Senior Accountant
Gems Education
Total years of experience :13 years, 11 Months
Duties and Responsibilities
• Responsible for the day-to-day finance and accounting function including but not limited to accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury, audit and VAT
• Review monthly revenue invoices and ensure compliance with revenue contracts; review bank reconciliations and scrutinize and clear reconciling items
• Process accounts and incoming payments in compliance with financial policies and procedures
• Verify discrepancies by and resolve clients’ billing issues
• Facilitate payment of invoices due by sending bill reminders and contacting clients
• Facilitate and complete month close procedures
• Ensures timely processing of all staff payroll
• Responsible for Customer & Vendor Reconciliation.
• Facilitates the collection of AR and vendor payments
• Prepares intercompany reconciliation & pass the necessary inter unit entries.
• Performed variance analysis and raised red flags when appropriate.
• Assist in the preparation of Annual Budget
• Maintains fixed assets records
• Assist in collating all information for VAT filing
• Prepares monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements & MIS Report
• Assist Auditor during Interim & Annual Audit
• Performed general office duties and administrative tasks (ex. ticket booking, hotel reservations, visa arrangements, processing and coordination of employee’s medical insurance and other human resource related matters and office administrative tasks as needed).
• Responsible for the preparation and processing of payroll; review and ensure accuracy of approved timesheets; track and deduct all garnishments and other special payroll deductions.
• Preparing Bank Reconciliation Statement and maintaining Accounts Receivable with follow-up & Accounts Payables with their Ageing.
• Cash management including payments and receipts processing Monitors & prepares monthly inventory reconciliation with GL.
• Responsible for the preparation of monthly financial analysis reports, developing and maintaining department budgets and generating cost reports.
• Prepare Monthly & Annual Financial Reports.
• Dealing with the suppliers, customers, banks and assist auditors during internal and external audit.
• Filing of VAT return and related VAT reports and requirements
• Primarily involved in review and approval of accurate recording of daily transactions through journals and vouchers of the company’s accounts using Tally ERP system software.
• Assisted the Accounts Payable team on improving the filing system of accounting vouchers and facilitate timely payment to vendors in accordance with Finance policies and procedures.
• Managed bank reconciliations and collections of due account receivable on regular basis.
• Assisted HR team on the preparation of payroll thru Wages Protection System (WPS).
• Prepare and publish timely monthly financial statements and management reports.
• Support month-end and year-end close process.
• Support financial management in directing budget and cost controls, financial analysis, and accounting procedures.
• Liaise and work cooperatively with banks, auditors, suppliers, clients and all parties dealing with the company.
• Facilitate on the Project management, creates projects accounts in the accounting system, review supplier invoices, approve time sheets and overhead charges to be applied to the project, investigates project variances, submit variance reports to the management, monitors the funding available for the projects and report on project profitability to the management.
• Prepare all supporting information and assisted auditors during annual audit.
• Managed the creation and timely update of localized work instructions.
• Collaborated with all the branch accountants during Consolidation and resolved any variances during the review of Inter company reconciliations.
• Successfully conducted training to branch accountants in Istanbul, Turkey on the new accounting system and software introduced to the company to achieve timely and improved reports during Quarterly Consolidation and Monthly Management Reports.
• Directly involved in preparing and recording of cash vouchers, reconciliation of accounts receivable and accounts payable accounts.
• In charge of accurate processing and checking of cash vouchers and supporting documents for various disbursements of the company.
• In charge of analyzing and recording daily transactions thru company’s books for financial statements preparation.
• Prepares financial reports such as the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Statement of Cash Flows and Bank Reconciliation.
Bachelor of Science Major in Accounting