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Grace Huan Yan Tan

Summary

Finance professional with comprehensive knowledge of accounts payable operations, encompassing invoice processing and vendor management. Known for exceptional attention to detail and reliability in meeting deadlines. Team-focused collaborator who adapts to changing priorities and ensures optimal financial accuracy.


An individual with strong communication skills who can communicate well with employees and external parties to minimize hiccups. A strong team player who also contributes her ideas to her team and superiors to improve the workflow and working environment. A hardworking and humble individual who is willing to learn and take up new skills and challenges. Constantly looking out for new skills to upskill herself to be a good asset to the organization.


Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Account Executive - Accounts Payable Specialist

Swire Bulk Pte Ltd
04.2023 - 12.2024

AP functions

  • To process the staff's expense claims on a timely basis, making sure they are in compliance with the expense policy. All out-of-policy expenses need to be highlighted to the reporting manager before executing.
  • To ensure all supplier invoices and staff claims are promptly recorded in IMOS/SAP.
  • To ensure that all suppliers are paid in accordance with credit terms at the same time maximize the working capital by extending credit where feasible and reasonable.
  • Attend and answer all internal and external queries.
  • Ensure all invoices are properly approved as per the Authorization Matrix.
  • To file accounts payable documents


Planning and Analysis

  • To reconcile major creditor statements monthly, and minor ones quarterly, ensure all items appearing on creditors' statements related to current invoices.
  • To follow up and clearly reconcile items on a timely basis


Other

  • Engage in business improvement process to identify wastes and inefficiencies, suggest and assist to implement business improvement process to increase efficiency.
  • Perform other duties as agreed with my direct reporting manager.

Billing And Settlement Executive

Ezyfund Pte Ltd
02.2022 - 08.2022
  • Handle and process daily payment settlement and clearing transactions
  • Ensure all payment settlement documents are properly filed and recorded and sent to the warehouse (CISCO) for safekeeping
  • To prepare invoice and billing information for accounts receivables - Process refunds and disputes arise from Merchant
  • Update and record daily transactions in the control cash projection report
  • Keep outstanding (live) and matured deals and reports in their respective designated files
  • Process of opening and creation of accounts and support for Internet Banking's customers
  • Updated and maintained business contact information using digital database
  • Provide support to the accounting & finance teams with the operations/ administration tasks (creation of requisition forms, completion of GIRO and vendor forms, issuance of cheques, and other finance admin-related tasks)
  • Performing basic office tasks such as filing, data entry, processing mail, etc
  • Assist in the preparation of entity-level cash overview to the Finance Manager/ Regional Treasury
  • Assist in the preparation of monthly Funding Requests/ Liquidity Forecasts to the Finance Manager/ Regional Treasury
  • Assist in handling staff claim-related inquiries from staff and scanning hard copy documents for payment processing
  • E-submission on Vendors@Gov
  • Extraction and scanning of relevant documents for the Shared Service Center
  • Assisting with audits and extraction of information whenever required
  • Answered phone calls and emails from clients to address questions, complaints and needs

Finance Administrator Cum Account Assistant

Wirecard Asia Holding Pte Ltd
08.2019 - 10.2021

Accounts Payable Specialist

Llyod Register Singapore, Pte Ltd
09.2018 - 01.2019

Accounts Payable Officer

Havi Global Solutions, Pacific
06.2016 - 12.2017

Senior Accounts And Admin Executive

Duckbill Entertainment Pte Ltd
05.2012 - 05.2016
  • Adopting JD Edwards Enterprise One software - Oracle Module
  • Review, verify and input all vendor invoices into JD Edwards in a timely manner
  • Index and route non-purchase order invoice images to appropriate employees for approval
  • Match and index invoice images to purchase orders in the JD Edwards system
  • Accurate of processing employee/subcontractor expenses for all 6 entities
  • Gather all purchase card statements, verify the receipts attached and submit for imaging
  • Ensuring all invoices are paid correctly
  • Raising payment and liaising with relevant departments
  • Ensure all queries raised are dealt with promptly and professionally and meet compliance with local statutory regulations across Asia
  • Ensure reporting is completed in an accurate and timely manner
  • Assist with new process implementations
  • Assess the risks and work safety at all times, robustly implementing health and safety rules, instructions and systems and refuse to undertake work that compromises safety or health
  • Adopting JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software
  • Processing suppliers' invoices into the system via 3-way matching of invoices and handling invoice discrepancies
  • Weekly review and clear open orders and back-to-back sales and cost of sales adjustments (PO & non-PO) to avoid any delay in payment
  • Ensure timeliness, accuracy, and compliance with the company's policies and procedures in transactions processing
  • Participate and assist in EDI system upgrade which reduces 15% total processing errors for carriers' invoices
  • Assist Team leader in Auto-match project eliminating manual vouching of premium product invoices
  • Participate and assist in the implementation of WebCenter project with the team to ensure that system goes live smoothly within targeted deadlines by the management
  • (Moving into e-filing eliminates the need for filing hard-copy invoices and payment records which results in a significant time reduction for the FY2016 audit.) - Accounts Payable month-end reporting including AP reconciliation, and intercompany confirmation
  • Monthly reconciliation of suppliers' statements of account to ensure up-to-date records
  • Processing and preparing payment to carriers, suppliers in different currencies (USD, SGD, NZD, AUD, THB, JPY, MYR, HKD)
  • Assist in other ad-hoc tasks assigned by accountant
  • Reconciled and noted and reported discrepancies found in records
  • Handling full set of accounts - all AR, AP, and GL aspects
  • Review and perform reconciliation to suppliers' statement of accounts to ensure is in line with our records on a biweekly basis
  • Fixed assets monitoring

Education

Professional Certificate of Business Management - Management in Business Management

University of Bradford
08.2008

N LEVEL -

North View Secondary School
12.2001

PSLE -

Huamin Primary School
12.1994

Skills

  • Communication Skills
  • Adaptability
  • Ability to Work in a Team
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Administrative and Office Support
  • Invoice Preparation and Processing
  • Recordkeeping Accuracy

Certification

  • Certification in Employment, Grace Management & Consultancy Pte Ltd, 02/01/23
  • Professional Certificate of Business Management, Management in Business Management, University of Bradford, 08/01/08
  • N Level, North View Secondary School, 12/01/01
  • PSLE, Huamin Primary School, 12/01/94

Languages

English
Chinese (Mandarin)

Timeline

Account Executive - Accounts Payable Specialist

Swire Bulk Pte Ltd
04.2023 - 12.2024

Billing And Settlement Executive

Ezyfund Pte Ltd
02.2022 - 08.2022

Finance Administrator Cum Account Assistant

Wirecard Asia Holding Pte Ltd
08.2019 - 10.2021

Accounts Payable Specialist

Llyod Register Singapore, Pte Ltd
09.2018 - 01.2019

Accounts Payable Officer

Havi Global Solutions, Pacific
06.2016 - 12.2017

Senior Accounts And Admin Executive

Duckbill Entertainment Pte Ltd
05.2012 - 05.2016

N LEVEL -

North View Secondary School

PSLE -

Huamin Primary School

Professional Certificate of Business Management - Management in Business Management

University of Bradford
Grace Huan Yan Tan