Finance and Internal Auditor

SUMMARY OF SKILLS and QUALIFICATIONS:

Proficient in accounting and finance skills

With six (6) years exposure in handling accounts receivable/ accounts payable process and procedures.

Able to communicate complex financial information in a clear and concise manner.

With six (6) years experience in audit of financial, compliance, information system, and operations.

Able to evaluate the adequacy, reliability and soundness of accounting data and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the operations.

With knowledge in business process improvement documentation, business process risk assessment and analytical tools and techniques.

With exceptional attention to details

Highly motivated and responsible leader;

Easily adapts to changes in culture and environment; flexible, hardworking, results oriented and ethical person.

Able to work in a team and lead the team into multi-faceted environment under limited supervision

Competent using computer software: Windows applications, Microsoft Office and Sage 50 accounting software, SAP system, Quick Books accounting system and NETSUITE – Oracle. With extensive background and expertise in the following:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist

ABS-CBN CANADA ULC February 2017 to June 2018

Mainly responsible in analyzing monthly, quarterly and yearly results against prior year and budget or reforecast amount.

Manages overall direction and control of all strategic financial concerns of the North America Remittance Business.

Interprets and analyzes complex financial information and reports to provide accurate, timely and deep insight results of the financial variance and recommendations to management for improvement of the operations and decision-making.

Reviews the General Ledger account as to accuracy of the amount and details and Perform General Ledger reconciliation such as receivables, payables, Intercompany transactions and cash bank reconciliations.

-Identified and monitored Key Performance Indicators (KPI), highlighting trends and causes of unexpected variance in the performance of the remittance business in a monthly basis. Impact: Management easily provides sound judgment and new initiatives for the business improvement as to the income and performance of the unit.

-Developed and implemented financial and operations models and regular business review with Remittance Management team. Impact: Identified over payment in commission and overturned the loss of forex to income. Eliminated manual posting of commission in the system to prevent error and inaccurate amount of accounts receivables. Also, improved the system process for commission application, credit and transactions limit monitoring and auto payment application.

-Reconciled Agents Accounts Receivables records against ERP system and submitted all receivables report subject for collections to the Operation Team including Aging of Receivables. Impact: Corrected 80% of inaccurate amount and details of the Agents and the customers in the system. Also, improved the accuracy of the account receivables module by identifying the issues in the cancellation and double posting of credit memo in the ERP system.

-Conducted daily monitoring and review of billing and collections. Impact: Eliminated double work due to consistent 98 to 100% accuracy of the records in the ERP system.

-Consistently reviewed all request for payment as to the accuracy of the amount, expenses and vendor account. Impact: 100% accuracy as to amount and details and accelerated the processing of the payables.

Overnight Stocker

WAL-MART Canada June 2016 to January2017

Hold excellent customer service through responding to customer requests for information and service and assisting customers in locating merchandise.

Achieved 90% and more stock availability for the customer and stack merchandise in a safe and stable manner. Impact: Increase sales of dairy and frozen section of the store and high inventory turn-over.

Senior Audit Officer

Magsaysay Transport and Logistic Group March 2014 to February2016

Conducted independent finance and operations audit to units concerned as per audit plan or special engagement to enhance and improve the efficiency of the operations, effectiveness of the internal controls, and reliability of the accounting data and prevention of possible fraud in the organization.

-Improved the quality of audits of the department by introducing new audit process and procedures based on the Professional Practice Framework and COSO Framework. Impact: Increase the quality of the audit and standardize the procedures based on international level. Management easily understands the reports.

-Consistently reviewed and provided process improvements through operational audits within purchasing department, freight operations, repair and maintenance of the containers. Impact: Produced savings due to elimination of bribery and kickbacks in the process of acceptance of the suppliers/contractors and improved the controls in all purchasing by generating Standard Operating Policies and Procedures in Purchasing Department

-Discovered fraudulent activities and conflict of interest in the One-Time Vendors Account

Impact: Recovered more than Php1Million overpayment and dismissed all employees directly violate the Conflict of Interest and Corporate Governance Policies. Improve control in the vendor identifications, bidding procedures and acceptance of the services.

-Conducted review of Billing and Collections process using Kaizen Philosophy and Lean Six Sigma Standard .Impact: Identified the bottleneck of the billing and improved the collection process from 80-90 days long to 45 days by removing all redundant work and condense the process of billing and collections.

WORK HISTORY SUMMARY

Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist, ABS-CBN CANADA ULC - February 2017 to June 2018

Overnight Stocker, WAL-MART Canada -June 2016 to January 2017

Senior Audit Officer, Magsaysay Transport and Logistic Group – March 2014 to February 2016

Senior Audit Specialist, 2GO Group Inc. January 2013 to March 2014

Internal Auditor, Security Bank Savings – October 2010 to December 2012

General Accountant, Institute of Internal Auditors Philippines – Jan. 2005 to Jan. 2010

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science in Accountancy - Saint Michael’s College of Laguna – Philippines

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