Stephanie Mallari

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Henkel Corporation

FFR/Tax Integration and Controversy NA

Tax Transfer Pricing Manager (Jan 1, 2022 – present Relocated in USA)

·     Responsible for the transfer pricing process in Henkel North America ensuring compliance to Transfer pricing standards

·     Monitors financial results of North American entities and ensures they are earning a target margin according to arm’s length principle.

·     Provide guidance to BUs for transfer pricing compliance.

·     Support transfer pricing reports, gathering and analyzing data for annual transfer pricing documentation

·     Assist in other federal tax compliance and audit related to transfer pricing and cross border intercompany transactions

·     Optimize and automate transfer pricing reporting process using my knowledge in GA and ONE!GSC structure.

·     Assistance in global transfer pricing projects.

Henkel Asia Pacific Service Centre

ONE! GSC Horizon Project – Phase 7 EURASIA

Business Process Owner- General Accounting (Apr 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2021)

·     Responsible for the global design of General Accounting processes in the context of the ONE!GSC Horizon business model and alignment within the Finance Community (FF, IBS SSC, IBS EPM), with IT and with the respective BU counterparts

·     Global governance of the General Accounting processes in the context of the ONE!GSC Horizon program

·     Coordination and consultation in the course of the project deployment phases such as Analysis & Design, User Acceptance Training, Cutover and Hypercare as GA lead speaker

·     Overall Lead for the training of GA community (Local GA and Global Business Solutions Team)

·     Supports parallel projects upon request as GA BPO

Henkel Asia Pacific Service Centre

ONE! GSC Horizon Project – Phase 6 LATAM

FA and PS Deployment Manager (Apr 1 2019 – Mar 31 2020 Relocated in Mexico)

·     Managed the cleansing activities and data takeover of fixed assets and investment projects for Phase 6 LATAM countries

·     Participation in the analysis and design phase, supporting the BPO in documenting new development/customization needs

·     End to end process alignments with other process clusters

·     Participation in GA training as trainer for Fixed asset and Investment process and other GA processes (e.g. payroll and benefits accounting, automatic accrual, closing and reporting)

·     Coordination of the GA user acceptance testing as GA lead speaker, monitoring the status and completion according to execution plan

·     Planning and preparation of detailed cutover plan

·     Managed hypercare activities for GA and supported the first closing after Go Live.

Henkel Asia Pacific Service Centre

General Accounting

Team Lead (October 1 2015 – March 31 2019) ONE!GSC Horizon Key User (January 2017 – January 2019)

·     Manage day to day operations of Payroll Benefits Accounting Team, Fixed Assets and Financial Material Management Team.

·     Lead and supervise the team towards achieving SLA and KPI.

·     Ensures that department procedures are followed.

·     Evaluates process improvement opportunities and updates procedure when consistent with desired controls

·     Communicates with Business Units and Local countries, troubleshooting errors and responding to inquiries, as needed.  Investigates and resolves or recommends problem resolutions

·     Monitors performance and team objectives progress against standards and provides feedback and training for the staff.

·     Maintains hands-on knowledge of all processes performed by assigned staff and where needed assists in processing to meet deliverables

Henkel Asia Pacific Service Centre

General accounting

Senior Accountant – Fixed Assets (Sept 2014 – April 2015)

·       Project Creation (WBS Element) in SAP according to BU request

·       Capitalization of assets in SAP checking the completeness and correctness of capitalization request template / capitalization protocol (asset class, UL, acquisition value, …)

·       Posting of Fixed Assets and depreciation over periods of useful life in accordance with CSA and country’s legal requirements

·       Processing of requests for asset disposals (scrapping and sales) ensuring the disposal is properly approved in compliance with CSCA.

