Eve Hong

Overview of Position
In charge of daily transaction and month-end closing for both India and Philippines entities

Reason of Leaving: Retrenchment

Job Responsibilities:
• Handled day-to-day accounting processes to drive financial accuracy.
• Reconciled accounts and reviewed expense data, net worth, and assets.
• Documented cash, credit, fixed assets, accrued expenses, and line of credit transactions.
• Gathered financial information, prepared documents, and closed books.
• Monthly tax reporting through Blackline
• Prepare monthly GST & VAT reconciliation for both India and Philippines
• Prepare month-end closing JE and cashbook JE for both India and Philippines
• Work with local accountants closely on TB reconciliation to close up variances against local books
• Monitor trial balance by ensuring accuracy of monthly posting entries by US Miami team
• Prepare AP payment for both Indonesia and Taiwan entities
• Update cashbook and cashflow forecast for both India and Philippines
• Bi-weekly call with Philippines local accounting firm on TB reconciliation
• Collaborated with external auditors during the annual audit process to provide necessary documentation and address any concerns or findings promptly.

Overview of Position

Supervise two team members and ensure accurate records and reports are in compliance with accounting standards

Reason of Leaving : To be discussed during interview

• Prepared monthly reconciliation of bank accounts (multi-currency), credit card statement for media ad campaign spend and took corrective actions on deviations.
• Working closely with Account Management team's HOD to resolve billing discrepancies and work out on billing timeline for escalated campaigns as well as for key accounts
• Oversee AR aged debts which are more than 30 days overdue and taking charge in recollection by liaising with debt collector or submitting small tribunal claims on case to case basis
• Trained and supervise two new team members in various financial procedures to prepare for job requirements.
• Reviewed P&L and identified financial discrepancies where applicable.
• Identifying and implementing work flow improvements to strengthen internal controls and making recommendations to improve work processes and efficiency
• Managing intercompany transactions, including liaising with overseas finance colleagues on monthly transactions received & sent, approving transactions and performing reconciliations where necessary
• Issuing and recording of intercompany recharge invoices
• Ensure accurate records and reports are in compliance with accounting standards
• Preparing monthly journals
• Preparing monthly P&L for management reporting
• Performing ad-hoc tasks as assigned by supervisor(s) as and when required.
• Assist Finance Controller in monthly cashflow forecasting
• Assisting with statutory audit, tax and corporate secretarial matters

Overview of Position

Handle day to day billing for 3 business units, oversee all AR outstanding campaign accounts, ensure project and key accounts billing with accuracy. Handle daily liaison with internal and external stakeholders regarding all billing and collection matters.

Job Achievement : Promoted to Assistant Finance Manager on 2nd year mark

Job responsibilities :

• Devised collection recovery strategies to resolve customer issues and delinquent cases.
• Reviewed customer accounts for compliance with repayment obligations.
• Performed checks of customer creditworthiness and current situations.
• Responded to disputes calmly and applied logical, knowledgeable approaches to devise solutions on complicated campaign situation together with Account Managers
• Reduced past due balances and bad debt by coordinating collection efforts with account managers, sales and their respective HODs.
• Successfully minimized monthly aging at 15% base on total outstanding of 1.5m per month by adopting quick measures of analysis accounts for issues
• Responsive to external client's queries and internal queries from account managers and sales pertaining to all billing related matters
• Optimized credit approval and collection processes, improving operational efficiencies
• Handle complex ad-hoc situational matters and day to day tasks in relation to campaign billing which arises due to performance issue
• Analyze and adopting best approach in answering clients queries relating to billing disputes and collections issues
• Working closely with account managers from both SME and Enterprise teams in relation with all campaign billing and collection matters

Overview of Position

This position requires the employee to handle daily accounting functions relating to accounts payable and employee staff claims.

