James Baldock
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Penta Consulting
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Group Accountant
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Jul 2018 - Present
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intelliflo
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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300 - 400 Employee
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Assistant Accountant
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Nov 2015 - Jul 2018
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Aedas London
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United Kingdom
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Architecture & Planning
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Assistant Accountant
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Apr 2015 - Oct 2015
Aedas is a leading global architecture and design practice providing architecture, graphic, interior, landscape and urban design & masterplanning services within Asia, the Middle East, Europe and America.Responsibility for overseeing four of the entities within the group, including completing month-end balance sheet reconciliations, processing ad-hoc and recurring journals, submitting projected and actual cashflow reports to head office in Hong Kong, running the respective Sales and Purchase Ledgers and coordinating credit control for both domestic and overseas customers.
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Amber Infrastructure Limited
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Assistant Financial Accountant
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Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Amber Infrastructure Group is a leading international sponsor and manager of infrastructure focused on long-term, lower risk, cash flow generative investments. Amber has a long standing international reputation in the origination, development and management of specialist infrastructure. Responsibility for overseeing three of the entities within the group, including running the respective Sales and Purchase Ledgers, processing all bookkeeping entries - including cashbook uploads - up to trial balance stage, and quarterly reporting.
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Prospectus
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United Kingdom
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Staffing and Recruiting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Finance Officer
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Mar 2008 - Nov 2014
Prospectus is a specialist recruitment agency, whose client bases consists exclusively of organisations in the not-for-profit sector; these include charities such as Marie Curie, Fairtrade Foundation and WWF UK and education providers like King's College London, Institute of Education and University College London.Responsibilities stretched across all the day-to-day operations of the finance desk - including managing a weekly candidate payroll, overseeing the Purchase and Sales ledgers, coordinating the company’s credit control process, processing staff expenses, petty cash and credit card payments - to involvement in the monthly management accounts, including posting a wide variety of journals (accruals, prepayments, etc), carrying out reconciliations of the main nominal ledger codes and analysing P&L. I had regular phone and email contact with external stakeholders from a wide variety of charities and universities, took the lead on the last two annual company audits and gained experience of personnel management, having had responsibility for overseeing the Finance Assistant role on the team.
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IOE - UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
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United Kingdom
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Publications Assistant
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Nov 2006 - Feb 2007
Responsibility for compiling the Publications Catalogue for the department, including working on content and layout and liaising with graphic designers; dealing directly with authors and professors regarding planned and forthcoming publications, upcoming book launches and lectures; implemented a number of Excel spreadsheets aimed at improving the efficiency of information within the department. Responsibility for compiling the Publications Catalogue for the department, including working on content and layout and liaising with graphic designers; dealing directly with authors and professors regarding planned and forthcoming publications, upcoming book launches and lectures; implemented a number of Excel spreadsheets aimed at improving the efficiency of information within the department.
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Publications/Editorial Assistant
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Jun 2006 - Sep 2006
Website Content Editor, jointly responsible for the Hobsons online management system; organising the final uploads of client orders for the content of various websites for 2007; reviewed and edited several upcoming employment and educational publications, including: the GET Job Guide 2007, Hobsons Postgraduate Guide and MBA 2007. Website Content Editor, jointly responsible for the Hobsons online management system; organising the final uploads of client orders for the content of various websites for 2007; reviewed and edited several upcoming employment and educational publications, including: the GET Job Guide 2007, Hobsons Postgraduate Guide and MBA 2007.
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Education
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Loughborough University
MSc, Finance & Management -
Loughborough University
BA (Hons), English