Jonathan Ramos, CPA

· Perform various GL month-end close activities, including preparation and review of journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations such as Cash and Investments, Prepaids, Capitalized Software, Fixed Assets and Expense Accruals.

· Prepare Balance Sheet and P&L fluctuation analyses.

· Assist in preparing internal and external financial reporting schedules.

· Evaluate process and system infrastructure, along with identifying and implementing process improvement opportunities.

· Maintain and enhance the internal controls over accounting processes and systems.

· Provide a high level of customer service with finance and non-finance business partners by providing financial insights and relevant reporting.

· Support the quarterly reviews and annual audit requests and inquiries from our external auditors.

· Prepare monthly balance sheet account reconciliations in a high-volume environment.

· Prepare journal entries and related schedules for various general ledger accounts.

· Research and analyze outstanding reconciling items.

· Prepare more complex reports / reporting schedules.

· Coordinate with other finance and accounting team members.

· Manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously with accuracy and timeliness of critical deadlines.

· Ensure compliance with accounting principles as well as company policies and procedures.

· Lead special projects and provide guidance to more junior accountants.

· Ad hoc accounting projects and requests.

· Charging of insurance expense for auto-liability, property liability and general liability claims.

· Document and analyze current accounting procedures and recommends more efficient procedures as necessary.

· Review and approval of Purchase Orders and Requisitions.

· Prepare and post payroll journals in accordance with regulatory requirements. Documenting the data as support for the entries keyed in the system for risk-control and audit purposes.

· Analyze and compute the balance for wire transfer from the LRD entity to the mother entity based on the cash that is free from current liabilities.

· Prepare and post the lease journal as based from the data provided by lease accounting team.

· Execute intercompany netting and clearing from the suspense account.

· Monthly clearing of open items in bank account until workday+1.

· Asset capitalization of free-of-charge devices issued to customers that meet the criteria for materiality threshold and nature of transaction involving the merchandise/device.

· Compute the monthly accrual journals based on the analysis of invoices that were either parked or posted especially involving bonuses, salary, professional fees, vacation, 13th month pay and other expenses as per available estimates. This also includes deferrals arising from last day shipments of merchandise.

· Process the Sales and COGS report in such a way that it will be comprehensible and be loaded in Hyperion system.

· Run the forex transaction code and post forex gain or loss as necessary.

· Execute matching report for intercompany via Hyperion Financial Management.

· Reallocate VAT to Net VAT payable account.

· Regular review of trial balance to ensure that the transactions per account are within the estimates and/or expected movement.

· Compute for the monthly corporate income tax based on the result of operations of the entity.

· Create and upload the intercompany and trial balance to Hyperion Financial Management on workday +1 and 3, respectively.

· Retire fixed assets when the transaction warrants and recharge the mother entity for devices that were returned and still under warranty.

· Prepare Hyperion-based reports involving details of tax computation models, fixed asset movements, aging of receivables and payables, contractual obligations and other financial data encompassing the entire books of the accounting entity.

· Closing of phases in Hyperion indicating that the transactions entered were correct and no mismatch has taken place.

· Consolidates the Intrastat and VAT reports that are unique to European entities.

· Completion of treasury reports, bank reconciliation and journal listing in compliance with SOX requirements.

· Completion of balance sheet reconciliation and monthly checklist.

· Collates all information for revenue recognition requirements – write-ups for top 2 sales, sales contracts and its terms, proof of delivery, purchase order and invoice documentation. All in the perspective of adhering to SOX control requirements.

· Posting of vendor invoices using SAGE system and monitoring of PO’s raised by the entity. Clearing of open items and formulating the resolution for issues on unposted invoices.

· Prepare account reconciliations. Identify and investigate unreconciled balances, differences in balances of various sources and subsidiary ledgers and/or reports; investigate and document incorrect entries for accounts.

· Prepare analysis/calculation and create manual journal request in an electronic format. When applicable route it for approval in accordance with the approval authorization list (rules-based journals).

· Prepare in-scope reports supporting the market in its reporting to the center.

· Resolve reconciliation differences and propose adjustments and performing approved write-offs.

· Escalate unresolved and/or unidentified balances to market for resolution. This includes reconciliation differences requiring market business knowledge or managerial judgment as jointly defined.

· Make the final reconciliation template available to the market company per jointly agreed schedule (NRT).

· Process validated manual journal request received from market RTO in SAP Globe.

· Process rules-based manual journal request from other streams in SAP Globe.

· Prepare and process recurring entries in SAP.

· Monitor generic mailboxes to ensure that all requests are posted.

· Execute system processes inherent to the process (i.e. mass reversal via F.81).

· Monitor and update tracking list for SLA purposes.

· Provide justification for missed KPIs.

· Ensure market’s compliance with the best practices set for manual posting and systemic postings.

· Verifies and posts transactions to journals, ledgers and other records.

· Validates all the supporting documents and approvals pertaining to the processing of journals.

· Generates and submits the invoices to the vendors of the client.

· Ascertains the appropriateness of the taxation rule (country-based) used per entity.

· Prepares the reconciliation of the balances of accounts in SAP versus Magnitude-based postings.

· Assists in the execution of tasks performed for Fixed Assets such as booking of acquired asset in the registry, depreciation-run, movement table, asset detail change, revaluation, capitalization and intercompany transfer of assets.

· Executes the mass reversal of all accrual entries for 180 entities of clients.

· Clears all items in the stock-in-transit accounts.

· Reallocation of cost of goods sold items.

· Records and analyzes the accounting entries in the general ledger of the branch banking system.

· Generates daily, weekly and monthly accounting reports.

· Encodes local and regional checks and ensures their completeness before sending for clearing.

· Validates the transactions of bank tellers, marketing assistants and bank officers on a da-to-day basis.

· Reconciliation of the balances of the branch accounts versus the head office records.

· Executes daily, weekly and monthly cash count to reconcile with the system records and for internal control purposes.