Giuseppe Cataldo

I am responsible for the month-end and year-end financial accounting processes to deliver an accurate closing position for the business. This includes planning the relevant activities and communicating and executing them with the team within the required reporting timeline. Inclusive of activities such as maintaining the fixed asset register, balance sheet reconciliations, cash flow reporting, month-end journals / accruals, and maintenance of operational expenditure reporting against approved budget. I also assist in business queries for our operational entity and capital projects, from items such as cost analysis, cash-flow analysis and funding analysis.

I provide advice and perform journals for the capitalisation of fixed assets and work in progress (WIP) for capital projects, along with the disposal and transfer of assets in line with Australian Accounting Standards. I also provide support for the write down and expiry of medical inventory and maintain the management of leases (IFRS 16) for the business, all in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards.

Apart of the taxation team, I assisted with the preparation of the Business Activity Statement and the Fringe Benefits Tax Return for WA Health entities. Along with this, I assisted with GST and FBT queries from internal and external stakeholders and assist in the drafting and recommendation of policies that are compliant to tax legislation for WA Health.

Duties consisted of month-end and year-end tasks related to financial accounting and taxation. This includes analysis of financial data and preparation of journals, in particular transfer journals, accrual journals, prepayment journals, capitalisation of assets and inventory adjustments. This is all in accordance with the Financial Management Act 2006, Treasurer's Instructions, Australian Accounting Standards and WA Health Financial guidelines.

I prepared in the write up of numerous board reports and briefing note submissions related to inventory, assisted program accountants with delivery on their projects and assisted in the preparation of numerous financial forecasts for the business.

Graduate duties mainly consist of assisting the senior accountants with entry level accounting, taxation, and financial work where needed. This includes preparing quarterly financial statements for a range of small businesses, preparing and lodging tax returns/activity statements, general bookkeeping/payroll for clients and applying correct tax legislation to all operational and capital transactions through accounts.

Other duties involved include setting up companies and trusts through legal database, ATO administration, ASIC administration and assistance to the Superannuation branch of the firm.

In this position I undertook several responsibilities, foremostly being filling products to the shelf and store product inventory. Also, building store displays, customer enquiries and receiving of stock from trucks. I have licenses in operating a walking forklift and manual pallet jack.