SUMMARY

• A professional and experienced part qualified accountant, with teh desire and drive to succeed.
• A team player with teh ability to work under own initiative.
• Can prioritise workload and achieve set objectives in a timely manner.
• Excellent communication skills; written, face to face and verbal. A proven track record in understanding and adapting IT packages to gain maximum utilisation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Accountancy Packages Agresso, E - Financials, Navision, SAP, SAGE200, Oracle, Coins, JD Edwards, AS400, 3EX, QX
• Microsoft Office Excel - Advanced (including V-Lookups, pivot tables, SUMIFS & macros), Word, PowerPoint and Access
• Sage Payroll
• Barclays Business Master
• NatWest Online payments

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Management Accountant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparing monthly financial and management accounts
• Providing detailed variance analysis and dashboard reporting
• Calculation of accruals, prepayments and depreciation
• Maintenance of Fixed Asset register
• Monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations
• Preparation and submission of quarterly VAT returns to HMRC
• Calculation, monitoring and reporting of supplier rebates
• Producing ad-hoc management information to assist decision making
• Produce and monitor Cash flow forecasts
• Sterling and Currency Bank Reconciliations
• Non stock invoice coding and authorisation
• Sales Reps mileage reporting and expenses
• Generating and approving Bank and BACs payments

Interim Accountant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Investigate and resolve teh backlog of purchase ledger queries
• Contact suppliers to confirm balances due and request invoices and credit notes
• Reversing duplicate entries
• Allocating unposted invoices/credit notes
• Large volume reconciliations

Interim Financial Accountant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Bank reconciliations for 4 accounts
• Petty cash reconciliation for 3 venues
• Weekly credit card statement issue to card holders and posting transactions to general ledger
• Month-end tasks
• Accruals for 3 venues and corporate
• Prepayments for 3 venues and corporate
• Petty cash posting and reconciliation
• Fixed assets reconciliations and depreciation posting
• Balance sheet reconciliations

Finance Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Annual Budget for 21 cost centres
• Forecasting / budget analysis and control for 21 cost centres (incl. large volume reconciliations)
• Meeting with budget holders to understand and discuss me&E variances, and tan action any points
• Month-end accounting and reporting
• Headcount reconciliations for 19 cost centres
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Year-end close preparation
• Liaising and working with external and internal audit teams
• Inter-company
• Raising invoices
• Clearing recharges accounts
• Global reconciliation of all Companies at month end
• Liaising with overseas counterparts
• Ad-hoc reporting and analysing where necessary

Finance Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparation of Annual Budget
• Liaise with global Schools Division departments to discuss and prepare annual fee budgets and forecasts
• Intercompany transaction processing and reconciliation
• Forecasting / budget analysis and control
• Preparation and distribution of monthly & quarterly budget holder Income & Expenditure reports and variance analysis
• Meet with budget holders to understand and discuss me&E variances, and tan action any points
• Payroll & Staff cost analysis
• Liaising with other departments and working together to produce month end reports
• Month end accruals and prepayments, for both income and expenditure
• Reconciliation of deferred income
• Ad-hoc reporting and analysing where necessary
• Procedure note writing
• Year-end close preparation
• Liaising and working with external and internal audit teams

Consolidations Officer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Month end and Year end accounts preparation - prepayments, accruals, depreciation, journals and review of P&L and B/S
• Global balance sheet reconciliations
• Global Inter-company transaction processing and reconciliation
• Liaising and working with external and internal Audit teams
• Chart of Accounts administration
• All aspects of office administration/management

Various Contracts/Assignment

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Debtors analysis, Credit Control and clearing
• Purchase & sales ledger control, management & staff supervision
• Global Inter-company transaction processing and reconciliation
• Month end and Year end accounts preparation - prepayments, accruals, depreciation, journals and review of P&L and B/S
• VAT Returns
• Bank reconciliation and clearing
• Cash flow analysis and payment verification
• Payroll analysis
• Cash Book reconciliation
• All aspects of office administration/management
• Staff supervision
• Recruitment and training

Assistant Financial Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Global balance sheet reconciliations
• Global Inter-company transaction processing and reconciliation
• Month end and Year end accounts preparation - prepayments, accruals, depreciation, journals and review of P&L and B/S
• Project accounting
• Meet with department managers to understand and discuss me&E variances
• Cash desk and cheque banking
• Chart of Accounts administration
• Revenue forecasts and planning (US $15m)
• Capital project expenditure control (US $10m)
• All aspects of office administration/management
• Staff supervision
• Recruitment and training