Barbara Hu
Unionville,Canada
Summary
2023 CFE successful writer. Specialized in financial reporting, management accounting, auditing, finance, and taxation. Actively seeking opportunities to gain CPA practical experience. Highly motivated and detail-oriented talent with experience in accounting, with strong problem solving, analytical, and communication skills developed in past experience.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Financial Analyst
Aviva Canada
Markham, Canada
04.2022 - Current
- Prepare journal entries. Handle tight financial timelines of General Ledger monthly/quarterly/annual close. Maintain comprehensive oversight of the General Ledger in compliance with accepted policies and procedures (IFRS 4 and IFRS 17).
- Collaborate with FP&A team for commission budgeting. Process entries for commission accruals, reversals, payments, and true ups. Prepare commission reports and calculate settlements for multiple brokers including RBC.
- Perform month-end balance sheet account reconciliations. Investigate any variance and provide timely interpretation on complex accounting issues.
- Conduct control check on the inter-company payable/receivable matrix among 71 legal entities to validate cross-entity transactions. Analyze and prepare elimination entries for consolidated financial statements.
- Manage inter-group charges with Aviva group companies involving analysis of complex accounting treatments
- Perform monthly control check for validity of financial data. Analyze and recommend entries to clean up historical and ongoing invalid data based on IFRS 17 chart of accounts and mappings to expedite closing procedures and maintain high level of data integrity.
- Efficiently collaborate with MI Reporting manager for accurate and on-time delivery of financial statement pack including P&L, balance sheet, and KPIs.
- Successfully completed accounting policy (IFRS17) transition and accounting system (Oracle Fusion) migration. Conducted testing and provided recommendations for process enhancements and system automation.
- Coordinate with external auditors, providing necessary evidence and explanations.
Accounting Specialist
Amico Group of Companies
Richmond Hill, Canada
01.2021 - 04.2022
- Assisted with error-free balance sheet accounts reconciliations, month-end closing and financial reports with tight deadlines.
- Reconciled monthly commissions and rebates reports with sales reports.
- Processed payroll of over 90 employees bi-weekly, including preparation of ROEs, WSIB, with zero tolerance for error.
- Performed annual salary, commission, bonus forecast for expense budgeting.
- Conducted in-depth analysis of the financial results, including highlighting accounting issues and providing quantitative and qualitative variance analysis to improve financial efficiency.
- Reviewed taxes, CPP, EI, benefit deductions and T4. Filed local and US employee tax and communicate with ADP, CRA, and US tax departments if needed.
- Assisted with preparation of year-end audits compliance with company policies, procedures and controls.
- Trained, supervised and supported all other accounting staffs for new system implementation.
Accounting Clerk
Amico Group of Companies
Richmond Hill, Canada
07.2019 - 12.2020
- Prepared credit applications. Issued invoices, refund adjustments and AR statements. Reviewed aging reports. Posted journal entries.
- Reviewed all ledger details to validate proper payments and revenue posting.
- Performed monthly bank reconciliations with AR and AP accounts.
- Participated in annual inventory count and reconciliations.
- Documented working procedures for training and year-end audit purposes.
- Built positive working relationships with clients and vendors. Excellent in interpersonal and communications skills used to effectively respond to client requests and communicated with teams and divisions regarding progress updates and issues on an ongoing basis.
Marketing Coordinator
Infantmax
Unionville, Canada
03.2016 - 06.2019
Accounts Payable Clerk
Sterling Karamar Property Management
Toronto, Canada
01.2014 - 03.2016
- Managed over 80 high rise residential and commercial property accounts and maintained accurate and up-to-date filings.
- Verified General Ledger coding, defined AP transaction categories and input over 100 invoices daily.
- Issued and prioritized cheques to match invoices, set up payments for Realty Taxes, Utilities and Corporate taxes. Coordinated with the Property Accountants for cash positions based on due dates to ensure cash flow efficiency while avoiding late payment.
- Prepared cash requirement reports semi-monthly and sent for review.
- Clarified inquiries from suppliers, property managers and property accountants.
- Set up new accounts for suppliers. Processed employees' expenses. Organized petty cash reimbursements.
Bookkeeper and Legal Secretary
C&C Immigration Service Inc.
Toronto, Canada
06.2012 - 12.2013
- Managed cash flow of the company, kept track of daily incomes and outlays, reported and balanced any deficiencies of budgets and expenses.
- Monitored Trust Account and Operation Accounts, arranged funds transfer between two Accounts based on accrual earnings and cost allocations.
- Prepared monthly bank reconciliations.
- Prepared required documents for clients including proof of income, T4, option C printout, and etc. Contacted CRA on behalf of clients.
Education
2023 CFE Successful Writer -
CPA Ontario
BBA, Accounting and Management -
University of Toronto
Skills
- Financial reporting
- Management accounting
- Cost accounting
- Finance
- Auditing
- Taxation
- AR/treasury
- AP
- Payroll
- MS Office (Pivot Table, Vlookup, Xlookup, etc)
- Power BI
- Oracle Fusion
- Oracle R12
- Planning and Budgeting Cloud (PBCS)
- Essbase
- Sage BusinessVision
- Sage Spire
- ADP
- QuickBooks
- Adobe Acrobat
Timeline
Senior Financial Analyst
Aviva Canada
04.2022 - Current
Accounting Specialist
Amico Group of Companies
01.2021 - 04.2022
Accounting Clerk
Amico Group of Companies
07.2019 - 12.2020
Marketing Coordinator
Infantmax
03.2016 - 06.2019
Accounts Payable Clerk
Sterling Karamar Property Management
01.2014 - 03.2016
Bookkeeper and Legal Secretary
C&C Immigration Service Inc.
06.2012 - 12.2013
2023 CFE Successful Writer -
CPA Ontario
BBA, Accounting and Management -
University of Toronto
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