Accountant
Metro Manila
I bring over 8 years of international accounting and finance experience supporting clients across the US, Australia, and Canada. My core expertise includes: - US Accounting: Full-cycle bookkeeping, GL ownership, historical cleanups, and financial statement preparation for accounting firms. - Australian & Canadian Markets: Corporate exposure handling Canadian fixed assets and Australian reinsurance accounting, with a practical understanding of GST and BAS principles. - Modern Tech & AI Integration: Eager commitment to continuous skill expansion and utilizing AI tools to automate workflows, accelerate closing cycles, and maintain absolute ledger accuracy. I am committed to staying ahead of industry standards and bringing high-level financial control to multi-client portfolios.
Simple Financials, full_time
May 2025 to Present
• Full-Cycle Bookkeeping: Execute comprehensive bookkeeping for a diverse portfolio of US-based SMB clients, managing daily categorizations, ledger entries, and monthly account reconciliations in QuickBooks Online. • E-Commerce Reconciliation: Capture and reconcile high-volume sales transactions, merchant processing fees, and marketplace payouts across Amazon, Shopify, Walmart, eBay, TikTok and Faire. • Month-End Close: Facilitate month-end close by preparing monthly financial statements (Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet) and delivering final reporting packages before the 7th business day of each month. • Process Automation: Built custom data-import templates using Excel VBA macros and formulas, cutting manual customer invoice processing time from 1 hour to 10 minutes (83% time reduction). • Payroll Journal Accounting: Record non-integrated payroll journal entries, accurately mapping gross pay distribution, localized US tax liabilities, and net disbursements to the general ledger. • Non-Profit Ledger Management: Oversee fund accounting for non-profit entities, tracking tithes and offerings while keeping data synchronized between Servant Keeper and QBO.
Bruntwork Careers, full_time
Nov 2024 to Apr 2025
• Multi-Entity Bookkeeping: Managed full-charge bookkeeping for a varied SMB client base across multiple industries, keeping general ledgers audit-ready through daily transaction categorization and monthly balance sheet reconciliations. • Ledger Clean-up & Catch-up: Led dedicated historical cleanup initiatives, resolving multi-month backlogs to bring delinquent client books completely up to date. • Financial Reporting: Prepared monthly financial statements, recorded accounts receivable invoices, processed accounts payable bills, and tracked cash disbursements.
Shell Shared Services, full_time
Dec 2022 to Oct 2024
• US & Canada Close Support: Conducted month-end close routines for US and Canada corporate entities under US GAAP frameworks, executing general ledger adjustments, manual journals, and financial variance (flux) analyses. • Fixed Assets & SOX Controls: Managed fixed asset accounting workflows—including budget releases, asset creation, capitalization, and retirements—while maintaining strict compliance with SOX internal controls. • Reconciliations & Automation: Reconciled key corporate balance sheet accounts in Blackline and designed SAP Scripts, Power Query, and Excel VBA Macros to automate manual data routines. • Efficiency Improvements: Reduced manual journal entry lines by 20 lines monthly through workflow optimization, completing assigned close activities 10% faster.
QBE Group Shared Services, full_time
Mar 2020 to Nov 2022
• General Ledger Adjustments: Prepared monthly and quarterly Oracle journal adjustments covering premium movements, system interface transactions, and balance reconciliations supporting Australian operations. • System Workflow Automation: Modernized legacy crop journal workflows using Alteryx data pipelines and wrote custom Excel VBA macros to generate Statements of Accounts (SOA) for long-standing recoveries. • Inter-System Reconciliations: Conducted quarterly Blackline and GL account reconciliations for financial liabilities and current assets, cross-reconciling system reports against the Oracle Trial Balance.
Ocampo, Mendoza, Lim and Co, full_time
Jan 2018 to Feb 2020
• Performed day-to-day bookkeeping and verified receipts and purchase orders using custom Excel templates, maintained official Books of Accounts (General Ledger, Journals) and monitored sales of services in QBO Desktop, and assisted with client inventory verifications onsite.