Confucious Ignatius
Sydney,Australia
Summary
Dynamic Project Accountant with extensive experience at CPB Contractors Pty Ltd, excelling in budget preparation and financial analysis. Proven ability to enhance cost control measures, ensuring project profitability while effectively communicating with stakeholders. Proficient in JDE and SAP, I bring a results-driven approach and strong analytical skills to optimize financial performance.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Contract Administrator
CPB Contractors Pty Ltd
07.2024 - Current
- Ensure payment schedules are processed in accordance with the Security of Payment Act
- Measuring and approving subcontract progress payments
- Undertake monthly financial reports relating to cost and budget
- Assist with construction claims and dispute resolution matters
- Monitor any change during the construction phase, assessing effects on cost, measuring values and negotiating any variations
- Source and execute subcontracts for the delivery of the project with a view to the project’s long-term delivery
- Manage contractual issues associated with client / subcontractors/suppliers and provide advice to delivery and management teams on contractual issues target
- Gathering and communicating necessary information to team members about current status of team tasks, utilising the Projects IT software (Team Binder, Adobe Sign)
- Ensures deliverables are completed accurately and on time
- Minimise Project risk exposure to claims (EOTs, variations, SOPA)
- Be able to understand subcontract programmes and monitor progress and reporting the impact of any discrepancies
- Undertakes works in a manner that is consistent with the overall Project goals and meets the timeframes specified in the Project schedule
- Ensure site records are retained on a daily basis
Project Accountant
Titan Cranes Group
01.2024 - 05.2024
- Provide project cost control functional support to multiple projects across revenue-generating business areas within the project delivery teams
- Preparation of monthly project claims ensuring that the progressive monthly payment claims are accurate and cover all claimable work
- Ensure all variations are captured and assessed from the finance perspective and included in the monthly claims
- Set up new projects in the finance system
- Assist with the integration and transfer of project data within the finance ERP system upgrade
- Assist in providing periodic financial scorecards and project-level performance reports
- Track and report on actual and forecast costs to manage the cost exposure within the project office across the portfolio and by project
- Ensure alignment of budget, commitment and cost, respecting business rules to financial data validation, and monitoring that all payments related to properly approved contracts, claims and variations following financial delegations and project/program governance structures
- Work with the project management group to give insights into profitability and opportunities to improve from a financial perspective
- Assist and support the Project Cost Controller in delivering end-to-end financial project delivery for the entire group
Subject Mater Expert (SME)
Fulton Hogan
08.2023 - 12.2023
- Company Overview: Future System Program
- Provides the knowledge and expertise in a specific business area, for the programme
- Understands and communicates the language/terms/jargon in the business areas for others working on the programme team
- Provides requisite knowledge that underlies effective decision-making and is able to describe where anomalies or flaws may occur in the business area
- Ensures the facts and details are correct so that the programme's deliverables will meet the needs of the stakeholders, legislation, policies, standards, and best practices
- Accurately represent their business units’ needs to the programme team
- Be the 'representatives of' the business in regard to business requirements and rules – ensuring the programme team is listening and designing solutions appropriate to the business need
- Provides input for the design and construction of test cases and scenarios and may also validate executed test results
- Tests the solution throughout the testing phases of the programme using and evaluating it for accuracy and usability, providing feedback to the team
- Guide other team members on the programme to ensure the content is accurate
- Resolve issues relevant to programme deliverable within their area of expertise
- Obtain or provide approval for changes to rules, processes, and policies
- Provide recommendations for procedural improvements
- Future System Program
Project Accountant/Contract Administrator/Reporting
CPB Contractors Pty Ltd
03.2022 - 07.2023
- Analyse month end report every month and prepare Area Forecast Report (AFR) for Board meeting and presenting
- Prepare budgets and monitor expenditures each month and if necessary, will do budget allocation and transfer
- Analyse numbers to determine risks and opportunities
- Working with the project teams to establish project structures and manage project budgets, estimates-at-completion, and cash flow forecasts to support the project teams in delivering within the agreed budget allocation
- Set-up productivity controls and early warning systems to ensure early detection of major budget and time deficiencies
- Analise and calculate monthly costs for the project and prepare the submission of the monthly cost report to the project manager and attend monthly forecast meetings
- Reviewing and monitoring project total expenditure including verifying and checking of invoices and claims from suppliers, consultants, and subcontractors to ensure that all project expenditures are captured and properly recorded
- Prepare month end accrual, journal and budget transfer between child projects and post them in the system
- Look after major project assets such as TBM, Conveyor, Segment Mould and MSV in terms of purchase, depreciation, Capex forecast, budget and cashflow and reporting to board every month
- Trail balance reconciliation
- Profit and Loss reconciliation
- Prepare variation order for subcontractors
Project Accountant/ Claim Administrator
CPB Contractors Pty Ltd
01.2021 - 02.2022
- Employed as a Consultant Project Accountant, working as part of a project claims team task to substantiate project costs
- Duties and responsibilities include;
- Reporting directly to Senior Commercial Manager and regularly required to present work to senior project commercial personnel
