Lily Nguyen

Company overview: a premium and luxury aged care provider with 5 aged care facilities and 2 retirement villages, housing more than 500 beds and 600 staff.

• Managing day to day financial operations including Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payables and Payroll, Banking, Cash Flow Management, also providing support and mentorship to the finance team to resolve any issues in a timely manner for the sites
• Overseeing all aspects of the month-end close processes: reviewing general ledger journals and reconciliations, ensuring timely completion of accurate management reports for Senior Executives/Board review
• Managing year end processes and liaising with external auditors for interim and final audits, ensuring to address audit queries on time
• Improving efficiency and accuracy by identifying ineffective areas, streamlining processes and implementing automation of financial operations, reporting and robust governance control (AP automation, Procurement rollout, Payroll & Roster system interface)
• Delivering accurate financial reports and useful insights on performance to the CFO, Senior Executives and the Board, enabling them to efficiently make informed decisions and strategic financial adjustments
• Leading and managing a team of accountants, taking ownership and leading by example to ensure the utmost professional ethics and behaviours are pursued.

• Liaising with external auditors for interim and year end audit
• Preparing annual Aged Care Compliance Financial Statements and Quarterly Financial Reporting in compliance with Department's requirements
• Preparing monthly Management Reports, Profit & Loss Statement and analyse revenues and expenses for all entities, performing variance analysis of various cost centres against budget and explain differences
• Preparing Annual Budget, projections and Budget phasing
• Preparing various Government Grant applications for aged care sector
• Reviewing general ledger, credit card and other balance sheet reconciliations
• Maintaining Fixed Asset Registers and depreciation schedule, ensuring accurate capitalisation of assets
• Reconciling and processing lodgement of monthly payroll tax, GST and annual payroll tax reconciliations
• Managing monthly BAS lodgement for various entities, ensuring correct prepayment and accruals journals
• Payroll processing and journaling, ensuring correct award interpretation, shift loadings and employment contracts
• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders to resolve finance related matters and completing additional adhoc reporting and analysis as required.

Company Overview: part of WPP - the world's largest advertising & media company

• As part of the Head Office team, delivering the Annual and Half year report for both Australian and New Zealand companies, which includes updating new accounting policies and standards to ensure that the group meets all reporting requirements
• Preparing the monthly group consolidation, cash flow statement, working capital analysis, earn-out calculations and other financial analysis and presentations to the Board and executive teams for decision making purposes
• Preparing financial models including impairment assessment, intangible analysis such as brand names and customer relationship, expected credit loss assessment
• Managing and reviewing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) regional controls for more than 60 operating companies, this is inclusive of balance sheet analytics, working capital analysis, general ledger to BFC (the SAP reporting tool) reconciliation review, intercompany reconciliation review etc
• Contributing to the implementation and maintenance of the financial reporting processes internal controls to ensure SOX compliance
• Engaging with internal auditors as well as external auditors to successfully deliver audits on SOX internal controls and external reporting requirements
• Managing Microsoft SharePoint finance portal for the regional financial group, giving instruction and answering queries, making sure the group companies deliver requests from the Head Office in compliance with SOX as well as statutory reporting requirements
• Resolving monthly intercompany mismatches between more than 100 legal entities, conducting training on intercompany transactions to address issues between companies
• Preparing month-end reports, general ledger and bank reconciliations for various holding companies in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore as well as Global reporting.

Company Overview: the global travel wholesaler

• Preparing cash position report and daily cash flow to monitor and effectively manage Group's working capital
• Managing and monitoring company credit cards through FlexiPurchase portal, conducting training about credit card policy and procedure and transaction coding to employees
• Managing foreign currency exchange risk by daily monitoring exchange rates as well as by preparing weekly FX outlook, commentaries and forecast to directors for decision making purposes
• Transacting with foreign exchange dealers for forward and spot FX contracts and prepares weekly exposure and hedging summary reports
• Processing fortnightly payroll payments for employees in Australia, New Zealand and UK, salary packaging arrangements, administering leave, PAYG tax and Superannuation through Sage MicrOpay software
• Preparing monthly payroll tax in accordance to Office of State Revenue NSW, BAS lodging and preparation
• Performing accounts payable functions to maximise suppliers credit terms while maintaining effective business relationship with suppliers through constructive and open communication; performing part of accounts receivable
• Recording intercompany transactions and prepares invoices and statement of account ensuring balances are reconciled within the Group
• Processing payments in various international currencies fully utilising a variety of payment platforms to minimise foreign currency exchange risks and losses
• Processing payments efficiently using multiple payment platforms of different countries like Australia, Singapore, New Zealand and UK
• Preparing general ledger and month end reconciliations for various accounts in Australian and foreign currencies and company credit card statements