Keenan Consul

• Be the go to person for any queries finance related from both staff and management.
• Perform month end function which in compass balance sheet reconciliation, and ensuring Profit and loss is inline with monthly budget events, and monthly standard journal have been processed.
• Perform forecast cash flow analysis for stakeholders, to identify those funds that has been earned by the business and those that relate to future events. Identify those jobs for which no invoices has been raised but cost has been incurred in advance of the event. Therefore assisting in cash flow management.
• Perform job reconciliations relating to events, ensuring all cost have been captured, accruals has been raised, and clients has been invoiced timelessly. Ensuring events budget is complete and accurate.
• Allocate fund received and paid out of bank, and perform bank reconciliations.
• Perform payroll functions for the business. Ensuring pay is done accurately and timely bases. Ensuring all new staff and changes to staff employment records are captured accurately, and final pay for termination are done timely and in terms of agreed upon with HR.
• Ensure Payroll system speak to and inline with Employee HR system, and all discrepancy are resolved.
• Perform the account receivable function ensure funds received has been allocated correctly, and long outstanding debtors has been chased up on timely manner. Invoicing has been issued inline with customer contract.
• On boarding of new suppliers and clients, ensure all requested information has been accurately and timely completed.
• Perform ad hoc task provided by staff and management, address all client and supplier queries.
• Manage and address all emails sent to finance.
• Perform yearly roll forward of accounting software (Xero).
• Perform on boarding of new suppliers, and assist with weekly supplier pay run.
• Ensure all credit card transactions are captured accurately and timely in account system. Perform credit card reconciliations.
• Complete on boarding of new customer portals, ensure business gets setup in system accurately and timely. Issue invoices inline with client services request and customer contract. Issued on timely basis.
• Provide suggestions and implement any improvement to reporting and reconciliation process.
• Address any request from auditors regarding year end reporting, and FBT return.

• Perform and review month end reconciliations.
• Managing and monitoring work in progress in projects.
• Assist in preparation of of monthly board report.
• Identify and suggest system process improvements.
• Prepare and populate monthly financial summaries for each division and company as whole.
• Prepare monthly profit and loss for each division and provide comments on significant variances month on month.
• Check and approve debit card transactions.
• Updating and maintaining the Fixed assets & depreciation schedule.
• Assess and calculate doubtful debts provision, and ensure inline with AASB 9 treatment.
• Perform FBT calculation and complete and submit FBT return.
• Assist in year end audit, and deal with audit queries.
• Assist in acquisitions and mergers, and process necessary journals.
• Assist in any ad hoc reporting.
• Assist in preparation of annual budgets and quarterly rolling forecasts.
• Assist in analyzing variance between budgets/ or forecasts to actuals.
• Assisting Senior accountant in project accounting duties.
• Perform monthly BAS workings and submit IAS via ATO portal.
• Perform monthly income tax calculation.
• Deal with ad hoc queries from both customer and suppliers.
• Be a go to person for any queries staff might have regarding finance or payroll.
• Prepare monthly cash flow statements and cash flow forecasts.
• Analysis aged debtors on monthly basis.
• Accounting for office leases inline with AASB 16.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contribute positively to team environment.
• Promote communication and co-operation among the team.
• Networking with people across the firm in different divisions.
• Manage client relations and audit affairs.
• Develop rapport with client contacts.
• Lead audit engagements.
• Plan audit engagements.
• Run with job from start to finish.
• Reviewing jobs, to ensure it is ready for partner and manager review.
• I identify opportunities for efficiencies and take action to implement them.
• Manage managers and partners involvement in audit engagement.
• Provide feedback on team members' performance to senior management
• Identify value add recommendations for the clients, and draft management report, to be present to client and its board.
• Micro manage audit assignments.
• I communicate with my client, regularly updating them and sharing progress of assignment.
• I delegate to others to provide strengthening opportunities, and coach to help deliver results.
• Keep abreast of technical changes.
• Ensure audit deadlines are met to avoid any delays.
• Set budgets and evaluate overruns.

