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VASILIKI KARETSOU

Chief Accountant and Financial Consultant & Human Resources Supervisor

I am a reliable, motivated and multi-skilled Chief Accountant, with a keen eye for detail and significant working experience in the Financial and Business Administration Management. I have excellent financial and accounting skills as well as, being able to produce clear and in detail financial reports, offering sound advice on a variety of different subjects. Additionally, I am a self-motivated individual and effective communicator, working well individually and furthermore as part of a team. My excellent track record in providing high quality results, combined with my honesty, transparent approach and reliable nature, would make me an asset to any organization.

Work Experience

  • 2000 - 2011
    Arvanitis Konstantinos D. Financial and Accounting Consultancy.
    Chief Accountant and Financial Consultant & Human Resources Supervisor
     Ensure that all necessary documents are requested, collected, and compiled.
     Bookkeeping services helping various clients to manage cash flow transactions
     Analyze revenues, monitor expenditures and determine budget variances.
     Prepare and record asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
     Monitoring the transactions are posted to the correct ledger according to company policies and the accepted financial and accounting reporting standards and regulations.
     Summarize financial status by collecting information, generate trial balance, balance sheet, profit and loss, and other internal reports and official public statements.
     Monitoring the completing and submitting VAT Returns.
     Monitoring and supervising the accounting team to complete assigned accounting tasks within deadlines for all the large, mid and small sized companies.
     Updates job knowledge by participating in educational seminars, reading professional publications and maintaining personal accountant networks.
     Conduct all necessary trainings to keep the team’s skills and knowledge up to date.
     Provide guidance to other accountants when needed.
     Work collaboratively with other teams to achieve shared goals.
     Review and recommend changes to existing accounting procedures.
     Secure financial information by completing database backups.
     Maintain highly organized and updated client files.
     Monitoring the payroll of companies and processing the employee payroll tax filling making sure that the employers submit payroll data to the payroll service provider electronically.
     Banking Services for mid to large clients to assist secure storage of cash flow and valuables, checking and saving accounts, loan and investment services.
     Assist in auditing activities to companies by providing necessary information and analyzing and scheduling general ledger accounts, to certify that no dishonest behavior such as misuse of funds is going on inside the organizations and also to ensure compliance.
     Avoid legal challenges by complying with legal requirements.
     Maintain constant communication with all our clients.
     Maintain current and garner new client relationships.
     Consultation services to companies how to fully comply with tax law and how to rectify safely any deviation or discrepancy, if found, by the accounting audit in ledgers, bank statements, payroll, tax information, internal financial reports, official published reports, accounts payable and receivable.
     Financial Consulting Planning Services, helping firms plan for the future and determine the best steps to take in order to reach their monetary goals.
     Preparing or updating employment records and all the governmental documentations for the Ministry of Labor related to hiring, transferring, promoting, and terminating as to remain in compliance.
     Monitoring and ensuring new hire paperwork is completed and processed.
     Ensure legal compliance with all existing governmental and labor legal and government reporting requirements.
     Maintaining minimal company exposure to lawsuits and minimize risk
     Report directly to Operations Manager.
     Protects company's value by keeping information confidential
  • 2015 - 2016
    Arvanitis Konstantinos D. Financial and Accounting Consultancy.
    Chief Accountant and Financial Consultant & Human Resources Supervisor
     Ensure that all necessary documents are requested, collected, and compiled.
     Bookkeeping services helping various clients to manage cash flow transactions.
     Analyze revenues, monitor expenditures and determine budget variances.
     Prepare and record asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
     Monitoring the transactions are posted to the correct ledger according to company policies and the accepted financial and accounting reporting standards and regulations.
     Summarize financial status by collecting information, generate trial balance, balance sheet, profit and loss, and other internal reports and official public statements.
     Monitoring the completing and submitting VAT Returns.
     Monitoring and supervising the accounting team to complete assigned accounting tasks within deadlines for all the large, mid and small sized companies.
     Updates job knowledge by participating in educational seminars, reading professional publications and maintaining personal accountant networks.
     Conduct all necessary trainings to keep the team’s skills and knowledge up to date.
     Provide guidance to other accountants when needed.
     Work collaboratively with other teams to achieve shared goals.
     Review and recommend changes to existing accounting procedures.
     Secure financial information by completing database backups.
     Maintain highly organized and updated client files.
     Monitoring the payroll of companies and processing the employee payroll tax filling making sure that the employers submit payroll data to the payroll service provider electronically.
     Banking Services for mid to large clients to assist secure storage of cash flow and valuables, checking and saving accounts, loan and investment services.
     Assist in auditing activities to companies by providing necessary information and analyzing and scheduling general ledger accounts, to certify that no dishonest behavior such as misuse of funds is going on inside the organizations and also to ensure compliance.
     Avoid legal challenges by complying with legal requirements.
     Maintain constant communication with all our clients.
     Maintain current and garner new client relationships.
