BELLE ZHAO

Unit 904, 28 Bouverie Street ▪ Carlton VIC 3053 belle.xuru.zhao@gmail.com ▪ (M) 0450 890837

JOB OBJECTIVE: Graduate Accountant

Progressive working experience as Intern Bookkeeper; Progressive working experience as Intern Assistant Accountant; Seeking for the full time Graduate Accountant position in a developing company, in order to achieve as a qualified professional accountant in the near future. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Platinum Accounting VIC – Melbourne September, 2016 – Current Job Title: Intern Assistant Accountant Platinum Accounting is a CPA Public Practice with three-partner which mainly provides accounting, bookkeeping and accounting training services for individuals, sole traders, partnerships, small businesses and family trusts.

Responsibilities: • Bank reconciliation on a monthly basis including matching MYOB balance with bank

statement; posting journals to MYOB; reconciliation of accounts; investigating variances and filing away with reconciliation report. Also, running bank reconciliation in Reckon One, Xero and SAP.

• Preparing cost centre report and variance report on a monthly basis including examining spending patterns; setting up pivot tables based on data; using tables/graphs to convey information and doing analysis; and making recommendations to management.

• Updating Fixed Assets Register & posting depreciation journal on a monthly basis including transferring balance sheet from MYOB to EXCEL and adding new purchase in both systems, then doing depreciation calculation in EXCEL; posting general journal; checking MYOB balance matches with EXCEL. Also, running FAR in Reckon One, Xero and SAP.

• Credit card reconciliation on a monthly basis including comparing invoices with transactions on statement; preparation of the approval sheet; processing expenses & payments in MYOB; and filing away with reconciliation report.

• Individual tax return processing (study towards to FNSBKG404) and company tax return processing.

• Running BAS on a monthly & quarterly basis including sending GST summary report to EXCEL for calculation; using BAS template in EXCEL to calculate BAS; matching the balance in GST summary with BAS template; and posing BAS payment to MYOB.

• Prepayment processing on a monthly basis including recording & calculating prepayments in EXCEL; then processing a prepayment journal in MYOB.

• AP & AR processing including receiving & sending tax invoices; and recording invoices into MYOB, Reckon One, Xero, and SAP.

• Accruing to budget on a monthly basis including recording any underspending to budget amount as accruals on the last day of the month; reversing the accrual journal on the first day of the next open period.

• Payroll processing on a fortnightly basis including calculation of wages & salaries, holiday leave and sick leave; also rolling over at the beginning of the next year, and preparing and sending pay slips.

• Running Expenses Claim in Xero including updating receipts and scheduling payments; also preparing reports including BAS, AP/AR Aged Report, P&L, Depreciation Schedule, Reconciliation Report and Payroll Summary by using Reckon One, Xero, MYOB and SAP.

• Inventory processing on a monthly basis including setting up stock record, updating stock based on purchase & sale invoices; processing Year End stock take & adjustment.

Achievements: • Improved Credit Card authorization process (redesigned approval sheet with highlighted

personal expenses) which diminished personal expenses by $315.90 and improved processing time by 30%.

• Redesigned prepayment spreadsheet which improved accurateness and processing time by 50%.

• Improved EXCEL listing of payments for each employee and entitlement, then one general journal is entered without employees details, it improved processing time by 50%.

San He Ren Group China – Xinjiang province June, 2011 – September, 2011 & June, 2012 – September, 2012

Job Title: Intern Assistant Accountant

San He Ren Group is a cosmetics company which mainly provides cosmetic wholesale and retail, and beauty services for individuals, sole traders and small businesses.

Responsibilities: • Bank reconciliation on a monthly basis including matching company’s accounting system

balance with bank statement; posting journals to company’s accounting system; reconciliation accounts; investigating variances, and filing away with reconciliation report.

• Credit card reconciliation on a monthly basis including comparing invoices with transactions on statement; preparation of the approval sheet; processing expenses & payments in company’s accounting system; and filing away with reconciliation report.

• Preparing cost centre report and variance report on monthly basis including examining spending patterns; setting up pivot tables based on data; using tables/graphs to convey information and doing analysis; and making recommendations to management.

• Stock take and stock adjustments on a monthly basis. • Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable processing including receiving & sending tax

invoices; and typing in invoices into company’s accounting system.

Achievements: • Improved cost centre report and variance report with more summarized graphs used which

improved analysis summary by 50%.

The Dalian Jiaotong University China – Liaoning province December, 2010 – January, 2011

Job Title: Intern Bookkeeper (accounting practical)

The Dalian Jiaotong University is a university in Dalian, Liaoning, China under the provincial government. Responsibilities: • Data entry on daily basis. • Preparing financial statements including Balance Sheet, P&L, Cash Flow statement.

Professional Membership • Certificate of Accounting Professional (21020400015086) • Certificate of English for Business and Global Communication (CA_2011_13013621) • Study towards FNSBKG404 – Carry out business activity and instalment activity statement

tasks • Study towards CPA, CA & CFA

EDUCATION

The Australian National University 2015 – 2016 ACT – Canberra

Degree: Master of Applied Finance La Trobe University 2013 – 2015 VIC – Melbourne

Degree: Bachelor of Accounting

The Dalian Jiaotong University 2010 – 2013 China – Liaoning province Degree: Bachelor of Accounting VOLUNTEER WORK

La Trobe University 2013-2014 Activity: New Student Orientation Campus;

La Trobe University Music Festival.

SKILLS • Accounting software – MYOB (advanced); Xero (beginner); Reckon One(beginner); SAP

(beginner). • Statistic software – R (beginner). • Application Systems – MS (advanced) including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook. • Language – Mandarin (advanced); English (advanced).

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

• Piano performance (achieved the highest piano performance level in China) • Sports (including basketball, volleyball, table tennis etc.) • Reading (my favourite book is “The Road Less Travelled”) • Writing (I would like to write some essays after I read a book) • Travel (my next destination is Paris)

REFERENCES

• Will be provided upon request