Experience

Bridgemere UK PLC

• United Kingdom
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Management Accountant

  • Sep 2018 - Present

  Preparing consolidated financial statements including monthly and annual statutory accounts. Reconciliation of VAT, PAYE and Pension, including settling all liabilities and uploading returns. Processing monthly payroll for 25 employees, via four subsidiaries. Processing P45’s, P60’s and P11D’s. Processing of all expense claims. Purchase and Sales Ledger via the accounting software Quickbooks. Processing Purchase Ledger payments via Barclays. Net. Management of all company credit cards, ensuring that all spend is accounted for. Monthly reconciliation of Petty Cash. Bank Reconciliations for all GBP and EUR companies, identifying exchange rate differences. Monitoring the Fixed Asset Register and posting monthly Depreciation, calculating Accruals and Prepayments. Preparation of Balance Sheet controls. Preparation of quarterly management accounts for the Steve Morgan Foundation, a registered charity. This includes cash flow reporting to identify current and future spend. Calculation of gains / losses of all investments, this information is included within the reporting pack. Liaising with all external auditors for UK and offshore companies. Show less



The Sterling Group of Companies

• United Kingdom
• Accounting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Management Accountant

  • Apr 2008 - Sep 2018

  Preparation of consolidated financial statements including monthly and annual statutory accounts. This includes reviewing performance against budget and to prepare variation, control and statistical reports. Reconciliation of VAT, PAYE and CIS Tax, including payments to HMRC. Prepare cash flow statements to monitor cash levels in order that all liabilities can be paid. Investigate all overheads to assist in preparation of the annual zero based budget. Identifying any cost savings and ensuring these are implemented. Monitoring the Fixed Asset Register which includes depreciation, new assets and disposals. I liaise with external auditors on accounting procedures and records. Bank reconciliation of all payments processed in the accounting month. This involved exporting information from Sterling's Management Information System (MIS) and posting this information via a journal into Sage. Reconciliation of the Trail Balance to the debtor / creditor and investigating and differences. Preparation of Balance Sheet Controls. Develop, manage and coach colleagues in the finance team to ensure that the accounts are prepared free from error. Show less

• Assistant Management Accountant

  • Nov 2007 - Apr 2008

  I worked closely with the Management Accountant assisting in the preparation of monthly financial statements. I was responsible for Purchase Ledger including processing all invoices via Sage. I would ensure that these are checked and coded correctly so the accounts are prepared free from error. Processing all expense claims ensuring these abide to the Sterling travel policy. Management of all company credit cards ensuring that all spend is accounted for. Calculation of any personal wage deductions. Monthly reconciliation of Petty Cash ensuring sufficient cash levels are held. Producing monthly analysis of all client entertaining carried out to highlight the spend per agency. Management of all lease cars, including service and breakdowns. Reconciliation of reports within the Management Information System (MIS) highlighting any discrepancies. Prepared financial statements for review by the Management Accountant of one of the subsidiaries. I collated weekly records of all the outstanding invoices which needed to be accrued for at month end. Show less

• Payroll Supervisor

  • May 2005 - Oct 2007

  Reporting to the Payroll Manager and providing key duties in their absence. Responsible for training new colleagues to the company standard. I managed my team's performance to ensure that all training needs had been met. Continual training and development was reviews through formal training sessions and coaching on a one to one basis. Other responsibilities included carrying out the task of Payroll Clerk for around 75 employees. I managed a team of three to ensure that their portfolio of agencies was managed efficiently and professionally at all times and that all processes were followed to government guidelines. This would involve distributing workloads during holidays and sickness. Show less

• Payroll Clerk

  • Dec 2001 - Apr 2005

  My main duties included managing a portfolio of agencies, providing a high level of service at all times. I would liaise with the agency contact or the employee in the event of a problem to ensure a swift satisfactory resolution in a timely manner. My main areas of responsibility included raising sales invoices for a portfolio of 450 employees from time sheets received and authorised. Pay employees by calculating pay and deductions. Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Statutory Maternity Pay (SPP), Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP) payments. Child Support Agency (CSA), Student Loans and Attachment of Earnings (AOE) deductions. P45's, P46's. To solve payroll queries to conclusion. Show less



Logic Group Plc

• United Kingdom
• Furniture and Home Furnishings Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Administrator

  • Sep 2000 - Nov 2001

  Responsible for dealing with Collection Agents on a day to day basis. Allocating work from major clients, dealing with queries, clearing debts from the database from information gathered from agents. Collection of monies from debtors and issuing to clients. I worked to defined deadlines in order to return information to clients. Responsible for dealing with Collection Agents on a day to day basis. Allocating work from major clients, dealing with queries, clearing debts from the database from information gathered from agents. Collection of monies from debtors and issuing to clients. I worked to defined deadlines in order to return information to clients.



Apex Business Products Ltd

• Accounts Assistant

  • Jul 1997 - Aug 2000

  Duties included answering the switchboard, logging service calls and dispatching engineers to their next call. I invoiced customers, organised credit control and reconciled the bank on a daily basis banking any cheques received. I also typed all correspondence letters and quotations. At the end of each month I telephoned customers for their meter readings to invoice. I franked the mail and dispatched consumables through local couriers. Duties included answering the switchboard, logging service calls and dispatching engineers to their next call. I invoiced customers, organised credit control and reconciled the bank on a daily basis banking any cheques received. I also typed all correspondence letters and quotations. At the end of each month I telephoned customers for their meter readings to invoice. I franked the mail and dispatched consumables through local couriers.