     Consultation services to companies how to fully comply with tax law and how to rectify safely any deviation or discrepancy, if found, by the accounting audit in ledgers, bank statements, payroll, tax information, internal financial reports, official published reports, accounts payable and receivable.
     Financial Consulting Planning Services, helping firms plan for the future and determine the best steps to take in order to reach their monetary goals.
     Preparing or updating employment records and all the governmental documentations for the Ministry of Labor related to hiring, transferring, promoting, and terminating as to remain in compliance.
     Monitoring and ensuring new hire paperwork is completed and processed.
     Ensure legal compliance with all existing governmental and labor legal and government reporting requirements.
     Maintaining minimal company exposure to lawsuits and minimize risk
     Report directly to Operations Manager.
     Protects company's value by keeping information confidential
  • 2013 - 2014
    Straitouris Ioannis Co. Accounting & Financial Services
    Chief Accountant & Human Resources Supervisor
    ¬ Ensure that all necessary documents are requested, collected, and compiled.
    ¬ Bookkeeping services helping various clients to manage cash flow transactions.
    ¬ Prepare and record asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
    ¬ Monitoring the transactions are posted to the correct ledger according to company policies and the accepted financial and accounting reporting standards and regulations.
    ¬ Completing and submitting VAT Returns for small, mid and large sized companies.
    ¬ Prepare month-end accounting activities, such as reconciliations and journal entries, as well as year-end close process.
    ¬ Checking and verifying company’s accounts that are accurate, factual and up to date.
    ¬ Participating and evaluating auditing cases.
    ¬ Secure financial information by completing database backups.
    ¬ Monitoring the payroll of companies and processing the employee payroll tax filling making sure that the employers submit payroll data to the payroll service provider electronically.
    ¬ Avoid legal challenges by complying with legal requirements.
    ¬ Responsible for financial accounts including budget and cash flow analysis.
    ¬ Monitoring bank accounts.
    ¬ Maintaining up to date records.
    ¬ Maintain highly organized and updated client files.
    ¬ Reviewing companies accounts information and offering financial advice and support, concerning risk prevention and business development to both individual and companies.
    ¬ Preparing or updating employment records and all the governmental documentations for the Ministry of Labor related to hiring, transferring, promoting, and terminating as to remain in compliance.
    ¬ Ensuring new hire paperwork is completed and processed.
    ¬ Ensure legal compliance with all existing governmental and labor legal and government reporting requirements.
    ¬ Preparing the payroll of all the companies’ personnel and managing claims for expenses.
    ¬ Maintain constant communication with all our clients.
    ¬ Updates job knowledge by participating in educational seminars, reading professional publications and maintaining personal accountant networks.
    Protects company’s value by keeping information confidential.
  • 2011 - 2011
    DEM CONSTRUCTION & TECHNICAL SA
    Senior Accountant
    ¬ Dealing with invoices, receipts and payments to suppliers.
    ¬ Bookkeeping services.
    ¬ Prepare and record asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
    ¬ Preparing the financial monthly, quarterly and annual reports using computerized accounting systems.
    ¬ Completing and submitting VAT Returns.
    ¬ Monitoring bank accounts.
    ¬ Participating in the internal auditing cases.
    ¬ Maintaining up to date records and ensuring everything is kept accurate, factual.
    ¬ Maintain highly organized and updated files.
    ¬ Responsible for financial accounts including budget and cash flow analysis.
    ¬ Preparing or updating employment records and all the governmental documentations for the Ministry of Labor related to hiring, transferring, promoting, and terminating as to remain in compliance.
    ¬ Ensuring new hire paperwork is completed and processed.
    ¬ Ensure legal compliance with all existing governmental and labor legal and government reporting requirements.
    ¬ Maintaining current HR files and databases.
    ¬ Preparing the payroll of all the company’s personnel and managing claims for expenses.
    Protects company’s value by keeping information confidential
  • 2000 - 2003
    Ventouras Iraklis Group of Companies. Trading and Manufacturing Furniture Enterprise
    Accountant & Human Resources Supervisor
    ¬ Dealing with invoices, receipts and payments to suppliers.
    ¬ Bookkeeping services for all the companies of the group.
    ¬ Prepare and record asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
    ¬ Preparing the financial monthly, quarterly and annual reports using computerized accounting systems.
    ¬ Completing and submitting VAT Returns for all the companies of the group.
    ¬ Prepare financial statements and produce budget and cash flow analysis according to schedule.
    ¬ Monitoring bank accounts.
    ¬ Participating in the internal auditing cases.
    ¬ Maintaining up to date records and ensuring everything is kept accurate, factual and confidential.
    ¬ Maintain highly organized and updated files.
    ¬ Preparing or updating employment records and all the governmental documentations for the Ministry Of Labor related to hiring, transferring, promoting, and terminating as to remain in compliance.
    ¬ Ensuring new hire paperwork is completed and processed.
    ¬ Ensure legal compliance with all existing governmental and labor legal and government reporting requirements.
    ¬ Monitoring and evaluating the personnel’s performance and productivity, ensuring that the workplace is always running efficiently.
    ¬ Processing all personnel action forms and ensuring proper approval.
    ¬ Informing job applicants of job duties, responsibilities, benefits, schedules, working conditions, etc.
    ¬ Explaining human resources policies, procedures, laws, and standards to new and existing employees.
    ¬ Addressing any employment relations issues, such as work complaints and harassment allegations.
    ¬ Preparing the payroll of all the companies’ personnel and managing claims for expenses.
    ¬ Responsible for the personnel’s payment.
    ¬ Maintaining accident reports.
    ¬ Maintaining current HR files and databases.
    ¬ Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential.

