Leah Escalo, Senior Accountant, Key Projects

Leah Escalo

Senior Accountant, Key Projects

OSN

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accounting
Experience
18 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 9 Months

Senior Accountant, Key Projects at OSN
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2015

Reporting to the Finance Director, my responsibilities include, but not limited to the following:

- Prepares standalone legal entity audit file, which comprise the trial balance for historical periods, related account reconciliations/ schedules/ calculation worksheets, and supporting documents, i.e., account confirmations, significant contracts and/or agreements. Entities being handled, KSA, BVI, and Morocco.

- Drafts the standalone financial statements under the applicable accounting framework or IFRS and liaises with the financial reporting and compliance team and external auditors until the accounts were signed off at the Annual General Meeting of the Directors.

- Coordinates with:

Internal legal team - to ensure relevant intra-group service agreements are drafted and executed to support transactions between and among group entities;

Regional finance team/ accounting team - communicate any errors or inconsistencies noted with respect to the group accounting policies and procedures, local GAAP, or IFRS; and,

External auditors - for the audit of the statutory accounts.

- Ensures all adjustments resulting from the project and from the audit are communicated to the appropriate finance/ accounting team in the prescribed format and processed in the financial accounting software (Great Plains), and ultimately reconciles the audited financial statements to Great Plains after completion of the audit.

- Other ad hoc tasks, e.g., profit and loss analysis, profit and loss estimation for tax calculation purposes.

Group Accountant at Esco Micro Pte Ltd
  • Singapore
  • January 2014 to October 2014

Oversee the finance/accounting departments of group entities under my portfolio, in-charge of monthly financial reporting of entities under my portfolio, assist in budgeting, cash flow forecasting, receivables & inventory management, ad hoc activities such as migration of accounting software, internal audit, and financial due diligence.

Finance & Accounting Manager at Esco Philippines Inc
  • Philippines
  • January 2014 to October 2014

Took charge of the finance & accounting department, liaise with third parties e.g., customers, suppliers, auditors, lawyers, banks, and government agencies for statutory requirements, trained accounting staff, budgeting and cash flow forecasting, review of accounts and financial reporting, administrative tasks such as HR.

Audit Manager (Director Level) at Reyes Tacandong & Co.
  • Philippines
  • December 2012 to January 2014

Financial statements audit and other accounting advisory services.

Audit Manager at Ernst & Young Vietnam Ltd
  • Vietnam
  • January 2011 to November 2012

Financial statements audit and other accounting advisory services.

Associate Director at Sycip Gorres Velayo & Co - Ernst & Young Philippines
  • Philippines
  • July 2005 to January 2011

Financial statements audit and other accounting advisory services.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at De La Salle University
  • December 2004

Specialties & Skills

Financial statements audit
Accounts management
Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains, NAV, and Quick Books
Microsoft Office, i.e., Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
Financial reporting
General Accounting
Budgeting, cash flow forecasting

Languages

English
Expert
Filipino
Expert

Memberships

Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • Member
  • June 2005