ARLENE PULIDO, SENIOR ACCOUNTANT

ARLENE PULIDO

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT

The Blue Group

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, Finance and Accounting
Experience
14 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 6 Months

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT at The Blue Group
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since April 2020
ASSOCIATE TEAM LEAD / SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST at GOODYEAR
  • Philippines
  • November 2016 to May 2019

• General supervision of Junior Accounting associates and analysts.
➢ Assists and instructs Junior associates on the day to day activities of RTR back office department. • Currently handling Goodyear Rubber and Tires Accounting for Poland, Belgium, The Netherlands and Central Europe Region. • Approves and reviews journal entries • Reconciliations of Accounts
➢ monthly reconciliation of accounts to validate current period ledger balances for financial reporting purposes and proposes action steps and/or investigations steps to the variances detected and recommend entries and actions to close variances. • Thorough analysis of the movements in the accounts and provide judgement and explanations based on company’s policies and globally accepted accounting principle. • Actively perform and support Record to Report process activities such as below in required quantity and quality:
➢ Journal processing adjustments as a result of analysis
➢ Intercompany Accounting
➢ Account Analysis
➢ Review of Accounts Payable and Receivable Balances
➢ GRIR Analysis and Reporting
➢ Travel and Expense Accruals and analysis
➢ Month-end Reporting and Month-End Journal creations and postings
➢ Revaluations
➢ Lease Accounting • Participate in efforts to continuously improve and optimize Record to Report processes and
procedures to enable organizational priorities and to optimize internal services. • Support the design and maintenance of the Record to Report process model and the RACI tool design and help ensure consistent application of standard global and local processes. • Participate in projects or initiatives which improve the Record To Report processes or the applications used to support them. • Provide collaboration and production support across Goodyear’s global network. This includes global support to end users including answering questions, delivering training, facilitating the transition to latest tool releases from current tools and sharing best practices. • Support internal/ external audit activities • Actively collaborate with internal and external teams.

KEY ACHIEVEMENT:

Traveled to Bucharest, Romania for the Knowledge transfer training and successfully migrated RTR process. Q1 2018 Customer Service Awardee.

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT / ASSOCIATE TEAM LEAD GENERAL BALANCE SHEET/ PAYROLL ACCOUNTIN at IBM Global Process Services
  • Philippines
  • June 2012 to November 2016

• Handled an International Manufacturing Company - Reporting Countries: Belgium, The Netherlands, South Africa, Greece and Switzerland.

• Approves of Reconciliations of Employee Services Balance Sheet Accounts ➢ Checks and approves monthly reconciliation of accounts to validate current period ledger balances for financial reporting purposes and proposes action steps and/or investigations steps to the variances detected and recommend entries and actions to close variances.

• Review of journal entries above corresponding threshold performed by associates. ➢ Checks, reviews and approves routine and non-routine manual entries by associates.

• Review and approves tax and SS quarterly analysis. ➢ Extensively review and approve tax and social security analysis performed by associates and provide feedback, recommendation and judgement based on expertise. • Review and approves Root Cause Analysis (RCA) prepared by Junior Analysts before submitting to the client. • Helps team members with the process and conducts trainings and knowledge transfers to newly hired associate. • Supervise month-end/ quarter-end and year-end closing tasks of the team. • Focal contact in the team for client-initiated projects, development and trainings. • Assist team leads on administrative and operational duties. • Reconciliation of Employee Services Balance Sheet Owned Accounts ➢ Full ownership of the investigation; resolution of issues/open items posted in the accounts. ➢ Checks Clearing of reconciled open items ➢ Checks Reconciliation or Adjusting Entries ➢ Monthly uploads of the Balance sheet accounts ➢ Monitoring of issues and resolution of open items including consolidation of trackers ➢ Leads investigation and provide solution to close reconciling items ➢ Coordinates with other departments as part of the investigation of reconciling items

