Sharmin Sutaria
Accountant
Auckland,AUK
Summary
Highly motivated, hard-working and result oriented professional with sound knowledge and 10 years of experience in Accounting & Finance. Dedicated and responsible team member providing relevant feedback and ideas on improvising processes to improve efficiency and provide effective service to the clients and stakeholders. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Accountant
Augusto Limited
Auckland, NZ
06.2022 - Current
- Mentoring, training, and managing assistant accountants and accounts payable staff
- Set up and improved accounting systems and processes to meet business needs and maximize operational success
- Preparing and processing payroll for two companies (Augusto & Corner Store)
- Reviewing & approving payment batches for eight companies
- Reviewing and approving PAYE/WHT reconciliations and filing returns
- Filing GST, FBT and NRWT Returns
- Updating cash flow daily
- Updating Income tracker budgeting & forecast report
- A/R Management
- Production Job Management and Estimate Management
- Processing JCR (Job Cost Reports), Revenue adjustments & Direct Job Cost Adjustments & Invoicing clients
- Maintaining ATB (Aged Trial Balance) ledger and Debtor chasing
- Recharging Intercompany costs and maintaining reconciliations
- Processing payroll and contractor’s accruals, prepayments journals, reviewing suspense accounts
- Monthly Management reporting (Gross Revenue report, Staff Productivity, Staff Cost Allocation, New Business reporting, Entertainments budgets reporting, Market Breakdown Reporting)
- Gathered financial information, prepared month end reports and closed books
- Processing Fixed Assets and Maintaining Assets Register and reconciliations
- Handle all insurance related reporting and queries
- Leave reconciliation between Pegasus & Smartly
- Implementing new processes that saves time, improves efficiency, increases internal controls, and reduces human errors
- Assisting Producers and Account Managers
- Ad hoc reporting and other financial tasks & admin
- People & Planet implementations – Constantly improving processes to move towards paperless
- Handled day-to-day accounting processes to drive financial accuracy
- Tracked financial progress by creating monthly, quarterly and yearly balance sheets reconciliations
Assistant Accountant
Augusto Limited
Auckland, NZ
03.2019 - 06.2022
- Training and managing Account Payable officer/ Accounts assistant
- Preparing and processing payroll for Corner Store Content Limited
- Processing payment batches and international payments for four companies
- Preparing PAYE and WHT reconciliations and filing the returns
- A/R Management for Corner Store Content Limited
- Processing JCR (Job Cost Reports), Revenue adjustments & Invoicing clients
- Maintaining ATB (Aged Trial Balance) ledger and Debtor chasing
- Month End Processing and checking inter-ledger accounts tally
- Recharging Intercompany costs and maintaining reconciliations
- Processing accruals, prepayments journals, reviewing suspense accounts
- Preparing Balance Sheet Reconciliations
- Handle all insurance related queries
- Monitored status of accounts receivable and payable to facilitate prompt processing.
- Set up and improved accounting systems and processes to meet business needs and maximize operational succe
Accounts Assistant
Augusto Limited
Auckland, NZ
01.2018 - 03.2019
- Processed payments and documents such as invoices, journal vouchers, employee reimbursements and statements.
- Reviewed figures, postings and documents for correct entry, completeness and accuracy.
- Investigated daily variances and corrected errors to resolve discrepancies.
- Completed weekly check runs and maintained accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions into accounting system.
- Reconciled company accounts for credit cards and employee expenses
- Checked general ledger entries to increase accuracy, prevent significant errors and identify adjustments.
Accounts Payable Officer
Tyco Electronics New Zealand Pvt Ltd
Auckland, NZ
10.2017 - 11.2017
- Assisting team with Ad hoc financial task including processing purchase orders, Invoices, reconciling suppliers’ accounts with payment scheduled report and processing payment batches
- Proactively helped to clear outstanding items in GRNI (Goods Received Not Invoiced)
Senior Accounts Payable Officer
J.P. Morgan Services India Pvt Ltd
Mumbai, India
09.2014 - 03.2017
- Additional responsibilities taken post promotion
- End to end AP processing
- Allocating tasks for team members
- Review payment batches on daily basis and resolving payment rejections
- Reporting to CIB (Corporate Investment Banking) team and LEC (Legal Entity Controller)
- Preparing reconciliation reports BU, LCC and SCA and presenting it to management
- Preparing monthly reports - Dashboard and KPI Data & MIS
- Point of contact for Internal & External Audits – Assisting Auditor on their requirements
- Preparing tax reconciliations and payments
- Service Tax
- TDS (Tax Deducted at Source)
- WCT (Work Contract Tax) for multiple states
Accounts Payable Officer
J.P. Morgan Services India Pvt Ltd
07.2012 - 09.2014
- Cenvat Credit Register, system generated report that had issues post concur go-live and amendment in service tax rates, was fixed through CCR WRM project (Work Resource Management) that was led by myself, until then manual report was prepared by me for which I received appreciation letter from my Executive Director
- Achievements and Certifications:
- Extra Miler Award” for outstanding contribution in March 2015
- A Team Award” for outstanding contribution in Quarter 1 and Quarter 2, 2015
- Received a letter of appreciation from the Operations Director for the contributions in the year 2016, End to end AP processing
- Projects: Owned a short-term project from start to completion - The project was created due to system failure of Oracle R12 EPR which involved investigation of the root cause as well as fixing the impact of the issue and reporting the same to the management
- Achievements and Certifications:
- Popular New Comer Award” Most popular in 2012 Batch - Aspire to Inspire CAP Peoples’ Committee Initiative
- Extra Miler Award” for outstanding contribution in June 2013
- Certificate of Achievement for successfully completing “Anchor Phase I” Training Programme in March 2014
Assistant Manager
A.S Traders
05.2011 - 06.2012
- My responsibilities involved all aspects of customer service, cash handling and inventory management
Education
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting and Finance
Mumbai University
Mumbai, India02.2011
Skills
- SOFTWARE WORKED ON - Pegasus Edge, Xero, Smartly (Smart Payroll), Concur, Oracle R12, Oracle 11I, Ariba, MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Reliability and Integrity
- Critical Thinking and Analysis
- Effective and Professional Communication
Accomplishments
- System improvement - Moved to paperless AP processing & Automated the Credit Card processing system that saved time & costs
- Provide training to new joiners
- Taken initiative to provide refresher training to existing team members which helped in reducing errors and improving efficiency of the team
- Concur: Business Travel & Expense Management Software training - UAT & PVT - User Acceptance Testing) and PVT (Production Verification Testing) tester
- Oracle R12: Part of the testing team for system upgrade of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) from Oracle 11I to Oracle R12
- One Million Threshold: System enhancement project that was tested and implemented to provide a manual review and approval on payments amounting to over one million
- Invoice Upload: Development of a new system that enabled employees to upload multiple invoices in a single attempt that saved time.
Additional Information
- Visa Status: Permanent Resident Visa
Timeline
Accountant
Augusto Limited
06.2022 - Current
Assistant Accountant
Augusto Limited
03.2019 - 06.2022
Accounts Assistant
Augusto Limited
01.2018 - 03.2019
Accounts Payable Officer
Tyco Electronics New Zealand Pvt Ltd
10.2017 - 11.2017
Senior Accounts Payable Officer
J.P. Morgan Services India Pvt Ltd
09.2014 - 03.2017
Accounts Payable Officer
J.P. Morgan Services India Pvt Ltd
07.2012 - 09.2014
Assistant Manager
A.S Traders
05.2011 - 06.2012
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting and Finance
Mumbai University
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