worker with amazing drive and energy. Yang was vital to the success of our company's first Sunsytems Accounting software training sessions in Beijing. She has excellent communication and analytic skills.
Lisa O'Sullivan
I worked with Yang in KPMG Ireland. Yang is a highly competent accountant and auditor. She is very well organised with excellent work ethic and interpersonal skills. Working with Yang was always a pleasure.
Russell Skiba
Yang is an outstanding worker with amazing drive and energy. Yang was vital to the success of our company's first Sunsytems Accounting software training sessions in Beijing. She has excellent communication and analytic skills.
Lisa O'Sullivan
I worked with Yang in KPMG Ireland. Yang is a highly competent accountant and auditor. She is very well organised with excellent work ethic and interpersonal skills. Working with Yang was always a pleasure.
Russell Skiba
Yang is an outstanding worker with amazing drive and energy. Yang was vital to the success of our company's first Sunsytems Accounting software training sessions in Beijing. She has excellent communication and analytic skills.
Lisa O'Sullivan
I worked with Yang in KPMG Ireland. Yang is a highly competent accountant and auditor. She is very well organised with excellent work ethic and interpersonal skills. Working with Yang was always a pleasure.
Russell Skiba
Yang is an outstanding worker with amazing drive and energy. Yang was vital to the success of our company's first Sunsytems Accounting software training sessions in Beijing. She has excellent communication and analytic skills.
Experience
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Waterlogic Australia
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Australia
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Food and Beverage Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Financial Controller
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Jul 2018 - Present
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MOR Boutique
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Australia
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Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Finance Manager
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Aug 2016 - Aug 2018
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Yara International
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Norway
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Farming
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700 & Above Employee
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Financial Accountant (Maternity Cover)
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Jul 2015 - Jun 2016
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Sinopec Oil & Gas Australia Pty Ltd
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Oil and Gas
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Accountant
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Aug 2012 - May 2015
Key Responsibilities• Preparation of monthly management reports to HQ. Ensure information in monthly work papers is reasonable and accurate. Meet all monthly reporting deadlines• In charge of both internal and external audit to provide all required documents, answer queries and liaison with management and other departments. • Comparing the actual numbers verse budget, analyse the variance and prepare a monthly report to different departments in HQ• Completed fixed assets policies and procedures. Maintain fixed assets register and perform stock count. Manage the assets master data in SAP and ensure new assets are set up correctly• Preparation of consolidated and individual subsidiary company statutory reports• In charge of month end procedures including review of balance sheet and bank reconciliations, reasonableness check of management accounts, perform close out procedures in SAP and address any issues identified and make recommendations/solutions• Managing SAP and all related issues including project accounting, procurement, accounts payable, bank reconciliation, assets and providing appropriate training to team members and other SAP users in the Company• Implemented the process for BAS and FBT returnKey Achievements• Finished the external audit within two weeks after the accounts were closed and have the statutory accounts signed within two months of the financial year end. Have increased the efficiency by 10 times compared to previous years and received great appreciation from both managing director and the audit team• Created new mapping and cash flow worksheets for group reporting which has reduced the processing time by 30%• Eliminated the need of hiring a temporary account payable person while the team member was taking a longer annual leave. Completed all tasks without any mistakes and improved the process for reconciling bank transactions• Reduced the SAP supporting cost by 5% by handling majority of SAP issues from other staff internally
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KPMG Australia
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Australia
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Assistant Manager
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Aug 2010 - Jul 2012
Key Responsibilities• Management of audit process from planning through to completion involving:- assessment of client’s business and financial risks- discussion of audit strategies with manager and partner & preparation of audit plan- setting and monitoring budgets, ensuring execution of planned audit procedures- review of other team members’ work and production of high quality deliverables (financial statements, board reports, accountants’ reports, SOX reports and management letters) to tight deadlines• Preparation of consolidated and individual company’s financial statements under AASB/ IFRS/ Irish GAAP/ UK GAAP/ US GAAP and relevant legislation• Providing accounting advices on transactions and implication of new accounting standards• Acting as a liaison between the firm and clients. Established and maintained effective lines of communication with clients, team members and upper management• Managing and training teams of up to 15 people to ensure audit activities are carried out in a timely and efficient manner. Reviewing audit files.Key Achievements• Developed a trial balance mapping work paper for creating financial statement which reduced the turnaround time by 20% and saved approx. 7 hours of charge out time for each engagement• Achieved high personal chargeability and productivity level (in excess of 90%) each year by utilise time in an efficient and productive manner and to add value for client on each job• Received great appreciation from both the client’s compliance officer and my senior manager while worked on Aspen Group compliance plan audit. It was a complex engagement for someone new to the industry, I have completed majority of the work by myself and to a very high standard.
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Raytheon|Websense
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United States
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Software Development
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200 - 300 Employee
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Accounting Supervisor
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Jul 2009 - Jul 2010
Key Responsibilities• The accurate processing of financial transactions based on US GAAP;• Review accounts payable and accounts receivable transactions;• Maintain general ledger. Responsible for balance sheet reconciliations (i.e. bank, inventory and fixed assets reconciliation) and posting of journals and key accruals to trial balance stage;• Review of purchasing process and intercompany cross charges;• Management of accounts payable, fixed assets, inventory and intercompany sections (including review of journal postings); • Addresses accounting and reporting issue with head office and ensure clear communication between group and local accounting team;• Communication and co-operation with other regional accounting teams;• Review transfer pricing-quarterly transactions and cash payments;• Analysis of Trial Balance;• Facilitate group audit (including SOX audit);• Preparation of VAT/GST/FBT monthly lodgements• Liaison with external accounting firm to coordinate local statutory auditing and annual Corporate Tax returnKey Achievements• Wrote an accounting manual for inventory including the creation of inventory cost calculation worksheets and stock take procedures so that the inventory could be accounted properly in the system• Established the Company’s local reimbursement policy including implementation of relevant controls. Trained employees for the new reimbursement procedures. The processing time of employee reimbursement was reduced by 10% compared to the previous one• Developed fixed assets management and stock take procedures which reduced the risk of missing assets.
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KPMG Ireland
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Ireland
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Accounting
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700 & Above Employee
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Audit Senior
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Jun 2004 - Apr 2009
Key ResponsibilitiesSimilar to KPMG AustraliaKey Achievements• Trained a team of fifteen for a large pension audit engagement (over more than fifty pension funds). The engagement was done on time with high quality of files• Seconded to KPMG Shanghai China for three months to the internal audit department. Awarded this opportunity for strong performance. During this time was worked as an internal auditor on a large electrical appliance company and various medium size international companies• Achieved high recover rates for all the engagements by monitoring the budget closely and recording the charge hours by actives for the whole team
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Education
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Institute of Chartered Accountant in Ireland
ACA