Annalisa Murino

I joined the company as a Finance Controller in December 2020 for the Business Unit Clearpay - Afterpay in Australia which business is the so-called "Buy now pay later". The former company was then bought in March 2022 by the US Company Block, an American financial services and digital payments company based in San Francisco.

The objective of my role has been overlooking the integration process by implementing multiple ERP software conversions, training four finance team members in order to ensure the efficiency of the accounting procedures and complaints with the local and external rules and regulations; supervising the month-end processes, preparing financial reports for internal and external to facilitate auditing, maintain general ledger and chart of accounts for the preparation of the financial statements under Spanish GAAP and US IFRS accounting principles.

It has been key to collaborate with all th involved departments in order to deliver comprehensive financial information to facilitate decision making for manager, stakeholders and parent companies.

A part from the objective of my role I have been also leading the ad-hoc project that aimed to transit from the local Payroll providing consultant for three different countries (Spain, Italy and France ) and integrate them all with a global firm (Pwc) as well as oversaw corporate payroll reconciliation and tax activities.

I joined the Company as part of the Pre-Opening team, and this experience gave me the chance to prove the ability to create financial statements.

Since the pre-opening stage I was majorly responsible for coordinating and supervising the creation of the Finance department functions (hence Accounts payable/Accounts Receivable/ Income Auditor - Cashiering) as well as different financial statements, building many of them from scratch.

I have been closely working with the Director of Finance on the Month End Profit and loss month to month variance analysis review, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, Food and Beverage Cost Control, Inventory and Forecasting with the major achievement of preparing monthly financial statements, identifying variances and providing recommendations for corrective action.

I have either been training, overseeing and giving guidance to the new team during the explanation of their daily duties and conducted regular meetings with the finance staff to review performance objectives and goals.

Providing administrative and clerical support by processing, verifying and reconciling invoices, monitoring expenses and keeping a report of it all for tax purposes

Making sure that all the supplier invoices are posted on the right general ledger Account and bills are paid in an efficient and timely manner

Ensured compliance with company policies and government regulations regarding Accounts Payable activities.

Ensuring the accuracy of the company's financial documents for tax audit purposes.

Analyzed financial data to identify potential areas of cost savings.

Monitoring and reconciling any balance sheet that tracks the income funds

Performing appropriate revenue allocations in order to produce the Daily Revenue Report

Reviewing paid outs and discounts investigating guests invoices in order to verify that the authorizations are compliant with the internal policies and the back-up is completed

Reporting discrepancies to the management

Reviewing F&B voids verifying authorization and adequate back-up information

Ensuring every income whether in the form of cash, check and credit card payment is entered accurately

Helping in providing documentation for mid-year and end-year audit as well as during the closing of books at month end.

Collecting daily cashiers envelopes and reconciling cash and banks on a daily basis

Preparing daily the General Cashier Report in order to refund paid out and petty cash to the Front office and to make daily cash/check deposit to the Bank

Performing a surprise count for all Hotels house floats on a monthly basis and reporting discrepancies to the Assistant Director of Finance

Compiling cashier shortage/overage report and investigating any significant variances

Monitoring daily the Hotel Bank account, posting payments and cash/check deposits on the account System

Support documentation for mid-year and end-year audit.