Janine Espiritu
Accountant / Bookkeeper
Profile
Scarborough, Ontario | -; - |-|
www.linkedin.com/in/janine-dorado-b6a856136/
More than seven years of experience in Financial Accounting Management in the Finance/Accounting/Bookkeeping
industry.Extensive expertise ranges from Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable monitoring, financial report generation,
financial data analysis, annual internal audit, sales and expenses monthly report, and asset management inventory. Key
competence lies in the ability to effectively communicate with the client, both technical and analytical alike, which is
honed through years of task-oriented support and engagement with stakeholders, with a positive result and client
satisfaction at foremost focus. With that, the ability to analyze an organization’s business requirements and develop
solutions for improving productivity has been demonstrated.
Skills
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Accounting
o Full-cycle accounting, Bookkeeping, Financial Report Writing, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable,
Budgeting, Fixed AssetManagement, Journal Entry, Internal Audits, Account Reconciliation, Balance Sheet
Reconciliation, Payroll
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Applications
o Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2008R2, Quickbooks Desktop|Online, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word
Work experience
Accounting Technician
Feb 2022 – Present
Ethnic Channels Group
Ethnic Channels Group (ECG) is a Canadian television broadcasting, distribution, and communications company,
specializing in multicultural television channels for the Canadian and United States markets. ECG has been in operation
since 2004 and was co-founded by Slava Levin. We are using Quickbooks Intuit Online accounting system but planning on
migrating to another system due to bulk files that cannot be accommodated by Quickbooks in the long run.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Responsible for Company bank reconciliations
• Ad Sale Invoicing and Reconciliations
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Ensure that payroll is performed properly and on time.
Preparation of semi-monthly payroll for two subsidiaries.
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Balance Sheet Account Reconciliations
Support Senior Accountant and VP of Finance
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Assist in annual external audit.
Ad Hoc reports as needed.
Accounting Supervisor
May 2015 – May 2019
Precast Products Philippines Inc. Philippines
One of the pioneer employees of the company, established up most, if not all, the reports in finance, acted as a
supervisor on a small team with overall responsibility to provide supervision and training support regarding financial
recording, and reporting of the company. Day-to-day tasks involve manual encoding of expenses in Excel and checking
reports of Sales and Accounts Payable aging in a professional and timely manner.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Established an excel-based payroll tool which improved processing times by 50%.
• Provide Statements of Accounts sent via e-mail to customers with overdue balances.
• Releasing and scheduling checks for payment to suppliers on a weekly basis
• Perform data validation on semi-monthly payroll report to check if the payroll prepared by HR is accurate.
• Identify the root cause of financial data discrepancies and provide resolution, especially on purchases and
sales reports.
• Timely payment of online BIR taxes (VAT, withholding taxes, 1702-Q). Monthly and quarterly payment of
government taxes (1702-Q, withholding taxes, ITR, and VAT).
• Perform Fixed Asset monitoring and monthly inventory count to ensure accuracy in our records.
• Monitor and follow up on ongoing and upcoming projects to ensure collection of payments.
• Conduct presentations of financial data to the company owners and executives when needed.
• Participate in government (BIR) quarterly and sometimes, unannounced visits for company compliance
audits.
• Training and supervision of newly hired employees/assistants in the Finance team.
• Preparation and set-up of the Chart of accounts, financial reports, and other related reports
Accounting Associate August
2014 – May 2015
Choose your Shoes (CYS), Phil. Inc. (Manufacturing)
Acted as Credit and Collection Officer using MS Excel as a system tool, keeping records of collections, sales, and sales
commissions to medical representatives. Also handles Fix asset and Inventory monitoring. Overall responsibilities are
composed but not limited to:
• Recording day-to-day Sales Transactions.
• Monthly Sales Report with sales commissions per medical representative.
• Sales Aging Report.
• Physical count of inventory and inventory movement analysis to replenish fast-moving items.
• Sales invoice and sales receipt recording. Using these records to comply with the BIR government VAT
payment.
• Reconciling bank payments of clients to update payments per client’s book.
• Participate in annual financial audit. Presentation of needed documents for the external auditor.
• Checks preparation, filing, and safekeeping of paid invoices per supplier.
Accounting Associate
September 2012 – May 2013
Choose your Shoes (CYS), Phil. Inc. (Manufacturing)
Acted as Accounts Payable and Bookkeeping Officer using Navision as a system tool. Overall responsibilities are
composed of the following:
• Bookkeeping
• Journal Entry for accruals and deferrals.
• Monthly Cash Flow, payables, depreciation, and Aging Report.
• Foreign transactions specifically foreign purchases, imports, and foreign exchange gain/loss.
• Fixed Asset and inventory tagging, listings, counting, and audit.
• Accounts payable monitoring.
• Semi-monthly Payroll checking.
• Yearly company budget proposal report.
Accounting Assistant
July 2011 – August 2012
Calata Corporation (Retail)
Used Quickbooks Desktop as system tool to account all daily financial and non-financial activities. Overall
responsibilities are composed of the following:
• Recording day-to-day cash and check disbursement transactions.
• Reviewing and analyzing all expenses (recurring and non-recurring items), same with billing and collections.
• Preparation of check vouchers and printing of checks. Safekeeping and control of all checks signed by
signatories. Releasing checks to authorized parties.
• Preparing semi-monthly billing to clients, seeing to it that utilities and rentals are paid on time to avoid
penalties.
• Preparation of monthly and quarterly government requirements such as VAT, withholding taxes and ITRs.
• Inventory count and conducting unannounced cash count on our branches (10 branches of AGRI PHIL Corp.
owned by CALATA Corp.)
• Management reports every month-end and then discussing it directly with the Chief Finance Officer (Cash
flow,Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Schedule of Expenses, and Analysis of Variances)
Accounting Staff
November 2010 – February 2011
Mary Kay Phil’s., Inc. (Retail)
Used Oracle as a system tool to account all daily financial and non-financial activities. It was a contractual-based
accounting job for the month-end season. Responsibilities composed of sales, sales commission, and sales order
encoding, filing check vouchers and monthly bank reconciliation.
Professional Strengths
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Ability to effectively communicate with clients regarding financial business requirements.
Strong skills in report generation based on client needs – using client’s system and MS Excel.
Experienced with financial data validation and analysis using both client’s system and MS Excel.
Ability to multi-task and prioritize.
Adaptability and willingness to learn new skills or technologies.
Experienced with system demonstration/presentation with company executives.
Has a keen eye for detail and is able to work independently and with minimal supervision.
Undergone independent system training for personal certification on Quickbooks online and a certified
Quickbooks Pro Advisor.
Highly competent and a quick learner.
Education
Centennial College – Progress Campus
Strategic Management – Accounting
Post-grad Certificate-
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy
Philippines School of Business Administration
Quezon City, Philippines-
Character References
Available upon request.
