ROCHELLE S. LACISTE, CPA

Mobile: 971*********

Email: ac28vc@r.postjobfree.com

Address: Discovery Gardens Dubai, UAE

CAREER OBJECTIVE

To seek employment with executive function in a dynamic and reputable organization where there is opportunity to apply expertise and skills acquired from work experience and to significantly contribute on achieving the organization's goal. PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION

CPA (Certified Public Accountant) Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountant Bachelors of Science in Accountancy St Ferdinand College, Ilagan City Isabela Philippines PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ICDL GCC FOUNDATION FZ LLC (April 7, 2013 to present) IT Support Provider

Senior Accountant

Responsibilities:

Financial Accounting / Reporting

• Responsible for preparation & analysis monthly, quarterly & annual Financial Statements including Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss Account, Statement of Cash Flows in USD and Local currency

• Preparation of MIS reports for CFO and Director General

• Planning, preparation & evaluation of the budget with coordination to other management team

• Analysis of financial trends and variances to compile data for forecasting of all monthly, quarterly and yearly budgets for the company

• Perform and monitor Period End Close Activities in time and with accuracy every month

• Coordinate / provide information to external auditors as required during audit cycle

• Review productivity report of Development Team and convert to Cost of Sales / Bill to client if required

• Review regular physical & online stock counts monthly according to the internal control procedures and to resolve the discrepancies between physical/online and ERP System with coordination of logistics department

• Prepare & post journal entries (monthly, adjusting, recurring), review of payroll entries, record transactions and monthly accruals, prepayments, deferred income from Real Estates

• Analyze, justify and reconcile GL accounts and SL Accounts (including bank) on monthly basis in Multicurrency set-up

Bank, Accounts Receivable Payable and intercompany Transactions

• Supervise processing of Bank opening, Performance guarantee required by Customers, Loans financing documents (Investment in Real estates), bank deposits and coordination to Relationship Managers as required

• Monitor collections in online banking and send to operations all unknown deposits

• Process online vendor payments in ENBD / HSBC and send payment advice to vendors

• Review Invoices of Vendors / Customers (verification of Invoices against LPO)

• Prepare calculation of Royalties to Inventory providers for payment processing based on contracts/agreements

• Review Expenses and Reimbursements (travel)

• Prepare the Payables/Receivables related MIS reports and analysis

• Adherence to Standard operating policies and procedures

• Oversee maintaining of documents/ records pertaining to Accounts Payable/Receivable

• Conduct period end closing and reporting based on “payables month-end Check list”.

• Vendor/Customer account Reconciliation/Balance confirmations

• Any other Adhoc tasks assigned by the CFO or higher managements in relation to revenue / cost analysis

(profitability) especially for projects with Government education / training sector

• Ensure effective and efficient maintenance of accounting records as per the company policy and procedures for Payables

• Reconcile balances with intercompany (US, Egypt, Dubai) Fixed Assets

• Maintain a full and accurate record of the fixed assets as per the policy for Inventory Accounting and Fixed Assets

• Record fixed asset acquisitions and dispositions in the accounting system.

• Review periodic physical fixed asset verification and submit the Physical Verification Memo to the CFO to include any discrepancy

• Calculate the depreciation value of fixed assets

• Classify the assets in accordance with policy

• Review and update the detailed schedule of fixed assets and accumulated depreciation

• Recommend to management whether fixed assets should be disposed of

• Conduct analyses related to fixed assets as requested by management Business/Systems Process Analysis

• Support Operations on creating and developing new products as to technical, financial aspects and impact on Taxation in ERP development

• Conduct business process analysis on development of online ordering system, integration to CRM & ERP Systems

• Analyze, design, test, document and improve development of ERP System in compliance to IFRS and to the changing needs per jurisdiction of Federal Taxation Authority in GCC, Egypt, USA Casinetto Trading LLC (July 2012 to March 2013)

Import / Export Foodservices

Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for preparing & analyzing monthly, quarterly & annual Financial Statements including Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss Account, Statement of Cash Flows

• Management of A/P, A/R, G/L, Payroll and Fixed Assets

• Initiated and managed Month End Closing process

• Investigate account discrepancies and reconcile to general ledgers

• Ensure compliance with all accounting policies, procedures and internal controls

• Cash forecasting based on sales, cash collections and expected payments

• Handling import payments and all the documentation process

• Review and follow up Payables & Receivables aging for payments & collections

• Maintained all facets of the accounting cycle financial statements, general ledger, bank reconciliation’s, journal entries, and keeping an overall accurate audit trail

• Responsible for all banking transactions and reconciliations

• Monitoring the performance of the cost centers, cost elements and internal orders against the budget.

