Bridget Lysaght

Maintained Fixed Assets Register and processed monthly depreciation journals

Accounts Payable - Processing invoices for payment

Accounts Receivable - Donations and Funding processing

Monthly Salary journals/accruals, Invoice prepayments/accruals, Annual Leave journals/accruals

Daily monitoring of the advance ledgers (Intercompany), accounts payable and receivable ledgers to ensure they remained in balance

Maintained the company sales invoicing spreadsheets - monitoring expected revenue vs actual revenue on courses, against balance sheet data and revenue streams.

Monthly reconcilliations for Incorporated and Limited companies - Payroll Clearing, Accrued Income, Accrued Expenses, Advance Account

Manually created invoices for external customers attending training courses run by LandSAR Training Ltd

Manually created invoices to oncharge NZ Police for Volunteer costs relating to call outs through LandSAR Incorporated

Various adhoc tasks required by CFO or AP Manager during Year End processing and Audit

• Assist with the implementation of new ERP system (2017 - March 2020).
• Accounts Payable duties including processing invoices, 3 way matching, supplier payments, supplier reconciliation and correspondence, maintaining supplier accounts and relationships, shared inbox management, exception resolution.
• Assist with the software upgrade from Oracle to Oracle Fusion (2022 - 2023) duties including testing, workflow mapping and analyse future and current state risk gap, develop appropriate processes and procedures with a risk lens for future state.
• Root cause analysis and remediation of risk incidents (Juno).
• Document detailed SOPs and SOX risk controls.
• International payments - duties including purchasing foreign currency, NZ and FX tax calculations, loading international supplier bank accounts and processing foreign payments.
• Bank account reconciliation and manual journals.
• Credits and refunds.
• Train new users and staff.

• Accounts payable duties including processing invoices, checking and authorising daily, weekly and monthly payment batches, monitoring inbox, dealing with escalated issues from wider AP Team, bank account reconciliation and supplier account reconciliation.
• Foreign payments duties including purchasing foreign currency, processing invoices, calculating foreign and local taxes, entering international bank accounts and loading international payment batches.
• Report FX rates for on-charging customers.
• Work with accountants to maintain low PPV (Purchase Price Variance).
• Manage all bill of lading and customs documentation including local and foreign taxes.
• Convert hardcopy FX invoices to EDI database.
• 2IC to FBSS Manager - 16 direct reports (Laminex, Humes, EasySteel AP staff)
• New Supplier vetting and authorisations.
• Manage Weekly AP Meetings.
• Centralisation of AP function to create a Global Shared Service function.

• Communicate bad dept to customers and work out a payment plan, relay payment plan to Accounts Receivable team at support office.
• Work with cluster accountants and AR team to resolve bad debt.
• Speak at quarterly AP training sessions held at National Support Office for New Managers and Administrators.
• Initially 8 direct reports, cut down to 5 through process improvement and the integration of new software
• System and aged trial balance preparation for migration to new software (included data cleansing, vendor cleansing/consolidation, investigating and resolving variances).
• Super User (train and support new users to take the daily load off IT dept during software migration).
• Testing in Preprod prior to GoLive.
• Offset all CHQ/TT/AP/DD and receipt refunds against individual cash books and the main company account.
• Accounts Payable payment approvals.
• Checking and posting of all AP invoice and journal batches to ensure they comply with both internal and external audit requirements.
• Centralisation of AP function.

• Two direct reports.
• Oversee the daily running of the AP department (queries/escalated disputes/payment authorisations).
• Accruals/Journals.
• General ledger and bank reconciliations.
• Crosschecking sales settlements against AP database.
• International payments (reconciling accounts, setting up forward foreign currency contracts with the bank, setting up TT payments for the contracted date, reconciling bank statement and offsetting).
• Large creditor payments/reconciliations.
• Assistant Accountant relief when required.

• Monthly/weekly/daily payrolls for 300 staff in peak season, 200 off season.
• Reconciliations, journals, imports.
• PAYE and IR reconciliations and payments.
• Monthly and weekly reporting.
• Employee letters and advice.
• Personnel filing.
• Management of company cellphones and fuel cards.
• Southern Cross / Kiwisaver / Mercer
• Processing ACC compensations
• IRD Tax lodgements
• OSH reporting

• Monthly and weekly payrolls for 650 staff
• Management of employment contracts, personnel files
• Employee and customer liaison
• Employee letters and general admin
• IRD tax communication lodgments
• Reconciliations, journals, imports
• PAYE and IR reconciliations and payments
• Monthly reporting
• Import timesheet data via SAP
• Offshore the Payroll Function to 3rd party provider

• Responsible for paying on average 400 suppliers each month (2392 Invoices/mth or $1,903,449/mth).
• Buyer created invoices
• Accruals / Journals
• General Ledger Reconciliations
• Payment reconciliations and remittances
• EOM reporting
• Offshore the AP Function to 3rd party provider