Suraj Neupane

Responsibilities;

Financial Reporting:

• Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
• Ensure financial reports are accurate and comply with Australian Accounting Standards (AAS).
• Conducting financial investigations, preparing reports, undertaking audits, and advising on matters such as capital financing, taxation, and financial health of the company.
• Prepare and maintain financial report models to assist stakeholders with planning and decision making.

Budgeting and Forecasting :

• Assist in the development of budgets and financial forecasts.
• Analyse financial data to provide insights and recommendations for financial planning.
• Examining expenses submitted by employees

Compliance :

• Ensure compliance with Federal and State tax regulations, including GST, PAYG, FBT and Payroll Tax.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
• Assist in the formulation of accounting policies
• Maintaining internal control systems

Taxation :

• Preparation of monthly Business Activity Statements (BAS)
• Assist with collating data necessary for preparation of income tax and FBT returns to be supplied to external accountants.
• Assist with tax planning and ensure accurate tax reporting.

Audit Support :

• Provide necessary documentation for internal and external audits.
• Address auditor inquiries and assist with audit processes.

Payroll Supervision:

• Oversee payroll activities
• Add new employees to payroll system and complete updates where required to profiles
• Review leave schedule
• Monitor awards for any relevant changes to employee conditions
• Liaise with management around remuneration changes for employees where identified.

Financial Analysis :

• Perform financial analysis to support business decisions.
• Conduct variance analysis and cost control assessments.
• Conducting financial investigations, preparing reports, undertaking audits and advising on matters such as the capital financing, company financial health and taxation
• Assist with appraisals of cash flow and financial risk of capital investment projects
• Analysing data to understand where the company is generating and losing revenue

Responsibilities ;

• Reconcile Accounts Receivable ledger to ensure that all payments are accounted for and posted daily.
• Review, chase and monitor Revenue Accruals, ensuring balances are cleared and invoiced within 7-day period for Transport and 30-day period for Warehousing activities.
• Standardise, streamline, and transform key financial reports
• Assist reporting efficiency and automation within Group Finance and be a Transformation Champion
• Assist in producing monthly Group level management reporting to a Group executive level audience
• Assist in development and management of advanced reporting models and analysis for use by reporting managers including standard KPI and metric calculations
• Support end to end planning processes including budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial and KPI projections.
• Manage customers who deal with Linfox in either a RCTI capacity or FWD bill capacity.
• Responsible for forecasting cashflow report and creating provision for customer that are at risk.

Achievements::

• Experience in Accounts Receivable, Credit Management or Revenue Accounting process for large dynamic organization
• Extensive experience using SAP
• Solid understanding of basic accounting principles, fair credit practices and collection regulations
• Strong customer service experience and ability to identify and respond to Linfox External Stakeholder's needs to ensure quality and service standards are met.
• Reduced past due balances and bad debt by coordinating collection efforts with customer service, sales and billing departments.
• Strong literacy with common business applications (i.e. Excel, PowerPoint and Python) including development of tools and processes that automate and drive efficiency in analytical and measurement processes
• Partnered with billing analyst department to investigate and remedy any gross margin trend issues