Shinal Shivani Prasad
Suva,Fiji
Summary
Detail-oriented professional experienced in payroll processing, account reconciliation, and data entry. Skilled in employee training, AR/AP reporting, and collections management. Utilises MYOB, Xero, Quickbooks, Sage, Paymaker, and Datec Pay software. Excellent communicator with strong organisational skills, capable of prioritising tasks under pressure while fostering teamwork and collaboration. Talented Team Leader experienced and dedicated to enhancing employee satisfaction and business success. Diplomatic and friendly with proven commitment to employee training. Hardworking team player bringing necessary experience and knowledge to tackle any operational demand.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Team Leader Accounts
BTR (Fiji) Ltd
Suva
2024.01 - 2026.06
- Led and mentored team of three accounting staff to enhance skills and performance.
- Developed and implemented accounting policies and procedures to ensure compliance and efficiency.
- Ensure accuracy and compliance in financial reporting.
- Prepare and review financial statements and reports.
- Collaborate with other departments for financial planning.
- Oversee and coordinate daily accounting operations.
- Verified discrepancies and resolved client and supplier payment issues, strengthening relationships and maintaining trust.
- Manage and respond to correspondence and enquiries from customers and suppliers through email and phone conversations.
- Daily bank reconciliation in QuickBooks and Xero
- Daily AR invoicing and data entry of supplier invoices in QuickBooks and Xero
- Sending monthly statements and credit notes to customers
- Reconciling monthly statement of suppliers
- Monthly AR Reports
- Monthly Profit and Loss statements
- Preparing timesheets fortnightly for Payroll
- Processing weekly payments and reimbursements
- Performed monthly reviews of AR and AP invoices to maintain financial integrity.
Team Leader Accounts Receivable
Ram Sami & Sons (Fiji) Pte Ltd
Suva
2022.04 - 2023.12
- Led and managed team of two staff in AR, ensuring efficient operations and team cohesion.
- Managed daily operations of allocating, receipting, and reconciling customer accounts in Sage, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Developing and generating weekly debtors aging, daily cheque collection, monthly sales and debtors forecast as well as daily sales reports to help senior management and directors to monitor progress.
- Trained and supervised four employees on best practices in financial forecasting, enhancing team knowledge and accuracy.
- Verified discrepancies and resolved clients' payment issues.
- Generated customer statements upon receipt of billing information and tracked collection progress.
- Manage and respond to correspondence and enquiries from customers through email and phone conversations.
- Sending monthly statements and credit notes to the customers
- Maintained records by imaging invoices, debits, and credit notes.
- Maintaining historical records by filing documents such as invoices, credit notes, purchase orders and Goods return advice.
- Preparing export invoices as well as local invoices.
- Created cash and credit customer accounts in Sage to streamline account management.
- Preparation of weekly payroll for Ramsami & Sons (Fiji) Pte Limited and Wallson Foods in Datec Software.
- Performed receptionist duties during absences, including answering and forwarding calls, meeting clients, and sorting mail.
Accounts Receivable Officer
Ram Sami & Sons (Fiji) Pte Ltd
Suva
2019.09 - 2022.04
- Resolved clients' payment discrepancies by verifying information and ensuring timely resolution.
- Verified validity of account discrepancies by obtaining and investigating information from sales, trade promotions, customer service departments, and customers.
- Posted customer payments by recording cash, cheques and direct deposit transactions manually and in Sage.
- Verified deposits, rectified discrepancies, and processed end-of-day paperwork using Sage to provide accuracy.
- Communicated with clients regarding payment needs while maintaining detailed and accurate account records.
- Handled and responded to customer inquiries to correspondence and enquiries from customers through email and phone conversations
- Updated aging reports daily in Sage.
- Matched purchase orders with invoices and recorded necessary information.
- Maintained records by imaging invoices, debits, and credits.
- Prepared receipts and local staff and intercompany invoices manually and in sage. As well as export invoices in Sage.
- Distributed monthly statements to clients and credit notes to the customers
- Trained and supervised two employees on best practices in financial forecasting to enhance team performance.
Accounts Officer
Usha Investment Pte Ltd
Suva
2019.05 - 2019.08
- Maintaining accounts of customers and suppliers by keeping up-to-date records of incoming and outgoing payments through MYOB software.
- Manage and control costs and expenses by receiving processing, verifying and reconciling invoices.
- Processed supplier payments by monitoring discount opportunities, preparing and scheduling cheques, and resolving discrepancies in purchase orders and contracts to maintain supplier relationships.
- Verifies supplier accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions.
- Managed payroll by tracking employee hours, overtime, and pay rates, entering information into spreadsheets, and creating management records to ensure accurate compensation.
- Contact and interact with customers who fail to make payments by providing reminders as well as attending to client queries.
- Managed petty cash disbursements by accurately recording entries and verifying supporting documents. by recording entry and verifying documents.
- Prepared monthly VAT and FNPF lodgements to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and timely submissions.
- Organised historical records by filing documents systematically for easy retrieval. by filing documents.
Attachment for Accounts Officer
Pacific Pipelines & Geosynthetics Ltd
Suva
2018.12 - 2019.03
- Debtors and Creditors (Local and Overseas) reconciliation.
- Engaged with customers to recover outstanding payments, improving cash flow
- Facilitated payments to suppliers, maintaining positive relationships and ensuring supply continuity
- Processed sales orders for LPOs received from customers, ensuring timely fulfilment
- Preparing LPO for the purchasing
- Doing receipting in the system.
- Passing credit notes.
- Employed MYOB software to manage accounting tasks.
