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Work History
Education
Accomplishments
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Educational Attainment
Achievements Awards
Eligibility
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Evangeline Diano

Finance Specialist
Novaliches, Quezon City

Summary

Results-oriented Finance Specialist with a robust background in finance processes and reimbursements. Recognized for consistently prioritizing customer satisfaction in all financial transactions. Established track record as a skilled team coordinator, providing active support for various team events and cultivating a collaborative work environment over the past couple of years. Proficient in leveraging financial expertise to streamline processes and drive overall operational efficiency.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Improve Now Specialist

SAP Philippines Inc.
  • Responsible on scheduling and moderating Team’s challenges, achievements and stand ups
  • Provide support to the team on executing the action items
  • Monitor the team’s progress on their projects
  • Serve as a project owner for small impediments.

Finance Operations Associate- Travel and Expense (Travel Interaction Center Agent)

SAP Philippines Inc.
09.2018 - Current
  • Manage E2E support for SAP Travelers
  • Handle employee’s Concur reimbursement inquiries and provide a resolution within LSA
  • Investigate the employee’s account with outstanding balances
  • Maintaining the Other expense policy in SAP Portal
  • Ensuring that the policies are updated
  • Provide the report needed by the management and other stakeholders on a timely manner.

Travel and Expense Senior Accountant

The Coca-Cola Far East Ltd.
Taguig
05.2015 - 07.2018
  • Managed timely review and approval of expense reports and ensure reported expenses are align with the current Global and local policies
  • Created an improvement process card that reduced rejected and held expense claims (cause of delays on processing) that saved up $3520 annual cost (equivalent into 176 hours’ time spent a year)
  • Participated with the Team’s Operational Excellence Project on implementing paperless processing, as result, the steps involved in printing and filing were eliminated, with total impact of $1,800 in hours saved; $405.09 for cost of materials; $127.74 for storage cost
  • Documented the step by step guidelines on how to generate accrual SAP data and the annual year end forms for GL accounts balances
  • It improved the quality of the reports with a standard format
  • Closely coordinated with the Human Resources Team and Master Data Team for the update of employee’s account and bank details in the system
  • Conducted meetings with the Treasury Team to discuss the payment issues which delays the payment settlement
  • Participated in the root cause analysis session that provide a long-term resolution to the settlement issue
  • Independently coordinated with the International auditor and manage their preliminary audit findings with complete supporting documentation, exception reports and company policies
  • Handled employee inquiries and concerns and received a good feedback in customer service surveys.

Travel Analyst

Chevron Holdings Inc.
01.2015 - 05.2015
  • Responsible for the Business Travel Management clean up at the time of system migration (Concur Application)
  • Approximately 1000 unsettled and opened items were resolved and reconciled
  • Processed the corporate card application (JPMC and HSBC) and assisted the employees to update their account’s profile
  • Maintained team’s metrics for outstanding reimbursement, invalid requests and pending claims that were discussed on team’s weekly meeting
  • Created a standard email template used in sending out a reminder to employees regarding on their unsettled expenses
  • Several email inquiries were received and responded within the SLA.

Accounts Payable Accountant

Sterling Paper Group of Companies
11.2013 - 12.2014
  • Resolved transaction and invoices issues in collaboration with associates and supervisor
  • Handled the daily AP Transactions
  • Oversaw the timely and accurate processing of invoices, purchase orders, expense reports, credit memos and payment transactions
  • Maintained adherence to corporate, accounting, GAAP standards and SOX controls and ensured accurate and compliant A/P files and records in accordance with company policies and government regulations
  • Addressed issues escalated from employees and vendors regarding accounts payable
  • Provided an effective and efficient solution to their issues
  • Executed timely payment settlements through regular payment runs
  • Analyzed variances and research to resolve invoice discrepancies and issues
  • Performed month-end journal entries and reconciliations.

Payroll Accountant

SL Agritech Corporation
11.2013 - 12.2014
  • Performed accurate, timely and efficient payroll operations with comprehensive understanding of fundamentals tasks, paycheck calculations and taxation principles
  • Being a sole payroll accountant in the company that handled semi-monthly payroll processing (also includes13th month pay, tax annualization and printing of form 2316) and accounting (preparing journal entries, reconciling and analyzing payroll related accounts)
  • Prepared monthly and quarterly filing and payment of withholding taxes to Bureau of Internal Revenue through EFPS
  • Attended the BIR business seminars for filing and tax updates
  • Successfully managed the completion of BIR Aphalist for employees for 2014
  • The data was used for computation of amount refunded to employees
  • Input employee’s data into payroll software
  • Cross check data in software and provided documentation
  • Maintained the confidentiality of the data.

Education

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Philippine Christian University
Cavite City Philippines
08.2022 - 03.2024

Bachelor of Science - Accountancy

Laguna College
Laguna, Philippines
06.2013 - 06.2018

Accomplishments

    Active participant of GFSS Next Generation Leader Program (NGL) and GFA Future Female Leader (FFL)




Timeline

MBA - Business Administration And Management

Philippine Christian University
08.2022 - 03.2024

Finance Operations Associate- Travel and Expense (Travel Interaction Center Agent)

SAP Philippines Inc.
09.2018 - Current

Travel and Expense Senior Accountant

The Coca-Cola Far East Ltd.
05.2015 - 07.2018

Travel Analyst

Chevron Holdings Inc.
01.2015 - 05.2015

Accounts Payable Accountant

Sterling Paper Group of Companies
11.2013 - 12.2014

Payroll Accountant

SL Agritech Corporation
11.2013 - 12.2014

Bachelor of Science - Accountancy

Laguna College
06.2013 - 06.2018

Improve Now Specialist

SAP Philippines Inc.

Educational Attainment

Bachelor of Science in Accountancy (2013) Laguna College

Achievements Awards

  • T&E Inspirer Doer Award July 2023 (SAP Philippines Inc.)
  • Best Quality TIC Agent for Q4 2022 (SAP Philippines Inc.)
  • Best Quality TIC Agent for Q3 of 2020 (SAP Philippines Inc.)

  • P2P Employee of the Month for June 2017 (The Coca-Cola Far East Ltd.)
  • P2P Employee of the Month for March 2017 (The Coca-Cola Far East Ltd.)
  • P2P Employee of the Month for September 2016 (The Coca-Cola Far East Ltd.)

Eligibility

  • Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt (CSSYB)- July 2017
  • Certified Tax Technician (CTT) – May 2017
  • Certified Accounting Technician (CAT)- January 2014
  • Registered Cost Accountant (RCA) - February 2013
  • Certified Bookkeeper (CB) - November 2012
  • Civil service professional/ Second level Eligibility - May 2009

Training

  • Female Career Advancement Workshop- Sept 13, 2023
  • Achieved SAP goal of 50 hours of learning per employee per year on Aug. 31, 2023
  • Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) workshop- November 14, 2023
  • GFSS E2E Process Workshop March 2021. Become a T&E facilitator last May 21, 2021 and May 11, 2023
  • A total of 8 hours job shadowing with Finance Managers : Mukhitdinova, Zulfiya (P2P Prague) and Ferraro, Paula (GFSS O2I S&T BUE)



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