·       Monitoring of Physical asset count conducted by Business Units in accordance with the control procedures/documentation rolled out for North America

·       Monthly Reconciliation of Fixed Asset Accounts

·       Provides Fixed Asset inventory count trainings to stakeholders

·       Provides Fixed Assets refresher/info session to stakeholders

·       Preparation of Fixed asset reports (e.g. Asset Balance, Asset History, AUC etc)

Henkel Asia Pacific Service Centre

General accounting

Senior Accountant- Payroll and Benefits Accounting (April 2010 – September 30 2014)

·     Ensure proper HR accounting (Payroll and Benefits) for Henkel’s North American Operations

·     Perform all activities related to and HR Accounting (uploads, manual entries) which includes:

o    Upload of Payroll general entries (regular and accrual) provided by External provider (Pro-business)

o    Handles various payroll related Journal Entries from Business Units

o    Monthly reconciliation of payroll accounts (provision for incentives, provision for pension and other post retirement benefit, rabbi trust asset, COLI assets, Deferred compensation liability, provision for restructuring and other minor accounts)

o    Monthly Payroll Bank Reconciliation

o    Allocation of Medical costs to all legal entities

o    Allocation of Fringe Benefits cost to all the departments

o    Calculation and booking of Monthly Incentive Accruals, providing to BU upfront the impact of changes in quarterly rates

o    Quarterly projections of Short Term Incentives based on new target achievements

o    Quarterly projections of Long Term Incentives based on new target achievements, Stock Price and exhange rate

o    Booking of increase and decrease in cash surrender value of COLI assets

o    Quarterly Actuarial adjustment for Deferred Compensation liability and Rabbi Trust assets

o    Analysis of Gross and Net Fringe Pools (actual benefits costs versus the fringe benefit costs allocated) for all legal entities

o    Maintenance of General Ledger mapping tables

o    Coordinating with HR and ADP the percentage of salary/wages accrual every month based on the payroll calendar

o    Preparation of payroll reports (Quarterly rollforward schedule of Provision for Pension, Restructuring and Incentives, Quarterly STI supplemental STI reporting, KP reporting for incentives)

Henkel Asia Pacific Service Centre

Order to Cash- North America

Accounting Specialist (January 7, 2009 – March 2010)

·     Handles research and analysis of the deductions/shortpayments incurred by customers, ensuring the validity and correctness of the amount.

·     Requests backup documents from Customer supporting the shortpayments

·     Coordinates with the Collections/Sales/Customer Service team in verifying the shortpayments availed by the Customer

·     Communicates with the customer the reason for the invalidity of the shortpayments and coordinates with the Collections Team the amount still due from the customer

Maybank Philippines Inc.

Accounting Department

Accounting Associate (September 10, 2007-January 5, 2009)

·     Over all in-charge of department’s Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable.

·     Booking of accounting entries – AR and AP

·     Handles filing of disbursement vouchers and custody of Petty Cash Fund

·     Processing of Release of 10% Retention and Burial Assistance

·     Checking of any abnormal balances in the books of accounting and non-booking departments.

·     Monitors SSS regular pensions and initial DDR (Death, Disability and Retirement) claims

·     Monitors bank’s unclaimed SSS pensions and business permit.

·     Coordinates with the bank’s branches for the proper booking of AR and AP accounts.

·     In charged with the consolidated Head Office and Branches reports on aging of accounts payable and accounts receivable.

·     Handles computation of accounting for leases-accrued rent (bank wide) based on actual versus based on SLM Method/ Fair Value computation of Receivables (as to comply with IFRS).

·     Analysis of increase and decrease in various expenses

·     Analysis of increase and decrease of AP and AR accounts

·     Roll forward analysis of Fixed Asset Movement.

EDUCATION:

POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

Bachelor of Science in Accountancy

Coursework Includes: Auditing and Assurance Services, Auditing in an IT Environment, Financial Management, Management Consultancy, Business Policy Formulation and Decision Making, Logic and Ethics, and The Philippine Taxation and Income Tax.

CERTIFICATION:

Certified Public Accountant

License No.118887

Certified by Professional Regulation Commission, Philippines