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Parika Mittal

Sydney,Australia

Summary

A solution-focused & proactive finance professional with approx. 8 years of post-qualification work experience in taxation & accounting roles across industries. Results-oriented Senior Accountant with 8 years of experience in Finance and Auditing, A 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

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Hotel Accountant

North Sydney Harbour View Hotel
North Sydney, Australia
02.2024 - Current
  • Handling month end closing, preparing balance sheet balances reconciliations and prepare accruals, prepayments and payroll accruals for the accuracy of profit and loss account of View Melbourne Hotel
  • Manage all day-to-day accounting function of View Hotels Owner’s trust, partnership, and other companies and reconcile intercompany accounts on monthly basis
  • Preparing Bank reconciliation on daily basis
  • Preparation and review of Profit and loss on monthly basis for CFO final review
  • Handling payroll for 70 employees in Wage Easy and Time Target software
  • Posting of payroll journals in Xero software after extracting data from wage easy system
  • Review and analyze forecast at month end prepared by head of other departments
  • Review and analyze yearly budget prepared by head of other departments
  • Handling Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions
  • Work closely with the Finance Hub team of other hotels in the group for any relevant information
  • Preparation of BAS, IAS, FBT returns and car parking return on due dates
  • Coordination and resolving queries of statutory auditors at the time of finalization
  • Ad hoc projects as assigned by CFO.

Assistant Accountant

Bosch Rexroth Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia
12.2024 - 08.2024
  • Accounts Receivable Department: Follow up & collection of dues & outstanding debt as per company policy or agreed written payment terms
  • Persistent and timely follow up of all queries/ claims with customers service disputes, with both internal and external customers
  • Reconciliation of cash account on daily basis
  • Post incoming payments and further allocation of remittances to the respective customer accounts
  • Monthly reporting to Finance Manager about the debt collection and dues
  • Assist in Year-End Auditing: Reconciliation of sundry accruals at the year end
  • Reconciliation of vendor statements with the company’s books of accounts and timely follow up for the discrepancies identified
  • Liaison with external auditors and provide necessary information
  • Controlling Department: Analyzing and reporting of fixed costs for optimization of costs and providing costing for the orders to the clients
  • Preparation of statutory reports such as Business activity statements and FBT returns
  • Preparation of Bonus report for the sales team based on sales target achieved during the previous year.

Business Services Accountant

CM Partners
North Sydney, Australia
08.2024 - 02.2024
  • Manage all statutory tax requirements including Business Activity statements (BAS), Income Activity statements (IAS), FBT returns and Payroll tax of Trusts, Partnerships, High Net worth Individuals and SMEs clients
  • Providing Business advisory to assist businesses with cash flow planning, budgeting, analysing and management of accounts
  • Responsible for preparing financial statements such as Profit loss account, Balance sheet in accordance Australian accounting standards for small to medium scale organisations (have an annual turnover AUD 5M to 50M) in domains such as Car rental services, Sandstone paving services, trading in kitchen appliances, Cottage industry, etc
  • Provide feedback to offshore team members and maintain audit trail documents
  • Comply with entity’s bookkeeping function on multiple software such as Xero and MYOB including payroll and GST
  • Ability to research and resolve issues associated with client work
  • Assist in accounting & tax planning, advisory for the individual & business clients and estimating their tax liability.

