Maria Shirdel Marantal, Accountant

Maria Shirdel Marantal

Accountant

Educon Management Consultancy

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Accounting
Experience
4 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :4 years, 6 Months

Accountant at Educon Management Consultancy
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2016 to July 2018

KEY PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS:

Established and modified a comprehensive accounting & financial reporting package to reflect growing organizational complexity
Reconciled a Partner's investment bank account from 2014 up to 2017 to correctly reflect each Partner's share in the personal bank account
Developed a working income statement of a real estate portfolio for the year 2016 and 2017
Analyzed and prepared financial ratios of each income and balance sheet accounts and researched reporting issues to improve accounting operations procedures

MAJOR FUNCTIONS:
Substantiates day-to-day financial transactions by analyzing and interpreting accounting information from various accounting sources (e.g. purchase orders, invoices, contracts, client agreements)
Performs monthly bank reconciliations of at least 5 corporate bank accounts
Ensures correct posting of journal entries in accounting software and maintains general ledger and schedules of each asset/liability/equity accounts
Monthly reconciles all intercompany transactions and ensures proper accounting journal entries and/or adjustments are prepared
Monthly reconciles accounting discrepancies and prepares adjusting journal entries and reversals where necessary
Monthly updates schedules of prepayments, fixed assets lapsing, software subscription, etc. and prepares month-end accruals and other monthe-end adjustments
Prepares financial statements including Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flows of Companies engaged in Real Estate, Project, Consulting, Automotive within the group
Ensures financial reports comply with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and accounting policies and principles
Assist the auditors during the financial year-end audit

Other Functions:
Deposits and encashes cheques received from customers and funds received from shareholders
Prepare purchase orders, invoices, vouchers, cheques, and telegraphic transfer payments to international suppliers
Prepares quotation and cash payments vouchers of office and pantry supplies upon reaching reorder point
Prepares monthly employee payroll and computes employee benefits including (leave, gratuity, airfare, and other employee entitlements as per UAE labor law) and ensures salaries and benefits are paid off timely
Performs some HR and Admin functions (e.g. receipt of calls, monitors visa processing, employee leave monitoring, application of car rentals for employees, filing of HR and Admin documents aside from accounting files)

Payroll Accountant at RHJ Enterprise
  • Philippines
  • July 2015 to December 2015

Collect, confirm, and process timesheets and overtime of employees
 Updates mandatory contribution of employer and its employees (e.g
SSS, Philhealth, and Pagibig) including previously unpaid
contributions
 Verify taxes and other deductions
 Prepares monthly payroll of employees in month end reporting
procedures
 Computes monthly and annual income taxes on compensation of
employees
 Perform filing and general administrative tasks

Audit Assurance Associate at Ernst & Young (SGV & Co.), Philippines
  • Philippines
  • December 2013 to June 2015

Prepares audit programs and other audit procedures
 Conducts understanding business processes and transactions of the
clients in different industries (e.g retail, automobiles, real estate,
pharmaceutical) which assist in identification of risk factors
 Performs walkthrough procedures on significant transactions (e.g.
Order-to-Cash, Purchase-to-Pay, Inventory Management, Payroll
Process and Financial Statement Closing Process) during evaluation of
an organization’s accounting controls and risk management measures
 Conducts substantive procedures including:
* Testing classes of transactions, account balances, and
disclosures
* Agreeing the financial statements and accompanying notes to
the underlying accounting records
* Examining material journal entries and other adjustments made
during the preparation of the financial statements
 Reviews schedules, contracts, and other agreements entered into by
the clients and prepares complete documentation using EY Global
Audit Methodology (EY GAM)
 Prepares summary of audit findings and communicate them to the
client
 Drafts audit reports, financial statements, income/business taxes
returns, management letter and other client communications

Trainee at National Food Authority (NFA) Region V
  • Philippines
  • April 2012 to May 2012

Financial data encoding
 Journalizing of government transactions such as purchasing of raw
materials from suppliers
 Preparation of certain consolidated financial statements - regional
level, budgets and other monthly reports
 Reconciliation of accounts of each bidder.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at Bicol University College of Business, Economics, and Management
  • April 2013
High school or equivalent, None
  • at Daraga National High School
  • April 2008

Secondary Level (Valedictorian)

High school or equivalent, None
  • at Daraga North Central School
  • January 2004

Primary Level (With Honors)

Specialties & Skills

Accounting
Tax Accounting
Auditing
Financial Software
ACCOUNTANCY
ACCOUNTING
ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE
ADMINISTRATION
APPLICATIONS
AUDITING
AUTOMOTORES
BUDGETING
FINANCIAL
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Languages

English
Intermediate

Memberships

Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA)
  • Member
  • November 2013

Training and Certifications

Seminar on Tax updates and year-end adjustments (Training)
Training Institute:
Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)
Date Attended:
November 2015
Duration:
8 hours

Hobbies

  • Playing Badminton, Watching Movies