• General Role: Overall in-charge of the financial, cost/manufacturing, and management accounting, reporting, analysis, planning, forecasting, budgeting, and control; assist in financial decision making; and statutory regulation enforcement and reporting.
• Leadership and Management: Manage and lead Finance team to ensure that work is properly delegated and completed in a timely and accurate manner. Monitor and analyze department work to develop more efficient procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy. Create and establish workflow process to ensure department’s efficiency and to drive the team in meeting our strategic goals. Manage the staffing need of the department from recruitment, selection, orientation, training to retention. Perform annual performance review. Coaching, mentoring, and developing staff accountants. Set department’s KPI’s and tracked progress.
• Financial Accounting: Implement, monitor and review accounting policies and procedures. Manage, monitor, and control GL activities to ensure proper recognition in compliance with US-GAAP, and IFRS for revenue and lease accounting. Maintain company’s chart of accounts and guide system users the correct account to use. Responsible for the ledger’s trial balance and produce financial reports.
• Cost/Manufacturing Accounting: Maintain cost accounting system and perform month-end manufacturing accounting process. Plan, analyze and collect data to determine costs of raw materials, purchases, and labor. Maintain standard cost and inventory valuation. Establish work center rates (labor and OH rate) and evaluate its accuracy. Analyzed actual manufacturing costs and prepare report comparing standard to actual production costs. Review and investigate PPV, absorption, and variances. Reconcile RM, WIP, and FG inventories. Validate COGS and produce manufacturing reports.
• Closing: Responsible for the month, quarter, and year-end close. Communicate with all members of the organization to ensure timely and accurate period close – that revenue and costs are recognized when earned and incurred, and reports are published timely for internal and external users.
• Reporting and Analysis: Produce various reports, create financial models, and provide performance analysis require by the management or other corporate teams. Drive continuous improvement and recommend cost savings through trend reporting analysis and metrics management.
• Forecasting, Planning and Budgeting: Prepare monthly forecast, compare with actual results, and provide analysis for material variances. Create template and use it to prepare the budget (mid-year and Annual) and cash flow planning, review with GM for additional input, and present the final budget with the VP-Finance. Monitor the budget throughout the year, analyze actual results to budgets and forecasts, and prepare detailed report for discrepancies and amendments.
• Control: Execute internal controls - ensure segregation of duties, conduct physical audit of assets, periodic reconciliations in accounting system, review users accounting system access, and enforce approval authority and company’s policy. Develop policies, processes and procedures where there’s no existing control or controls are weak to prevent or mitigate the risks of possible fraud and error.
• Sarbanes-Oxley: Ensure compliance and implementation of SOX controls. Review and approve SOX reports and schedules prepared by other team members, analyze and consolidate them for reporting and discussion with VP and Director of Finance.
• Taxation: Review VAT transactions to ensure accuracy. Communicate with concerned personnel the correct VAT application and resolve any issues. Prepare reconciliation, make adjustments/corrections if necessary, compute and file VAT return.
• Cash Management: Prepare cash flow report, monitor and manage cash position, and liaise with Treasury for any funding requirements.
• Inventory Management: Monitor the proper accounting, handling, and control of inventories. Periodic review of inventory activities and ensure provision of reserve. Coordinate cycle count, investigate variances, and resolve issues.
• Fixed Asset Management: Monitor the proper accounting, handling, and control of fixed asset. Ensure the accuracy of fixed asset’s cost basis, estimated useful life, asset categorization, department charging, transfer from in-progress to in-service, salvage value if any, depreciation method, and monthly depreciation entries. Perform quarterly PP&E impairment test. Conduct annual physical asset verification, investigate variances, and resolve issues.
• Audit: Focal point for internal and external audit. Prepare audit requirements and answer related queries. Communicate audit findings to the team and provide response on behalf of the management. Perform surprise petty cash count and audit. Conduct random audit on selected transaction samples.
• Banking: Manage online banking. Monitor and maintain bank accounts, users’ access, and authorize approvers. Liaise with our Relationship Manager for company’s banking needs. Prepare LC requirements and submit to the bank.
• ERP/Accounting System: Administer accounting system (DE and AX). Create and set-up new account code and description, vendor and customer code, billing code, and purchasing code for both stock and non-stock items. Monitor and maintain user’s system access to ensure proper authority is granted and restrictions are in place.
• Other: Collaborate with other members of organization, assist them with special projects, and provide feedback and advice for improvements or action plan. Provide ad hoc reports and analysis required by internal and external users. Perform other tasks or special project assigned from time to time. Take over Financial Analyst’s and Controller’s task when they are on leave.

