Anita Dobson

PA to Barry Dobson at Mike Pero Real Estate

Location: New Zealand
Industry: Accounting

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Anita Dobson's Overview

Current

Xero Certified Adviser - Owner at Smartbiz Tools Limited
PA to Barry Dobson at Mike Pero Real Estate

Past

Owner at Pare Publisher
Office Manager at Train for Safety
Owner at Ineda Bookkeeper

Office Manager at Warmup North Shore
Office Manager at Ray White
Office Manager at Thermobuild

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Education

Orewa College

Recommendations

5 people have recommended Anita

Connections

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Anita has been working in office administration ever since she left college, and started her own bookkeeping business, Ineda Bookkeeper (now Smartbiz Tools), in 2008.

Her background includes real estate administration and has experience using accounting programmes such as Quickbooks and MYOB.

Anita became Xero Certified in 2009, and has since managed to convert all of her existing clients over to Xero. It was her introduction to Xero that opened the door for her to grow her bookkeeping business, and enjoy it at the same time.

Specialties

Xero Accounting Systems, Payroll, Streamline administration

Xero Certified Adviser - Owner

Smartbiz Tools Limited

August 2008 – Present (4 years 11 months) Auckland

Xero is an online accounting system designed for small businesses. It gives you easy access to your bank transactions, invoices, financial reports - any time you need it, anywhere in the world. Xero is all you need to run your business.

As a Xero Expert I will...
Set up your new business with Xero
Convert your existing business over to Xero
Data integration
A choice of ongoing management or support of your new Xero system
Upskill your team with training on Xero

Talk to me about how Xero can help make your business more efficient so you can concentrate on making profits.

PA to Barry Dobson

Mike Pero Real Estate

September 2012 – Present (10 months) Glenfield

In between working with Xero clients Anita works as a PA to her father, Barry Dobson as well as studying for her real estate license. Barry owns the Mike Pero Real Estate Franchise in Glenfield, North Shore.

Owner

Pare Publisher

April 2008 – December 2012 (4 years 9 months) Paremoremo, Auckland

The Pare Publisher is a local community newsletter that is delivered monthly throughout the Paremoremo and surrounding areas. The newsletter has become the “Voice” of the Paremoremo community, by publishing events, informative articles, how to’s, and providing a place for local people to advertise their businesses.

The first newsletter was compiled by Barb Cooper and was delivered in April 2007. It was printed on a double sided A4 sheet of paper and hand delivered by Barb on her bike. In January 2009,

Barb’s daughter Anita Dobson took over the design and production of the newsletter. Anita grew the size of the publication and the size of the distribution area employing local people to distribute the newsletters. In October of that year Anita created the Pare Publisher website, followed not long after by the facebook page.

The Pare Publisher is delivered monthly and is supported by this website, Kim Ward’s regular email news updates, and facebook pages.

Office Manager

Train for Safety

Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Public Safety industry

February 2011 – July 2012 (1 year 6 months) Silverdale, Auckland

Implemented cloud based technology to streamline office systems, including email, training planners, student administration and accounting.

Building and maintaining the Train for Safety website, designed and put in place promotional material as well as organise and design advertising.

Build and maintain customer relationships and coordinate training and consultancy to the client’s requirements.

Bookkeeping to trial balance, debtor and creditor management, GST returns and payroll and liaising with Accountant.

Complete management of the office and office systems with primary focus on compliance and client wellbeing.

Prior to my full time role at Train for Safety Limited, I was contracted as a bookkeeper to look after their accounts to trial balance from August 2008.

Owner

Ineda Bookkeeper

April 2008 – February 2011 (2 years 11 months)

As a Xero Certified Advisor, I was contracted to assist and look after various business’s accounting to trial balance including;

• Banking
• Contacts
• Payables
• Invoicing
• Expense Claims
• Reporting
• GST
• PAYE

I also offer implementation, conversions and training on the accounting package XERO – www.xero.com.

Office Manager

Warmup North Shore

July 2007 – April 2008 (10 months)

Office management including booking jobs, client liaison, customer enquiries and general admin duties.

Financial management using MYOB to trial balance.

Office Manager

Ray White

Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Real Estate industry

January 2007 – July 2007 (7 months)

Implemented new office systems to streamline my role.

Office management including client liaison, customer enquiries, booking and designing advertising, assisting salespeople with listings and sales and general admin duties.

Financial management using MYOB to trial balance.

Achieved Number One Personal Assistant on the North Shore in the Ray White Quarterly Awards within the first 2 months of employment.