John Leonard Basina

JOHN LEONARD BASINA, CPA Antipolo City, Philippines 1870 SUMMARY A Leader and Individual Contributor with more than sixteen years of experience in the fields of Finance and Accounting, Financial Reporting/Planning and Analysis, Management Accounting, Risk Analysis, Training and Development, Recruitment, Data Quality, Transition, Issues and Project Management in various Multinational Companies. EXPERIENCE Finance Director, 05/2022 – Present Eightx Business Services Inc (Remote)  Team Leadership and Quality Assurance: Oversees the FP&A and BK teams (Remotely - PH, Canada, LATAM, India), ensures the quality of work produced by Financial Analysts and Accountants, and coaches team members for continuous improvement and professional development.  Financial Modeling and Analysis: Building Model, Scenario and Sensitivity Analysis, Research and BOD Packages  Recruitment and Talent Management: Heavily involved in the end-to-end recruitment process for analysts and accountants, ensuring the selection of qualified candidates to strengthen the team.  Strategic Planning and Issue Resolution: Serves as a member of the senior leadership team, participating in strategic planning, managing daily issues, and acting as the internal controller for Eightx books to ensure financial accuracy and integrity. Financial Analyst, 08/2019 - 08/2021 World Bank Group (Philippines)  Accounting and Financial Management: Executes day-to-day accounting functions including fund transfers, budget updates, expense transfers, interim budget recoveries, and cancellation of funds, ensuring adherence to trust funds accounting policies, procedures, and SLA parameters.  Audit and Reporting: Prepares comprehensive audit packages with financial statements and backup papers, monitors, resolves master data inconsistencies, and provides detailed financial status reports to program managers and donors.  Collaboration and Process Improvement: Acts as a single point of contact for troubleshooting accounting issues, collaborates with HQ counterparts for timely audit completion, and contributes to continuous improvement initiatives for process enhancement and quality control. Senior Financial Reporting Analyst (Assistant Vice President Level), 08/2017 07/2019 Citi Bank ROHQ Finance and Risk Shared Services (Philippines)  Project Leadership and Coordination: Global Lead for the Data Quality (DQ) Issue Repository project, overseeing data integrity and accuracy, coordinating with regional DQ leads and Data Services teams, and facilitating strategic remediation processes. Data Remediation and Validation: Reviews and checks Data Remediation mapping, investigates stubs to reduce historical breaks, maintains master trackers and reporting metrics, and supports data reconciliation and validation issues, achieving significant improvements in data coverage and accuracy.  Team Management and Strategic Initiatives: Leads the Data Quality Strategic Linkage Team for APAC and EMEA, coordinates Genesis Issues Management to achieve a 95% coverage rate and manage projects including the end-to-end development and implementation of the Onboarding adjustment SharePoint.  Transition Lead, 07/2016 - 07/2017 DB Schenker GASSC (Philippines)  Business Process Optimization and Management: Leads and manages business process standardization and optimization initiatives, ensuring alignment with global standards and successfully transitioning end-to-end General Ledger and Fixed Asset processes to the global standard in the New Zealand market.  Complex Analysis and Problem Resolution: Analyzes and prepares complex reports, formulates conclusions, identifies, and assesses complex issues, and develops and implements action plans to resolve these issues effectively.  Leadership and Training: Leads teams towards achieving targets and goals, facilitates workshops and interviews across multiple levels and locations, and trains team members and work shadowers to ensure successful knowledge transfer and process understanding. Global Financial Analyst – PMO Center of Excellence (Project Manager I), 01/2014 - 04/2016 AIG Shared Services (Philippines)  Financial Validation and Analysis Leadership: PMO SS Lead for Financial Validation across APAC and Latin America, conducting in-depth financial business case reviews for high-value, high-risk projects, and developing project portfolio analytics to guide investment decision-making.  Training and Process Improvement: Trains project managers in completing project deal sheets and cost-benefit analyses, traveled to China and Colombia for training sessions, and contributed to constructing an exportable Coe financial analysis training program.  Strategic Financial Management: Performs what-if investment scenario testing, calculates, and presents key performance indicators, proactively reviews inflight program financials for risk containment, and assists in designing financial analysis practices for Property and Casualty projects, ensuring effective project financial analysis and investment review. Project Accounting and Accounts Receivable Supervisor, 12/2011 - 01/2014 Emerson Network Power (Philippines), Pasig, Philippines  Project Accounting and Accounts Receivable Management: Manages the Project Accounting and Accounts Receivable team across multiple countries in Asia, ensuring timely invoicing, revenue recognition, and monitoring of costs and revenue in alignment with US GAAP guidelines.  Financial Reporting and Risk Management: Handles management reporting for risk assessment, top project margin review, and gross profit bridge/variance analysis, ensuring projects do not age without valid management-approved justification.  Training and Process Improvement: Trains project management teams and new hires on Project Accounting and Accounts Receivable processes for APAC and leads process improvement and standardization initiatives to enhance efficiency and reduce time spent on processes. Cost Controller, 09/2010 - 09/2011 UMS Semiconductor Pte Ltd (Changi North, Singapore) Cost Accounting and Financial Reporting: Ensures accurate and timely preparation of product costing, operations reports, and financial statements, including setting standard costs and calculating monthly variances.  Operational Analysis and Improvement: Analyzes revenue and cost variances, prepares costing reports, and actively participates in reviews to enhance manufacturing operations within the group.  Internal Controls and Inventory Management: Maintains internal control systems in compliance with corporate governance, supervises a junior cost accountant, maintains the fixed assets register, and collaborates with the Inventory Controller to monitor and control inventory, perform stock counts, and minimize variances.  Finance Associate, 06/2008 - 07/2010 Deutsche Knowledge Services Pte. Ltd. (Philippines)  Financial Reporting and Analysis: Prepares month-end accrual entries, various reports including variance analysis and GL reconciliation, and retrieval and analysis of data from Business Objects/DWH for DB China.  Account Reconciliation and Intercompany Reporting: Reconciles, verifies, and analyzes accounts before posting to SAP and IDMS, prepares and issues quarterly invoices, and reports intercompany costs while resolving intercompany breaks.  Process Standardization and Data Maintenance: Standardizes working files for Asia Pacific locations, maintains reference data in SAP, and prepares and consolidates the Balanced Scorecard pack, including KPI and FTE analysis for China. Accountant II, 01/2006 - 06/2008 Philippine Electric Corporation (Philippines), Rizal, Philippines  Cost Accounting and Inventory Management: Manages cost accounting for raw materials, work in process, and finished goods inventory, ensuring accurate and timely financial data.  Financial Reporting and Analysis: Assists in the reconciliation of related party transactions and prepares various reports, including Gross Profit Analysis and Trend reports, for the Controller and VP for Finance.  Internal Quality Audits: Serves as an Internal Quality Audit Member, contributing to the ISO recertification process and ensuring compliance with quality standards. ERP AND PLATFORMS SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, QBO, Xero Business Objects  MS Office 365, Google  Wise, Shopify and Amazon  LastPass, Slack, Asana   EDUCATION CERTIFICATIONS Philippine School of Business Administration, 04/2003 Bachelor of Science in Accountancy  Certified Public Accountant  Building Financial Model