Patty Cai

• Managing the month-end closing process, reconciling accounts, and maintaining accurate financial records.
• Conducting financial analysis to support business decisions and provide insights for future financial planning.
• Performing meticulous account reconciliations, identifying discrepancies, and resolving issues to ensure financial accuracy.
• BAS, FBT, and GST Compliance: Ensuring accurate and timely preparation and submission of returns, adhering to relevant tax regulations and obligations.
• Preparing financial reports, statements, and documents for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
• Assisting in the budgeting process, collaborating with various departments to develop accurate financial forecasts.
• Assist with the audit process, liaising with external auditors and other external advisors where required.
• Prepare daily cash position and manage liquidity requirements.
• Prepare weekly cashflow forecast.
• Partnering with other departments, promoting collaboration and information sharing.

Achievements:

• Identify opportunities to enhance billing processes, streamline workflows, and implement automation tools to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Lead the upgrade of ERP go-live ahead of schedule and below budget.

• Ensure invoices are entered and suppliers paid within agreed timeframes.
• Perform supplier account reconciliations and resolve differences.
• Processing the end-to-end weekly payroll for employees (approximately 120).
• Preparing the payment runs in line with the Company policy.
• Assist with the completing of balance sheet reconciliations for key GL accounts.

Achievements:

• Re-design the fixed assets register. Correction of prior errors resulted in reduction in depreciation expense directly improving reported operating profit.
• Re-develop tax effect accounting model and make good provision model to streamline the month end close process.

• Prepare financial statements for external purposes in line with International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS).
• Analyze and interpret financial transactions and financial statements in order to make recommendations to management.
• Responsible for development and maintenance of all Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for finance and accounting.
• Assist with tax planning for companies in line with current tax legislation.