Jocelyn May D. Marzo

At present, I am a Finance Consultant of a coffee shop wherein I am doing business process review, audit, checking of finance report by their Accounting team, creating operations manual with recommendations on the right execution of standard operating procedures. From time to time, I am assisting for the proper accounts payable system so that processing of payments & funding of it will be more easier & convenient.

My work experiences has been numerous and in different fields. When I was in the corporate world, the last job was with the Finance Department as a "Finance Manager" with some functions also on the Administrative side. The Finance worked I had mostly deals with numbers and analysis of "Profit & Loss" of the company- commencing from the sales, inventories, purchases, operating expenses and other income of it. After extracting all the needed numbers, an analysis was being made through "Key Performance indicators" and recommendation on how to generate more leads on sales, turn it into retention (repeat buyers), how to manage the inventory properly so there will be no missing products, managing the purchases without overstocking while ensuring the stocks to be enough & with maintained balances to support the operations of the business, recommendation on the cost-cutting measures of such various expenses (payroll, office supplies, advertising & promotions, cleaning supplies, water, electricity, transportation, communications, rental, marketing or give-away, parking, other supplies such as packaging, take-out, kitchen, dining- in the case of "food & beverage" industry) were maintained, minimized without the sacrificing the value and other income generating activities that will contribute to the growth, development & expansion of the business. When I was handling this, we used first the "intuit Quick Books" accounting software system but as the business progressed, we migrated to another program which was the S.A.P. or the Systems Accounting Program- wherein I and the Supervisors were also conducting training for the staff on how to use it and its special features. It was really a great learning and challenging experience to transfer the maintained books and records from another new accounting software. This involved the "Chart of Accounts" proper booking & classification if it was "Asset, Liabilities, & Capital"; transferring of customer's records for Accounts Receivables & invoicing; Accounts Payable to suppliers & other entities with check or cash voucher preparation; Bank reconciliation; Recording of sales & credit cards transactions; and proper classification of "Plant, Property, & Equipment" of the company. Every month was presentation of the numbers & analysis with the management with defense on it on how my team came up with such report, made strategies, and how the system would be implemented in such a way that everyone will follow.

While on the Administrative side, I used to handle the "compensation & benefits" of the employees. This was being prepared by my team and final checked by me before pay-out time, ensuring that all will get their salaries plus overtime pays (if there was any) and the corresponding benefits. The process involved too a funding to the bank, that enough cash was there to fund the releases. If there questions, my team managed this too e.g. questions on the number of hours they worked, deductions made and other related matters to it.

Prior to this, I was with the biggest broadcasting network in our country as "HR Payroll Specialist/ Team Leader" wherein the "compensation & benefits" was also my main tasked. But the process involved more on the processing, computation and talking to people especially with those who had concerns from their salaries- how to get increases, the handling of their leaves, releases of their subsidies, and additional claims.

The other one was in a company supplying electrical parts, generator, and tires as an "Accounting Manager". My team was the one handling the preparation of "Sales Invoice" to the customers for deliveries everyday. This, we ensured that stocks were enough and all purchase orders of the clients would be serve fast, efficiently and on time.