Experience

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  Pennguin

  • South Shields, England, United Kingdom

  • Internal Auditor

    • Feb 2023 - Present
    • South Shields, England, United Kingdom

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  Serco

  • United Kingdom
  • IT Services and IT Consulting
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Assistant Accountant

    • Apr 2022 - Jan 2023

  • Revenue and Resource Co-ordinator

    • Mar 2020 - Apr 2022

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  Serco

  • Swindon, United Kingdom

  • Assistant Accountant

    • Jun 2018 - Aug 2019
    • Swindon, United Kingdom

    My role covered various aspects of management accounting, cost analysis, month end reporting and forecasting using SAP systems. Duties and responsibilities: • Analysing monthly P&L data; monitoring costs and revenues against targets.• Calculating month end accruals and prepayments to account for costs and revenues.• Preparing monthly working forecasts and uploading forecasts into SAP, including cash flow and balance sheet analysis.• Building detailed bottom-up contract budget for 2019 and presenting it to regional directors at the budget review meeting.• Assisting with the implementation of new finance systems and transfer of existing processes under the new systems.I left my job to become a full time mother.

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  Carillion

  • Assistant Management Accountant

    • Aug 2015 - Jun 2018

    Reporting to finance manager; my role involved management accounting, month end reporting, variance analysis, forecasting, balance sheet analysis and assisting finance manager in any ad hoc finance tasks.Duties and responsibilities: • Calculating month end accruals, prepayments, WIP, deferred income, depreciation charges, stock adjustment etc.• Preparing and uploading month end accruals journals and reallocation journals to transfer costs to correct cost centres.• Analysing P&L results using high volume transactional data and performing an in-depth variance analysis for each service line.• Completing monthly reporting packs for the group, including balance sheet analysis.• Preparing monthly internal management accounts for operational leads, including P&L analysis by supplier.• Assisting finance manager in building bottom- up forecasts and completing contract packs including cash flow and balance sheet analysis.• Monitoring payroll costs and hours against budgeted hours.• Raising client invoices and liaising with the client on invoice disputes and cash collection

  • Finance Assistant

    • Mar 2014 - Aug 2016

    Reporting to finance manager, this was my first role in finance from which I quickly progressed to become an assistant accountant. Duties and responsibilities:• Raising monthly client invoices (around 40 per month) and gathering data for billing in line with the PFI contract.• Sending monthly client statements and liaising with clients on invoice disputes.• Chasing monthly cash collections and allocating cash to correct invoices.• Reconciling daily cash takings for retail outlets and banking • Approving supplier invoices for payment, resolving invoice discrepancies and AP queries.• Assisting finance manager with any other ad hoc tasks