Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines
Experienced Lead with a demostrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Financial Accounting and Reporting, General Accounting, Cost Accounting, Taxation, Credit & Collection Budget and Fund Management. Knowledge in SAP, Oracle, Quickbooks, Peachtree, MYOB, Hyperion, Tango, S4 Hana, SAP Bw
• Inspire awardee April 2023 EMEA Procurement Acctg transitions and February 2023 Recognition for Functional SMEs in Benchpool Onboarding and Co-Lead of We Innovate Pillar • Inspire awardee 2022 Year end Readiness Preparation Pharma SG • Inspire awardee for demonstrated strong support and leadership during Q3 closing – Open PO and Controllership review and JJPL audit support • Certification of BSAR in Blackline • Review and approve journal entries in Blackline prior to posting in SAP system • Review and approve prepayments and accruals schedules and reconciliations • Review Balance Sheet reconciliation including GRIR and open Purchase Order report and its supporting documents (ASPAC) • Set meeting/discussion with each business unit regarding accounts reconciliation and flux analysis • Set meeting/discussion with Central Finance Managers on the account status/concerns and clearing of ageing items and presenting in daily connect during Month end close and performing controllership review • Assist in audit performed by auditors and including remediation and participating in various projects • Close coordination on Intercompany related postings and In House Bank clearing to clear imbalances • Perform Compliance Due Diligence review of all BSARS related to EMEA transitions • Review of Compensation and Benefits, Intercompany, Revenue Accounting, Cash and Currency/Hedging and Tax accounting entries
• Providing support for Robotic Process Automation for process of RTR team including UAT testing in Power BI • Establish collaboration with different teams to work on process improvements which includes systems related issues and masterdata concerns • Review Intercompany Imbalances and ensure consistent communications has been established between sales and purchasing companies • Set meeting/discussion with each business unit regarding Balance Sheet reconciliation including fixed assets recon and GRIR • Set meeting/discussion with each business unit regarding OPEX reports and variance analysis between actuals, planned and forecast • Analyse GL account balance and provide analysis as requested by the client/customers • Check GL account balances and review/approve journal entries related to payroll, outside services, commissions, outbound freight, warranty, royalty, prepayments, provisions and reserved accounts in JV workflow • Ensure month-end closing activities are being accomplished • Review of STP/AP invoices and validate the entries made • Review of bounced sales postings and sales reversals to correct revenue recognition postings which includes cost of sales adjustments and other underlying accounts affected sent by OTC team • Assist in audit performed by internal and external auditors
•Inspire awardee with 4 commendation from Senior Manager •Subject Matter expert for Record to Report processes •Providing support in Pune, India processes and help in stabilizing the process and act as consultant related to AP, AR and RTR functions •Participate in different projects related to system migration, automation including UAT testings for 10 regions related to SAP S4 Hana&Metro •Manages the financial accounting team such as Month end team (Journals, Fixed assets, Inventory), Intercompany team, Treasury and Cash Mgt team) within defined budgets and in accordance with relevant SLA •Ensures Record-to-Report staff maintain appropriate levels of technical knowledge and expertise and meet on regular basis •Ensures design and execution of acctg processes are updated to ensure SOX control points are in place and signed-off •Supports the design and implement continuous improvements •Manages interco billings and reconciliation for 10 regions including resolution of interco imbalances •Review of Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable postings and remittance advice and helps to resolve issues on the over and under payment and checks on the cash applications which includes rebates and claims. Investigate open Purchase order with Goods receipt and Invoice receipt. •Review Fixed Assets recon •Review Payroll entries including tax related postings •Manages inventory reconciliation and checks variances which should not be more than the threshold. •Manages treasury and cash management team (Hedging, Foreign currency exposure review, cash flow reporting, bank recon and funding requirements) for 10 regions •Provide inputs for month-end close checklist or FLOCO Closing cockpit •Assist in audit reports and/or support error resolution •Review Financial Statements and assist in the budgeting and forecasting. Preparation of Financial package in Tango and provide disclosure •Migrated Balance Sheet recon and Month-end Sox control reports from Australia to Manila
•Oversight of the day-today management of the financial acctg team. •Assist in the design and implementation of CI initiatives and ensures that all opportunities for improving the process are identified and realized. Top 3 in Spark Continuous Improvement •Review of the tasks performed by the Record to report accountants •Ensure customer queries, pertaining to the financial accounting are satisfactorily resolved •Ensure that operating procedures are reviewed/updated regularly •Approve routine manual GL postings, and related journal supporting docs •Checks Fixed Assets & recon of the Fixed Asset ledgers •Manage inventory recon and checks variance which should not be more than the threshold. Ensure plant balances are reconciled with acctg books •Run periodic and ad-hoc reports and prepare journal on a monthly including BAS and Gst and w/tax •Provide inputs for maintaining of the month-end close checklist •Run audit reports and/or support error resolution •Consolidation reports for Financial Package and Management reports and assist in the budgeting and forecasting in each cost center •Migrated Balance Sheet recon, Flash reports, Journals and Month -end Sox control reports from Australia to service centre in Manila and Hyperion and Tango Financial reporting from Singapore including Intercompany imbalances review and clearing •Prepare Division Expense report for Business decision making •Review and analysis of payroll entries & expense reports and send to the business/mngt review •Coordination with AU, NZ, My, TH, SG, Japan counterparts and involvement in SAP Simple to SAP S4 Hana transition •Testing in SAP Simple system migration to new system S4 Hana •Assist in NZ, AU and MY Record to Reports tasks including bank recon, cashflow reporting, funding and hedging •Checks and create/update masterdata for GL, customer and vendor accounts, profit center and cost center, including credit limit update and mapping •Checks Open PO and review of invoices, GST and tax reports
• In-charge to oversee the United States PSAT Fuels Team operations with 10 team members for intercompany • Initiated process improvement for intercompany process to avoid intercompany imbalance • Validation of quantity and price of trade commodity through dealsheet, price applications, inspection reports, contracts • Constant communication with traders and marketers to know the status of bunker delivery from US, UK and Asia Pacific regions • Review inactive portfolio • Handle Intercompany billings and invoicing, balancing and its settlement • Handle inventory and checks variances and ensure within the threshold • Correspondence with counterparts (3rd parties and affiliates) • Directly working with Treasury on funding requirements • Checking of trades in commodity system including reconciliation and provide status on pending transactions in the portfolio • Analyse General ledger accounts for Hyperion reporting Inventory checking and adjustment • Review of Profit and Loss statement for pass through charges • Analyse balance sheet accounts for financial disclosure and commentaries • Monitors key performance indicators for aging of unreconciled accounts • Monitors and prepares sales tax report for State of California, USA • Checks trading invoices for payments and issuance to customers