Gilbert Roque, CPA

Experience

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  Accenture

  Mar 2013 - Sept 2017

  Property Accounting Junior Team lead (Acting role from Feb-Aug 2017)Oversees a team of Junior and Senior Property Accountants engaged in Australian Commercial Property Accounting tasks for Retail, Office and Industrial sectors, and ensuring that deliverables are submitted accurately within TAT while meeting high customer service standards. Embarks in the detailed review of critical General Accounting month end (and interim) processes as submitted by specific Accountants assigned - ranging from record to report functions including high end variance analysis, and financial and management teporting. Serves as Offshore POC leading the overall final checking of property balances in both cash and accrual ledgers, and analysis versus budgets and forecast prior book close.Updates periodical admin reports for the team necessary for SLA/metrics reporting to clients, and internal planning for Accenture management. Also, prepares ad hoc reports for the team as requested by client or management. Conducts daily huddles for important matters, and provide group trainings with brainstorming sessions for the team's processes as a channel for standardizaion, optimization and improvements. Provides one-on-one coaching with team members as a way of discussing employee development plans, and addressing work-related concern and issues. Show less Project Jupiter (August 2014 - September 2015)Suspect Entry Analyst - responsible in capturing and analyzing ForEx accounts and entries which rates do not coincide to the actual rates that should have been used and fixing ForEx variances through adjusting entries and providing advice to client on how this can be fixed.SCMA Forex Program Analyst - responsible for running transaction code SCMA in SAP which updates balances of the BS and PL accounts based on respective month end rates considering functionality of company, and analysis and resolution of outages. Also involved in hedging process.DPC Analyst - capturing postings in Dummy Profit Center, analysis and resolution through reclassification entries and providing advice to client on how this should be resolved.Recurring Entry reconciliation, GRIR Auto Clearing, Balance Sheet Accounts Reconciliation, and Journal entry processing.Project Dawn (October 2015 - January 2017)Property Accounting - responsible in the preparation of accruals and prepayment journals, amortisation schedules, all GL adjustments, financial reporting, and providing management advice for the retail (commercial centers), office and industrial investment properties. Other tasks include calculation of periodic cash remittances to JV owners, tenant outgoings audit and annual management reporting.Trust Accounting - responsible in the month end accruals and adjustments, bank reconciliation, BS and PL accounts reconciliation, profit share distribution to JV owners and Reporting for trust/holdings entities. Show less

  • General Accounting Senior Operations Analyst (Junior Team Lead)

    Feb 2017 - Sept 2017

  • General Accounting Analyst

    Aug 2014 - Jan 2017

  • General Accounting Associate

    Mar 2013 - Jul 2014
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  MicroSourcing

  Oct 2017 - Aug 2023

  The role is a mixture of Property/Trust Accountant (25%), Migration/Implementation Specialist (60%), System and Finance Support Analyst (10%), and System Quality Control Analyst and Tester (5%). Property/Trust Accountant/Account Manager - responsible for daily receipting, monthly and periodical tenant invoices, AP and AR invoice entries, bank reconciliation, and month-end management reporting (cash and accrual). Works collaboratively with Property Managers.Migration/Implementation Specialist (part of the pioneer offshore implementation team) - responsible for the successful migration of data of new clients from their previous accounting system to the cloud based accounting system which the company offers. Works hand-in-hand with Onshore Finance/Implementations Manager and coordinates with clients based on an agreed implementation timetable to ensure all data are ready and reviewed upon clients go-live date and first reporting month completion in the new accounting system. System and Finance Support Analyst - investigates and resolves accounting queries and system issues from clients by working directly with onshore and offshore technical IT team, and onshore Finance Managers. Handles mailbox and jitbit support system and responsible for assessing tickets from clients, and assigning these to either Accountants or IT software developers. System Quality Control Analyst and Tester - responsible in testing new or upgraded features of the cloud based accounting system, and discussing results with IT software developers and manager. Do regular checks of current system features and functions to identify possible bugs, and identifies system improvements with other Accountants and clients, and coordinate with IT developers for feasibility and execution. Show less

  • Implementations Assistant Manager

    Apr 2022 - Aug 2023

  • Implementations Team Leader

    Jul 2018 - Mar 2022

  • Senior Property Systems Accountant

    Oct 2017 - Jun 2018