Accountant in Vancouver, British Columbia

Faustinus V. Anthonipillai 14-975 West 10th Avenue Vancouver, BC V5Z 1L9 306-... [email protected] OBJECTIVE To obtain a position as an Accounting/Auditing/Financial/Banking/Administrative Support where I can continue to build on the knowledge and experiences that I’ve developed throughout my career PROFILE • Bachelor Degree in Business Administration (BBA) Master’s Degree in Economics. Student member of CGA • Excellent working knowledge of Accounting (AR/AP), AR/AP Processing, AR/AP Settlement, AR/AP Reconciliation & Balancing area within the bank, financial/ Hotel and customer service environments • Foreign Exchange, Nostro Accounts & Derivatives//Hedge Funds – Entitlements, Treasury, P & L, SSGM -GAAP, SOX, Global Trade Banking Accounts, Fixed income, Commodities, Equities & AP & AR Portfolio Control . Invoicing, Ongoing invoice validation and Payment Processing (Reconciliation & Settlement). • Over 7 years in preparing journal entries, income statements, balance sheets reports, auditing records, and performing A/P, A/R reconciliations, A/P, A/R settlement & A/P, A/R, Accounts Control, & Balancing. • Provide tax reporting services – USA/CAN, Tax reconciliation and filing of all tax documentation including T4RIFs and T4RSPs, T5s, T3s (Reconciliation, Settlement & Entitlements Accounts). • Client service skills, Accounts Control, Accounts Balancing, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Administrative, Clerical skills/Advanced Software skills–Excel, Word, Power-Point, Access, Oracle/Mpower/Sun Accounting systems /JDEdwards/Onyx/Bloomberg/ADP/BTS- ICI/Broadridge YARDI/AS400/ISM/Euroclear/CDS/OMERS/DTC/FMCnet/Datafile/SAP/Unitrax/Fundserv • Friendly, Professional & team player. Analytical, Quick-Learner & Priority setting skills. A positive "can do" attitude with strong team commitment • Familiarity with mainframe G/L systems. Strong understanding of accounting principles and policies. Hogan G/Ledger Accounts/Simply Accounting/ACCPAC- V5.6/QuickBooks/Caseware/Compliance/POA PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Senior Accounting Administrator (Help Desk - Foreign Exchange & Treasury) Feb. 2004 – Jan. 2014 CIBC, Global Operations, Toronto, Ontario (Reconciliation & Settlement ). • Reconcile CIBC’s Client’s accounts with Fund Company accounts on daily, weekly and monthly basis. Analyze Fundserv/ADP/ISM/Oracle Reports & Client’s Funds Reports and prepare daily, weekly and monthly A/P, A/R reconciliation statements for Fund Accounting, A/P, A/R’s Trade Processing, A/P, A/R’s Settlement, NAV& Transfers (Including FX-NAV/FMC/REORG/ICS Accounts, Pooled/Hedge Funds/ Institutional/ Entitlements/ Investor Services & P&L). Processing in ADP book of records & Portfolio Administration - AP & A/R, Journal Entries, Invoicing, Ongoing invoice validation and Payment Processing (Reconciliation Settlement). • Involved with all aspects pertaining to A/P, A/R taxation of mutual fund trusts offered for sale to public. Ensured that all tax reporting to clients with non-registered accounts were correctly reported to unit holders and to government. Provided support to internal departments such as client services, account administration, systems and investments regarding tax issues pertaining to investment funds. AR/AP balances, Checking validate invoices and Accounts Payments, T4RIFs and T4RSPs, T5s, T3s etc returns and reconciling USA/CAN with T4RIFs and T4RSPs, T5s, T3s slips related USA/CAN etc. • Provide AR/AP tax information to clients for tax planning purposes regarding fund terminations, fund mergers and year-end distributions. Provide clients A/P, A/R with tax reporting services such as year-end distribution calculations and tax and information return preparation. Review and analyze security transactions to determine proper recording for tax purposes. Prepare necessary AR/AP tax receipts; Audit transaction codes as they relate to reporting requirements related USA/CAN (Reconciliation & Settlement). • Process and Complete entries to client’s accounts and reconciled daily activities for A/P, A/R Fund Accounting, A/P, A/R Trade Processing/ A/P, A/R Settlement/ A/P, A/R Transfers for FX/FMC/REORG/ICS/ Entitlements Accounts, Pooled/Hedge