• General Role: Managed and led Accounting team. Oversaw the general ledger and daily accounting of AR, AP, cash receipts and disbursements, petty cash, payroll, fixed asset, inventory, sales, and purchases to ensure compliance with accounting principles, policies, and standards.
• General Accounting, Reporting and Analysis: Established and enforced proper accounting methods, policies and principles. Ensured proper approvals are obtained from authorized personnel as per the Delegation of Authority Guidelines. Reviewed and approved posting of inventory consumption, sales invoices, and journal entries for any adjustments, corrections, provisions (Allowance for Doubtful Accounts, Inventory Obsolescence, Gratuity, etc.), and month-end accruals/re-accruals of revenue and costs ensuring proper recognition. Monitored and analyzed accounting data to ensure the accuracy of trial balance and subsidiary ledgers are reconciled with the general ledger. Assigned correct mapping of HFM account to each GL account before loading into FDM to produce financial and management reports.
• Intercompany Accounting, Reporting, and Analysis: Handled daily intercompany transactions, computation of IC-COGS and inter-unit mark-up, reconciliation with other IC partners, preparation and maintenance of IC reports, finalization of accounts, and review and analysis of transfer pricing.
• Fixed Asset Management: Managed Fixed Assets – ensuring CAPEX approval, monitoring of In-Progress (CIP account) until closing of CA and transferring to fixed asset account and put into service, posting of monthly depreciation, maintaining of Fixed Asset Register, quarterly review of possible impairment, and annual physical fixed asset verification.
• Inventory Management: Monitored and analyzed inventory activities to ensure proper accounting and handling. Performed annual physical count, prepared count sheet report, investigated variance/s (physical vs. book), and asked approval for any necessary adjustments or corrections before posting.
• Taxation: Ensured proper accounting of tax transactions of our Kuwait operation, prepared tax requirements, and liaised with our local tax advisors for filing ITR.
• Sarbanes-Oxley: Prepared reconciliation, schedules, reports, and analysis required for each accounting controls.
• Accounting Information System: Set-up, installed, implemented, and monitored accounting system, created Chart of Accounts, developed business forms, trained accounting personnel, and managed accounting software.
• Audit: Prepare and provide internal audit requirements, answer related queries, and liaise with the auditor.
• Other: Prepared ad hoc reports and analysis required by the management used for decision making.

• Accounts Receivable: Responsible for the daily AR transactions, such as, billing, keeping track of and collecting money owed, maintaining customer files, communicating with customers and monitoring customer account details for non-payments, delayed payments and other irregularities, investigating and resolving customer queries, preparing bank deposits, making sure the billing system is up-to-date, reconciliation of accounts (A/R to GL), processing journal entries for any adjustments, provision for bad debts and write off, and preparation of AR related reports.
• Accounts Payable: Performed daily AP transactions, such as, reviewing of supplier’s invoices as well as check requests; sorting, organizing and matching bills; set invoices up for payment procedure; check requests; put together and process company accounts payable checks and wire transfers; reconciliation of accounts (A/P to GL); preparing analysis associated with accounts; monitoring of company accounts to ensure payments are up to date; resolving bill discrepancies; maintaining vendor files; corresponding with vendors and responding to inquiries; processing journal entries for any adjustments and write off; and preparation of AP related reports.
• Intercompany Accounting: Performed daily IC transactions, such as, intercompany receivables, payables, sales, and purchases; reconciliation with IC partners; processing adjustments and journal entries; and preparation of intercompany related reports.
• Payroll: Performed payroll computation, accounting, payment processing, reporting, and analysis. Computed gratuity/end service benefits and prepared journal entries for monthly provision.
• Bank Reconciliation: Performed monthly bank reconciliation, analyzed reconciling items, and prepared journal entries for any adjustments and corrections.
• Other: Prepared journal entries for accruals/re-accruals of revenue and expenses, assisted in monthly/quarterly/year-end closing, and prepared internal/external audit requirements and SOX schedules or report analysis.

Overall in-charge of the office and performed various functions, such as, Accounting, Administration, Operations, Inside/Walk in Sales, Marketing, Human Resource, Purchases, Logistics, Customer Service, and Reception.
• Finance Functions – Responsible for all the accounting related activities, such as AR, AP, Sales/Billing, Purchases, Inventory, and Payroll; from recording/bookkeeping up to finalization of accounts and preparation of financial reports and schedules. Analyzed business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses.
• Other Functions – Performed general office duties, such as, reception, administrative tasks, walk-in sales, marketing strategy, human/manpower resource, inbound/outbound shipments, customer service, and PRO related jobs.

• Accounting and Reporting: Responsible for the accounting transactions/activities of all Metro Manila branches, such as, recording and summarizing of collections, disbursements, premiums/revenues, and expenses; preparation of monthly Cash Flow Report, Premium Balance Receivable Aging Report, Receipt and Disbursement Subsidiary Ledger; Bank Reconciliation; and computation of Annual Contingent Profit Commission of Ordinary Agents.
• Budgeting: Prepared, implemented, and monitored budget for each branch.
• Audit: Internal - Performed annual internal audit for all Metro Manila branches, prepared Audit Report for Top Management, and provided recommendation for improvement. External - Prepared audit work schedules and reports as requested by external auditors within the required time frame.

• Accounting and Reporting: Responsible for the recording and summarizing of the Head Office expenses and disbursements, and preparation of Disbursement Register Report. Processed payment for commission, claims, supplier’s invoice, utilities, other operating expenses, and replenishment of branch revolving fund from check voucher preparation to issuance/releasing of approved checks. Prepared yearly schedule of accruals for fixed expenses.

A 5-year Bachelor’s degree in Accounting with major courses in Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Cost Accounting, Tax Accounting, Government Accounting, Auditing, Business Law, and Computer and Information System in Business.