Lauren Downs
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Credentials
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Accountant
ICAEWDec, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
AAT
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Experience
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WeFlex
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Finance Manager
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May 2021 - Present
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Cycas Hospitality
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Netherlands
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Hospitality
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100 - 200 Employee
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Senior Accountant
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Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
- Preparing monthly management accounts for a newly-opened hotel in the UK - Assisting with the insourcing of a further two UK hotel entities - Providing support to AP assistant - Preparing monthly management accounts for a newly-opened hotel in the UK - Assisting with the insourcing of a further two UK hotel entities - Providing support to AP assistant
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Goodman Jones
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United Kingdom
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Accounting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Audit Supervisor
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Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
Having successfully completed the ACA qualification, I was fortunate enough to be offered a permanent position as Audit Supervisor at Goodman Jones. As part of this role, I am now leading some of our largest audits, supervising teams of up to five and overseeing the work completed from planning to finalisation. In addition to this, I am now working on more complex and technical areas to broaden my knowledge of the field.
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Audit Trainee
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Sep 2016 - Sep 2019
After successfully completing the AAT qualification, I now have a 3-year contract with Goodman Jones as I have been enrolled onto the ICAEW to complete the ACA qualification in order to become a Chartered Accountant.
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Accounts Assistant
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Aug 2014 - Aug 2016
After being given the opportunity to work within the Accounts Payable department within the company, as well as taking up the AAT Qualification, I am now carrying out the majority of bookkeeping work within the company. I have learnt so much (and continue to do so) within this role and in conjunction with my studies.Once I have completed the AAT Qualification, I hope to enrol in the ACA Qualification in order to train as a Chartered Accountant.
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Receptionist and Office Administrator
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Aug 2013 - Aug 2014
I am currently furthering my receptionist abilities by taking phone calls, booking taxis and couriers, greeting clients, franking and distributing the post and booking meeting rooms. Furthermore, I am developing some administrative skills such as filing,scanning and archiving documents and maintaining the company's database.
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140dB Management Ltd
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Queens Park, London
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Personal/Office Assistant
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Mar 2013 - Aug 2013
My primary duty within this role was to co-ordinate the office move. This involved setting up the phone and broadband systems by liaising with contractors, as well as organising (and actively helping with) the removal of all the furniture from the old office, and setting it up in the new office. Additionally, as a Personal Assistant I completed a Visa application for a client, and took my manager's car to be serviced. On a daily basis I made tea and coffee, answered the phone, uploaded files onto SoundCloud and YouTube, filed royalties and legal statements, updated the office database, ordered stationary and food supplies and updated client files on Excel.
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Blacklist Entertainment Ltd
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Parsons Green
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Office Assistant
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Jan 2013 - Apr 2013
Here, I was given the opportunity to express my opinions on some of the latest music being released. I attended numerous music events to help further decisions being made on the management and publishing of certain artists. My day-to-day duties involved making tea and coffee, ordering office supplies such as stationary, photocopying and filing contracts, typing up expenses on Excel and taking minutes from A&R meetings. I was also involved in creating artist applications to music festivals as well as helping set up the company's website and Facebook pages (by generating ideas of my own and liaising with a professional web designer).
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Nucleus Group
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Monument
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Receptionist
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Sep 2012 - Mar 2013
In my role here, I was able to learn and develop basic receptionist duties such as taking phone calls, greeting visitors, distributing and franking the post, arranging couriers and taxis and booking meeting rooms. Additional tasks involved creating Powerpoint presentations for the HR department, as well as helping to organise a Macmillan coffee morning within the office. In my role here, I was able to learn and develop basic receptionist duties such as taking phone calls, greeting visitors, distributing and franking the post, arranging couriers and taxis and booking meeting rooms. Additional tasks involved creating Powerpoint presentations for the HR department, as well as helping to organise a Macmillan coffee morning within the office.
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Galeforce Films
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United Kingdom
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Media Production
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1 - 100 Employee
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Music Researcher
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Nov 2012 - Dec 2012
This was my first paid part-time internship, in which I was given the responsibility of looking into particular genres of music and styles of dance to provide research into an up-and-coming Bollywood Street Dance film. This was my first paid part-time internship, in which I was given the responsibility of looking into particular genres of music and styles of dance to provide research into an up-and-coming Bollywood Street Dance film.
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Montpelier's Cafe
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Blackheath
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Barista/Waitress
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Aug 2011 - Nov 2012
This was a part-time role I took up whilst completing my A Levels. My duties were making food and coffee, working on the till, serving customers, restocking the fridges and freezers, going out to buy bread and newspapers, setting up chairs and tables at the start of the day, cleaning and tidying after closing. This was a part-time role I took up whilst completing my A Levels. My duties were making food and coffee, working on the till, serving customers, restocking the fridges and freezers, going out to buy bread and newspapers, setting up chairs and tables at the start of the day, cleaning and tidying after closing.
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Education
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Colfe's
Foreign Languages and Literatures, General -
Colfe's School