Michelle de Vera-Canindo
Pasay City
Summary
Dynamic and results-driven professional dedicated to promoting organizational success through a full-time role that fosters collaboration within enthusiastic teams and supports individual integrity, intelligence, and adaptability. Certified Public Accountant and Certified Management Accountant with over 20 years of extensive experience in Financial Reporting, Analysis, Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, and various aspects of Accounts Management. Proven ability to manage end-to-end Accounting and Finance processes while leading a diverse team of 60 in a dynamic environment. Successfully executed process migrations across regions and implemented ERP systems to enhance operational efficiency.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Accounting Manager
Acommerce Inc.
07.2021 - 11.2025
- Managing the end-to-end process of Account & Finance operations.
- Develop and implement strategies to minimize and avoid financial risk.
- Work closely with external consultants and other external parties related to any finance activities of the company.
- Develop and implement process improvement to increase control, accuracy, and efficiency.
- Recommend changes in policies and procedure that will improve financial performance.
- Provide strategic approach on any financial business decisions.
- Responsible in overseeing the quarterly and year-end audit and ensures compliance on the time table set by the regional office.
- Ensures submission of quarterly and year-end schedules and other requirements to the external auditors.
- Work closely with the auditors to ensure that important matters that need to be addressed are handled.
- Responsible in the preparation and submission of the Reporting Package and Tax Disclosure Information to regional office.
- Responsible in the preparation and submission of the draft of the Audited Financial Statements to the external auditor.
- Review, analyze and approves all journal entries and its supporting schedules.
- Review the month-end reports, including profit and loss statements and balance sheet to ensure its accuracy and completeness.
- Ensures compliance with the regional and local month-end closing and reporting procedures and timetable.
- Monitor, review and conduct analysis of balance sheet accounts reconciliation schedules on monthly basis.
- Responsible in the financial analysis, key performance indicators and explanations of variances.
- Responsible in approving the payment request, cash advance, liquidation, reimbursement, and refund and ensures compliance on the company policies and procedures.
- Ensures the accounts payable and company’s obligations are met efficiently.
- Monitor the company’s financial expenditures and maintain schedules for analysis.
- Review and conduct analysis of the intercompany related accounts and coordinate with regional office for any discrepancies or concern.
- Prepare Balance Sheet Reconciliation schedule for all intercompany related accounts.
- Prepare, monitor, and analyze the loan schedules on monthly basis.
- Managing the inventory processes and provide analysis of the company performance.
- Responsible in overseeing the company year-end inventory cycle count.
- Provide supervision and guidance to inventory staff on the daily operations, handling complex and technical inventory tasks and issues.
- Monitor inventory accounting and related systems reports to ensure accuracy and complexness.
- Managing the procurement processes, from sourcing, evaluating, negotiating to purchasing the goods and services.
- Collaborate with other departments to ensure purchasing the required specification of the purchase request.
- Negotiate with suppliers to obtain the best possible price and terms.
- Responsible in approving purchase request and ensures compliance on the company policies, procedures, and approval matrix.
- Ensures that goods and services are purchased at the best possible price without compromising the quality and meeting the required specifications.
- Ensures smooth and on time procurement processes.
- Develop and implement cost-effective procurement strategies and policies in purchasing goods and services.
- Ensures compliance and obtain approval from regional management team when opening, amending, and closing any bank accounts and online banking.
- Review cash forecast on a weekly basis to ensure the company has appropriate working capital to operate the business.
- Coordinate with the banks for any important matters concerning the company bank accounts.
- Ensures compliance with all taxation laws and regulation, including timely and accurate tax fillings and payments.
- Managing the company tax assessment and tax mapping, prepare responses and coordinate with tax authorities if needed.
- Represent the company in any tax conference or meeting with the tax authorities.
- Work closely with tax consultants on any potential exposures or risk and consider for the possible solutions.
- Reviews and approves the tax computation and returns before filling and payment.
- Ensures compliance with annual audit requirements, filling with corresponding agencies and coordination with external auditors, tax, and legal consultants.
