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Satender Kaur

Sheidow Park,SA

Summary

As a forward-thinking professional, I leverage a digital mindset to foster collaboration with technological systems that aid and enhance efficiency. With a proven track record in accounting, financial management, reporting and detailed operational tasks. I excel in analysing data and reports, conducting account reconciliations, and driving precise month-end close process. My commitment to attain accuracy coupled with experience on short-term and long-term projects,has honed my problem solving and negotiation skills. Embracing challenges, I Introduce innovative ideas to streamline processes and contribute to more efficient work environment. Seeking to contribute efficiently to organisation growth,i am dedicated to achieving continuous improvement and career advancement . and I thrive in proactive, Customer centric, and collaborative team environment ,brining both quick learning abilities and and active team participation to the forefront Organized and motivated employee eager to apply time management and organizational skills in various environments. Seeking entry-level opportunities to expand skills while facilitating company growth.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Management Accountant & Business Partner

Autism SA
03.2020 - Current
  • Lead the formulation of financial quotes for government grant funding programs and process timely acquittals based on program spending, to ensure transparent and accurate financial reporting
  • Expertly engage in comprehensive financial modelling, ensuring strategic program viability assessments for new programs/initiatives and provide insightful analysis to drive informed decision making based on achieved profit margins
  • Generating information and insights from data sets and identifying trends and patterns around revenue from the Lumary reports
  • Collaboratively assist IT in generating accurate reports and performing validity checks to allow integration of data with organization systems
  • Along with providing prompt feedback to IT on the dashboard and reporting requirement that facilitate income accruals, revenue forecast and additional program manager needs
  • Take a lead role in the preparation and distribution of the annual corporate budgets to the relevant stakeholder and with reforecasts of those departmental budgets
  • Completion of the month-end process, including ensuring the completion of the General Ledger and Balance Sheet reconciliations and production of all month-end reports
  • Preparing of monthly financial reports and distribution of other related/documentation to relevant stakeholders and board
  • Partnering with business managers and providing financial advice regarding the viability of their programs and educating services managers on budgeting and performed risk analysis each client's funding
  • Working closely with Senior Finance Manager to deliver reports, analysis of data, potential risk areas and forecast opportunities
  • Assist with the coordination of internal and external audits, including liaising directly with external auditors and stakeholders as relevant
  • Address and resolve adhoc clients budget utilisation queries and other business-related queries from both internal & external stakeholders
  • Risk identification and advise on any control deficiencies and implement appropriate processes to reduce risk and provide details to the relevant stakeholders
  • Income allocation, accruals & journaling of income within finance system (Xero) during the month end
  • Managing and maintenance of the prepaid registers and the Fixed Asset register and running monthly depreciation expense and reconciling to the General Ledger
  • Participating as a member of the Pricing ‘working group' to ensure pricing of NDIS claims and services are aligned to the NDIS price guide
  • Assisting Senior Finance Manager to review and develop improved work practices and procedures related to financial duties where required to ensure they are fit for purpose and contribute towards maximising revenue and reduce inefficiencies
  • Actively involved in recruiting, deploying, developing, and providing leadership to the Finance team, and completing probation and annual performance development reviews for all direct reports
  • Key Contributions: Assisted in system upgrades and data migration to CRM (Lumary)
  • Introduced a digital mindset and expertise in data visualization as reporting tools to empower stakeholder with meaningful insight, facilitating informed decision-making aligned with organistional goals.

AR/AP & Debt Collection Officer

Autism SA
01.2018 - 03.2020
  • Responsible for full function of Accounts Payables and Receivables
  • Maintaining the billing system and generating invoices and account statements
  • Performing clients account reconciliation, investigating, and resolving any irregularities or enquiries
  • Producing monthly financial and management reports as advised and Requested by Finance Manager
  • Assisting in general financial management and analysis
  • Monitor and audit staff credit card expenditures
  • Processing Income and expense Journals
  • Assisting with end of month and financial year end to ensure accurate financial reports
  • Key Contributions: Assisted in system upgrades and data migration to Xero
  • Introduced paperless accounts payable system from paper-based workflows which managed to streamline AP process, increase efficiency, and reduce operating costs
  • Developed and implemented strategies for successful debt collection.

