1. Personal Statement Achievements Knowledge Accounting Experience Aldo MonasteriosPart-Qualified CIMA MemberCIMA Certificate in Business Accounting
2. A CIMA Part-Qualified ambitious, competent and high-performing Accountancy professional with over 4 years of Business and Academic experience and expertise within fiercely competitive Professional Services and Airline markets and sectors at Internal Auditor and External Auditor-levels. A tenacious figure with excellent communication, numeracy and analytical skills, and a team-player with real enthusiasm for producing high-quality and accurate work, as well as making recommendations to improve business results and “bottom-line” figures at all levels. Personal Statement
3. With a wide range of technical skills within a range of business sectors, book-keeping, bank reconciliation, financial statement preparation, and Profit & Loss processes have been successfully managed and delivered, as well as Auditing, Tax, Prepayments and Accruals programmes. With experience in delivering solutions to positively affect organisational profitability, personal expertise has been gained and developed in order to prioritise work, meet tight deadlines and manage high-pressure situations successfully within both SME and multinational organisations. Personal Statement
4. Achieved main goals of improving Aserca’s “bottom-line” through focusing on the main expense (petty cash) within every airline terminal and analysing every payment completed, as well as discovering many unjustified expenses, such as unauthorized employees payments for laundry, beverages and mobile telephone usage, and handwritten receipts that were used to obtain expenses fraudulently for taxis, restaurants and other sundry items Achievements
5. Carried out detailed analysis of expenses accounts to ensure compliance with all procedures of client banks, as well as delivering detailed reports to company management within short timescales after audit completion, consistently meeting deadlines under high pressure and maintaining high work standards and quality at KPMG Achievements
6. Completed over 40 account audits in a 3-month period, including approximately 3 accounts per week and report writing within a 24-hour period for each Successfully managed Aserca Airline’s “Petrol Account”, a huge and important expense account within the airline, completing each in a 10-day period with report writing, error identification and solution-finding processes included Achievements
7. Auditing • Planning, techniques, tests and Sampling Methods.• Ability to gather, analyse and evaluate facts• Preparation of concise oral and written reports• Strong communicator and effective working relationships and able to work autonomously Knowledge
8. Financial Accounting Statement of Financial Position Income Statement Statement of Changes in Equity Accruals and Prepayments Depreciation and Amortization Bad and Doubtful debts Knowledge
10. KPMG (External Auditor) Responsible for checking expenses accounts, including Council tax, transport and utilities payments, as well as summarising receipts and delivering reports for all expense accounts Also responsible for the management of Bank Conciliations for these accounts, as well as overseeing a huge number of transactions, inventory control, bank statement verifications, discrepancy investigation, human-error handling and problem solving tasks Accounting Experience
11. Developed focus on financial information with bias towards company balance sheets and P&L accounts, as well as acting as an Internal Auditor to complete operations through external travel, site-visits and client liaison with Station and Airline Managers Added value to KPMG by displaying all results as accurately as possible given the account information provided, as well as identifying non-justifiable expenses, payments and errors, report writing, issue resolution, and short and long-term recommendation provision for future trading periods Accounting Experience
12. Aserca Airlines C.A Responsible as Internal Auditor to report to Aserca’s Chief Auditor with key responsibilities including travel to airline offices and terminals to check company sales and petty cash records against company standard procedures, as well as carrying out detailed audits to ensure company and payment compliance. Also held responsibility for inventory valuations, unnecessary expense reduction, cash flow processes, reimbursement periods, audit management, business controls and improved profitability, as well as following up recommendations to ensure correctly implementation, using all company resources to improve overall effectiveness, and a focus on revenue generation through weekly travel to the airline’s terminals and quarterly “follow-ups”. Accounting Experience
13. Managed the objection and report-writing processes to deal with all financial and employee discrepancies, leading to the company’s CFO being able to dismiss all employees found to be involved in fraudulent behaviour and implementing new procedures and internal regulations Also assisted within an external company acquisition of Santa Barbara Airlines, with key responsibilities for the auditing of the other company’s inventory and stock value, as well as exporting the inventory list to Microsoft Excel software, choosing items of high values and then resolving valuation mistakes within the system due to poor management to a value of approximately $8.0million rather than the original valuation of roughly $10.0million Acquisition was completed strategically as Aserca Airlines to increase travel-routes from Venezuela and enabled personal work across the US and Caribbean Accounting Experience
