Priyanka Shokeen
Point Cook,VIC
Summary
Motivated and detail-oriented Finance Assistant with hands-on experience in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll processing, and month-end tasks. Adept at managing financial transactions, ensuring timely payment processing, and maintaining compliance with regulations. Proficient in financial software such as PeopleSoft and PMS Opera with a strong ability to maintain accurate financial records and streamline accounting processes.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance Clerk
Crowne Plaza Melbourne
09.2023 - Current
- Manage daily AP and AR functions, ensuring that all invoices are accurately processed and payments are made on time
- Collaborate with vendors and clients to resolve discrepancies and ensure smooth financial transactions
- Assist in processing bi-weekly payroll for all the hotel employees, ensuring accuracy in wage calculations, superannuation, and tax deductions
- Support month-end closing by preparing journal entries, processing accruals, reconciling accounts, and ensuring all financial data is accurate for reporting
- Assist in preparing annual financial statements, ensuring accuracy and compliance with hotel internal policies.
- Process supplier invoices, verify against purchase orders, and ensure timely payments
- Respond to queries from suppliers and clients regarding payments, billing issues, and other financial matters
- Work collaboratively with other departments to ensure financial processes are aligned with organizational needs
- Maintain daily hotel cashiering, DRS data entry and PMS reconciliation
- Review daily Tyalls task- Hotel CSA(Control Self-Assessment) Audit software
- Successfully streamlined the AP/AR cycle, reducing payment delays
- Successfully reduced accounts receivable aging by streamlining invoicing and follow-up processes, resulting in faster payment collection and improved cash flow
Assistance Finance Officer
Holiday Inn Werribee
09.2022 - 09.2023
- Reconciling supplier statement and Processing weekly and monthly invoices through accurate data entry
- Cash balancing, Investigating and resolving any variance
- Review daily Tyalls task for control self assessment
- Processed and verified supplier invoices for hotel operations, ensuring accurate data entry, matching with purchase orders, and timely submission for payment approval
- Assist with supplier queries
- Assist in payroll
Hotel Services Supervisor
Holiday Inn, Werribee
04.2021 - 09.2022
- Strong customer service skills through handling stakeholder requests and complaints with ownership to achieve positive results with ability to train teams to do the same through Problem Handling workshops.
- Handling complaints from customers effectively and Ensuring the shift operations are running smoothly.
- Analyzing daily transaction reports for Food and Beverage and Front Office.
- Managing resources according to shifting financial, strategic and manning requirements.
- Gaining an insight in the statistics to identify the revenue requirements to achieve the budget for our department.
Education
Master of Professional Accounting -
Holmes College
Melbourne, VIC07.2021
Bachelor of Health Economics -
University of Delhi
Delhi, India05.2013
Skills
- Accounting Software: PeopleSoft, Micros (POS system), EFTPOS reconciliation, Foodbuy, Infrasys
- Microsoft Office: Advanced Excel (VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, Financial Analysis), Word, Outlook
- Payroll Processing & Compliance
- Month-End Closing & Financial Reconciliation
- Invoice Verification & Payment Processing
- Budgeting & Forecasting Assistance
- Accounting Software: PeopeSoft, Opera PMS
- Data Entry & Transaction Management
- Attention to Detail & Accuracy
- Time Management & Deadline-Oriented
- General ledger maintenance
- Financial statement preparation
- Ability to manage and meet deadlines
- Punctual, Trustworthy and reliable personality and ability to work under pressure whilst prioritizing competing demands
- Auditing tasks
- Interpersonal and verbal communication
- Training new staff
References
References available upon request
Timeline
Finance Clerk
Crowne Plaza Melbourne
09.2023 - Current
Assistance Finance Officer
Holiday Inn Werribee
09.2022 - 09.2023
Hotel Services Supervisor
Holiday Inn, Werribee
04.2021 - 09.2022
Master of Professional Accounting -
Holmes College
Bachelor of Health Economics -
University of Delhi
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