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Jenny Donnelly

Sydney,NSW

Summary

Results-oriented accounting professional with several years of experience in accounting, financial analysis, and audit-related settings. Quick and eager learner with acute attention to detail and a consistent track record of identifying process improvements to drive quality, accuracy, and efficiency.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Company Accountant

Omron Electronics Pty Ltd
10.2021 - 10.2024

Customer Project Sales Management

  • Communicating with various Australian and New Zealand project managers for updates on project milestones.
  • Ensuring the sales project registry folders are kept up to date with the latest information and documentation of the project.
  • Coordinating manual and system invoicing with the billing team.

Monthly BAS/ GST Returns

  • Check and approve the AU Business Activity Statement. Then lodge and pay with ATO.
  • Check and approve the NZ GST Return. Then lodge and pay with IRD.

AU & NZ Supplier Payment Run

  • Checking and approving supplier invoices.
  • Extracting the suppliers' invoices from Concur to Nexus software.
  • Preparing a listing for the overseas payment team on which invoices and staff reimbursements are required to be paid.

Employee Company Credit Card Expense Reporting Management

  • Training new staff on how to use the Global Concur credit card software.
  • Checking & posting of Concur interface entries into Nexus software.
  • Raising service tickets for Concur problems and issues to be resolved by overseas team. team.
  • Chasing up outstanding expense transactions from delinquent staff.
  • Reconciling the monthly credit card statement.

Purchasing/Virtual Credit Cards

  • Responding to virtual credit card requests by various departments in Australia and assessing the necessity and parameters of the card.
  • Issuing the virtual credit cards as required.
  • Entering invoices paid by the AU & NZ purchasing/virtual credit cards in Concur.
  • Reconciling the AU and NZ purchasing, virtual credit card statements.

Salary and Wages Processing

  • Posting monthly S&W journals for AU & NZ.
  • Processing and paying the monthly PAYE for AU & NZ.
  • Processing and paying the AU state payroll taxes.

AU & NZ Month end duties

  • Confirming balances within prepayment and accrual accounts and processing the journals.
  • Reconcile the general ledger accounts of Prepayments, Expenses Not Billed, Accrued Salary & Wages
  • Process intercompany recharges from AU to NZ.
  • Posting month end adjusting journals.

Financial Accountant

Century Venues Pty Ltd
12.2014 - 10.2021

Company that operates several entertainment venues such as the Enmore theatre, Metro theatre, Comedy Store, Factory theatre and the Concourse.

Is also responsible for producing the Sydney Comedy Festival.

  • Wholly responsible for the financials of 3 large and 2 small companies within the group, which entails performing all AP, AR, general ledger and bank reconciliation functions, job tracking & analysis of all shows & event settlement payments to promoters using Xero and Receiptbank software.
  • Preparing monthly Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow statements, Profit & Loss by job code with commentary of any anomalies of actuals vs budget.

Financial Accountant

Jands Pty Ltd & JPJ Audio Pty Ltd
08.2005 - 07.2014

Jands Pty Ltd

Company that provides audio, lighting and staging products & solutions. Also does service maintenance to venues.

JPJ Audio Pty Ltd

Company that hires audio, lighting and staging solutions to major concerts and theatre productions.

Duties for both companies entailed:

  • Maintaining the fixed asset register and capitalised leases.
  • Preparing quarterly Business Activity Statements
  • Preparing yearly FBT return (which included 21 company vehicles on lease or hire purchase).
  • Updating Theatre job costing spreadsheets.
  • Preparing and posting monthly journals.
  • Preparing monthly Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet & Cash Flow Statements.
  • Preparing Balance Sheet reconciliations..
  • Managing and overseeing the tasks performed by the assistant accountant and local accounts payable staff.
  • Assisting Finance Manager with yearly budgets and forecasts.

Education

CA (Chartered Accountant) -

Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia
09-2006

Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) -

Macquarie University
12-1998

Skills

  • Clear and frequent written & verbal communication
  • Multi tasking
  • Deadline focused
  • Attention to detail
  • Speed and Accuracy
  • Identifying and escalating problems & issues in a timely manner
  • Adherence to internal controls
  • Pro active in improving processes and procedures
  • Ability to work in a fast paced environment

Accomplishments

  • Upon joining Omron Electronics, I was put on a project to perform UAT testing for a new software where employees submit their business credit card and cash expenses. Within 5 months we went live with the software - Australia & New Zealand being the pilot users. Was highly commended by the overseas based team for my efforts and for my continual feedback on improving the software. After a successful rollout, the software was then introduced to other countries in the Oceania region (Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, India)
  • By continually following up with sales project managers to complete projects, $520k in company revenue was invoiced in the past financial year.

Timeline

Company Accountant

Omron Electronics Pty Ltd
10.2021 - 10.2024

Financial Accountant

Century Venues Pty Ltd
12.2014 - 10.2021

Financial Accountant

Jands Pty Ltd & JPJ Audio Pty Ltd
08.2005 - 07.2014

CA (Chartered Accountant) -

Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia

Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) -

Macquarie University
Jenny Donnelly