General Accountant
BASF Philippines Inc
Total years of experience :21 years, 11 Months
General Accountant (Supervisor)
January 2009 - Present
• Prepares report for monthly Sales, MER, Cost Center and presentations for Business Operations Meeting (BOM).
• Consolidates the budget of various service platforms and business units of the company.
• Assists in legal and contract management (April 2010 onwards)
• Handles the accounts payable from invoice analyzing to scanning, account reconciliation and aging. Monitors and checks entries made by Malaysian counterparts.
• Processes employee reimbursements, travel requests and cash advances on a weekly basis as Concur Processor and conducts training to employees on this regard from time to time being the Local Concur Administrator.
• Files and remit payments of various government taxes monthly, quarterly and annually.
• Prepares monthly inter-company reconciliation and billings for rentals, service fees and reimbursements between local companies.
• Prepares schedules for analysis of some general ledger accounts; processes debit and credit notes to suppliers and customers; reconciles bank accounts and files various accounting documents.
• Immediately acts and resolves complaints and inquiries from suppliers, Malaysian counterparts and internal customers.
• Assists external auditors in data and reports gathering; engaging in annual warehouse inventory count and performs other tasks that may be assigned from time to time (AR functions, Employee Events Committee, Sports Committee).
General Accounting Executive May 2003 - December 2008
• Handled the accounts payable of 3 companies from invoice analysis, accurate data entry processing through SAP, account reconciliation to aging. Coordination with Shared Services Team in Malaysia starting 2006
• Engaged in processing weekly employee reimbursements and cash advances from data input and clearing to sending individual e-mail confirmation to employees.
• Filed and remitted payments of various government taxes monthly, quarterly and annually.
• Prepared monthly inter-company reconciliation and billings for rentals, service fees and reimbursements between 4 local companies.
• Processed employee reimbursements, travel requests and cash advances on a weekly basis as Concur Processor and conducted training to employees on this regard from time to time being the Local Concur Administrator.
• Evaluated and prepared monthly schedules of some general ledger accounts; processed debit and credit notes to suppliers and customers; reconciled bank reports for accurate check and balance of accounts; and filed various accounting documents such as check vouchers, bank statements, contracts, reports and others.
• Entertained and immediately acted on various queries from external and internal customers.
• Provided assistance to external auditors in data and reports gathering; engaged in annual warehouse inventory count and performed other tasks that may be assigned from time to time (Employee Events Committee, Sports Committee).
Treasury Assistant May 2002 - April 2003
• Processed invoices that are already due for payment by 4 companies in a timely manner through SAP and DB Direct.
• Handled the petty cash of 3 companies from employee reimbursements and advances to cash replenishment.
• Received and encoded weekly summary of employee reimbursements and cash advances using the program issued by the bank up to the approval and e-mail confirmation.
• Issued receipts for payments related to trade and non-trade transactions; deposited cash and checks to corresponding banks in coordination with the Treasury Manager.
• Filed supplier invoices, check vouchers, official receipts, bank debit documents, petty cash replenishment vouchers and others accounting documents.
• Prepared dollar cash advances of employees from monitoring their date of travel, manual check processing, obtaining approval from signatories to releasing of cash.
• Performed monitoring and safekeeping of issued post dated checks as well as canceling stale checks which were not collected on a given period of time.
• Acted and immediately resolved various inquiries from external and internal customers; carried out other tasks that may be assigned from time to time.
Graduated as Cum Laude Academic Scholar
Graduated with High Honor