Experience

Rebellion

• United Kingdom
• Computer Games
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Financial Accountant

  • Jul 2022 - Present



University of Oxford

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Fixed Asset Account Assistant

  • Jan 2021 - Jun 2022

  As a member of the Fixed Assets team, my responsibilities are:• To provide support for all period accounts for the University Fixed Asset Accountant, including particularly working with the Estates department.• Be responsible for the Inventory Accounting Process, including quarterly and annual accounting, external audit liaison, attending and leading on key audits, advising departments and being the central contact for Inventory departments.• Contribute to the period end reporting for Inventory, Fixed Assets, Leases, & Financial Accounts. To work with Internal and External Audit on financial accounts, fixed assets, and inventory where required. Dealing with departmental queries relating to Departmental Equipment Listings.• Production of monthly balance sheet reconciliations and provision of information to auditors to support the production of financial statements.• To provide business support to the Finance Division, Divisions and Departments taking ownership for delivery of ad-hoc management information for financial accounts, inventory, leases, and fixed assets.• Work where required on the Oracle Financial upgrade project such as user acceptance testing.• Quarterly Student Loan Scheme reconciliation, working closely with Student Administration.• Support the year-end Annual analytical review of income & expenditure process including being responsible for a number of individual notes and including.• Balance Sheet Surgery lead – where I review monthly balance sheet accounts reconciliations and flag anything which seems out of the ordinary or is an audit risk.

• Finance Officer

  • Aug 2019 - Dec 2020

  1. Management of all day-to-day core finance functions within the Faculty, including purchase orders and sales invoices, expenses claims, sales invoices, donations, trust funds, studentship payments, VAT reporting, month end/year end processes, and all non-academic and casual payroll administration.2. Prepare the Faculty’s annual budget and quarterly forecasts for review by the HAF and Divisional Financial Controller to specified timetables.3. Supervise the work of a Finance Assistant (FA), and supporting any training and development as required. Provide cover for FA in their absence. 4. Provide advice and assistance on financial issues to the HAF, the Faculty Board, its committees and officers, including the interpretation and explanation of financial data, rules and regulations, and resource allocation methods. Deputise for the HAF on finance related matters as required. Act as main contact for finance queries from wider University including Humanities Division, central Finance and from auditors. 5. Responsibility for post grant financial administration and overseeing the financial management of research projects/centres. To include (but not limited to) ensuring project set up is correct and appropriate, making PIs aware of relevant processes and funder terms and conditions (T&C’s), providing reports to PIs, supporting PIs to understand their finances, identifying early any possible overspends, submission of timesheets, awareness of project end dates, ensure costs comply with funder T&C’s, support any necessary audits. Assist with the costing of research grant applications, liaising with the Research Support Team and HAF to ensure applications are financially viable.



Oxfam

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Income Team Manager

  • May 2017 - Jul 2019

  As the income team manager, I oversaw a team of 3 full time members and one volunteer. My main responsibilities are: • Overseeing day to day workings of the team to ensure the processing of the income is done in a timely manner to meet our monthly financial deadlines: this includes signing off on the team’s Reconciliations and monitoring our sales invoice process by managing and supporting the team and providing training and advice to other departments. • Management of the Income Team members through 1-to-1 meetings, team meetings, support, guidance and cover when needed. • Recruitment of team members, providing inductions, and support for personal and team development. • Reviewing and improving reconciliation processes to ensure that the team’s time is used efficiently and that we have an attitude of getting it right first time when it comes to matching data and completing journals. • Working with different departments to provide help on new and existing projects to ensure financial controls and processes are correctly implemented; such as our new CRM project and our online shop; both still work in progress. • Provide financial inductions and training to new colleagues in the fundraising department. • Provide financial support and help in solving queries from the different non-financial managers within Oxfam, their direct reports and others. Examples are help with tracking down donations and setting up new coding for new appeals. • Provide ad-hoc support to the wider Finance Team.

• Group Planning and Reporting Finance Analyst

  • Aug 2018 - Jun 2019

  Being the divisional Accountant/Finance Business Support Partner for Corporate Functions (Communications, Finance & Information Services, Corporate Human Resources and Chief Executive’s Office), my responsibilities were: • Supporting budget holders in Corporate Functions on all aspects of financial monitoring and budgetary control - done through not only scheduled meetings but also the knowledge that I am happy to help as and when needed. • Production of the corporate budget and forecast reports; monthly communication of budget positions to the various budget holders and supporting on the 3 Years Budget Planning (setting templates and finalising figures with budget holders). • Determination, calculation and processing of internal recharges to departments/divisions, prepayments and accruals within our monthly financial deadlines. • Support for organisational financial analysis and support to projects as required. • Supporting on the compilation, analysis and production of the monthly management report from the divisions’ monthly reports for use by Trustees and Leadership Team (LT). • Provide ad-hoc support to the wider Finance Team.

• Assistant Accountant – Income Team

  • Mar 2014 - Apr 2017

  • Ensure that the income received is allocated to the correct departments through journaling and the use of Oxfam’s database programs (PeopleSoft and Ascent). Working through this process to a strict monthly deadline cycle. • Support other departments to ensure that donations are recorded correctly against supporter records. • Offer support for donor refunds and bounce backs of error payments. • Reconcile a complex range of accounts. These include bank accounts, legacy income, catastrophe fund pot (a monthly analysis and breakdown of income processed for certain projects under the same pot), creditor and debtor accounts, etc. • Train and support across the Income Team, as well as providing team leadership cover. • Generate and share financial reports. • Provide ad-hoc support to the wider Finance Team• Maintain strong relationships with staff members across the organisation and respond to queries in an efficient manner. • Validate monthly Fundraising Gift Aid claims to HMRC, including checks for data errors and ensuring active Gift Aid declaration status. • Aid in training fundraisers and supporter relations in the correct capturing of Gift Aid data and the requirements needed to comply with HMRC regulations, including donor responsibilities. • Being a member of the Gift Aid working group: a mix of individuals from across the organisation with a vested interest of the Gift Aid process across our different fundraising and trading activities. • Provide support to Treasury team with their daily Cash Management, recording our overnight balance movements and any expected payments and make investment decisions.



NEXT PLC

• United Kingdom
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Sales Assistant

  • Oct 2013 - Jan 2014

  Over the Christmas and New Year period I was a part of the sales team at Next clothing store. • My roles varied each shift although my main responsibility was to ensure that customers were satisfied and their needs were met through: • Understanding and developing my product knowledge. • Ensuring that the store was tidy by replenishing stock and organising clothing items neatly for ease of browsing. • Dealing with customers' enquiries and helping them to find what they needed. • Working as part of a team to provide excellent customer service.