Jerald Matiban

Responsibilities

• Administration of SAP accounting software for monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial closing
• Preparation of year-end Financial Statements and managing tax and audit requirements
• Cashflow forecast and management
• VAT review, finalization and filing with tax authorities
• Maintenance of finance documentation for VAT, audit, legal and official documents
• Bank and General ledger review and reconciliation
• Managing sales orders and inventory reconciliation and reporting
• Accounts payable management and vendor reconciliation and coordination
• Accounts receivable management - billing, collection and customer reconciliation and periodic AR reports
• Supporting the general manager and Italian financial controller for monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad hoc forecasting and budgeting reports
Achievements

Supported management initiative for cost savings by effectively performing the role of both AR and AP accountants

Responsibilities

 Manage the day to day finance and accounting operations
 Monitor and analyze cost and revenue and report to Executive Director
 Cash forecast and cash flow management
 Accounts payable, Accounts receivable and Inventory management for the school’s bookshop
 Preparation of Financial Statements
 Perform financial reviews and analysis as needed by the Executive Director
 Work in close coordination with the management team
 Develop and maintain an effective internal control and accounting system
 Assist the auditors for external auditing and financial statements finalization
 Ensure all accounting procedures are in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
 Ensure transparency of reports given to all income and cost center managers and executive director for evaluation and decision making
 Ensure that accounting staff are working in an effective and efficient manner as required and as needed by the organization
 Ensure that VAT return is filed and paid in accordance with applicable laws and regulation
 Ensure that issues related to VAT and accounting are readily resolved

Achievements
 Promoted from Senior Accountant to Accounting Manager

Responsibilities

• Supervising process on accounting / bookkeeping, maintaining accounts and general ledgers for multiple local / multinational companies (5 to 6 clients);
• Supervising 3 to 4 junior staff for accounting service delivery, client communications and training;
• Keeping all accounts up to date and producing:
o P&L and Balance Sheet;
o Cash Flows;
o Monthly KPIs / Management Report; and
o Bank reconciliation and other monthly reports using Xero accounting software and SAGE300.
• Planning, executing and delivering on time to meet accounting client deadlines;
• Responsible for sales invoices / purchases, receivables and payable and resolving issues that may arise;
• Adherence to company policies and strict compliance to client reporting deadlines;
• Setting up meeting/calls with client counterpart to resolve accounting issues;
• Organization of documents as per company and client policy; and
• Handling and managing clients from multiple industries like.
Notable Industries and Clients

• Construction / Contracting
• Professional Services / Consulting / Events Management
• Video / TV / Film Production
• Fund Management
• Manufacturing / E Commerce

Achievements

• Promoted from Accounts Officer to Assistant Manager

Responsibilities

• Preparation of audit package; distribution / taxable income, financial statements and other deliverables;
• Monitoring and ensuring that the deliverables under clients are signed off within third party SLAs;
• Collaboration with Sydney FA through emails and calls for issue resolution/remediation; and
• Assisting junior staffs for queries and resolving issues.

Achievements

• Team Supervision

Responsibilities

• Responsible for:
o Stock recording / reconciliation, costing / valuation and variance analysis;
o Monthly reporting to business partners on KPI;
o Supervising inventory movements of different depots/plants; and
o Applying SOX controls.
• Updating all massive movements related to sales, purchases and plant transfers into SAP;
• Validating data and ensuring completeness & accuracy of the inventory loaded and discharged at plants and depots;
• Addressing and resolving any backlog reconciliation issues;
• suggesting recommendations to streamline the process and shared best practices;
• Ensuring that stocks are correctly recorded / reconciling and valuing at lower of cost (FIFO) or NRV (IFRS compliance) and at LIFO valuation for US entities (US GAAP compliance);
• Managing:
o Manual journal entries with direct impact to financial statements; and
o Refinery stock valuation and performance reporting.

Achievements

• Involved in initial requirement gathering for the implementation of SAP to GSAP.
• Functioned as key trainer for GSAP R3.
• Organized and conducted the Process Sharing on Stock Recording.
• Part of SOX Controls Assessment Team

Responsibilities

• Applying and upholding the Internal Auditors’ Code of Ethics;
• Planning, implementing and executing of audit engagements within reasonable time;
• Identification of audit and accounting issues in order to improve the company’s operations and system of internal control, governance process and risk management;
• Preparing audit reports / working papers for documentation;
• Compliance with the local and international auditing standards, accounting principles, and regulatory standards and the company’s policies and procedures;
• Maintaining rapport with the entire team to sustain the productive working environment; and
• Maintaining rapport with the auditee (audit client) in order to attain/achieve business objective during audit activity and to ensure credibility of the audit function.
Achievements

• Involved in Fraud Audit and Investigation and documentation for process improvement

Responsibilities

• Managing inventory counts and audit fieldworks. Statutory audits which included analysis and reviews of financial statements including cash flow statements of various clients. Scope of work included ensuring compliance with management policies, identification of weaknesses in the system and examining financial statements to ensure compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), International Standards on Auditing (ISA) and International Accounting Standards (IAS) and local reporting framework.
• Internal audits which included planning, understanding the business, scoping and assessing the key risks, performing the audit and developing improvement plans.
• Compilation of financial statements in compliance with applicable IFRS while assessing various areas of financial statements such as employee benefits, taxation, foreign currency transactions etc.
• Documentation and review of system and policies which included preparation of system documentation in the form of transaction flow reviews (TFR), policies and procedures manuals, segregation of duty (SOD) matrices; carrying out detailed risk and control evaluation for significant business processes and development of initiatives/recommendations to rectify any control gaps identified.
• Performance and technical audits which included assessment of effectiveness, efficiency and economy with which resources were utilized.

Notable Clients:

• Manufacturing and Service Businesses