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K Yu

Auckland

Summary

As a Chartered Accountant qualified for nearly 17 years and with move than 15 years working experience in financial company, I am familiar with IFRS, financial market and related regulations.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Fund Accountant

New Zealand Funds Management Limited
10.2017 - Current

Post March 2023 (new system)

  • Provide monthly portfolio performance data for the company’s website, review quarterly portfolio insights and ensuring performance data pretax and post-tax and fees are properly stated
  • Review monthly trustee accounts
  • Provide trustee required accounting information including cash balances, management accounts, counterparty derivatives month end statements
  • Involve in daily review of pricing, portfolio attributions, taxation, reconciliation and corporate actions
  • Identify weakness of the system, improve efficiencies and accuracies, including using AI tools to improve efficiencies
  • Review annual financial report, assist in yearend audit
  • Assist compliance review for investment team

Pre March 2023 (old system)

  • Led Daily Pricing function in accounting team, which includes reviewing daily portfolio accounts prepared by CITI (Singapore/KL) accounting team; ensuring valuations for shares, bonds, futures, swaps, options and etc are free from material errors; ensuring unit reconciliations, bank reconciliations are done properly; overseeing other areas e.g taxattion, compliance, cash flow and etc.; Correcting pricing errors
  • Analyzing daily portfolio attributions as part of the daily pricing review, which involves checking returns to indexes and etc
  • Participating in new accounting structure design for the internally built IT system (Point), testing accounting functions and controls, testing pricing functions and controls, testing reconciliation functions and controls

Senior Financial Accountant

New Zealand Funds Management Limited
10.2008 - 10.2017
  • In charge of annual financial statements preparation, which include organising financial accountants to complete annual and interim financial statements, organising audit files, researching on accounting issues and provide recommendations on proper disclosures and treatments based on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and relevant regulations
  • Liaised with external auditors Ernst & Young on audit timeline and audit queries
  • Involved in daily and monthly functional responsibility of funds’ which includes cash flow reconciliation, bank reconciliation, reviewing debtors and creditors, fund valuation, performance analysis (including funds FX and hedging positions), distribution and taxation for a range of the managed funds

Senior Auditor

Hayes Knight (RSM NZ) Chartered Accounting Firm
02.2005 - 10.2008
  • Provided auditing service on client’s financial report, budget forecasts and accounting information system
  • Set up client’s financial reporting standard updated with New Zealand Equivalent of International Financial Reporting Standard
  • Identified weakness on clients’ internal control and providing practical recommendations to improve clients’ overall management system
  • Trained graduates and junior auditors
  • Reported to audit partners on a regular base
  • Maintained best relationship with Client
  • Main Clients: Property manager: DTZ New Zealand limited, Manufacturing and farming: Villa Maria Estate, Logistics: Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, Retirement village: Maygrove retirement village, Trust accounts: Real estates and law firms, Others: Schools and Charities

Education

Bachelor of Commerce and Graduate Diploma of Commerce - Major in Accounting and Marketing

University of Auckland
Auckland
12.2004

Bachelor of International Economics Law -

China University of Politics And Law
Bei Jing
12.1999

Skills

  • Microsoft Office: Word
  • Microsoft Office: Excel
  • Microsoft Office: Outlook
  • Microsoft Office: PowerPoint
  • Accounting Software: MYOB
  • Accounting Software: Xero
  • Accounting Software: Greentree
  • Accounting Software: Point

Languages

English
Mandarin
Cantonese

Hobbies and Interests

badminton, jogging, swimming, all sorts of dishes, and all eatable if not the best taste., travelling, gardening

Timeline

Senior Fund Accountant

New Zealand Funds Management Limited
10.2017 - Current

Senior Financial Accountant

New Zealand Funds Management Limited
10.2008 - 10.2017

Senior Auditor

Hayes Knight (RSM NZ) Chartered Accounting Firm
02.2005 - 10.2008

Bachelor of Commerce and Graduate Diploma of Commerce - Major in Accounting and Marketing

University of Auckland

Bachelor of International Economics Law -

China University of Politics And Law
K Yu