• Working for the arrangement of loan facilities for the company from banks

• Streamlined the accounts payable cycle

• Analyzed trends and areas for cost improvements and proper costs allocation

• Working with external auditors for annual audits and preparation of lead schedules for Auditors.

• Reduced receivable aging from 120 days to 60 days with strong follow up

• Review and analyzed inventory for monitoring of discrepancy on physical and book records, expired and back orders

SCP & Company, CPAs / Aktus Global Mgt (January 2011 – April 2012) Accounting / Audit / Tax / Systems implementation

Systems Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Manage the implementation of ERP Accounting software (Microsoft Dynamics Navision Software) projects

• Conduct Business process review and understand client user and system requirements and identify specific enhancement customizations if necessary.

• Identify and recommend appropriate requirements that streamline the client’s business process and Document business requirements and functional specifications

• Conduct Information Systems Audit during the Testing period and parallel run to verify that all transactions in different modules were correctly encoded and processed before GO Live.

• Manage client expectations, the project team (internal and external) and provide great customer service & Provide technical support for project life cycle assigned to each project

• Conduct training for colleagues assigned to Tax, Audit and Accounting on how to use ERP system

• Assigned to client’s (Unilever) yearend stocktaking (audit assignment) Obayashi Corporation - Dubai (June 2007 – January 2010) Dubai Metro Project Construction

Site Accountant

Responsibilities:

• Prepare, analyze and review accurate Monthly Cost Control Budget Reports, Schedules and adjustments

• Responsible for the preparation of payments to suppliers (Based on contracts, LPOs, Delivery notes against Invoices)

• Responsible for handling & replenishment of Petty Cash on site

• Responsible for Implementation of Internal control policies on site

• Outsource suppliers for various material requirement on site

• Responsible for accurate Vendor accounts reconciliation and Sub-contractor claims

• Responsible to address various Site Staff Query regarding Payroll & HR policies

• Maintaining and Updating all important files for Claims to Client and Data for Back charges to Subcontractors Artistic Expressions LTD (March 2004 – March 2007) US Service Company

Accounting Officer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the preparations of the Financial Statement and Analysis in USD and PHP currencies

• Prepare the monthly Cash flows as to Cash projections for expenses & collections for reference of funds to be received from main office

• General accounting, payables and receivables management

• Bank, related party and GL/SL accounts reconciliation

• Processing of the monthly, quarterly and annual Tax filing US IRS, Spain and China, Philippines

• Payroll preparation of Staff in San Diego, California and China thru Bank of America

• Booking of Ticket and hotels and required transfers for staff attending tradeshows in USA as part of marketing / sales

Einsco Company INC (May 2003 - March 2004)

Manufacturer of Freego Jeans and Shirts

Cashier / Cash Management

Responsibilities:

• Cash / Bank handling and cash flow management

• Processing of weekly Payroll

• Vendor payment releasing

• Customer collection receiving

• Processing VAT, Withholding taxes, Income taxes

Amcor Security & Investigation Agency, INC (April 2001 – April 2003) High class security agency

Accountant / Bookkeeper I

Responsibility:

• Preparation of the Financial Statement and Analysis

• Preparation of Management reports (Ad hoc)

• Bookkeeping, Assist in Billing, Payroll processing, Bank reconciliations PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Executive Training for Rediscovering the Value of Management Accounting PICPA Dubai Chapter - November 9, 2012

Training for Philippine Standards of Auditing

SCP and Company, CPAs – November 8 – 9, 2011

Training on Process Improvements Tools in Quality Management 3Fold Education Centre – October 19, 2016

COMPUTER SKILLS

1 Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2 Microsoft Dynamics GP

3 Microsoft Dynamics AX 4 Quick Books

5 Peachtree 6 Sage Timberline

7 Microsoft Office applications 8 IBM Lotus Notes/Sametime/CRM LANGUAGE SKILLS

1 English 2 Filipino

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Nationality: Filipino

Religion: Christianity

Status: Married

Visa: Husbands Visa

REFERENCE

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