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ETHAN LI

Summary

An experienced assistant accountant living up the position in the building industry and with 2 years of experience as graduate accountant mainly providing in taxation services to various companies in different industries. Enterprising, results-oriented and highly attention to details with good teamwork skills. Sophisticated understanding of accounting systems and procedures,

CPA associate member with six subjects completion in high grades.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Accountant

Construction4u
Hobart, TAS
12.2022 - 02.2024

AR Processes

  • formulate the fee proposal by marking up the building estimation
  • draft invoices based on the progress claims or variations and send them upon approval
  • collect the remittance advices from clients and check it with bank statement for reconciliation
  • periodically deposit the cheques and cash and clear the undeposit fund in system afterwards
  • Reverse the journal of receiving payment once found the dishonored cheques and inform the clients
  • set up automatic sending reminders of invoices to clients and follow up the overdue invoices.
  • liaise with designated debt collectors to recover the provision of bad debts
  • up to date the weekly accounts receivables and report to the manager

AP Processes

  • send the quote requests to our approaching suppliers
  • accept the quotes and draft the POs and sent the POs under the manager's approval
  • Liaise with site manager to verify the actual services or materials in terms quantity and quality received are consistent with the respective POs
  • Contact with suppliers for request of resending materials, reworking, or adjustment notes if variances exit.
  • coding the approved bills by site managers into the system
    Fortnightly prepare and report ages payables and schedule the payment accordingly
  • Made the batch payment according the payment schedule and send the ABA files to the manager
  • Send the remittance advices to suppliers once the payments have been made
  • Request the suppliers statements monthly to reconcile the bills.

General ledger reconciliation and maintenance

  • Bank reconciliation- reconcile all matching transactions and complete unrecorded transactions, investigate transactions that are out of balance and then make adjustments accordingly.
  • Accounts receivable reconciliation- Compare the total accounts receivable balance in the ledger with the sum of all outstanding invoices and investigate any discrepancies.
  • Accounts payable reconciliation- Compare the total accounts payable balance in the ledger with the sum of all outstanding bills, and investigate any discrepancies.
  • Fix asset reconciliation- check the opening balance and then calculate current depreciation or amortization
  • Prepayment reconciliation- add new prepayments that across multiple financial years and then make all eligible expenses apportion adjustment.
  • Provision for doubtful debt reconciliation- cooperate with the client’s AR to decide the amount that needs to adjust and it’s corresponding GST amount.
  • Provision for AL and LSL reconciliation- cooperate with client’s payroll officer to validate the movements of leaves and then make adjustments.

Graduate Tax Accountant

LGY Accountant
08.2020 - 11.2022

BAS reconciliation and preparation for clients

  • Monthly/Quarterly GST reconciliation- ensure all transactions related GST are correctly entered and record any non-cash adjustments affecting GST.
  • Year-end GST reconciliation- compare GST summary report with the monthly/quarterly BAS lodgment to find variances and then make adjustments accordingly in the year-end BAS lodgment.
  • PAYG Withholding reconciliation- ensure any irregular PAYG withholdings are recorded and generate the payroll activity summary to reconcile the amount that is correctly entered.
  • PAYG Installment reconciliation- ensure the payment of tax installment is correctly entered. Income tax

Income tax reconciliation at year-end

  • Calculate any non-deductible amounts under tax purpose not allowed and calculate any deductible amounts under tax purpose allowed
  • Add back non-deductible amounts to accounting profit and then deduct deductible amounts to get taxable income

Payroll Clerk

Dreamy Arts Studio
08.2019 - 06.2020
  • Pre set-up the employee cards in the system
  • Gathered timesheets to prepare weekly payroll data for processing by payroll coordinator.
  • Post pay-run weekly and corresponding Super and PAYG withholding
  • Answer enquires from employees about their pay-slip issues
  • Assist external tax accountant in preparing quarterly BAS lodgment.

Education

University of Tasmania
Hobart, TAS
12.2018

BACHELOR OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT -

YANCHING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Lang Fang
06.2016

Skills

  • Accuracy and attention to detail - Manage and rectify discrepancies of GST collect in a quarterly BAS lodgment when there was an adjustment of provision of doubtful debts
  • Flexible and Adaptable - Quickly master MYOB and revise plans to meet changed deadlines
  • Multiple-tasks Arrangement - Manage payroll works and end of month process simultaneously without overdue and mistakes
  • Can-do attitude - Solely and correctly handle ETP issues when deal with payroll works that will have impacts on tax consequences
  • Good communication and written skills - Helped clients communicate and write application letters for government business incentive scheme during Covid-restricition period and successfully received all the federal financial subsidies
  • Proficient in using MYOB, Xero and Reckon
  • Advanced in using EXCEL and MS Office
  • Fluent English speaker- -overall score 76 out of 90 PTE

Achievements

  • Dramatically decrease client's AP team working time on coding bills by 6 hours per week - suggest one of our client using Hubdoc connected with XERO to upload invoices digitally for pre-extracting information automatically.
  • Helped directors get subsidies from small business incentive scheme over 30 thousands dollars - check the eligibility and write application letter with corresponding compulsory paperworks.

Reference

Reference available upon request

Timeline

Assistant Accountant

Construction4u
12.2022 - 02.2024

Graduate Tax Accountant

LGY Accountant
08.2020 - 11.2022

Payroll Clerk

Dreamy Arts Studio
08.2019 - 06.2020

University of Tasmania

BACHELOR OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT -

YANCHING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
ETHAN LI