The following clients were undertaken:

• Beveridge Williams (Construction Industry)
• McBride- (Cleaning & Hygiene industry)
• Dilmah Investments Pty Ltd (Tea industry)
• Harry's The Hirer (Event industry)
• The SMART Group (Telesales Marketing industry)
• MKM Capital Pty Ltd (Finance industry)
• PelicanCorp Pty Ltd (Infrastructure industry)
• Watershed Funds Management (AFSL industry)
• Engineers Without Borders (Engineering Industry)
• Driver Group Australia (Transport industry)
• Melbourne Rebels (Sport industry)
• Southern Steel Group (Metal industry)
• Valley Park Farm (Poultry Industry)
• Gross Wadell (Property Rental industry)
• Janet Lawrence Pty Ltd (Education industry)
• GigSuper Pty Ltd (Funds Management industry)
• Gertrude Contemporary Arts (Art industry)
• Spiritgrow (Religion industry)

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Similar to those duties and responsibility noted as Senior Accountant at Loren Datt Audit.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Similar to those duties and responsibility noted as Senior Accountant at Loren Datt Audit, but included:
• Networking with people across the firm in different divisions.
• Work closely with other lines of services, when they are required on my engagements.
• Have thorough understanding of the services of the firm.
• I build and maintain a professional internal and external network.

The following clients were undertaken in Sydney:

• Amaysim Australia Limited- (Telecommunication Network industry)
• Bunzl Australasia- (Food industry)
• Powerlift (Nissan) Pty Limited- (Automobile industry)
• Liquip International (Party of the Dover Group)- (Automobile industry)
• Readers Digest (Australia) Pty Ltd- (Magazine industry)
• Deutsche Post World Net (DHL Supply Chain)- (Mailing industry)
• Horizon Oil Limited- (Mining Industry)
• Inghams Enterprises Pty Limited- (Food Industry)
• Sony/ ATV Music Publishing (Australia) Pty Limited- (Media Industry)
• MediaHub Australia Pty Limited-
• Henry Davis York – (Law firm)
• Yahoo!7- (Media Industry)
• FremantleMedia Australia (Holdings) Pty Limited- (Media Industry)
• Norgine Pty Limited- (Pharmaceutical Industry)
• Activision Blizzard- (Gaming Industry)
• OzTam Pty Limited- (Media Industry)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Similar to those duties and responsibility noted as Senior Accountant at Loren Datt Audit.

The following clients were undertaken in Darwin:

• Non- for- profit entities:
• Northern Aboriginal Cultural and Education Association Limited (Trading as NBC Consultants)
• Northern Territory Livestock Exporters Association
• Northern Territory Trading Association Incorporated
• Tiwi Islands Shire Council
• Top End Group Training Pty Ltd

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Similar to those duties and responsibility noted as Senior Accountant at Loren Datt Audit and PwC Sydney, but included:
• Manage and provide guidance to other audit engagements across different territories.

The following clients were undertaken in Jersey, Channel Islands:

• Financial Services industry- EFG group.
• Aztec group.
• Globaldrive (Part of the Ford Group), Equitflex.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Carry out audits, and other engagements, by performing the work, and ensure work is complete in timely manner, so it is ready for senior/ manager review.
• Be always available to help senior/ manager, in order to meet client deadline.
• Review client tax schedules, and return to ensure that reasonable, and inline with SARS regulations and legislations.
• Review financials statements, and ensure that it is inline with audit file.
• Reviewed client cash flow forecast to ensure its reasonable.
• Assess client due diligence performed for acquisitions and disposals.
• Provide supervision and coaching on audits
• Act as client liaison
• Identify value add recommendations for the clients
• Work closely with other lines of services, when they are required on my engagements
• Manage managers and partners involvement in audit engagement.

The following clients were undertaken in Cape Town, South Africa

• Media Industry - MIH Internet Africa, and Touchline Media (Part of the Naspers Group), as well as Draft FCB.
• Hospitality industry - Protea Hotels, and Lord Charles Hotel.
• Educational industry - Northlink College, and Stanford University.
• Overberg Agri Beperk – Boltfast.
• Tourism industry - Thebe Tourism.
• Retail industry - industry – Pep.
• Electrical industry.- Alstom Power Service Societe Anonyme.