DORINA NITA
Professional accountant
Coquitlam,BC
Summary
Experienced accounting professional prepared for finance or administration role, known for strong analytical skills and precision in financial management. Proven ability to drive results through team collaboration and adaptability to changing needs. Expertise in financial reporting, budgeting, and compliance, with focus on accuracy and efficiency. Reliable, dependable, and committed to achieving organizational goals.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Administration Manager
Peoples Group Financial Institution
03.2024 - Current
- Manage a portfolio of prepaid card programs through monitoring, analyzing and assessing the transactional volumes, developing operational and financial information.
- Prepare detailed account schedules and reconciliations, proactively identifying and resolving discrepancies in a timely manner to ensure accuracy in financial records.
- Lead the month-end close processes, ensuring that all transactions are recorded within the required timeline, contributing to the completeness and accuracy of the financial reports.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with financial policies and regulatory compliance.
- Control and risk assessment on network settlements and program financial transactions, compile audit working papers.
- Coaching and training direct reports on prepaid programs portfolio.
Assistant Manager, Administration
Peoples Group
09.2018 - 03.2024
- Prepare monthly fee revenue statements of card programs portfolio and ensure compliance with the program manager agreements.
- Assist in developing spreadsheets and databases to accurately produce reports for various fintech partners and other stakeholders.
- Investigate and identify reporting discrepancies, making recommendations on changes required.
- Assist with operational reviews and business/financial process improvement reviews.
- Ensure all financial deliverables are met and network settlements are accurately completed.
- Conduct statistical data and analyses on programs by compiling information and interpreting data.
- Lead team members, responsible for the hiring process.
Accountant Operations
Peoples Trust Company
05.2013 - 09.2018
- Responsible for maintaining monthly accounting records for on and off-balance sheet accounts and trust operations, ensure month end, quarterly and annual deliverables are completed.
- Prepare monthly management reports including the inventory control report, mortgage portfolio movement and treasury related reports.
- Perform cash flow statements, oversee all government tax remittances, analyze and generate adjusting entries, general ledger complex reconciliations.
- Assist with projections, analysis and reports for decision making on investments, capital purchases.
Accountant
Hemlock Printers
11.2008 - 05.2013
- Prepare full cycle accounting, balance sheets and income statements for parent company and subsidiaries.
- Perform monthly consolidation of financial statements, consolidation elimination entries.
- Ensure financial records are maintained in compliance with accepted policies and procedures, prepare accurate and timely monthly and quarterly close.
- Performed analysis reports to track profitability and costs per department, budgeting, value added analysis reports, statistical reports and surveys.
Education
Chartered Professional Accountant -
Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia
Vancouver01-2012
Skills
- Power BI
- Microsoft Excel – advanced
- Banking Fiserv/DNA
- Dynamic Great Plains
- Microsoft Office 365
- Jira Board
- NetSuite
- Macola/ERP system
- Monarch
- Staff training and development
- Microsoft Office Suite
Accomplishments
- Streamlined month-end reconciliation process in 2025 reducing the closing time by 25% while improving the accuracy of financial reports. This was achieved throughout the team effort, setting up individual and team goals to work together towards a common objective.
- Implemented a new daily transfers workflow in 2023, resulting in a 15% reduction in processing time and a significant decrease in errors. The workflow was setup to include the stages of initiator, reviewer and approver with backup data being stored in a internal library used for audit purposes.
- Played a key role in process enhancements, driving improvements in data accuracy and reporting speed. This has been done setting up templates for statistical recurring requirements that can be used year after year including data sources and summary.
- Mentored and developed a team of direct reports, enhancing their understanding of complex reconciliation processes and ensuring full compliance with internal controls. Additional coaching was provided using ‘show and tell’ and presentations on individual prepaid card programs.
Quote
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
Timeline
Administration Manager
Peoples Group Financial Institution
03.2024 - Current
Assistant Manager, Administration
Peoples Group
09.2018 - 03.2024
Accountant Operations
Peoples Trust Company
05.2013 - 09.2018
Accountant
Hemlock Printers
11.2008 - 05.2013
Chartered Professional Accountant -
Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia
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