Joy John-Benjamin is a Certified Chartered Accountant with over twenty-eight (28) years’ experience, the majority of which has been in the oil and gas sectors. Ms John-Benjamin has held Senior Accounting and Auditing positions throughout her career. Such positions include Divisional Manager Finance, Coordinator, Internal Audit, Treasury and Management Accounting Manager, Accounting Services Manager at Trinidad & Tobago National Petroleum Marketing Company Limited (NPMC).
Ms John-Benjamin’s vast experience includes leading the effective delivery of Financial and Operations Management, Financial Information Systems Implementation, Budgeting and Financial Reporting, Financial Policy and Procedure Development, Internal Control, Risk Assessment and Auditing.
Throughout her career Ms John-Benjamin has been responsible for process improvements by facilitating teams charged with the improvement of inventory management, implementation of Financial Accounting Systems and developing and implementing standard operating procedures to support the use of the Financial and Accounting modules within the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system at NPMC ,its Branch and Subsidiaries. Ms John-Benjamin has also provided leadership through the chairmanship of the Company’s Credit Committee in examining and improving the credit policy to optimise credit management, coordinated the budgeting process, the financial reporting and the consolidation of financial data and facilitated several training and learning programs in conjunction with the software supplier to enhance the use of the Financial and Accounting and reporting systems.
Ms John-Benjamin is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountant (FCCA), a Certified Management Accountant (CPA-CMA), a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from the University of the West Indies.