Greater Melbourne Area
Since returning to Australia I have continued my career as bookkeeper and manager of The Albion Hotel for the past year and a half where I manage payroll, complete bookkeeping, banking and accounts payable/receivable. This has been a fabulous opportunity to act as a financial controller for the business and really grow my skills. Duties and responsibilities • Management of 15 staff members • Processing weekly payroll for all staff using MYOB • Bookkeeping including accounts payable and receivable functions • Planning and managing functions and major events • Stock ordering and management • Design of food and beverage menus
While travelling abroad for over 2 years in Europe I continued to develop my skill set in the role of accountant at University College London (UCL). Here I worked within a small finance team of the Office for International Affairs whose task was to manage finance for all overseas campuses. I had to work towards deadlines for internal systems to produce statutory reports and get timely information from overseas campuses to meet these deadlines. It was challenging environment working with our international campuses to do tasks such as payroll, bank and balance sheet reconciliations, currency exchange considerations and end of year reporting. Attention to detail was paramount as the tax regime in Kazakhstan is so complex and payroll had to be completed within a very small timeframe. Duties and Responsibilities • Provided financial support for UCL’s overseas campuses in Qatar and Australia, contracts with Nazarabayev University in Kazakhstan and other overseas activities. Acted as a bridge between teams in the international campuses and London campus • Processed international monthly payroll for the contract with NU in Kazakhstan for over 70 staff members • Payroll included approving expense claims, bank and balance sheet reconciliations, calculating exchange differences, processing journals and manually creating pay slips • Provided support for management accounting issues to UCL’s central finance team on budgets, forecasts and year-end reporting • Liaised with auditors and provided support where needed • Built strong relationships with various faculties and finance teams within UCL and its overseas campuses
I began my career working at Kidmans Partners focusing primarily on month end requirements and statutory reporting, payroll for a team of 20 staff and office administration. I was instrumental in implementing a new accounting program (Xero), having used MYOB for both payroll and accounting functions previously as the internal accountant. Xero was then rolled out to staff and major clients and I worked closely with both to ensure a successful transition. Duties and responsibilities • Internal accountant for the firm • Processed journals, accruals and prepayments on a monthly basis • Weekly cash flow analysis and development of reports for partner’s weekly meetings, which included aged debtors reports, individual staff revenue creation • Produced auditable monthly reports by the required dates for Countplus and received bonuses by reaching theses deadlines (KPI’s) • Worked closely with auditors on a quarterly basis on these reports and detailed evidence required • Provided various reports towards budgeting and forecasting • Administration management. Consolidated phone systems, changed IT providers and internet providers and changed our archiving system to an offsite online program • Trialed a new accounting software program (Xero) for Kidmans. Xero was then implemented for staff and major clients • Accounts receivable and payable. Prepared and processed weekly and ad-hoc payments and reconciled all bank accounts on a daily basis • GST calculations and BAS lodgment • IT management. Oversaw the migration of a new IT system for the firm. Was the first point of call for all IT issues within the firm and then liaised with the IT support. • Processed payroll for 25 staff members on a monthly basis. Processed superannuation requirements, journals and reconciliations based on this • Marketing activities