Financial Consultant (equivalent to Manager Finance & Accounting)
Arthur Lawrence
Total years of experience :13 years, 7 Months
- Managing mid-sized teams and providing end-to-end accounting and finance services to a USA based group comprising 40+ companies, with a revenue of approx $45 million p.m.
- Producing accurate financial reports to specific deadlines
- Managing budgets
- Recommend and maintain a system of policies, procedures and best practices that enforce an adequate level of control over Finance department activities
- Responsible to research and disseminate latest developments on US and UK GAAP, IFRS/IAS, Companies and Tax Regulations and resolution of accounting/auditing issues
- Acted as lead for a Record to Report (R2R) process for a USA based client
- Forecasting, monitoring and interpreting cash flows and anticipating challenges arising from limited funds
- Preparation and Analysis of Monthly/Quarterly reports of LLCs, LPs, and internal reporting for Corporate, Investment Management team and Private Equity team
- Act as a liaison between on-shore and off-shore team, client and other stakeholders in the resolution of day-to-day administrative and operational issues
- Ensuring accurate inter-company settlements and reporting to devise vest remittance options
- Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue, and expense entries by compiling and analyzing account information
- Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions; resolving discrepancies
- Maintains general ledger by transferring subsidiary accounts; preparing a trail balance; reconciling entries
- Assists in preparation of monthly management reports, including ‘Budget vs. Actual’ variance report
- Coordinate and resolve various issues with banks, such as un-cleared discrepancies, bank fee/interest calculations and online services
- Secures financial information by completing database backups
- Periodic reconciliation of debtors accounts, resolution of conflicts and liaising internally to resolve any issues that are being handled by other concerned departments
- Preparation of collections report to be used by finance function, identifying potential bad debts
- Act as a liaison between the external auditor and the management
- Conclude internal audit findings and report to the Chief Internal Auditor / management
- Perform test of control on sample transactions