Back Office Financial Accountant

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Sue Ho

** ******** ******, **** ******, Hertfordshire EN4 8NG.

Email: ***.*****@*******.***

Mobile: 078**-******

Profile

An organized, motivated, confident, finance and accounting professional with demonstrable experience in positions of high responsibilities. A true professional with “can do” attitude, good knowledge of basic accounting principles and the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines.

• Delivered accurate financial statement and financial information to those business decision makers.

• Detail oriented and with skills in complex balance sheet reconciliation.

• Performed quality and timely general ledger account analysis to tight deadlines.

• Skilled in most ERP systems and extensively use computer-based analytic tools.

• Ability to work collaboratively across the organization at both working and management level.

• Seeking challenge and strive to achieve the next level of professional responsibility. Employment history

Monsoon Accessorize – Treasury Assistant (Maternity cover) 06/2023-06/2024

• Daily bank reconciliation for all currency accounts for all entities

• Weekly Cash reports

• Weekly treasury Cashflow forecasts and working closely with the Commercial finance team

• Daily inter-account transfers and weekly payment run operations

• Treasury back office

• UK banking administration and International banking process

• Assisting external audit when is required

Dentsu – Senior Finance Assistant – Camelot 01/2023 – 05/2023

• Owning the Clients Billing Process & Approval

• Managing PO Tracker – All MEAs are recorded correctly and in timely manner.

• Co-ordinate with the Investment teams to ensure bookings are within the Campaign budget.

• Reconciling the Client account, including follow up on late and aged billings, resolving queries ahead of the billing deadlines.

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Zwilling J A Henckels Limited – Finance Manager 01/2022 – 12/2022

• Daily accounting and Treasury operations

• Monthly (TM1) and Yearend Reporting incl. IDL to the holding company.

• Monthly Management report, KPI and Cost Tracker

• VAT Return

• General Ledger reconciliation

• Annual budget and Cashflow forecast.

Grace Food UK – Management Accountant 04/2021 – 12/02021

• Monthly creation and reconciliation of trial balances

• Timely resolution of discrepancies arising from GL account reconciliations

• Daily Cash Analysis and reconciliation of bank accounts

• Preparation and publication of Monthly group B/S, variance analysis reports and other KPI reports Johnson Matthey PLC – Financial Accountant

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– Precious Metal Management Division 06/2017– 03/2021

• Preparation of Key Balance Sheet and Income statement reconciliations

• Supporting the Finance manager to maintain and control the financial reporting

• Maintain Openlink / Endur Commodities Trading Software

• Compile and analyze financial information

• Annual audit.

• VAT Return

Thomson Reuters – Treasury accountant 2009 - 2017

• Daily treasury system reconciliation

• Maintain and update the e-banking accounts, incl. compliance and operational.

• Accountable for treasury compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley

• Responsible for overall account reporting for UK & US treasury companies

• Supervise the Finance Service Centre and its overall quality and performance

• Manage intercompany settlement and reconciliation.

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Special project: TMS/Wall St. System testing and preparation of Static Data. Thomson Corporation PLC – Corporate accountant 1993 - 2009

• Support the Director of Financial Controller in day-to-day running of finance operations

• Preparation of monthly management accounts

• Preparation of statutory accounts and ad hoc reports for statutory audit

• Responsible for Sarbanes-Oxley reports

• Implementation of system transition from CODA to SAP INTERNATIONAL DISTILLERS & VINTNERS (now Diageo) - Financial Analysts 1989 - 1993

• Responsible for Head office reporting for Latin America and Africa region

• Preparation of Annual plan, Quarterly Forecast, Strategic Plan and Product cost analysis

• Oversee regional consolidation and analysis of financial information

• Enhance business performance with efficiency in the resources and financial dynamics Finance and Marketing Assistant 1987 - 1989

• Report directly to the Managing Director of the Croft Original group

• Supervise the advertising budget for the company

• Manage budget and planning with brand managers regarding their budgets

• Manage Head office accounts, Saleseporting, analysis, annual planning and forecast. Int’l Federation of Phonographic Industry–Accountant and Office manager 1986 - 1987

• Reporting to Financial controller and supervise all accounting functions

• Preparation of Statutory and Management accounts, annual budget,

• quarterly forecast and treasury functions

• Responsible for liaising with offices in Zurich, Hong Kong and Singapore AmecFoster Wheeler Engineering Co – Assistant Financial Accountant 1985 - 1986

• Reporting to Financial Accountant, with focus on annual statutory

• Monthly Management accounts Intercompany accounting, VAT returns,

• Capex monitoring

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Gibson Appleby Chartered Accountant - Trainee 1981 -1985

• Auditing, preparation of financial statements and taxation. EDUCATION:

1985 Part qualified ACA, (Professional stage) with ICAEW 1979 Higher National Diploma in Business Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK. SYSTEM SKILLS

MS Office, EXCEL (Intermediate), Dynamic NAV, JDE, CODA, Sun, Hyperion, SAP, Blackline, Business Warehouse, Business Explorer, SAS FM, Wall Street System, Integrity (TMS) and FXall. MediaOcean, DS Media. Other language

Cantonese (Mother tongue) and Mandarin (Intermediate) INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES

Reading, table tennis and golfing

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