Julius Zafra

Oversees the company's financial operations and reporting, as well as conducts
administrative tasks such as communicating with clients and engaging in personnel decisions.

Exercise administrative control over many aspects of the financial
operation of the business, including budgeting, payroll/human resources, and business planning. Ensures that records across financial departments are
accurate.

Oversees the company's financial reporting mechanisms, managing the financial
staff to ensure that official monthly and annual financial statements comply with generally accepted accounting principles.

Oversee accounts and cash flow, administer internal audits, and cooperate with
external auditors. Also helps to ensure that the human resource department
operates in line with standards and regulations, training new or junior staffers, and communicating with vendors and consultants as required.

Directs and coordinates budgeting activities including budget formulation and monitoring under close supervision by the Financial Controller.

Works closely with the professional team to assure accuracy with the issued and approved funder budgets to avoid any budget variance or discrepancies.

Attends quarterly budget review meetings with Senior Management and Program
financial information for Directors and follows through on required internal budget revision process, including timely upload into the budget data file within a 60 day period.

Performs accounting tasks, applying well-established management and accounting attention to detail allow me to observe principles and practices to a variety of problems to include analyzing and preparing to sort through complex reports as required.

HEAD of the group of companies which include Addar Hotel, Bin Lahdan Ready Mix and with strong time Block Factory, Rako Woodworks, Rako Real Estate, and Al Rawdath Gardens.

Monitor expenditures, analyze revenues and determine budget variances and management and selective report the same to management.
attention abilities.

Handle full spectrum of financial and cost accounting role eg. AR, AP, GL,
forecasting, budgeting etc. passionate about analyzing Assist in auditing activities by providing necessary information and preparing requested documentation. information.

Monitor and record financial transactions according to company policies and
computers and providing regulations.

Perform cash flow forecasting, budgeting and working closely with the operations
detailed reports to and project teams in analyzing margins, variances and cost analysis.

As a member of the Finance team, assisted in the overall functions of accounting leading to the eventual preparation of financial statements and financial management reports.

Tasked in the preparation of projected costs and project performance analysis for newly awarded contracts. Involved in the analysis of cost controls in all aspects of the company's financial operations, and provided reportorial data for management's interim review.

Highlights reviews and financial information requirements.

Preparation of separate year-end Financial Statements for Head and Branch
Account management, Offices.

Preparation of Combined Financial Statements for Head and Branch Offices.
Cash flow & Budgeting,

Preparation of schedules to the year-end Financial Statements for both Head and Management and Financial Branch Offices.

Preparation of projected General and Administrative (G & A) expenses to be
Reporting, Account incurred by the company.

Preparation of financial plans, incorporating budgets for variance analysis.
Reconciliations, System

Analysis of costs, related controls, and investigations of the number of deviations.

As Head of Finance supervised the accounting and over-all financial operations of the Foundation. Assisted the Foundation's Executive Committee in the preparation and submission of project proposals for funding consideration by funding donors (i.e. USAID, PACAP, PSF, among others).

Ensured that compliance with donors' regulations on funds utilization, budgetary reasonableness, allowability, and allocability are met, and any deviations noted therefrom are properly addressed and timely responded with justifications.

Acted as an advisory member in the Loan Committee of the Foundation's province-wide social credit program (Money Shop).

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

- Established the foundation’s Accounting Policies, Procedures and Internal Control Systems for its lending and non-lending operations;

- Maintained the foundation’s Books of Accounts and General Ledger for both head office in Manila and its branches in Roxas City, and in the whole province of Capiz, Phil.;

- Coordinated with the foundation’s MIS on the computerization of accounting systems and ensured its continuing enhancements;

- Supervised the Branch accountants in the routinary bookkeeping and accounting functions up to the preparation of individual Financial Statements and consolidations;

- Assisted the foundation’s MANCOM in the financial aspects of project proposals for submission to funding donors (i.e. USAID, the Philippine Australian, and Canadian Assistance Program or PACAP, among others) for funding consideration;

- Ensured that accounting and reportorial requirements of funding donors are met and strictly complied with, and any related issues brought to the attention of the foundation are responded to and actioned accordingly;

- Provided advice to the Foundation Executive Management on contemplated project budget realignments, subject to its allowability and within the requisite parameters issued by funding donors.

BROAD FUNCTIONS:

Performed the routinary bookkeeping functions for the company, leading to the eventual preparation of financial and management reports.

Liaised with banks on matters of banking transactions and payments to vendors.

Facilitated the preparation of company's payroll, preparation and submission of government's levied contributions (i.e. SSS) and payments of taxes (Quarterly VAT & Corporate Income Tax).

BROAD FUNCTIONS:

Assisted clients in the set-up of accounting systems. Coordinated with the Senior Auditors in the preparation of audit programs and inventory counts for audit clients.

Performed substantive tests on the financial reports of audit clients, in accordance with the audit program during the course of the interim and year-end audits.

Collated resulting audit working papers for review by the senior auditors, leading towards the Partners' eventual issuance of Audit reports.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

- Assisted clients in the setting up of appropriate accounting and internal controls systems; - Established accounting policies and procedures for assigned Bookkeeping clients, in manual form;

- Maintenance of Books of Accounts and General Ledgers for assigned bookkeeping clients;

- Ensured that reconciliation of cash and cash in bank balances of bookkeeping clients are done on a monthly basis;

- Generated, reviewed and analyzed monthly Financial Reports for assigned bookkeeping clients (Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Funds Flow);

- Assisted clients in the preparation of Internal Revenue Tax Returns (i.e. VAT Returns, Income Tax Returns, Sales Tax Returns, etc.) and Government’s levied contributions (Social Security Contributions). Work Accomplishments:

- Developed sound audit programs for audit clients;

- Registration of new businesses with Government regulating bodies;

- Preparation of Income Tax Returns of audit clients