- Monitors, reviews, and conducts analysis on tax planning strategies, opportunities, and risks.
- Ensures that any transfer, and disposal of fixed asset are properly approved and in accordance with the company policies and procedures.
- Ensures that physical count of fixed asset is done annually.
- Ensures that the business permits and licenses are processed on a timely manner.
- Ensures that team members maintain an orderly filing of documents and records of financial transactions that are assigned to their custody.
- Responsible in overseeing the finance activities to ensure they are completed correctly and on time.
- Responsible in the hiring, training, and evaluating the accounts and finance team.
- Provide mentoring and coaching to Accounts & Finance Team when needed for any personal and performance issues.
- Provide supervision and guidance to the accounts and finance team in improving existing procedures and systems to meet the department goals and KPIs.
- Formulates policies and procedures that will guide the employees in performance of their duties and responsibilities.
- Work closely with other departments for any finance related matters.
- Performs any ad hoc duties as mandated by local and regional management team.
Senior Accounting Manager
Acommerce Inc.
07.2021 - 11.2025
- Managing the end-to-end process of Account & Finance operations.
- Develop and implement strategies to minimize and avoid financial risk.
- Work closely with external consultants and other external parties related to any finance activities of the company.
- Develop and implement process improvement to increase control, accuracy, and efficiency.
- Recommend changes in policies and procedure that will improve financial performance.
- Provide strategic approach on any financial business decisions.
- Responsible in overseeing the quarterly and year-end audit and ensures compliance on the time table set by the regional office.
- Ensures submission of quarterly and year-end schedules and other requirements to the external auditors.
- Work closely with the auditors to ensure that important matters that need to be addressed are handled.
- Responsible in the preparation and submission of the Reporting Package and Tax Disclosure Information to regional office.
- Responsible in the preparation and submission of the draft of the Audited Financial Statements to the external auditor.
- Review, analyze and approves all journal entries and its supporting schedules.
- Review the month-end reports, including profit and loss statements and balance sheet to ensure its accuracy and completeness.
- Ensures compliance with the regional and local month-end closing and reporting procedures and timetable.
- Monitor, review and conduct analysis of balance sheet accounts reconciliation schedules on monthly basis.
- Responsible in the financial analysis, key performance indicators and explanations of variances.
- Responsible in approving the payment request, cash advance, liquidation, reimbursement, and refund and ensures compliance on the company policies and procedures.
- Ensures the accounts payable and company’s obligations are met efficiently.
- Monitor the company’s financial expenditures and maintain schedules for analysis.
- Review and conduct analysis of the intercompany related accounts and coordinate with regional office for any discrepancies or concern.
- Prepare Balance Sheet Reconciliation schedule for all intercompany related accounts.
- Prepare, monitor, and analyze the loan schedules on monthly basis.
- Managing the inventory processes and provide analysis of the company performance.
- Responsible in overseeing the company year-end inventory cycle count.
- Provide supervision and guidance to inventory staff on the daily operations, handling complex and technical inventory tasks and issues.
- Monitor inventory accounting and related systems reports to ensure accuracy and complexness.
- Managing the procurement processes, from sourcing, evaluating, negotiating to purchasing the goods and services.
- Collaborate with other departments to ensure purchasing the required specification of the purchase request.
- Negotiate with suppliers to obtain the best possible price and terms.
- Responsible in approving purchase request and ensures compliance on the company policies, procedures, and approval matrix.
- Ensures that goods and services are purchased at the best possible price without compromising the quality and meeting the required specifications.
- Ensures smooth and on time procurement processes.
- Develop and implement cost-effective procurement strategies and policies in purchasing goods and services.
- Ensures compliance and obtain approval from regional management team when opening, amending, and closing any bank accounts and online banking.
- Review cash forecast on a weekly basis to ensure the company has appropriate working capital to operate the business.
- Coordinate with the banks for any important matters concerning the company bank accounts.
