Elena Elyarova
Brisbane ,QLD
Summary
Dynamic tax officer with the Australian Taxation Office, adept at case management and stakeholder communication. Proven analytical skills in auditing complex cases, ensuring compliance with tax legislation. Passionate about delivering accurate financial insights and fostering collaboration to optimize treatment strategies, driving effective outcomes for clients and the organization.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Tax officer – Individuals & Intermediaries (IAI) (APS4)
Australian Taxation Office
07.2023 - Current
- Responsible for performing audit for cases with different types of risks and complexity
- Finalizing cases according to corporate plan and management expectations
- Conduct a high volume of pre-and-post issues audits for individuals with investors portfolio in relation to rental income, expenses, and work-related deductions
- Research and analyze information using internal and external software and tools, to identify all possible risks and concerns for the case
- Ensure active case management including timely contact with taxpayers and their representatives and notes recording
- Actively communicate with internal and external stakeholders in a transparent confident manner to acquire additional information for the case
- Collaborate and consult with Technical Support Leaders or Case Leadership Team when complex technical scenarios are identified
- Apply critical thinking, financial and taxation knowledge, and skills to make fair and reasonable decisions
- Prepare internal case reports outlining all findings and facts of the case, the reason for decision, relevant tax legislation and penalty decision
- Provide clear, tailored communication about the outcomes of decisions, ensuring that tax agents or taxpayers understand, and provide education where necessary
- Identify and capture specific risk and collaborate with Team Leader and stakeholders in the Risk and Strategy area to assist them with optimization of treatment strategies
- Provide support to peers in relation to tax technical and systems issues
- Engage in team discussions with respect to other’s opinions and act professionally in all situations
Assistant Accountant
Trapeze Group Asia Pacific
04.2022 - 07.2023
- Responsible for billing function and generating invoices for all clients
- Responsible for Bank reconciliation, Accounts receivable function to ensure accurate and on-time payment are received
- Conducted journal reconciliations and manage intercompany transactions
- Assisted with Balance Sheet reconciliations and prepared accruals, prepayments, and subsequent journals entries
- Responsible for preparing the provision for doubtful debts report
- Assisted with and provided back up for the accounts payable function and payroll
- Assisted the Senior Financial Accountant in analyzing variances in project reports
- Reviewed project contracts to ensure that quality business delivery, contract amendments and payment terms are appropriate, invoice processing, financial monitoring to ensure that prices are updated according to the CPI
- Analyzed the monthly Net Revenue report and make comments on variances
- Provided support Finance Team, Project Managers, and other internal/external stakeholders
Assistant Accountant
Shamir Australia Pty Ltd.
03.2021 - 04.2022
- Responsible for Accounts payable/Accounts receivable function
- Processing prepayments and accruals, assisted with Balance Sheet reconciliations
- Generated purchase orders and assisted with the purchasing forecast
- Responsible for BAS preparation
- Assisted Finance Team with inter-company transactions
- Responsible for processing customer credit returns and generated sales reports
- Responsible for billing function and generating invoices for all clients
- Supported Finance Team during the audit
Assistant Accountant
The Taylor Group Accounting & Tax Services
08.2018 - 09.2020
- Responsible for Accounts payable/Accounts receivable function for keys clients
- Responsible for Bank reconciliation for clients with Small Business Entities
- Completed Income Tax Returns (ITR) based on the information provided and assisted the Senior Accountant with preparation of Financial Reports (FIN’s) for small to medium-sized entities
- Prepared monthly/quarterly BAS and IAS for clients
- Collaborated with the team, identified, and investigated discrepancies in financial statements, accounts, adjustment journals
Education
Diploma of Accounting -
TAFE Queensland
Brisbane, QLD01.2022
Master of Business - Professional Accounting
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, QLD01-2022
Bachelor of Accounting and Finance -
Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University)
Russia01.2017
Skills
- Analytical skills
- Tax legislation monitoring
- Case management
- Stakeholder communication
- Critical thinking
- Collaboration
- Stakeholder engagement
- Audit skills
- Discrepancy identification
- Accuracy assurance
- Data analysis
- Research skills
- Project reporting
- Tax procedure understanding
- Contract management
- Financial monitoring
- Internal reporting
- Guidance on tax matters
- Variance analysis
Affiliations
Associate member with CPA (ASA)
Technology Skills
- MS Office
- Excel (Pivot Tables and Charts)
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Outlook
- Access
- Teams
- SharePoint
- ATO Systems: ECP, RAPT, ICP, Siebel, Viper, BDA Hub, MYOB, XERO, ERP systems (Oracle)
References
- Carley Johnston, EL2 Client Engagement Director, carley.johnston@ato.gov.au
- Samantha Grieco, EL1 Client Engagement Manager, samantha.grieco@ato.gov.au
- Pam Alchin, APS6 Client Engagement Team Leader, pam.alchin@ato.gov.au
Timeline
Tax officer – Individuals & Intermediaries (IAI) (APS4)
Australian Taxation Office
07.2023 - Current
Assistant Accountant
Trapeze Group Asia Pacific
04.2022 - 07.2023
Assistant Accountant
Shamir Australia Pty Ltd.
03.2021 - 04.2022
Assistant Accountant
The Taylor Group Accounting & Tax Services
08.2018 - 09.2020
Diploma of Accounting -
TAFE Queensland
Master of Business - Professional Accounting
Queensland University of Technology
Bachelor of Accounting and Finance -
Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University)
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