Accountant
Empire Aviation Group FZCO
Total years of experience :14 years, 9 Months
- Performs day-to-day accounting and daily posting of financial transactions.
- Prepares monthly customers billing which involves an extensive process of documentation, analysis, classification and accumulation of costs. Responsible for daily invoicing related to charter flight services.
- Manages the receivables and closely monitors the collection. Performs periodic ageing analysis, conducts customer accounts reconciliation on a regular basis, and prepares monthly statement of accounts for each customer.
- Verifies the accuracy and validity of the supplier invoices, and reconciles discrepancies with suppliers.
- Handles the petty cash funds and PCF reports. Monitors cash floats of pilots and flight attendants.
- Schedules payments to suppliers according to the credit terms and payables ageing report. Prepares payments to suppliers by telegraphic transfer and check.
- Maintains the fixed assets register, keeps track of the fixed assets movements, and calculates monthly depreciation.
- Assists the finance manager in the month-end closing, preparation of financial statements and year-end audit.
- Prepares MIS and other ad hoc reports which are relevant to the management’s decision-making.
- Ensures that finance guidelines, policies and procedures are properly implemented.
- Coordinates closely with other departments (such as operations, quality, maintenance and training departments) for the purpose of gathering, consolidating and generating information useful for financial reporting.
- Assists in the preparation of monthly payroll. Handles HR-related duties in the absence of the HR administrator.
- Provides customer support by answering queries, providing cost reports and reconciling transaction discrepancies.
- Evaluates the company operating system and recommends measures to improve and promote effectiveness and efficiency of operations.
- Reviews and assesses the effectiveness and adequacy of the company’s internal control system, identifies weaknesses and risk factors within the internal control, and formulates recommendations to address these risk areas.
- Develops audit work programs and schedules branch audits to evaluate and examine compliance with the company’s operational standards, the quality of performance and effectiveness of internal control system.
- Manages and supervises the internal audit team in the execution of the branch audits.
- Reviews audit working papers and audit findings, and discuss these findings and recommendations to the company president and concerned department managers.
- Conducts fraud audit when required and assists the legal department on matters and cases that need legal actions.
- Performs other related duties that may be assigned by the company president.
- Works as a member of an audit team composed of two to three members.
- Assists and supports the senior auditor in carrying out and completion of audit assignments.
- Carries out fieldwork (includes evaluation of internal controls, compliance and substantive testing, analytical review, error evaluation, etc.).
- Prepares and formulates audit report and writes management letter to the client.
- Prepares documentation including updating permanent file
- Discusses the audit findings with the client’s middle and top management.
- Keeps abreast in the development in the accounting and audit fields.
I am a Certified Public Accountant with general average of 85.57% for the 7 accounting subjects taken last May 2009. I was able to have my review classes in the evening while taking my undergraduate subject and while working as a finance assistant in our university. I also topped the Board Exam in Cagayan de Oro Chapter.
