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Jo Fong Kee

Gold Coast,Australia

Summary

Dynamic and results-driven finance professional with extensive experience across diverse industries, including manufacturing, retail, government, and insurance. Expertise in managing end-to-end accounts payable and receivable processes, financial reporting, and compliance auditing, while collaborating effectively with finance managers and controllers in both team-based and independent settings. Recognized for exceptional problem-solving skills and a commitment to continuous improvement, consistently optimizing transactional accounting operations to enhance team performance and operational efficiency. Highly motivated and adaptable, with a strong work ethic that facilitates rapid mastery of new systems and processes, complemented by outstanding interpersonal skills and a proactive approach to identifying innovative solutions.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Finance Officer

Gold Coast Basketball
08.2024 - Current

Prepare and send invoices to clients, ensuring prompt billing

  • Monitor outstanding balances and follow up on overdue accounts
  • Reconcile accounts receivable transactions and resolve discrepancies
  • Maintain up-to-date customer records and ensure data confidentiality
  • Collaborate with internal departments to resolve billing issues
  • Generate aging reports and help with month-end financial closings
  • Provide excellent customer service on payment inquiries
  • Allocate payments
  • Contact customers
  • Match purchase orders with invoices and resolve discrepancies
  • Ensure prompt and correct payment of vendor bills
  • Maintain vendor records and manage relationships professionally
  • Reconcile accounts payable transactions and assist with month-end closings
  • Monitor payment schedules and ensure compliance with company policies
  • Prepare reports related to accounts payable activity and cash flow
  • Support audits by providing documentation and explanations as needed
  • Maintain Suppliers details
  • Process invoices
  • Maintain the accounts inbox
  • Month end reconciliation

Managed approximately 30 incoming calls, emails and faxes per day from customers.

Senior Finance Manager

CPAP DIRECT
02.2023 - 07.2024
  • Oversee the transactional accounting team and managing and prioritizing workload
  • Guide and support the team through conned educate and informant sharing, ensuring developments are understood and able to be executed.
  • Develop, in a collaboration approach with the team, feedback or suggestions for improvement to processes and report back to the Finance Manager in a concise and evidence-based approach.
  • Maintain operational requirements by delegacy tasks to staff and following up on work results.
  • Function as a point of escalade for the Finance and Accounts Payable Officers and act to resolve the issue, including finding the root cause of such issues.
  • Overseeing all transactional accounting makers (accounts payable and receivable, cash and bank, payroll)
  • Have direct involvement in AP and AR processing, when needed (busy periods and leave)
  • Assist and consult with the stores and broader businesses to resolve transactional queries and discrepancies.
  • Monitor payment schedules and ensure compliance with company policies.

Implemented new accounting software to automate manual processes, increasing accuracy and efficiency in financial reporting.

Mentored junior finance staff members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development.

Established strong relationships with our stores for business growth initiatives.

Supervised accounting department operations and team of up to 5 employees too work together.

Accounts Officer

CPAP DIRECT
02.2022 - 02.2023
  • Prepare reports related to accounts payable activity and cash flow.
  • Maintain supplier details
  • Process invoices in prompt manner
  • Reconcile statements
  • Reconcile credit card payment and receipts
  • Check coding
  • Check approvals
  • Prepare payment runs
  • Upload payment to the bank
  • Back up for account’s receivables
  • Maintain general ledger
  • Investigate discrepancies

Accomplished 90% reduction in credit card expense by streamlining operations.

Compensation Finance Officer

Medicare
01.2020 - 12.2022
  • Company Overview: Compensation Finance Officer
  • Maintain accounts inbox
  • Prompt reply to suppliers
  • Manage payments processing, including validation of receipts in the ledger.
  • Manage and support the Comp Finance email box, delegating work as needed.
  • Confirm data completeness and accuracy prior to processing.
  • Find errors requiring rejection of data.
  • Process routine payments daily based on identified priority.
  • Process journals for refunds.
  • Perform QA on team processing.
  • Prepare CHQ payment runs.
  • Process stale cheque reports.
  • Process debt payments through allocation.
  • Compensation Finance Officer

Implemented financial software solutions that improved data integrity and reporting efficiency.

Accounts Officer

Video Security Products
01.2018 - 01.2020
  • Process invoices
  • Match purchase orders
  • Reconcile statements
  • Payment runs
  • Credit card reconciliation
  • Coding invoices
  • Maintain supplier details
  • Process CC payments
  • Receivables Collection
  • Receivables Allocation
  • Month end processes
  • General ledger reconciliation
  • Maintain chart of accounts

Accounts Officer AP & AR Full Function

Bridon Bekaert
01.2015 - 01.2018
  • Receipted and allocate daily cash to customer accounts.
  • Run aged receivable reports and weekly/monthly cash forecasts.
  • Monitor aged debtors
  • Payment runs
  • Match purchase orders
  • Statemnt reconciliation
  • Improve processes
  • Payment uploads
  • Reporting
  • Maintain Supplier & statement portal
  • Banking
  • Contact customers
  • Contact suppliers
  • Respond promptly to any queries
  • Investigate discrepancies
  • Enhancing supplier relationships.
  • Trained staff in SAP transactions, acting as SAP Super User.
  • Monitor email inbox

Education

High School Diploma -

Model Farms High

Skills

SYSTEMS:

  • MYOB
  • CCMS/CDMS
  • EXCEL
  • FISHBOWL
  • ICSE
  • XERO
  • SAP

SKILLS

Time Management

Decision Making

Flexible

Prioritizing

Problem Solving

Critical thinking

Organized

Languages

ENGLISH

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 01/07/70
  • Nationality: Australian

Hobbies and Interests

  • SOCCER
  • AFL
  • PLAYING GUITAR

Timeline

Finance Officer

Gold Coast Basketball
08.2024 - Current

Senior Finance Manager

CPAP DIRECT
02.2023 - 07.2024

Accounts Officer

CPAP DIRECT
02.2022 - 02.2023

Compensation Finance Officer

Medicare
01.2020 - 12.2022

Accounts Officer

Video Security Products
01.2018 - 01.2020

Accounts Officer AP & AR Full Function

Bridon Bekaert
01.2015 - 01.2018

High School Diploma -

Model Farms High
Jo Fong Kee