Senior Audit Associate - PwC Philippines - Philippines
(2024-07)
Isla Lipana & Co. (ILC) - External Audit (2023 – 2024)
- Conducts an end-to-end audit, which includes planning, overseeing the team, and ensuring quality documentation
- Manages all aspects of the audit from planning to reporting, including but not limited to agreeing audit timelines, preparing budgets, facilitating internal meetings, staff supervision, delivery of audit, and engagement archival
- Performs risk assessment procedures to obtain an understanding of the client and develop further audit procedures
- Mentor associates to help them with increasing audit efficiency and effectivity
- Supervises the performance of reviews and/or audits of financial statements
- Serves as the primary contact of clients and communicates with key client management concerning complex accounting and audit issues and financial statement disclosures, as well as discussing control deficiencies and recommendations found through testing to improve accounting processes
- Assists clients and provides technical feedback on accounting and financial queries
- Coordinates with clients and conduct meetings for clarification or any updates with regards to the engagement
- Co-lead the other ad-hoc tasks assigned on top of the engagements assigned
- Ensure FSQC is completed before releasing the FS to the client
Audit Associate - PwC Philippines - Philippines
(2023-04 - 2024-06)
Isla Lipana & Co. (ILC) - External and Internal Audit, Broader Assurance Services - Risk Assurance (UK client) (2023 – 2024)
- Monitoring updates in EGAs and participating in client meetings to address any issues
- Ensure that the evidence has been accurately documented in EGAs
- Reviewing and examining financial records and operations
- Obtaining documentation and conducting in-depth analyses of financial records and internal controls to ensure compliance
- Following up with clients on pending files to ensure timely submission, updating due dates and the DRL on monitoring controls
- Managing working papers and EGA documentation, assessing management's risk policies, verifying control functionality through documentation checks
- Participating in engagement meetings to identify bottlenecks and confirming system changes with clients
- Selecting sample requests and providing evidence in the working papers from client data
- Performs an agreed-upon procedure audit and oversees executing audits on tests or business processes and offering impartial and objective evaluations of financial and operational company operations, including corporate governance
- Assisting in the resolution of difficult business challenges ranging from strategy to execution
- Provides recommendations with regards to internal controls
KYC Analyst and File Assessor - PwC Philippines - Philippines
(2022-03 - 2023-03)
Business Operations and Accounting Services (BOAS)
- Creating KYC profiles in compliance with the client's KYC regulations and procedures
- Processing cases depending on the Team Leader's priorities, reworks, and KYC expiry dates
- Initiating the CDD process and following up, as well as evaluating due dates
- Monitoring the progress and status of assigned cases
- Review the cases done by the newbies of the team ensuring that the quality will only have minimal errors before being sent to QCs
- Taking responsibility for most of the cases with RDC screening, assisting the other analysts who are having difficulty assessing these cases
- Thoroughly checks new customer account documentation, evaluates high-risk accounts, and analyses new customer processes and rules
- Assessing disabled clients and analyzing insurance claims to guarantee that the individual claiming receives acceptable reimbursement
- Carefully and objectively go over these claims, searching for signs of fraud or misrepresentation on the side of the claimant
General Accounting Head - Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation - Philippines
(2020-10 - 2022-01)
- Concentrating on organizational challenges by studying processes, workflows, and systems to discover potential for improvement or automation Performed walkthroughs of various business processes, performed inquiries with key focal persons and provided recommendations for the improvement and enhancement of the business processes and controls
- Participated significantly in planning the design and execution of audit plans, corroboration of audit results and findings, and financial reporting of a portfolio of audit clients such as retail and merchandising, manufacturing, healthcare companies, service oriented companies, not-for-profit and non-governmental organizations, foundations, Philippine representative offices, regional operating headquarters (ROHQs), dealership companies, among others reporting under International Financial Repor
- Improving, implementing, and successfully presenting key analytics that reveal relevant trends and opportunities across the company. Provided efficient monitoring tools and successfully executed frontloading activities which increased audit efficiency and effectivity and performed administrative tasks such as staffing, budgeting, coordination, directing and controlling of various audit engagements
- Supporting business partners and other organizational stakeholders with excellent and timely financial and business analytic descriptions
- Data interpretation and analysis employing analytics, research procedures, and statistical techniques
- Preparing, analyzing, and summarizing various weekly, monthly, and periodic operational results for use by various key stakeholders, including the creation of reports, specifications, instructions, and flowcharts
- Gathering purchase orders and purchase requisitions to order materials, goods, and supplies, sending them to vendors, and evaluating inventory and placing orders as needed
- Mentored and supervised over a total of thirty (30) staffs to efficiently perform procedures while providing concise, up to date reports to the client and executive team members of the engagement
Finance Audit Staff - Brenton International Venture Manufacturing Corp. (BIVMC) - Philippines
(2019-05 - 2020-09)
- Ensure that the company adheres to financial reporting standards, tax laws, and corporate policies
- Review financial documents such as invoices, receipts, ledgers, and bank statements for completeness and accuracy
- Verify compliance with company policies and financial regulations to minimize risks
- Assist in monthly and year-end closing activities, including the preparation of financial statements and supporting documents
- Support finance teams with bookkeeping tasks, such as reconciling accounts and managing cash flow records
- Analyze financial data, reports, and trends to provide insights for continuous improvement and risk mitigation
- Participating in financial review meetings and providing updates on audit findings and ongoing issue
- Assist in the preparation of audit documentation and financial statements required for external audits
