Maribel Lafuente

To be able to qualify for the position desired and to be part of success of your company. Share my working experience, knowledge, skills & capabilities in accounting field.

Senior Accountant - Connext Global Solutions

(2024-06)

• Focus on recording recurring journal entries, primarily related to reconciling items.
• Assist with larger NetSuite projects and cleanups, including data preparation before upload.
• Assist in the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.
• Reconcile accounts on a monthly basis to ensure accuracy and identify discrepancies.
• Prepare, record, analyze, and report on accounting transactions within the organization.
• Apply professional judgment and independent thought to work details, making decisions that align with accounting principles.
• Analyze current accounting procedures and recommend and implement more efficient processes when necessary.
• Ensure compliance with accepted accounting principles and company policies and procedures.
• Maintain the general ledger and subsidiary systems to track financial data accurately.
• Manage and control accounting data systems.
• Collaborate closely with the Senior Accountant to support accounting functions and reporting.
• Maintaining daily bank reconciliation for all banks including Wells Fargo and Dime bank.
• Daily categorizing expenses for all bank feeds generated.
• Monitoring monthly report for insurance, Membership dues, payroll and tax allocations.
• Proper Invoicing for doctor services, rent & students.
• Daily uploading bank feeds at Netsuite & Quickbooks.
• Record and upload journal entries and bank transactions into NetSuite.
• Categorize and process all expenses in the Ramp system under the Accounts Payable (AP) module.
• Review all submitted official receipts and verify the validity and completeness of supporting documentation.
• Generate sales and revenue reports.
• Prepare and file online tax returns, including all required supporting schedules and documentation.
• Perform reconciliation of deposit funds (1090 account reconciliation) and investigate any discrepancies.

Accounting Assistant - LightUpToys.Com

(2021-12 - 2024-05)

• Cost Accounting – prepare negotiation sheet cost per project item.
• Handle Accounts Payable as per all China bank transactions.
• Monitoring all china PO price vs quote pricing.
• Monitoring china shipping item per smart sheet.
• Coordinate to project manager all pricing request.
• Quotes monitoring from all factory supplier.
• Attend daily meeting pertain to pricing discussion.
• Revised negotiation sheet per updated quotes.
• Daily rate updates for Accounts Payable China transactions
• Attend pricing & quote query of all project manager
• Prepare journal entries for all china bank transactions expenses

Accounts Specialist - General Accounting - Pioneer Adhesives Inc

(2019-07 - 2021-06)

• Bank transactions related charges recognition
• Interest Income and withholding tax recognition – bank accounts (PAI and RCIV's book)
• Weekly cash in bank reconciliation – report submission SL equal to GL (PAI and RCIV's book)
• Monthly Cash in bank reconciliation report submission – SL equal to GL (PAI and RCIV's book)
• Reconciling items clearing (PAI and RCIV's book)
• Systematic and organized documents filing
• Transaction recording accuracy (PAI & RCIV's book)
• Petty cash count (PAI & RCIV)

General Accountant - BSFIL Technologies

(2016-02 - 2018-02)

• Maintain a master list of monthly journal entries
• Review government remittances related to payroll
• Record supporting information for all journal entries
• Enter all journal entries into the accounting software (e.g. bank loans, payroll, depreciation, prepayments, adjustments, others)
• Ensure that reversing entries occur (for temporary entries)
• Create recurring journal entry templates
• Ensure that recurring entries are changed or terminated at appropriate trigger points
• Maintain detailed listings/schedules of all balance sheet accounts
• Ensure completeness in recording, billings of intercompany transactions
• Review journal entries of A/P and A/R to ensure that transactions are recorded in proper accounts
• Reconciliation of accounts like employee advances, loans, bank reconciliation and others
• Request IT to provide ending inventory summary and details, check and record balances
• Extraction of monthly raw materials purchases, compare with QNE and perform adjustments
• Monitor accuracy of inventory records and actual stock record

Accounting Assistant - Fuji-Haya Electric Devices & Components

(2014-09 - 2015-09)

• Encode all entries in the cash disbursement book
• Encode all collection in the cash receipt book
• Check all entries in sales book and purchase book
• Handle Accounts Payable monthly summary
• Handle Accounts Receivable monthly summary
• Monthly Bank Reconciliation
• Assist in preparation of Trial Balance
• Conduct yearly Inventory Count yearly inventory filling
• Check voucher preparation, entries and withholding tax
• Perform other duties assigned from time to time

Accounting Assistant 1 - AP - Brenntag Ingredients Inc.

(2010-06 - 2014-03)

Prepares the Accounts Payable voucher and ensures that the supporting documents are complete and approvals and appropriate.

• Checks in invoices against pertinent purchase orders and other documents to ascertain the validity, accuracy and propriety of the disbursements.
• Record the Company's transactions promptly, accurately and in accordance with GAAP, IFRS and Company's Accounting Policies and Guidelines.
• Submits promptly to the Company's authorized cell phone users the monthly cell phone billings received from the service provided for validation and identification of their personal calls.
• Monitors the completeness of the cell phone bills and ensures that all cell phone bills are paid promptly.
• Submits to the HR and Admin Manager monthly the list of employee personal calls for salary deduction.
• Prepares monthly a summary of mileage usage of each vehicle for submission to the QESH Manager or Officer and management.
• Communicates and coordinates with internal and external costumers tactfully and patiently.

BS - Accountancy - College-Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Pasay (2001-04)

High School - Pasay City North High School (1996-03)

Elementary - Don Carlos Elementary School (1994-03)