- Prepared VAT returns for compliance with tax regulations.
- Preparing payroll for the staff fortnightly in Pay Maker Software.
- Preparing FNPF every month
- Filing and record management
- Carried out day-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Handled calls every day to address customer inquiries and concerns.
- Maintained excellent attendance record, consistently arriving to work on time.
Baggage Booth Assistant
University of the South Pacific
2017.06 - 2017.12
Sales Assistant
Kumsun
Ba
2016.11 - 2017.02
Sales Assistant
Meenoos
Ba
2015.12 - 2016.01
Education
Master's - Accounting
Fiji National University
2025.01 -
Post graduate Diploma - Professional Accounting
Fiji National University
2022.01 - 2024.01
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting and Economics
University of The South Pacific
2016.01 - 2018.01
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Xavier College
Ba, Fiji Islands 2015.01 - 2013.01
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Ba Sangam College
Ba, Fiji Islands 2012.01 -
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Balata College
Tavua, Fiji Islands 2011.01 -
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Muanidevo Sanatan Primary School
Labasa 2010.01 - 2003.01
Skills
- Processing payroll
- Reconciling accounts
- AR/AP reporting
- Billing and collections
- Collections management
- Statement preparation/Reconciliation
- Proficient in accounting software
- Paymaker and Datec Pay
- MS Office proficiency
- Numeracy Skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Organisational Skills
- Work prioritisation
- Strategic planning
- KPI management
- Effective teamwork
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Mentoring team members
- Communication Skills
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Fluent in spoken and written English
Proficiency in conversation in Hindi
REFERENCES
- Joni, Bale, Accountant, balejoni3@gmail.com, 2327757, BTR (Fiji) Ltd
- Amylia Bale, Operations Team Leader, amyliabale@gmail.com, 7698811, BTR (Fiji) Ltd
- Pardeep, Kumar Lal, Group Accountant, pardeepal@gmail.com, Ramsami & Sons (Fiji) Pte Limited
- Shinal, Sharika Chand, HR Officer, 9646248, Ramsami & Sons (Fiji) Pte Limited
- Avinash, Kumar, Legal Advisor/ Risk and Compliance Manager
- Ashika, Devi, Finance Officer, 9222580, Pacific Pipelines and Geosynthetics Pte Ltd
- Nitesh, Bhan, H.O.D Commercial Studies, 9960191, Xavier College
INTERESTS
Socializing, Reading, Watching TV, Listening to music
Accomplishments
- 2019 Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Accounting and Economics
- 2018 Certificate of Appreciation for 2018 AID for Trade in Asia and the Pacific Conference
- 2017 Certificate of Appreciation for being a Student Ambassador on the USP Open Day.
- 2015 Certificate of Credit in Fiji Mathematics Competition
- Certificate of Participation in Australian Mathematics Competition
- Certification of Participation in the International Competitions and Assessments for Schools in the Computer Skills
- 2014 Certificate of Distinction in Fiji Mathematics Competition
- Certification of Participation in the International Essay Contest for Young People
- 2013 Certificate of Participation in Australian Mathematics Competition
- Certificate of Pass in Fiji Mathematics Competition
- Principals Honor Award for Speak in English for Success
- Certificate of Honor for Full Attendance
- 2012 Certification of Participation in the Hindi Day Celebration
- Gold medal Awarded for the First Prize in the Annual Examination
- Certification of Appreciation for Full Attendance
- Certificate of Appreciation for Staffroom Assistance
- 2011 Certificate of Credit in the Fiji Mathematics Competition
- 2010 Silver Medal awarded for the Second Prize in the Annual Examination
- Certificate Awarded for the Second Prize in the Annual Examination
- Certificate of Appreciation in Recognition for being Head Girl
Extra-Curricular Activities
2018- Executive Member of Economies Students Association 2017- Volunteer Member of the Accounting and Finance Students Association -University of the South Pacific Open Day 2017 ambassador 2015-2014 - Student Council Members 2015-2014 - Interact Club Member 2015-2013 - Cadets Training 2010-2009 - Student Council Members 2018- Executive Member of Economies Students Association 2017- Volunteer Member of the Accounting and Finance Students Association -University of the South Pacific Open Day 2017 ambassador 2015-2014 - Student Council Members 2015-2014 - Interact Club Member 2015-2013 - Cadets Training 2010-2009 - Student Council Members
Declaration
I hereby declare that the above information is correct till-to-date …S.Prasad……… 22.03.26… Signature Date
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Master's - Accounting
Fiji National University
2025.01 -
Team Leader Accounts
BTR (Fiji) Ltd
2024.01 - 2026.06
Team Leader Accounts Receivable
Ram Sami & Sons (Fiji) Pte Ltd
2022.04 - 2023.12
Post graduate Diploma - Professional Accounting
Fiji National University
2022.01 - 2024.01
Accounts Receivable Officer
Ram Sami & Sons (Fiji) Pte Ltd
2019.09 - 2022.04
Accounts Officer
Usha Investment Pte Ltd
2019.05 - 2019.08
Attachment for Accounts Officer
Pacific Pipelines & Geosynthetics Ltd
2018.12 - 2019.03
Baggage Booth Assistant
University of the South Pacific
2017.06 - 2017.12
Sales Assistant
Kumsun
2016.11 - 2017.02
Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting and Economics
University of The South Pacific
2016.01 - 2018.01
Sales Assistant
Meenoos
2015.12 - 2016.01
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Xavier College
2015.01 - 2013.01
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Ba Sangam College
2012.01 -
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Balata College
2011.01 -
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Muanidevo Sanatan Primary School
2010.01 - 2003.01