- Ensures compliance with all taxation laws and regulation, including timely and accurate tax fillings and payments.
- Managing the company tax assessment and tax mapping, prepare responses and coordinate with tax authorities if needed.
- Represent the company in any tax conference or meeting with the tax authorities.
- Work closely with tax consultants on any potential exposures or risk and consider for the possible solutions.
- Reviews and approves the tax computation and returns before filling and payment.
- Ensures compliance with annual audit requirements, filling with corresponding agencies and coordination with external auditors, tax, and legal consultants.
- Monitors, reviews, and conducts analysis on tax planning strategies, opportunities, and risks.
- Ensures that any transfer, and disposal of fixed asset are properly approved and in accordance with the company policies and procedures.
- Ensures that physical count of fixed asset is done annually.
- Ensures that the business permits and licenses are processed on a timely manner.
- Ensures that team members maintain an orderly filing of documents and records of financial transactions that are assigned to their custody.
- Responsible in overseeing the finance activities to ensure they are completed correctly and on time.
- Responsible in the hiring, training, and evaluating the accounts and finance team.
- Provide mentoring and coaching to Accounts & Finance Team when needed for any personal and performance issues.
- Provide supervision and guidance to the accounts and finance team in improving existing procedures and systems to meet the department goals and KPIs.
- Formulates policies and procedures that will guide the employees in performance of their duties and responsibilities.
- Work closely with other departments for any finance related matters.
- Performs any ad hoc duties as mandated by local and regional management team.
Country Finance Manager ( Accounting & HR Manager)
Vanguard Logistics Services Philippines Inc.
05.2017 - 12.2020
- Ensures compliance with the corporate and regional closing and reporting timetable.
- Ensures that financial reports are completed and submitted in accordance with the format, requirements and deadlines as stipulated by Corporate.
- Ensures that balance sheet accounts reconciliations and binders are completed and reviewed on monthly basis.
- Ensures that accounts are analyzed and reports are prepared timely and correctly.
- Support Country Management on analysis of monthly performance for key products, highlighting areas of concerns.
Country Finance Manager ( Accounting & HR Manager)
Vanguard Logistics Services Philippines Inc.
05.2017 - 12.2020
- Ensures compliance with the corporate and regional closing and reporting timetable.
- Ensures that financial reports are completed and submitted in accordance with the format, requirements and deadlines as stipulated by Corporate.
- Ensures that balance sheet accounts reconciliations and binders are completed and reviewed on monthly basis.
- Ensures that accounts are analyzed and reports are prepared timely and correctly.
- Support Country Management on analysis of monthly performance for key products, highlighting areas of concerns.
Education
Master in Business Administration -
Colegio De San Juan De Letran
Manila01.2017
Bachelor of Science - Accountancy
Colegio de San Juan de Letran
Manila01.1998
Secondary Education - undefined
Malate Catholic School
Manila01.1993
Elementary Education - undefined
Centro Escolar University
Paranaque01.1989
Skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Applications
- Knowledgeable in Window Based programs
- Knowledgeable in Accounting software (Netsuite, SAP, AFSA, Great Plains & Oracle)
Personal Information
- Age: 49
- Height: 5'2
- Weight: 110 lbs
- Citizenship: Filipino
- Religion: Catholic
- Date of Birth: 1976-04-28
- Gender: Female
- Nationality: Filipino
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Senior Accounting Manager
Acommerce Inc.
07.2021 - 11.2025
Senior Accounting Manager
Acommerce Inc.
07.2021 - 11.2025
Country Finance Manager ( Accounting & HR Manager)
Vanguard Logistics Services Philippines Inc.
05.2017 - 12.2020
Country Finance Manager ( Accounting & HR Manager)
Vanguard Logistics Services Philippines Inc.
05.2017 - 12.2020
Bachelor of Science - Accountancy
Colegio de San Juan de Letran
Secondary Education - undefined
Malate Catholic School
Elementary Education - undefined
Centro Escolar University
Master in Business Administration -
Colegio De San Juan De Letran