Business Services Assistant

M G Arthur & Associates
Sydney, Australia
02.2019 - 08.2019
  • Manage and review all statutory tax requirements including Business Activity statements (BAS), Income Activity statements (IAS), FBT returns and Payroll tax of Trusts, Partnerships, High Net worth Individuals and SMEs clients
  • Responsible for preparing financial statements such as Profit loss account, Balance sheet in accordance Australian accounting standards for small to medium scale organisations (have an annual turnover AUD 1M to 10M) in domains such as Medical Practitioners, Medical Imaging Groups, Day Care centres, Car repair centres, Real Estate Agents, etc
  • Liaising with clients for preparing and finalising Income tax returns
  • Comply with entity’s bookkeeping function on multiple softwares such as Xero, Myob, Handi ledger, Quick book etc
  • Including payroll and GST
  • Cash flow analysis, variance analysis and detailed analysis of expenses to identify areas of improvement
  • Assisted in accounting & tax planning, advisory for the individual & business clients and estimating their tax liability
  • Preparation of payroll tax returns and reconciliation of payroll for STP compliance
  • Ability to resolve ATO issues associated with client work
  • Providing business advisory services to assist businesses with management reports such as cash flow planning, budgeting, profit planning, financial analysing, and management accounts.

Senior Accountant

Kapoor Rajesh & Associates
Northern India, India
01.2015 - 06.2017
  • Responsible for preparing financial reports such as balance sheets and profit loss account and tax compliances for small to medium privately held companies (have an annual turnover up to AUD 10M) in domains such as medical practitioners, newspaper advertising agency, textile manufacturing, manufacturing of automotive parts and, Jewellers etc
  • Responsible for monitoring, budgeting, and reviewing the financial performance of all aspects of clients
  • Liaise with external auditors for providing ongoing assistance related to statutory audit and taxation matters
  • Preparation and finalization of management reports such as cash flow statements, variance analysis report and detailed analysis of expenses to identify areas of improvement
  • Responsible for filing TDS returns, Income Tax returns, VAT (Value Added Tax) 20 returns and Service Tax returns of corporate and non- corporate entities
  • Liaising with Income Tax Authorities to represent clients on taxation matters
  • Assist in developing, implementing, and maintaining systems, procedures, and policies, including Accounts Payable functions to ensure adherence to company guidelines
  • Providing training and guidance to team members on bookkeeping, documentation, and other relevant matters
  • Supervise and efficiently managed a team of 4 members, manage resource planning and workflow.

Assistant Accountant

Aggarwal NK & Associates
India, India
04.2012 - 12.2014
  • Preparation of Income Tax returns, Value Added Tax returns and Tax deduction at source returns for High-Net-worth Individuals, Partnership concerns, non-Government organisations and corporate entities
  • Handle internal audits for various companies in domains such as catering, textile manufacturing and hospitality industry
  • Handle Month end activities e.g
  • Month-end Journals, payroll transactions, Value added Tax and TDS liabilities, overall P&L and Balance Sheet review
  • Conduct inspection of physical inventory to evaluate inventory levels and identified potential damaged and obsolete inventory.

Education

Skills

  • Experience in financial & management reporting and variance analysis
  • Experience in preparation of Bank and Balance Sheet Reconciliations
  • Experience in payroll processing and payroll journals
  • Compliance with IFRS, Standards of Auditing and Accounting
  • Previously business services professional with extensive experience in Business services, accounting and bookkeeping in India and Australia
  • Fully conversant with MS-Office including Excel, Wage Easy, TimeTarget
  • Conversant with SQL Server, Power BI models
  • Proficiency in MYOB, Xero, QuickBooks, SAP-PRP, Handi Tax, Handi Ledger, and Time & Billing
  • Proficient with job flow management on Trello and managing work papers on Atlassian

Personal Details

Citizen, Available on request

Professional Attributes

  • Excellent time management skills coupled with ability to meet deadlines.
  • Flexible behaviour with easy adaption to any environment or technology.
  • Exceptional written & verbal communication skills.
  • Valued team player, quick learner, conceptual thinker.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Assistant Accountant

Bosch Rexroth Pty Ltd
12.2024 - 08.2024

Business Services Accountant

CM Partners
08.2024 - 02.2024

Hotel Accountant

North Sydney Harbour View Hotel
02.2024 - Current

Business Services Assistant

M G Arthur & Associates
02.2019 - 08.2019

Senior Accountant

Kapoor Rajesh & Associates
01.2015 - 06.2017

Assistant Accountant

Aggarwal NK & Associates
04.2012 - 12.2014

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