Education

  • 2016 - 2018
    University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Postgraduate Business Administration Department
    Executive Master in Business Administration M.B.A. With Distinction And Specialization In Financial.
  • 2009 - 2016
    Hellenic Republic, Open University, (H.O.U), Greece Business Administration Department
    Bachelor of Business Administration B.B.A.
  • 1997 - 1999
    IEK, Greek Governmental Institute, Greece
    Diploma in Accounting Administration And Certification From Government.

Skills

  • ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGES
  • ¬ Fluency in English (spoken and written speech).
  • ¬ Fluency in Greek (spoken and written speech).
  • ¬ Basic in French.
  • ¬ Exceptional computer skills, including Microsoft Office and databases.
  • ¬ Professional in Accounting Software as SINGULAR LOGIC (ACCOUNTANT & HUMAN MANAGEMENT), EPSILON NET (ACCOUNTANT & HUMAN MANAGEMENT).
  • SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
  • ¬ Experience collaborating and also managing a team of accountants and junior accountants
  • ¬ Able to motivate the team and lead by example
  • ¬ Deadline-Oriented
  • ¬ Attention to Detail
  • ¬ Exceptional organizational management skills
  • ¬ Outstanding communication skills
  • ¬ Exceptional interpersonal skills
  • ¬ Highly accurate, consistent and efficient
  • ¬ Excellent customer service
  • ¬ Analyzing Information
  • ¬ Research Skills
  • ¬ Aptitude for numbers and quantitative skills
  • ¬ Confidentiality
  • ¬ Thoroughness

Hobbies

  • ¬ Expeditions, road cross country and camping with family.

Personal Details

  • Sex: Female
  • Marital Status: Married
  • Religion: CHRISTIAN
  • Nationality: GREEK
  • Date of Birth: 19/09/1978

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