I am an experienced Finance Business Partner with 7.5 years of international public accounting and commercial finance experience. During this time, I have developed a range of skills that allow me to work effectively across various industries, including Banking, Telecommunication, Infrastructure and Aviation Automation & Intralogistics Space. As a Finance Business Partner, I work collaboratively with other teams and departments to drive financial success. My goal is to help businesses make data-driven decisions by providing valuable insights and recommendations. What motivates me most is solving complex problems that impact business growth and generate revenue.
Rural Connectivity Group is a funded entity by Crown Infrastructure Partners (NZ Government Funding provider) to enable as many Kiwi's businesses, and tourists, to have access to critical mobile and wireless broadband 3G/4G services in rural New Zealand. Vodafone is one of the key shareholder of the company.
CAPEX Accounting
· Maintain up-to date monthly capital expenditure billing including year to date and project estimates to complete.
· Review supplier invoices and purchase orders related to project and ensure proper approvals are in place from the Asset delivery team.
· Responsible to review all project agreements with vendors for CAPEX element and ensure adherence to contract deliverables and to all milestones.
· Monthly payment schedule for CAPEX Billing to Crown Infrastructure Partners to maintain investment cash flows effectively.
· Follow-up with Asset delivery team and other stakeholders to fill the gaps of missing information and to keep smooth process for the CAPEX monthly billing Cycle.
· Ensure CIP Reporting which provide customers with instant access to information, support in auditing and ensuring regulatory compliance.
· All the rest deliverables mentioned below as part of Project Accountant role.
Project Accountant - Financial accounting & Reporting
· Accounting for lease and implementation of IFRS 16 in the RCG organization and process month end journals – amortization, revenue received in advance allocation, etc.
· Prepare general ledger reconciliation & analysis to support timely and accurate delivery of financial ledger close on monthly, quarterly and year end basis.
· Investigate project cost variances and submit variances along with the financial commentary and documentations to the management.
· Purchase order management and analysis – administering manual purchase orders and ensuring orders comply with procurement policy, delegated authority process and internal controls.
· Help in managing external audits and ensure the maintenance of adequate financial information and internal controls/RCG Policies.
· Provide support in GST returns and Income tax returns to Finance Manager as they impact the Financial Statements.
· Help in implementing BCP by Insuring RCG assets in line with the live broadband sites on a quarterly basis.
· Support in Cash flow analysis and the delivery of a full substantiation of the balance sheet and profit and loss accounts within a controlled framework.
Financial Control & Reporting, Commercial Banking
· Timely and accurate delivery of financial ledger close and SDP external reporting data in compliance with Group policies and guidelines (SOX Compliances).
· Responsible to produce reports for Compliance audit to make sure all security policies, user access controls and risk management procedures were compiled at required levels within the function.
· Responsibility for the delivery and integrity of detailed financial commentary of balance sheet, profit and loss account for the division supported.
· Application of valuation skills including discounted cash flows to analyze the drivers of income on complex embedded derivative products in the hedge accounting practice.
· Exposure to the financial market products and financial instrument in the scope of NZ accounting standards including loans, bonds, commercial cards and derivatives.
· Understanding of Inter-company and contra account usage requirements in context of Treasury Accounting and inter-company reconciliations, substantiation and balance settlement
· Provide and support input into the end-to-end control and ownership of divisional and legal entity balance sheets for the division supported
· Establish robust analytical procedures over the balance sheet & profit and loss account to build understanding of business and its key drivers and flush out any errors in the financials.
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