Funds-NAV/P&L/FX – Nostro Accounts Treasury Accounts and P&L & Portfolio Administration AP & AR. Prepared the invoice validation and payment processing (Reconciliation & Settlement). • Provide effective AR/AP balancing and control of accounts for assigned number of funds. Report any outages for any funds not reconciled by daily and month end. Research outages in timely manner, Contact fund companies to resolve accounts discrepancies and up-date the client’s accounts/P&L (A/P, A/R, FX, Accounts Control & Balancing) & Portfolio Administration – AP & AR related USA/CAN (Reconciliation & Settlement). • Prepare the Clients Capital markets monthly works reports, monthly reconciliation statements and final accounts statements for present to Senior Manager. Reconcile Settlement and Transfers of Mutual Funds (A/P, A/R, FX-,Nostro Accounts Control & Balancing) & portfolio Administration, Invoicing • Support to open the new FX/FMC/REORG/ICS/ Entitlements accounts, Pooled& Hedge Funds–NAV/P&L Reconcile daily activities, research and analyze the daily balances of Fund Accounting, Trade Processing, Recon., Settlement ,Transfers & FX , Nostro, Entitlements, Treasury Accounts, P&L, A/P, A/R, Accounts Control, & Balancing - validate invoices and process payments - T4RIFs and T4RSPs,T5s,T3s etc returns and reconciling USA/CAN with T4RIFs and T4RSPs, T5s, T3s slips, etc (Reconciliation & Settlement). • Verify A/P, A/R SWIFT/DIV/CPG/Swap/NAV/CDS/DTC/DTS/OTC/P&L/ MAXIMIS and On-Demand/MPower/RIS/ADP/Portia/Bloomberg report Senior Night Auditor/ Guest Relations Officer Jan 1996 - Jan 2004 Hilton Hotel – Toronto Airport, Toronto, Ontario • Running daily credit card transactions A/R The guest ledger (front office ledger/ transient ledger) in the collection of all accounts receivable for currently registered guests.(billing receipt) to, ensuring the accuracy of all financial information, and gathering all needed paperwork to completed • Recording daily room occupancy and rate totals. Posting the day's room rate and room tax to each guest folio at the close of business Ensure the accuracy of the charges to the guest folios, ensuring the sum of revenues due to accounts receivable from the various departments (i.e. Food & Beverage, Rooms, gift shop) from department control sheets. The folios for guests who are scheduled to leave the next morning may be printed and delivered to the guests' rooms. • Prepare the PMS reports to help perform the night audit. Recording revenue totals for cash, checks, and credit card transactions to run daily management reports off the PMS. Occupancy reports, calculations of average daily rate (ADR) and revenue per available room (Revpar). distribution calculations and tax and information return preparation. • Generating automated accounting reports for the manager's review and analyzes of security transactions to determine proper recording for tax purposes. Prepare necessary AR/AP tax receipts; Audit transaction codes as they relate to reporting requirements for settlement process. check-in, check-out, reservations, responding to guest complaints, coordinating housekeeping requests and handling any emergencies that may arise ACHIEVEMENTS: ? CIBC Central Control Group Achiever’s Award 2005, 20... INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS: AS400/TOPS/ISM/Baycom/ADP/MPOWER/RIS/Fundserve/Eltra of CDS System//DTC/YARDI/RPM/ WG-Online/Oracle/SOX-Sarbanes-Oxley/Unitrax/ Bloom-Berg CITRIX/SWIFT//Sanchez/ Fndserv/FMCnet/ GAAP/RATS/BESS/BONY/SAP/ERP * DOS * Windows 2007 * WordPerfect * Lotus 1-2-3 * MS Word * MS Excel * PowerPoint * MS-Access * Corel Draw * Simply Accounting * Norton Utilities/ACCPAC * E-mail * Internet Explorer * Business Accounting * Proprietary Banking Applications EDUCATION: • Bachelor Degree in Business Administration (BBA) • Master’s Degree in Economics. • Student member of CGA VOLUNTEER WORK • Performed volunteer work at the St. Lawrence School for the Handicapped as a Social Worker • Actively participate in cricket, soccer, table tennis, swimming and various other family activities • Enjoy reading, music, movies, theatre, the arts, socializing and keeping current on world events REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST