West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Since graduating from university, I have undertaken various roles across small / medium scale businesses and global enterprises, these roles have ranged from Sales ledger to Purchase Ledger and Project Controller. Such opportunities have developed my knowledge and passion for Finance. I am an ambitious and driven individual who thrives within a professional environment. I embrace new challenges whilst continuously striving to develop and improve my skillset. I can work well individually and as part of a team to achieve targets, as evidenced from my previous roles. I am looking for a role that utilises my current skills whilst I study CIMA to become a chartered Accountant. Alongside accountancy work I have developed a broad experience of customer service and supervisory roles through various temporary and part time positions.
• Guarantee a consistently high standard of customer service, including providing training • Ensure team are knowledgeable of all beverages and services offered • Compliance with legislation such as protection of minors and challenge 21/25 • Manage the bar stocks and supplies
• Organised internal meetings to ensure production was as scheduled and communicated changes • Provided customers with quotes for production costs • Generated Purchase Orders (PO) as required to ensure stock levels were maintained for manufacturing team to complete all orders within designated time frame and completed stock adjustment journals • Used Microsoft Dynamics AX to follow production procedure such as sending order confirmations, creation of items, creating ‘bill of materials’ and operations schedule within the route card • Ensured accuracy of locations of sales orders and assisted with queries relating to purchase orders or invoices
• Matched PO and overhead invoices/credit notes according to purchase orders or return orders raised, investigating queries regarding quantity/price variances and VAT issues • Used EDI to process creditor invoices by coding and obtaining correct authorisation • Comprised weekly payments to suppliers, ensuring all invoices were paid as per terms and conditions • Reconciliation of supplier statements, ensuring account accuracy • Co-ordination and testing a new ERP system implementation • Bank reconciliations • Daily stock reconciliations to identify unmatched purchase orders and following up to ensure correct costs were reflected in the P&L in the relevant accounting month
• Formatted and circulated comprehensive weekly reports using Maconomy and Excel to liaise with Project Managers regarding invoices, payment plans and debtors due, as well as a monthly Work in Progress (WIP) report • Generated invoices as per invoicing plan and ensure contractual terms such as address of client, currency, amount and VAT (if applicable) were correct • Setting up projects within Europe and Asia, ensuring the budget was as expected and information provided was correct as per At Risk Authorisation and workbook provided by Project Manager • Reviewed bank statements and located payments received and reconciling to ensure the cash had been posted to the correct bank account and notifying the treasury accounts team of those payments • Assisted with the cost accrual process • Posting of WIP Write Off Journals • Ensured SOX controls were adhered to
• Comprised weekly payment runs in excess of £1.5m • Processed 20,000+ invoices annually, following the purchase order procedure correctly • Monthly tasks completed to ensure adherence to financial regulations and internal controls: included month end procedures, direct debits, statement reconciliations, refreshing and updating pivot tables and v-lookups and investigating returned funds and unreconciled items • Processed credit, debit and payment journals and requisitions to ensure supplier account accuracy • Supported with ad hoc projects such as creation of Microsoft Dynamics AX user manual • Processed HMRC and Payroll Salary Journals • Created and maintained supplier profiles within Dynamics including confidential information • Organised and chaired team meetings, ensuring detailed minutes were taken and distributed as required