James Gill, MAAT

Procurement Analyst for St John Ambulance - Sheffield

Worksop, England, United Kingdom

About

My current role will develop over the next 12 months on the Data Analyst side of my current role. I am keep to keep my options open for job opportunities particularly in the private or charity sectors. I have worked in a management accounting role with the National Trust when I was acting as a finance analyst. I consider myself to be a reliable, trustworthy, hardworking and flexible, with an outstanding appraisal history. Happy to work independently or as part of a team and willing to undertake any training necessary for the role. I quickly build and develop good working relationships with both my immediate colleagues and those outside my normal daily working. I try too give the very best to any task that I am given to ensure that I have done a good job.

Experience

  • Procurement Analyst at St John Ambulance
    Apr 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 4 mos

    My role as a Procurement Analyst is to • Develop and provide information of key services to internal stakeholders. This includes charts, pivot tables and other reports issued monthly • I am responsible for assisting with contract savings for our gas, electricity, stationery, and photocopying supplies. • Report savings for the above contracts monthly which is presented to the senior management team by the Head of Procurement • Develop management information and reporting systems to support managers in the delivery of operational services using VBA macro programming in Excel. • Review current processors and develop ways to reduce the manual task through the extensive use of VBA Excel programming for the team I work in. • Manage the shared procurement email inbox and resolve issues raised and place new phone order requests, new or addition login requests to the stationery portal, to set up new login requests for Click Travel and Premier Inn cards • Produce prompt and accurate management information reports. • May be required to accept certain additional activities in relation to the day to day operational management.

  • Care UK (3 yrs 2 mos)
    • Business Support and Data Analyst
      Nov 2013 - Apr 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

      The role of Business Systems & Data Analyst is to • Develop and provide an information service to both internal and external stakeholders • To ensure the effective collation, recording and monitoring of data quality. • To assist in the development of management information and reporting systems to support managers in the delivery of operational services. • To produce prompt and accurate management information reports. • To manage all mandatory and non clinical training • Liaise with external training providers • To manage key Service Level Agreements within the Treatment Centre. • To be a representative on the monthly Health and Safety committee. • Manage the stationery ordering process • The post holder may be required to accept certain additional activities in relation to the day to day operational management of their unit and as such must ensure that they are trained and competent to take on these additional responsibilities.

    • Business Support Analyst
      May 2013 - Oct 2013 · 6 mos

      This is currently a six months role Job Summary • To manage all Service Level Agreements within the Treatment Centre. • Reporting directly to the Pharmacy Manager. • To deliver a best in class Procurement service for the Centre. • To produce prompt and accurate management information reports. • To be a representative on the monthly Health and Safety committee. • To support the business with the raising of purchase orders and ensuring that the best cost price is achieved. • To perform non-financial audits as required by the Pharmacy Manager. • To be the project coordinator for the centre in introducing and installation of a stock Bar Coding System. • Analyze and investigate any discrepancies in the stock holding. • Coordinate, initiate and record stock takes for all departments. • To provide a prompt, courteous service to all staff, doctors and nurses. • The post holder will implement positive stock management processes. • The post holder may be required to accept certain additional activities in relation to the day to day operational management of their unit and as such must ensure that they are trained and competent to take on these additional responsibilities.

    • Finance Assistant
      Mar 2012 - May 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos

      My 12 month maternity contract finishes on the 17/5/2013. I am actively looking for a permanent role in the future. Roles & Responsibilities To manage contracts with PCT’s. This involves: Producing initial invoices for previously agreed contract values Sending out updated cost schedules once treatments have taken place Investigating and resolving any queries or disputes with the PCT’s Reconciling contract values to actual results Issuing final invoices or credit notes. To produce invoices for a private health group for the use of the facilities and other ad-hoc invoices. To enter and authorize the payment of agency staff via E-Tips. To manage and maintain petty cash account of £1000. To run various analysis reports on a monthly basis along with producing and entering into the financial system accruals and prepayments for monthly and year end accounts. To investigate any material errors in the accounts when necessary. To maintain all aspects of the debt collection and debtor control account including chasing up debts when they become overdue and reconciling payments. To check all non-stock invoices and ensure that there is proper authorization for all purchase invoices for the centre before they are released for payment. To maintain a list of all service level agreement and attend or lead meetings with the suppliers. This may involve difficult situations where price disputes arise and resolving them satisfactorily. To attend the monthly performance and quality assurance meetings and the quarterly contract management board meetings. To produce, on a weekly or monthly basis, management information reports including: Activity reports Referral activity reports Training reports Telephone analysis reports To play a lead part of any other finance related tasks when called upon my line manager or general manager A member of the fire marshal team which includes mock fire drills A member of the health and safety team considering all aspects of safety within the centre

  • Finance Assistant at National Trust
    Sep 2007 - Mar 2012 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    Roles & Responsibilities • To provide a financial accounting service to properties in the East Midlands (turnover of £21m). • To provide a full management accounting service properties in Northamptonshire. • To assist Property Managers evaluate their property’s performance against an agreed budget and prepare investment business cases. • To monitor the regional balance sheet, ensuring all control accounts fully reconciled and to perform monthly bank reconciliation. • To be responsible for the maintenance of the property income recording systems at all properties in the region. • On a monthly basis to bank cheques; code the cash book and post to the finance system; transfer bank statement and inter-company entries into the finance system; carry out stock and other general journals. • To provide KPI reports for visitor statistics and raffle, catering and retail income on a weekly basis. • To maintain a database of the fleet vehicles’ MOT and tax disc requirements. • Additional tasks for the year end accounts and ad-hoc projects on a regional and national level. • To handle various financial and non-financial queries including analysing variances against budgets. • To manage petty cash to a limit of £3000. • Responsible for creating financial reports and analysing data, including: o Previous performance o Auditing o Identifying trends o Projecting / forecasting income streams o Weekly and monthly target breakdowns to take into account previous & expected trends. • To ensure that deferred income is accounted for in the correct period including wedding deposits. • To perform monthly journals for accruals and prepayments