NATALIE SERDAR
Burnaby,Canada
Summary
Collaborative and accomplished Accounting Manager with 20+ years of accounting and management experience with vast organizational and problem-solving skills.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Accounting Manager
Triton Environmental Consultants Ltd.
06.2014 - 09.2024
- Managed daily banking, weekly/monthly cashflow forecasts and monthly bank reconciliations.
- Generated monthly financial statements and performed monthly financial reviews with Operations Managers and the Corporate department heads.
- Preparing monthly accruals, maintaining the prepaids and capital assets amortization schedules.
- Performed regular review of the company general accounts to maintain the integrity and high accuracy.
- Monitored budget allocation and expenditures to enforce compliance with company policies.
- Supervised and provided a backup for bi-weekly payroll for 300 employees.
- Administrated company's benefits and pension plans, including enrollments, monthly contributions and yearly reviews.
- Employee Health Tax and Worker's Compensation (AB, BC, Ontario, Sask, NWT) administration and reporting.
- GST, PST and Corporate Tax calculations, submissions and reporting.
- Managed and supervised a team of 6 accountants.
- Closely collaborating with the HR department with onboarding and offboarding of company's employee's.
- Preparing reports for the company's annual insurance renewal.
- Working with the company's external accounting firm in preparing annual review for 5 companies
- Preparing various ad hoc reports
Project Accountant
Triton Environmental Consulting Ltd.
04.2012 - 05.2014
- Preformed employee's weekly timesheet review for accuracy and supervisor approvals.
- Set up new projects and billing rate tables in Ajera and maintained the existing ones.
- Completed monthly project billings.
- Worked closely with various Project Managers and Coordinators to review monthly WIP.
- Reviewed project costs for accuracy and performed weekly write offs of unbillable cost.
- Accounts Receivable
- Complected weekly bank deposits
- Prepared monthly aged accounts receivable reports
- Covered payroll and accounts payable when needed
Regional Controller
Joey Restaurant Group
06.2010 - 09.2011
- Contract position: full cycle accounting and reporting for twelve restaurants
- Conducted bank, credit card, monthly balance sheet, and intercompany reconciliations, and prepared weekly performance statements, for twelve restaurants
- Prepared monthly financial statements and variance analyses, in addition to group financial statements for US and Canadian operations
- Assisted with preparing annual budget
- Performed percentage-rent calculations, and prepared monthly HST, RST, and EHT filings
- Prepared project cost reports, as well as various ad hoc management reports
- Prepared lead sheet for yearly audit, and filed corporate tax returns
- Collaborated with restaurant management and provided assistance with accounting procedures and policies
- Completed monthly utility accrual, A/P, adjustment entries, recoverable invoices for Head Office, and various ad hoc projects
Project Analyst
Playground, A Division of Intrawest / Intrawest ULC
03.2003 - 04.2010
- Over the course of employment with Intrawest, promoted three times: Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable (2003) to Corporate Accountant (2004), to Project Accountant (2005), to Project Analyst (2008)
- Assisted in decision-making by completing financial statements, notes to financial statements, and variance analyses in a clear and timely manner
- Improved productivity by eliminating two weeks during month-end and year-end closing procedures
- Streamlined full cycle accounting for all of Intrawest's Canadian, US, and European divisions
- Increased efficiency by 60% in recognizing commission revenues with the testing and implementation of a sales tracking and revenue system
- Saved company thousands of dollars by researching and reviewing monthly expenses and sales revenue, and reporting costly errors and anomalies to senior team
- Discovered and reconciled over half a million dollars in revenues and expenses not previously accounted for during transitional balance sheet
- Collaborated on major revisions to company-wide expense policy
- Assisted in preparing yearly business unit budgets
- Conducted monthly balance sheet reconciliations for over 100 accounts, spread across four different subsidiary companies, in three different currencies
- Reduced inefficiencies and mistakes by as much as 50% by helping to implement computerized commission tracking system
- Managed sales commissions and draw payments for over 200 employees and outside brokers
- Performed monthly inter-company reconciliations, consolidations, and foreign exchange booking for seven subsidiary companies
- Established good communication and cooperation by daily liaising with sales team directors, business unit managers, sales team and administrative support members
- Eliminated three months of A/R and A/P backlog in less than six weeks
- Set up and managed corporate Visa Card Program for issuing, tracking, approving, and reconciling transactions for over 50 cardholders
- Improved accountability, reduced time, simplified procedures, and reduced cost by testing, implementing, and managing online purchase order system
- Carried out bank reconciliations for multiple bank accounts in multiple currencies
- Provided assistance with annual audits, ad-hoc reports, and project reconciliations
- Miscellaneous duties included amortization, pre-paids, accruals, employee expense reports, and monthly aged accounts receivable reports
Junior Accountant
RLG International
01.2002 - 02.2003
- Processed cash expense reports for payroll
- Processed and administrated American Express corporate cards
- Created and posted journal entries into General Ledger
- Created recoverable expense reports for billing purposes
- Assisted with Accounts Payable, including coding, entering and administration of cheque runs
- Performed bank reconciliation
- Processed GST and PST returns
Education
Certified General Accountant -
CGA Association
Vancouver, BC04-2010
Skills
- Ajera (Deltek)
- Payworks
- ADP
- SAGE 300
- Orbit
- Star
- Navision
- Excel
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Accounting Manager
Triton Environmental Consultants Ltd.
06.2014 - 09.2024
Project Accountant
Triton Environmental Consulting Ltd.
04.2012 - 05.2014
Regional Controller
Joey Restaurant Group
06.2010 - 09.2011
Project Analyst
Playground, A Division of Intrawest / Intrawest ULC
03.2003 - 04.2010
Junior Accountant
RLG International
01.2002 - 02.2003
Certified General Accountant -
CGA Association
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