MELODY HAIYUN ZHU

• Conducted monthly balance sheet reconciliations and ensured accurate cash reporting
• Prepared EC Sales returns and processed US reconciliations, ensuring compliance with regulations
• Collaborated with Financial Services to reconcile 30 bank accounts and resolve discrepancies
• Reviewed daily Oracle statement uploads and reported issues to bank branches
• Supported month-end reporting and ensured timely bank reconciliations for SOx compliance
• Worked with Accounts Payable and Receivable to ensure accurate cash transactions in subledgers
• Verified customer and supplier bank details in Oracle for refunds and timely approvals
• Approved BOA bank templates for Accounts Payable and monitored supplier payment details
• Collaborated with stakeholders to maintain banking data quality and prevent payment delays

Achievement:

Streamlined the monthly reconciliation process, reducing discrepancies by 15% through improved communication with financial teams and enhanced data validation techniques. Played a key role in ensuring timely month-end reporting, contributing to accurate financial statements and SOx compliance for the organization.

• Overall responsibility for day-to-day payment run processes, analysing data against both Bank and Cash Management to ensure month end reconciliations are complete
• Utilise the available resources within the Accounts Payable team to maximise productivity
• Support and coach Administrator team, ensuring optimal performance and processes and policies are adhered to
• Manage top suppliers, GRNI investigation, intercompany balance administration, audit, and month end
• Work cross-functionally with multiple departments to ensure a smooth P2P process

Achievement:

Led a project that improved the Accounts Payable process by reducing invoice processing time by 20%, resulting in more timely payments and better vendor relationships. Streamlined the month-end reconciliation process, contributing to a 10% reduction in discrepancies and ensuring a smoother, more accurate financial close.

• Processing of invoices, reconciliation of statements, queries, and customer excellence

• End-to-end management of the cash book
• Entering both receipts and payments onto the system
• Bank reconciliations across a number of different accounts
• Petty cash management and reconciliations
• Processing and coding of the purchase ledger invoices
• Seeking invoice approval from budget holders and senior stakeholders within the business
• Processing of the employee expense claims
• Record depreciation, amortization and accounting estimates during each period
• Liaising closely with the Chinese Company Accountants
• Ad hoc payments

• Working to strict deadlines, report analyzing, marketing, web site enhancement, working with customers and delivering customer excellence