HARPREET KAUR
Greystanes,NSW
Summary
Highly analytical, deadline driven Accounts person who completes accounting activities with accuracy and speed. Innovative accounting professional proficient in extracting financial data from various reporting systems and suggesting key operational changes. Dedicated in duties who leverages initiative and resourcefulness to deliver excellence in meeting business objectives. Team-oriented, adept at creating clear and comprehensive financial reports to present to senior management. Enjoys being part of a dynamic team. Personal Information: Excellent planning, prioritizing and organizational skills. Strong attention to details. Solution oriented. Driven to meet deadlines. Enjoy working in team. Flexible work attitude.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Financial Accountant
Australia Postal Corporation
01.2017 - Current
- Responsible for the preparation of all general ledger journal entries.
- Applied mathematical skills to calculate totals, check figures, and correct problems with physical and digital files.
- Aided senior leadership during executive decision-making processes by generating financial and status update reports.
- Developed and documented business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
- Identified and resolved outstanding financial issues, resulting in increase in customer satisfaction ratings.
- Tracked income and expenses for business using accounting software.
- Review all creditors and bank reconciliations.
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations for the subsidiaries.
- Perform monthly BAS submission to Ultimate holding company tax team.
- Monthly calculation and billing of Interrelated companies of overhead costs where relevant.
- Responsible for the review of subsidiary monthly payroll prepared by payroll provider along with obtaining relevant approvals and subsequent salary payments to PLHK staff
- Monthly finalization of Financial Accounting results in Cargowise ensuring timeliness and accuracy
- Monthly Cargowise to SAP interface and submission of subsidiary results in liaison with AP Group Financial Reporting
- Perform Cargowise period management via monthly Cargowise period close.
- Responsible for all year-end external audit field work tasks of subsidiaries and liaising directly with external auditors and following through to audit completion.
- Support the Financial Controller in the review of the annual statutory report prepared by the auditors.
- Prepare annual analysis of Statutory reporting results for review by the Financial Controller prior to submission to Group Financial Control in support of annual board paper.
- Assist in any internal audit queries from Group Internal Audit team.
- Support the development of finance function improvements and initiatives.
- Increased financial accuracy by streamlining the accounts receivable and payable processes.
- Identified cost-saving opportunities through thorough budget analysis and expense tracking.
- Reduced month-end closing time by optimizing the reconciliation process for bank and credit card accounts.
Accounts All-Rounder
Star Track International, Division of Australia Post
08.2013 - 12.2016
- Perform AR/AP tasks
- Monthly bank reconciliations
- Collection calls escalated disputes
- Dealing with customer queries
- Conducting credit checks and applications
- Process improvement
- Assisting in the preparation of monthly reports & processes
- Monthly Balance Sheet reconciliation
- Ad hoc duties as assigned by management
Accounts Receivable & Payable Officer
Star Track International, Division of Australia
03.2012 - 07.2013
- Managed entire accounting department (Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable/GL
- Maintenance)
- Reconcile creditor accounts and maintain creditor details
- Sending out customer statements and any other documentation required
- Respond to all creditor queries and escalate where necessary
- Monitor creditor ageing
- Account and bank reconciliations
- Data entry of creditor payments and matching against their invoices
- Prepare and submit payments to Shared Services within set timeframes for processing
- Preparation of credit applications with external suppliers
- Provide remittance advice with all payments and follow up with all creditors for their statement of accounts
- Reconcile debtor accounts and maintain debtor details
- Provide debtor reports for weekly and monthly review along with commentary
- Processing of disputes, credit and debit adjustments
- Working closely with internal departments to review accounts to ensure account are up to date, no queries pending etc
- Manually entering exchange rates into system on a daily basis
- Trained new employees on accounting principles and company procedures
- Assist in year-end external audits liaising directly with external auditors and following through to audit completion (Receivable and Payable related queries)
Toll Global Forwarding
07.2008 - 02.2012
- Invoicing to the client as per agreed rates
- Entering client rates in system to ensure auto rating is working correctly(Cargowise)
- Checking and processing of creditor invoices for payment
- Processing credit notes
- Electronic filling of documents
- Resolve invoice discrepancies
- Correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries
- Reconciliation of Major Accounts
- Weekly payment runs (EFT)
- FX payments, loss and gain journal postings
Accounts Receivable
Toll Global Forwarding
10.2007 - 06.2008
- Carry out billing, collection and reporting activities according to specific deadlines
- Validating invoices and entering them in the system
- Reconciliation of accounts
- Checking customer accounts details for non-payments and delayed payments
- Maintain accounts receivable customer files
- Prepare bank deposits
- Investigate and resolve customer queries
- Communicate with customers via phone, email and mail.
Education
CPA -
CPA AUSTRALIA
CPA AUSTRALIAMasters of Professional Accounting -
University of Southern Queensland
Sydney, NSW01.2007
Masters of Economics -
Punjab University
Chandigarh, PUNJAB01.2004
Skills
- Advance knowledge of Cargowise EDI Enterprise
- Advance knowledge of MS Office
- Languages: English, Punjabi and Hindi
- Team Recruiting and Onboarding
- Time Management
- Interdepartmental Collaboration
- Budgeting and Expenditures
- Customer Complaint Resolution
- Customer Trend Analysis
- Staff Training and Development
- Operations Management
- Customer Billing
- New Hire Onboarding
- Financial Reporting
- Payroll Support
Timeline
Financial Accountant
Australia Postal Corporation
01.2017 - Current
Accounts All-Rounder
Star Track International, Division of Australia Post
08.2013 - 12.2016
Accounts Receivable & Payable Officer
Star Track International, Division of Australia
03.2012 - 07.2013
Toll Global Forwarding
07.2008 - 02.2012
Accounts Receivable
Toll Global Forwarding
10.2007 - 06.2008
CPA -
CPA AUSTRALIA
Masters of Professional Accounting -
University of Southern Queensland
Masters of Economics -
Punjab University
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