Financial Control - Account's officer (CODB/Payroll)

Woolworths Ltd
02.2012 - 11.2017
  • Managing and summarizing various expenditure accounts of the company with charges of more than $5M a month and maintaining records on weekly to monthly basis
  • Reviewing and delivering results to business analysts and taking necessary actions for any changes in contract terms interacting with contractors and subcontractors for details
  • Monthly variance analysis on cost expenditure
  • Processing journals and adjustments for any errors
  • Cross checking of all charges from the vendors to avoid any overpayments, through various Sap programs
  • Calculating and processing accruals and prepayments for expenses across FLP for Australia and New Zealand
  • Analysing and providing reports to the BA's on quarterly basis for increase or decrease in contract charges across various divisions, preparing summary reports for stakeholders
  • Summarizing the reports and providing detailed information on the profit & loss per profit center and cost center to (Regional Mangers & HR Reps) for KPI recording purposes
  • Reconciling the P&L and balance sheet accounts
  • Providing deduction and salary sacrifice reports to the senior accountant
  • Downloading and calculating property lease figures and sending the information to lease owners
  • Providing Turn Over Certificates to Auditors and Store Owners as per lease agreements
  • Analyzing the data collected through BW and Sap Systems for accuracy and taking appropriate action in case of any errors generated
  • Preparing for corporate governance testing for provisions and assisting internal and external auditors with the sample testing.

Financial Control - Accounting clerk Banking& GP

Woolworths Ltd
Adelaide
05.2011 - 01.2012
  • Reconcile payments received from various Interchange Partner and identify any settlement differences
  • Clearing and transferring miscellaneous entries from bank suspense accounts e.g., MSF, rebates, interest to require ledger accounts
  • In charge of the reconciliations for 5 large bank accounts and Posting settlement totals as per reports and charge backs Open item managing suspense accounts reconciling various Balance sheet and P/L accounts
  • Assist accountant with reports for audit requirements to meet tight timelines and preparing samples for corporate governance testing
  • Processing rebates and MSF for various Woolworth's divisions both transferring funds to accounts payables and receivables accounts as per transactions and posting journal entry errors that had previously been missed
  • Preparing Gross profit reports and reporting to Accountants
  • Working and maintaining stock take files to calculate GP reviewing stocktakes.

Education

CPA -

CPA
12.2023

Masters in Professional Accounting (MComPA) -

01.2009

Skills

  • Financial & Business Analysis
  • Budgeting & Forecasting
  • Management of Stakeholder Relationship
  • Financial System Technologies
  • Process Improvement & Cost Management Efficiency
  • Problem Solving and Negotiation Skills
  • Team building & Leadership skills
  • Good communication and attention detail
  • AP/AR & Debt Management

Additional Projects Certificates

  • Assistance with Implementation of CRM System (salesforce), 2023, 2024
  • Assistance with implementation of Accounting software (Xero), 2018
  • HR & Block Tax –Income Tax Course, 2016
  • Business Cert. IV – Small Business Management, 2013
  • Business CERT III- professional development, 2010, 2011

Technology Summary

  • XERO - Advanced
  • Lumary - Advanced
  • MYOB - Intermediate
  • SYBIZ Vision & Visipay - Intermediate
  • SAP - Advanced
  • BW Analyzer - Intermediate
  • Power BI - Basic
  • MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) - Advanced

References

References will be provided on request.

Timeline

Management Accountant & Business Partner

Autism SA
03.2020 - Current

AR/AP & Debt Collection Officer

Autism SA
01.2018 - 03.2020

Financial Control - Account's officer (CODB/Payroll)

Woolworths Ltd
02.2012 - 11.2017

Financial Control - Accounting clerk Banking& GP

Woolworths Ltd
05.2011 - 01.2012

CPA -

CPA

Masters in Professional Accounting (MComPA) -

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