Philip Tep

Results-driven Big Four Audit Senior with 3 years of experience leading and supporting complex engagements across energy, real estate, not-for-profit, consumer products and public-sector organizations. Proven ability to manage audits from planning through completion, coordinate engagement teams, address technical accounting matters and communicate directly with clients, managers and partners. Experienced in staff coaching and training, process improvement and delivering high-quality work within demanding timelines.

Senior Accountant, Audit at KPMG LLP (2025-07 – Present)

• Lead audit engagements for major energy utility and real estate clients, leading teams of up to eight professionals and managing direct communications with client executives.
• Manage engagements from planning through completion by assigning work, monitoring progress, leading internal and client status meetings, coordinating outstanding requests and escalating significant audit or accounting matters.
• Supervise and review the deliverables of junior staff, providing targeted coaching on documentation standards and the sufficiency of audit evidence, helping reduce rework before manager review.
• Identify and propose audit adjustments, review financial statements and disclosures, and draft findings reports for manager and partner review.
• Redesigned payroll audit procedures following a client's implementation of a new system by documenting end-to-end data flows, reconciling payroll to the general ledger and cash, and expanding testing over payroll expense and capitalized labour.

Staff Accountant, Audit at KPMG LLP (2024-01 – 2025-06)

• Progressed from completing assigned audit sections to independently managing smaller engagements without an assigned senior, including client communication, audit documentation, outstanding requests and engagement deadlines.
• Performed audit procedures across cash, receivables, payables, revenue, inventory, payroll, property and equipment, leases, debt, investments, derivatives and financial-statement disclosures.
• Prepared planning and substantive working papers, documented client processes, investigated discrepancies, resolved review comments and communicated findings directly to managers and client personnel.

Staff Accountant, Audit Co-op at Deloitte LLP (2023-01 – 2023-04)

• Supported audits of privately held real estate entities and foundations by preparing planning documentation, maintaining client-request lists and processing audit evidence.
• Prepared cash audit working papers and performed substantive procedures by vouching and tracing transactions to invoices, bank statements and other supporting documentation.
• Documented client operations and business processes and followed up on outstanding support to complete audit procedures within engagement deadlines.

Accounting & Controls Co-op at PepsiCo Foods Canada (2022-05 – 2022-08)

• Built a Power BI dashboard to track corporate credit card expenses, reducing reporting lag and improving expense policy compliance.
• Collaborated with financial reporting analysts across PepsiCo divisions to document the foreign-exchange revaluation process in a formal accounting memo, improving consistency and clarity around existing procedures.
• Supported month-end close by preparing journal entries in Oracle, completing tax and bank reconciliations in Microsoft Excel, and presenting working-capital analysis to the Controller and Senior Leadership.

Financial Analyst Co-op at CRH Canada Group Inc. (2021-09 – 2021-12)

• Planned and coordinated an internal audit of fixed assets which involved physically counting roughly 1,500 fixed assets and mobile equipment located at 36 sites across Ontario.
• Prepared EBITDA analysis presentations at the end of every month, which compared monthly and year-to-date actuals with their respective budgets, as well as providing explanations for the significant variances between actual and budget.
• Worked closely with the sales team to perform market analysis on 3 new markets that CRH planned to enter.

Graduate Diploma in Accounting in Accounting – Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University (2023)

Honours Bachelor of Business Administration in Business Administration – Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University (2023)