• Payroll Accounting ➢ Accrual Calculations (i.e. EPB, 13th Month Bonus, etc) ➢ Accrual Entries (i.e. Bonuses, Commissions, Awards, Incentives, etc) ➢ Reclassification and Reversal Entries ➢ Business As Usual Payroll entries (i.e. Fixed Term Hire Compensation, Regulatory, Remittances, etc) ➢ Set up, Recoveries, Reconciliation, Corrections, Amortizations, etc. ➢ Miscodes Corrections, Adjustments and Analysis ➢ Cost/Variance Analysis/Expense Analysis
➢ Parking, filing, tracking, and monitoring of both routine and non-routine journal entries request ➢ Other Payroll-related accounting entries

• Other Deliverables ➢ Preparation of Process Document of Owned Accounts ➢ Preparation of Issue trackers ➢ Preparation of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) if deemed necessary ➢ Attends various work-related meetings and interlocks w/ various Service Line contacts

• Clients ➢ Adhoc and Reports required by client ➢ Preparation of Internal & external Audit Response ➢ Submit Documents Required for Business Controls Testings ➢ Various Business Control Requirements ➢ Monitoring of Dummy Vendor & EFT-Out Accounts ➢ Generate and arrange report in specific format required by client ➢ Provide manual tracking of reports required by internal and external clients

ACCOUNTANT at LWS Philippines, Inc.
  • Philippines
  • June 2011 to May 2012

• Maintains financial records for subsidiary companies by analyzing balance sheets and general ledger accounts. • Reconciles general and subsidiary bank accounts by gathering and balancing information. • Provides financial status information by preparing reports and case to case projects documentations. • Posting of correction and adjusting entries. • Day to day accounting activities such as clearing of accounts, creation and posting of journal entries, recording of back office related activities. • Secures financial information by completing database backups; keeping information confidential. • Maintains accounting controls by following policies and procedures; complying with government standards, and local financial legal requirements. • Investigation and flux analysis of accounts. • Accomplishes accounting and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

AUDITOR at Business Sense Financial and Advisory Accounting Services
  • Philippines
  • December 2009 to May 2011

• Reviews accounts of companies and clients engaged into to ensure the validity and legality of
their financial records. • Advised clients of possible risk aversion measures and cost savings that could be made for the benefit of their organization. • Collates checks and reviews client’s spreadsheet data. • Examines company accounts and financial control systems. • Checking levels of financial risk within organizations. • Checks all financial reports and records of the clients are accurate and reliable. • Ensures that assets of clients are safeguarded. • Advised clients if and where processes are not working as they should and advising on changes to be made. • Preparing reports, commentaries and financial statements. • Liaising with managerial staff and presenting findings and recommendations • Ensuring procedures, policies, legislation and regulations are correctly followed and complied within the organization. • Undertaking reviews of wages of employees.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT at Ginebra San Miguel
  • Philippines
  • October 2008 to April 2009

• Handled Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable of the company as well as monitoring such accounts • Monthly Income Statement Reporting • Processing Payroll • Petty Cash Custodian • Preparation, Computation and Payment SSS, PHIC, HDMF Contributions • Check Controller • Book keeping and accountancy related day-to- day tasks • Assist in performance review meetings, monthly and quarterly meetings • Facilitate operations like budget preparation, preparation of financial report, management of infrastructural facilities, procurement of the office supplies as well as various resources for the proper management of functioning of various departments.

ACCOUNTS ANALYST at IBM Global Process Services
  • Philippines
  • July 2008 to October 2008

• Responsible for verifying and documenting certified payables of the company and certified vendors (suppliers) using SAP system. • Verification and Supplementing vendor numbers for process to check controllers and issuers. • Analysis and Aging of Payables for proper payment and avoiding duplicate payments. • Daily reporting of Accounts Payable cleared during the day. • Communicating to all suppliers for any concerns with regards to their account in the company.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Finance and Accounting
  • at Institute/University : Bicol University
  • April 2007
Bachelor's degree, Finance and Accounting
  • at Institute/University : Bicol University
  • April 2007

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Specialties & Skills

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
REPORTS
ACCOUNTANCY
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
FINANCIAL
MEETING FACILITATION
MICROSOFT OFFICE
PAYROLL PROCESSING
POLICY ANALYSIS
PROCESS ENGINEERING
ACCOUNT RECONCILIATION
Financial Analysis

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English
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