Assistant Accounting

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Sardar Avenue, Majitha Road, Amritsar

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E: ****.******@*****.***

L: linkedin.com/in/abhishek-arora-689a14156

Career Objective

An Accounting graduate from Charles Sturt University with more than two years of work experience in Accounts payables & Receivable, Payroll and financial reporting. Seeking full time position as an Assistant Accountant to improve my skills set and establish my future career as a Certified Professional Accountant in Australia. A clear communicator with good customer service skills, committed to meeting his deadlines on time and establish healthy work relationships with the team members and ensure productive results.

Key Skills

●Understanding and ability to use major Accounting platforms (MYOB, SAGE, SAASU and Quick Books)

●Proficient user of Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

●Skilled in accounts payables & receivables, financial reporting and payroll administration

●Excellent written and verbal communication skills via 2 years of customer service experience.

●Team player, organised, strict follower of work ethics and result oriented.

●Good analytical and problem-solving skills developed through University research project.

Personal Attributes

●Flexible: I am flexible with my roles and responsibilities. I am not afraid to take up new roles and responsibilities as it provides me the opportunity to learn more and enhance my skill set. It was demonstrated when I took over the opportunity to maintain and administer payroll while I was working in accounts-payable in my current employment.

●Results-oriented: I strongly believe in results and align all my time and efforts required to achieve the desired results. Working as a payroll administrator I was given a finger scanning time and attendance software, that had flaws, so I used manual time sheets and excel to complete the periodic payroll and also helped to generate additional reports to outline the errors made by the scanning software.

●Organised: Being organised in my opinion is the key to meet deadlines on time. An unorganised work will demand additional efforts and time. In order to ensure everything is organised I always try and use appropriate internal controls such as periodic reconciliations, manual matchings and preparing control sheets to ensure reliability during annual year audit.

Education

Professional Year Program Performance Education Sydney

Areas of study: Australian Business Culture & Environment, Australian workplace skills, Professional Business Communication

April 2018 – March 2019

Master’s in Professional Accounting. Charles Sturt University, Sydney Study Center

Key Achievements: Distinction in Financial Accounting, Taxation Accounting and Management Accounting

February 2016 – November 2017

Bachelor of Commerce. Guru Nanak Dev University, India

Key Achievements: Distinction in Financial Accounting and high distinction in Quantitative techniques for decision making.

April 2011 – Mar 2014

Academic Projects

SAASU – Financial Reporting December 2016 – January 2017

Charles Sturt University, Sydney

Objective:

To prepare and analyse the financial reports for a company named Splash

Tools:

SAASU Cloud accounting software was used to process the transactions and generate financial reports.

Duties:

I was given a list of transactions to be processed using SAASU, which included sales, purchase and expense transactions. It was an individual project where I was responsible to enter the financial transactions, generate financial reports and analyse the financial reports using ratio analysis.

Outcome:

It was concluded that Splash did well in its first year of operations with a net profit ratio of 5% however, the company had to improve its returns, with returns on asset ratio being as low as 1%. The report was prepared to be distributed amongst the stakeholder of Splash in order to facilitate the decision-making process.

Result:

Obtained distinction mark for this project.

Employment History

Assistant Accountant/ Payroll Officer May 2017 – Present

Jewel Fine Foods, Sydney, Australia

●Analysing product and customer profitability, providing recommendations to management on opportunities for greater sales and profitability

●Reporting to senior management on the underlying drivers of variances between weekly planned and actual labour hours and costs.

●Participating in time and motion studies of the manufacturing process, as part of a site-wide update of product standard costs.

●Preparing monthly management reports for the Restaurant businesses, including variance analysis vs. budget and prior year, and trend analysis of costs.

●Assisting in End-to-End payroll processing.

●Performing bank reconciliation and customers reconciliations on a weekly basis to ensure consistency

●Addressing all other payroll enquiries from employees.

Tax Assistant October 2014 – February 2016

M.K Associates, Punjab, India

●Prepared annual computations of Income and tax liability as per The Income Tax Law,1961.

●Filed individual and partnership firm, annual income tax returns with The Income Tax Department of India.

●Prepared and filed sales tax returns for clients with Excise & Taxation Department of the state government.

●Claimed Input Tax Credit on behalf of the clients from the Excise & Taxation Department of the state government.

Semi-qualified Paid AssistantMarch 2014 – August 2014

V. Wadhwa & Co. Chartered Accountants, Punjab, India

●Conducted external audits of the companies with an annual turnover exceeding Rs. 2,000,0000

●Identified the audit assertions, internal controls and audit procedures.

●Provided manager all the details required to publish the annual audit report.

References

Available on request.

Abhishek Arora

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