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Krystle LOW

Sydney,NSW

Summary

Dynamic financial professional with extensive experience in FMCG industries, excelling in treasury management and cash flow oversight. Proven ability to enhance month-end processes and drive team collaboration, resulting in streamlined operations. Recognized for adaptability to new ERP systems and delivering accurate journal entries under tight deadlines.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Financial Accountant (Contractor)

Inghams Group Limited
01.2025 - 03.2025

Inghams Group Limited is an ASX-listed company with a high market share in poultry production in Australia and New Zealand. The company's focus is on chicken and turkey products, and also producing stock feed for poultry and pig industries. In 2024 the company had generated a revenue of $3.26B.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Cover for the Senior Accountant and Financial Accountant whilst on extended leave.
  • Accurate preparation of the daily/weekly/monthly reporting for various business units for corporate cost centres.
  • Accurate preparation of the weekly/monthly and quarterly journal entries to ensure accuracy and completeness of the P&L and Balance Sheet.
  • BPCS/TM1 systems maintenance including GL master data management for the period close.
  • Supporting the treasury function with cashflow forecasting, banking, payments and external facility reporting requirements.
  • Producing regular, accurate and timely financial reporting for Finance Business Partner on performance to budget.
  • Reported directly into the Senior Accountant.

Financial/Management Accountant (Contractor)

Bevchain
09.2024 - 01.2025

BevChain is a wholly owned subsidiary of Linfox. They provide national tailored supply chain solutions for the beverage industry across Australia and New Zealand and are the leaders in warehouse management and distribution services. Their annual revenue is around $300M per year.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Cover for extended holiday leave within the Finance Multi-Users and Major Brands Teams.
  • Experience with using TM1 to post the weekly Margin, Cost Recovery and V4 journals.
  • Performing accurate weekly reconciliations for Metro and Regional subcontractors.
  • Accurate preparation of weekly journals such as the super and on cost journal to assist with the week-end close.
  • Assistance to the National Finance Manager with the accurate preparation of month end journals and timely upload to SAP.
  • Running of weekly reports for NSW and SA KPI files to assist the national teams with budgeting.
  • Preforming accurate end-of-month processes including proper revenue, expense recognition and accruals.
  • Reported directly to the Finance Manager - Multi Users.

Treasury Operations Analyst (Contractor)

Arnott's Biscuits
11.2023 - 05.2024

Arnott's Group is an Australian producer of biscuits and snack food. They are the largest producer of biscuits in Australia and a subsidiary of KKR. Their annual revenue sits at around $1.04B.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Timely daily cash preparation and management of short term liquidity requirements with adhering to set time deadlines.
  • Accurate preparation of prior day cash reconciliation and as well as adhoc reporting.
  • Preparation of daily cash journals and supporting documentation accurately to ensure timely posting to GLs.
  • Accurate review of FX deal confirmations and co-ordinatation of approvals.
  • Timely and accurate entry of FX deals into GTreasury for approval.
  • Ensurance of accuracy of daily/weekly cash forecasting, updating model and running scenarios
  • Involved with the transition of implementing GTreasury replacing IT2 as the company's Treasury Management system.
  • Efficient management of the Treasury Inbox and responding in a timely manner to internal queries from other teams within the business.
  • Reported directly to the Treasury Operations Manager.

Achievements:

  • Awarded certificate from the CFO for outstanding contribution for the work on the implementation of G Treasury replacing IT2 as the company's Treasury Management System.

Accountant

Meridian IT
05.2023 - 10.2023

Meridian Australia is an experienced IT services company that helps customers solve their biggest technology and business challenges. They are part of the Meridian Group International which reported a peak revenue of $210.0M in 2023.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Proficient bank reconciliation of all business transactions on a daily basis.
  • Comprehensive preparation of the Debtor's report and Cashflow Report on a weekly basis for the Finance Director.
  • Full coverage of the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions for the business.
  • Coverage of Month end duties such as reconciling all bank accounts to the G/L's and the SAP vs SF balancing report.
  • Processing Employee Expenses claims on a timely basis.
  • Management of the invoices inbox and also covering duties on the order management side which included prompt processing of sales orders to generate a PO to the supplier.
  • Reported directly to the Director of Finance.

