Raymond Yang (CPA)

Experience

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  Da Yang Ban Ye

  Jan 2008 - Oct 2008

  Bookkeeper

  •Develop and implement sales strategies.•Set clear objectives and conduct weekly staff meetings.•Prepare general ledger and monthly reports.•Interpret and comprehend financial data and forecasts.•Prepare and verify bank deposits.

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  Evestar International Pty Ltd

  Jul 2010 - Dec 2010

  Bookkeeper

  •Communication with clients and answer their queries.•Conduct weekly and monthly bank reconciliation.•Prepare financial statements.•Accounts payable and receivable.•Payroll calculation.•Excel monthly commission report for clients.

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  Noel French & Associates (Accountant & Tax Agent)

  Jun 2011 - Jul 2011

  Accounting Intern

  •Assist clients to uncover errors and fix mistakes.•Data Entry.•Payroll calculation.•Administration and filing.

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  7-Eleven

  Jun 2012 - Sept 2012

  Store Manager

  •Deliver assistance to customers and answer their queries..•Float reconciliation of cash register.•Support store manager and work with other staff as a team.•Train new staff.

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  Newell Brands

  Sept 2012 - now

  •Drives awareness and adoption of reporting and analytics tools and solutions across all departments, regions, and countries across APAC.•Leads all training on reporting solutions in the region,.•Functions as the liaison with functional leads in business engagement regarding reporting strategy. Engages the business to ensure that the BI vision / reporting solutions are properly communicated and adopted.•Gathers requirements and documents functional specifications - obtains approvals from the business, drives standards, utilizes a common design approach.•Aides the business in responding to key business questions, requiring detailed knowledge of available data, and requiring strong capability on enterprise reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, SAP BEx, MicroStrategy, etc.).•Assists with the management of projects to implement new BI capabilities, working with architecture, development and onboarding teams within BI.•Stays abreast of ongoing initiatives in all functions in all businesses across APAC, plans adaptations to BI solutions to align with changing business needs. Serves as an advocate for the region-specific reporting and analytics needs for both solutions build and adoption.•Maintains documentation for standard reports, metrics, and BI solution used by sales and helps onboard new resources using these playbooks and documentation. Show less •Prepare and distribute KPI reports to commercial team to drive top line & margin performance•Support commercial leadership to meet divisional finance reporting and analysis requirements•Prepare and present business performance analysis highlighting customer, market, industry segment trends for sales teams, product categories and territories•Prepare sales forecasting and budgeting to provide business, divisional and corporate view•Set up and maintain reports for Supply Chain team such as demand planning and service metrics.•Set up, reconcile and analyse customer rebates including trading terms and co-operative advertising programs•Assist other teams on report creation and template set up.•Create ad hoc reports, visuals for business.•Product costing and analysis.•POS data analysis.•Manage customer rebates programs and post program analysis.•Business process humanization and documentation.•Provide Excel and Power BI training to business. Show less •Month-end and year-end closing and Balance Sheet reconciliation.•P&L and Balance sheet review and provide management with commentary.•Intercompany material costing, stock transactions, SG&A cross charges.•Cash flow forecast.•Monthly ABS, IAS & annual FBT preparation.•Fixed assets management and reporting.•Bank reconciliation, IC netting settlement and journals.•Inventory reconciliation, provision and analysis.•Inbound and outbound freight analysis, accruals and true ups.•Price variance review and management by business segment.•Report to finance management team and support FP&A.•Expense claim system administration.•Assist taxation agent on tax returns, IDS and TP Documentation.•Internal SOX testing and external auditing.•New process testing and implementation, and new template development.•Project leader on expense management system roll out.•ABS surveys and ad hoc. Show less

  • APAC Information Delivery Manager (Business Intelligence)

    Jul 2022 - now

  • ANZ FP&A (Financial Planning Analyst)

    Jul 2017 - Jun 2022

  • Financial Accountant

    Jan 2015 - Jun 2017

  • Assistant Accountant

    Jul 2013 - Jan 2015

  • Accounts Payable Representative

    Sept 2012 - Jun 2013