- Preparation of project cost reports across multiple child projects for the purposes of cost reconciliation
- Analysis and preparation of project staff and wages cost to allow for the quantification of project delay costs
- Preparing documentation to prove payment of invoices to project subcontractors and suppliers through the projects JDE accounting system
Project Accountant
Salini Impregilo Australia Pty Ltd
04.2019 - 12.2020
- Company Overview: SLC Snowy Hydro Project T/a Future Generation JV
- Prepare BAS report and lodge
- Preparation and submission of Fuel Tax Credit
- Prepare project balance sheet reconciliations
- Trail balance reconciliations
- Prepare month-end and full year financial accounting processes and timetables across the project
- Assist with internal and external audit queries for projects
- Prepare reports for budgeting, forecasting and cash flows
- Prepare variation order for subcontractors
- Process invoices & reconcile vendors’ statements
- Review and monitor the accounts for the entity on an ongoing basis to ensure accurate reporting in accordance with standards and pronouncements of the Australian Accounting Standards Board and the accounting policies of the company
- Review aged Debtors and liaise with project teams to resolve issues
- Payment run for suppliers and subbies (Weekly)
- Training new Staffs
- Creating new suppliers in SAP
- Prepare month end General ledger report for accrual and upload in SAP
- Ensuring all goods are receipted in an accurate and timely manner
- Prepare open order reports for suppliers and subbies and inform to all departments on weekly basis
- Matching, batching and coding suppliers’ invoices against Purchase Orders
- Processing, reconciling and paying staff reimbursement payment (SAP Concur system)
- SLC Snowy Hydro Project T/a Future Generation JV
Project Accountant/ AP Manager
CPB Contractors Pty Ltd
05.2016 - 03.2019
- Prepare month end report in relation to outstanding open purchase order and calculate month end accrual
- Prepare month end General ledger report for accrual and upload in JDE
- Prepare BAS return and lodge
- Process subcontractor’s payment
- Process variation orders for head contractors
- Prepare month end report for Balance sheet and P&L account
- Preparation and submission of Fuel Tax Credit
- Preparation and submission of FBT Returns
- Matching, batching and coding suppliers’ invoices against Purchase Orders
- Ensure all purchase orders and purchases requisitions are processed in accurate and timely manner
- Create purchases requisitions and send for approval in JDE
- Matching invoices with good receipts notes, coding and processing those for payment run
- Processing around 100 invoices a day
- Creating new suppliers in JDE
- Process invoices & Reconcile vendors’ statements
- Creditor account reconciliation
- Answering creditors’ queries for any outstanding invoices and chasing for adjustment notes
- Processing, reconciling and paying staff reimbursement payment
- Ensuring all goods are receipted in an accurate and timely manner
- Processing Credit notes and reversal duplicate paid invoices
- Resolving suppliers’ disputes and queries
- Managing 13 staffs under Accounts Payable
Account Payable
CPB Contractors Pty Ltd
01.2015 - 04.2016
- Process invoices & Reconcile vendors’ statements
- Processing Credit notes and reversal duplicate paid invoices
- Ensure all purchase orders and purchases requisitions are processed in accurate and timely manner
- Prepare month end General ledger report for accrual and upload in JDE
Accounts Payable
NSW Government Department of Education and Communities
10.2013 - 12.2014
- Liaise with internal Shared Service Centre clients to provide information and assist in the resolution of problems related to financial transaction
- Provide accurate word processing, spreadsheet and data entry support
- Process invoices and expense claims in accordance with current financial regulations, guidelines and procedures
- Liaising with NSW Schools in relation to vendor’s problems invoices, statements and overdue accounts
- Liaising with NSW Schools in relation to purchase order inquiries
- Reconciling suppliers accounts
- Run team meetings to solve any AP related issues
Accounts Payable/Receivable
Transfield Services
04.2013 - 09.2013
- Matching, batching and coding suppliers’ invoices against Purchase Orders
- Ensure all purchase orders and purchases requisitions are processed in accurate and timely manner
- Matching invoices with good receipts notes, coding and processing those for payment run
- Processing around 200 invoices a day
- Process invoices & Reconcile vendors’ statements
- Creditor account reconciliation
- Answering creditors’ queries for any outstanding invoices and chasing for adjustment notes
- Processing, reconciling and paying staff reimbursement payment
- Ensuring all goods are receipted in an accurate and timely manner
- Processing Credit notes and reversal duplicate paid invoices
- Resolving suppliers’ disputes and queries
- Assisting in payment run
Education
CPA Program -
03.2025
Batchelor of Business - Accounting
University of Technology, Sydney
Advanced Diploma - Accounting
Ultimo Campus
SydneySkills
- JDE
- SAP
- Xero
- Simpro
- SAP Business One
- SAP-ECC6
- SAP Concur
- AS400
- Oracle
- Pronto
- Accpac
- Microsoft Office – Advanced Excel and Word
- Budget preparation
- Cost control
- Financial analysis
- Budget planning
- Cost estimation
Contact
0448 371 557, con.mary28@yahoo.com.au
Systems Used
- JDE
- SAP
- Xero
- Simpro
- SAP Business One
- SAP-ECC6
- SAP Concur
- AS400
- Oracle
- Pronto
- Accpac
- Microsoft Office (Advanced Excel and Word)
Timeline
Contract Administrator
CPB Contractors Pty Ltd
07.2024 - Current
Project Accountant
Titan Cranes Group
01.2024 - 05.2024
Subject Mater Expert (SME)
Fulton Hogan
08.2023 - 12.2023
Project Accountant/Contract Administrator/Reporting
CPB Contractors Pty Ltd
03.2022 - 07.2023
Project Accountant/ Claim Administrator
CPB Contractors Pty Ltd
01.2021 - 02.2022
Project Accountant
Salini Impregilo Australia Pty Ltd
04.2019 - 12.2020
Project Accountant/ AP Manager
CPB Contractors Pty Ltd
05.2016 - 03.2019
Account Payable
CPB Contractors Pty Ltd
01.2015 - 04.2016
Accounts Payable
NSW Government Department of Education and Communities
10.2013 - 12.2014
Accounts Payable/Receivable
Transfield Services
04.2013 - 09.2013
CPA Program -
Batchelor of Business - Accounting
University of Technology, Sydney
Advanced Diploma - Accounting
Ultimo Campus
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