Accountant

Automic Group
04.2021 - 12.2022

Automic Group delivers Share Registry, Company Secretarial, Financial, Accounting and Investor Relations services to all listed and unlisted entities. They are the largest share registry in Australia with 750 of the 2300 trading companies on the ASX. Their annual revenue is $65.0M per year.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Attention to detail performing bank and credit card reconciliations.
  • Efficient management of the accounts inbox by answering internal and external client queries.
  • Managing the Print & Mail billing spreadsheet by accurately issuing invoices to clients and paying our suppliers.
  • Performing month-end meeting services and corporate actions completeness checks reporting directly to division heads.
  • Assisting the internal finance team with month end disbursement registry billing and balance sheet reconciliations.
  • Accurate maintainence of the fixed asset register.
  • Month end preparation of accrual journal entries for legal contractors within the company.
  • Responsible for the Accounts Payable duties for the team (timely payment of supplier invoices, employee expense claims, reconciliation of company credit cards).
  • Accurate preparation of data for annual financial statements, income tax returns, FBT returns, GST returns.
  • Reported directly to the Financial Controller and also supported the Senior Accountants within the Internal Finance Team.

Achievements:

  • Promoted to Accountant in under one year.
  • Revised the internal finance training manual for the accounts payable, billing and month end processes to successfully train two new starters in the team.

Junior Accountant

ERY Melrose
04.2019 - 12.2020

ERY Melrose is a CPA tax accounting firm located in Sydney's Northwest suburb of Castle Hill. They are experienced accountants for small business and medium enterprises with extensive experience with outsource CFO for international entities, Real Estate Agencies, Builders, Property Developers and Marketing Agencies.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Accurate preparation of individual tax returns for clients in predominantly the professional services field with a taxable income of up to 1.1 million dollars.
  • Exposure to preparation of trusts and companies as well as financial statements.
  • Accurately maintaining a records of client's diversified share portfolios in CGT Reporter.
  • Effectively assisted clients in a timely manner in relation to JobKeeper and Cash Flow Boost matters by applying problem solving skills.
  • Responding to clients in a timely manner by prompt correspondence with the ATO via phone and using the online services portal.
  • Reported directly to the Business Services Manager.

Graduate Accountant

VLL Partners
09.2018 - 03.2019

VLL Partners is a Chartered Accounting firm based in North Shore Sydney that delivers accounting services tailored to the needs of businesses and individuals across Sydney. They are a respected name in tax and business advice, and have the mission statement of focusing on building long-term relationships.

Key Responsibilties:

  • Preparation of tax returns for individuals and gained exposure to trust funds, self-managed super funds and companies.
  • Examining bank statements and reconciling them with general ledger entries.
  • Analysis of data to understand where companies are generating and losing revenue.
  • Preparation of correspondence letters to clients in regards to debt collection in regards to their ITA and ICA.
  • Reported directly to the Senior Accountant.

Education

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting & Commercial Law

Macquarie University
North Ryde
2017

CPA Australia - Provisional Member

Skills

  • SAP Business One
  • SAP Concur
  • Salesforce
  • IBM TM1
  • Microsoft Office
  • GTreasury
  • Xero
  • BPCS

Languages

English (native speaker), Mandarin (basic).

Timeline

Financial Accountant (Contractor)

Inghams Group Limited
01.2025 - 03.2025

Financial/Management Accountant (Contractor)

Bevchain
09.2024 - 01.2025

Treasury Operations Analyst (Contractor)

Arnott's Biscuits
11.2023 - 05.2024

Accountant

Meridian IT
05.2023 - 10.2023

Accountant

Automic Group
04.2021 - 12.2022

Junior Accountant

ERY Melrose
04.2019 - 12.2020

Graduate Accountant

VLL Partners
09.2018 - 03.2019

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting & Commercial Law

Macquarie University

CPA Australia - Provisional Member
Krystle LOW