Reason of Leaving : End of contractual period

Job responsibilities :

• Perform full spectrum of Accounts Payable (AP) function including checking and taking in high volume of vendors' invoices, ensuring the accuracy of entry postings and workflow approval for all AP invoices in Oracle, running electronic payments through Oracle to all local and overseas vendors
• Ensure timely recording of AP invoices, scheduling payment and meeting tight deadlines
• Respond to vendor related enquiries and reconcile vendor's statement of account
• Checking and processing staff claims reimbursement through SAP Concur. Advising staffs with regards to inquiries relating to reimbursement and travel expense policy
• 2-way PO matching against invoices in Oracle
• Ensuring staff claims submitted adhered to company's travel expense policy
• Ensure new vendors account setup details are correctly updated by Global Sourcing group in Oracle
• Generating and sorting weekly cash bank GL Review report listing to both AR and GL team for journal postings purposes
• Providing guidance to one Account Assistant and checking his daily PO invoices posted in Oracle
• Ensure 3PL 7% GST claim billing from Venture tied back correctly to what vendors billed us, resolving billing and GST discrepancies should there be any.
• Assist in month-end closing and preparation of AP journals
• Assist in both internal and external audits and ensuring SOX compliance

Overview of Position

This position requires the employee to handle daily accounting functions relating to accounts receivables, project revenue recognition, aging and maintenance of sales contracts by business units

Reason of Leaving : To be discussed during interview

Job responsibilities :

• Set up and maintain AR contracts management for all business units of LSA entity
• Work closely with sales and operations departments and business unit accountants to raise and process customers invoices and credit notes
• Ensure revenue recognition for specific events and campaign projects by working closely with senior project BU accountants
• Ensure proper documentation and recording for provision for doubtful debts and bad debts
• Ensure proper recording of receipts from clients, taking into account withholding taxes if any
• Regular follow up with clients, sales and operations departments for debt collection
• Liaise with clients on settlement plans and offsetting of invoices (if any)
• Provide timely monthly AR aging report and monitoring counterparty risk report
• Generate month-end revaluation for AR
• Assist in month end AR related closing
• Other ad-hoc duties as assigned by Finance Manager
• Assist in SAP system migration and participate in UAT Testing
• Assist in external audit

Overview of Position

This role requires employee to handle 70% AR function which include high volume of receipting for both cheque and cash, aging matter, generation of stock report; and 30% AP function which include payment to 3rd party vendors and intercompanies

Reason of Leaving : End of contractual period

Job responsibilities :

• Perform Accounts Receivable (AR) function including taking, sorting and processing high volume of cheques and cash amount from clinics across Singapore (via mail and from LF Asia's collection), generate monthly statement of accounts, handling customer enquiries and following up on payment or billing matters
• Perform Accounts Payable (AP) function including checking and taking in 3rd party vendor invoices and intercompany invoices
• Perform electronic payment (T/T and ACH Credit) to 3rd party vendors and intercompany via UOB internet banking
• Perform daily interface uploading of files into Syspro system and also to resolve any system issues or errors with LF Asia or Syspro Consultant
• Generate and sort long listing of monthly AR aging report
• Generate and sort daily stock balance report to be reviewed by various internal departments
• To check, sort and verify weekly cheque and cash collections from various clinics across Singapore done by LF Asia and ensure accuracy
• Perform 3-way match for intercompany trade related invoices
• Bank Reconciliation for multiple UOB corporate bank accounts
• To work closely with Customer Service team with regards to customer queries, billing issues, payment related matters as well as long outstanding debts
• To liaise and work with external debt collection company by providing them with necessary documentation and monthly ageing details in facilitation of collection
• Upload monthly statement of account to government hospitals via their respective direct E-portals
• Assist company in bank account opening with Citibank
• Assist in ‘C1 hold' job release for CS team by checking against AR ageing report for last received payment from clinics
• Assist in month-end and year-end closing
• Assist in external audit

• Perform full spectrum of Accounts Payable (AP) function including checking and booking in of vendors’ invoices, processing all vendors payments via cheque and T/T
• Compute billing fee schedule to facilitate Finance’s team reference and record
• Reconcile and update findings of outstanding unpaid invoices to third party law firms
• Monthly adjustment and reclassification of bills rendered report for GST report submission purposes
• Prepare Inter-company reconciliation and balance sheet reconciliation for audit purposes
• Assist in external audit and month-end closing
• Assist Singapore In-bound’s Team Manager in reviewing and closing inactive case files via Fragomen Connect system with updates of status to conclude findings and also to highlight necessary actions to be followed up by the team
• Assist to ensure the expiry date of work passes for existing active cases are properly tracked, as well as the respective required documents are properly uploaded in Fragomen Connect system for future tracking and record purposes