Lei ZHANG

• Handled day-to-day accounting processes to drive financial accuracy.
• Documented cash, credit, fixed assets, accrued expenses, and various transactions using MYOB
• Completed weekly cash functions like account tracking, payroll processing (using Employment Hero Portal) and wage allocations, budgeting, cash, and banking reconciliations.
• Reconciled accounts and reviewed expense data, net worth, and assets.
• Streamlined month-end closing processes, resulting in reduced time spent on financial reporting tasks.
• Managed cash flow effectively, ensuring all company liabilities such as suppliers and loan payments were met in a timely manner and surplus funds were invested wisely.
• Maintained accurate records of fixed assets, including acquisition costs, depreciation schedules, and current values for insurance purposes.
• Reduced expenses by negotiating with suppliers for better pricing and terms on services and supplies.
• Achieved compliance with all tax regulations by staying updated on changes and conducting thorough reviews of financial operations.
• Streamlined monthly financial reporting processes, significantly reducing time required for report generation and analysis.
• Prepared quarterly BAS reports and liaised with external accountant for annual tax return.

• Managed daily sales and invoices, petty cash etc to ensure accuracy of data entries to POS.
• Used MYOB to Reconcile accounts and review sales, expense data, net worth, and assets.
• Completed daily cash functions like account tracking, payroll and wage allocations, budgeting, loyalty fee, marketing fee and cash, and banking reconciliations.
• Managed cash flow effectively, ensuring all company liabilities were met in a timely manner and surplus funds were invested wisely.
• Maintained accurate records of fixed assets, including acquisition costs, depreciation schedules, and current values for insurance purposes.
• Recorded and processed payroll using Employment Hero Portal.
• Reduced expenses by negotiating with vendors for better pricing and terms on services and supplies.
• Contributed to enhanced revenue growth by analyzing revenue streams and identifying underperforming areas.
• Improved budget forecasting accuracy with detailed variance analysis between actual and budgeted figures.
• Collaborated with External accountant for quarterly BAS and annual tax return lodgement.

• Documented cash, credit, fixed assets, accrued expenses, and various transactions.
• Reconciled accounts and reviewed Sales, expense data, net worth, and assets.
• Used MYOB to prepare invoices, credit notes, and record purchases.
• Maintained accurate records of fixed assets, including acquisition costs, depreciation schedules, and current values for insurance purposes.
• Streamlined monthly financial reporting processes, significantly reducing time required for report generation and analysis by using Excel Vlookup, Pivot Table and Macro functions.
• Negotiated terms with vendors and suppliers, improving company's cost-efficiency.
• Provided journal entries and performed accounting tasks on accrual basis.
• Prepared BAS report and annual tax return.

• Assisted in annual audit preparations, ensuring a smooth process with no major discrepancies found.
• Reconciled account information and reported figures in general ledger by comparing to bank account statement each month.
• Tracked business revenue and expenditures and reconciled accounts to maintain high accuracy.
• Identified cost-saving opportunities through thorough budget analysis and expense tracking.
• Preparation of Month End P&L Reports
• Reconciliation of General Ledger and Balance Sheet accounts
• Produce monthly analysis of payroll data
• Monthly accruals and FBT return
• Monthly business review
• Ensuring the sales and margin are correctly reported on a daily basis, identify margin errors and taking corrective action to fix those errors
• Daily sales and margin reporting
• Assist in Budget preparation.
• Maintenance of various offline models with respect to margin adjustments (Rebates, Purchase Price Variance (PPV))
• Complete ABS Surveys on a timely basis
• Ad hoc tasks required by Finance Manager
• Communicate with branch personnel in solving problems with reported figures and getting errors fixed.
• Software used: Oracle Release 11i and Discoverer 10g. Ability to modify and write Oracle financial reports, customize Discoverer queries etc. Excel Level: Advance – Writing Various Macros, Vlookup, Pivot table reporting functions etc.

Working in a group that has 13 hotels in Gaming Industry, reporting to the CFO I am responsible for:

• Maintain the General Ledger for a portfolio of 13 hotels
• Assisting management with the development, implementation and overseeing of efficient revenue management systems. Record daily sales and produce weekly revenue report
• Assist with the implementation and control of all accounting principles with performance analysis and reviews
• Assist with the preparation of month-end reports and review of financial performance and cost reviews.
• Provide technical assistance to financial team members
• Prepare complex reconciliations of 13 hotels.
• Assist in Budget Preparation.
• Assist in management of all tax related issues for the parent company.
• Review tax compliance, including BAS and annual tax return.
• Year End Audit preparation.
• Payroll and income tax.
• Fixed Asset and Superannuation.
• Petty cash and ad hoc duties

System skills: MYOB Premier, WageEasy

Excel Level: Advance – Vlookup, Pivot table reporting functions etc.

• Developed a forecast and recommendations based upon a number of variables which include historical performance, seasonality, promotions, sales initiatives, etc. and coordinate with the executive team in developing a sound plan and targets.
• The position requires my excellent communication skills and the ability to provide direction to other forecasters in various APAC (Asia Pacific) countries. I am also assisting the APAC Online Store Director in developing various financial models and analysis tools, these models are to be done based upon my understanding of the APAC Online business and strategy, as well as my strong process and procedure skills. Specifically, I am assisting in the development and communication of the following:
• Detailed weekly unit forecast for the APAC Online organization using Excel, SAP BW and Apple systems.
• Presentation of forecast analysis to APAC Director communicating unit variance, performance to date, potential risks and opportunities etc.
• Calculation of Sales Representatives commissions, variance analysis.
• Prepare revenue summary report and 3 years production forecast plan.
• Actively participated in team meetings to share knowledge, exchange ideas, address challenges, and collaborate on potential solutions.
• System skills: SAP BW, APPLE OS Tiger, GMACC. Excel Level: Advance – Vlookup, Pivot table reporting functions etc.

Report Directly to Managing Director

• Setting up and developing accounting System and procedures and cash handling policies.
• Merger/Acquisition accounts transactions, inter-company transactions and consolidation
• Forecasting and budgeting
• Monthly management accounts, P&L, Balance Sheet and KPI etc.
• Banking, Reconciliations.
• Variance analysis, Gross profit analysis and other statistical analysis
• Accounts payable, receivable and payroll
• Cash flow management
• Control of month end
• Bookkeeping software used: Quicken
• BAS Quarterly