Experience

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  The Moray Council

  • Elgin, Scotland

  • Auditor

    • Mar 2018 - Present
    • Elgin, Scotland

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  Trees for Life

  • Findhorn, United Kingdom

  • Finance Manager

    • May 2016 - Mar 2018
    • Findhorn, United Kingdom

    Trees for Life is an award winning charity working to restore Scotland’s ancient Caledonian Forest. Forming part of the senior management team I provide financial advice to support the strategic growth of the organisation. I oversee all financing and accounting activities whilst leading a small team of staff. Key duties of the role include restructuring the finance system, ensuring accurate financial reporting and implement sound internal controls.

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  Arnold Clark

  • Elgin, United Kingdom

  • Branch Accountant

    • Jan 2016 - Mar 2016
    • Elgin, United Kingdom

    Arnold Clark Automobiles is Europe’s largest independently owned family run car dealership with annual turn over of £3.5 billion. I prepare the motherly reporting for two car dealerships to ensure stringent financial management and performance evaluation. I produce Income and Expenditure details, balance sheet reviews and closing balances for these franchises. I am responsible for the supervision of two small administrative teams who provide support to each dealership, including sales admin, sales ledger, purchase ledger and credit control. I have knowledge of Kerridge, the industry standard software package.

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  The Moray Council

  • United Kingdom
  • Government Administration
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Technical Support Officer (Consultancy Services)

    • Jul 2013 - Dec 2015

    Moray Council is the local authority responsible for delivering services to more than 92,500 residents in the Moray area. I was promoted to enhance the financial monitoring of large CAPEX projects in addition to providing financial oversight for the review of capital and revenue projects valued at up to £190m. As part of this role, I perform monthly reconciliations and ensure the accurate processing of invoices valued at up to £2m.✔ Improved the quality of management information, enabling more rapid reporting to management, by increasing the frequency of reconciliations.✔ Strengthened internal controls by streamlining the reconciliation process.

  • Payments Administrator

    • Jul 2011 - Jul 2013

    I was hired to provide administrative support for the monthly payroll process to ensure the on-time payment for more than 5,000 employees. Additionally, I entered and verified timesheet data, liaised with HR staff to verify numbers, authorised payroll data and managed a variety of employee queries.✔ Met all payroll-related deadlines whilst maintaining 99.99% accuracy.

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  Gairland LLP

  • Elgin, United Kingdom

  • Finance Officer

    • Dec 2010 - May 2011
    • Elgin, United Kingdom

    Gairland LLP is a property investment company with £5m in investment properties. I was hired on a contract basis to implement a financial system and related controls and processes. As part of this tenure, I liaised with Bank Lenders and Accountants to ensure the timely realisation of company goals as well as performed project appraisals, implementing effective cash flow procedures.✔ Successfully designed and implemented a new, more streamlined financial system.✔ Enabled better cash flow, more financial transparency and increased profitability through the introduction of new financial controls.

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  Johnston Carmichael Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers

  • Elgin, United Kingdom

  • Credit Controller

    • Oct 2009 - Oct 2010
    • Elgin, United Kingdom

    Johnston Carmichael is Scotland’s largest independent firm of Accountants and Business Advisors. I was brought on board to support the credit control process, during which time I ensured the payment of invoices via chasing credit and providing updates for outstanding payments. This role also included generating daily, weekly and monthly reports on credit control metrics.

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  Talisman Energy

  • Aberdeen, United Kingdom

  • Industrial Finance Intern

    • May 2007 - Jun 2008
    • Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    Talisman Energy Ltd is a multi-national oil and gas exploration and production company. I was hired as an intern to support the Finance department, ensuring accuracy and confidentiality in finance matters. My internship also included preparing statutory financial statements and tax calculations for subsidiary companies as well as reporting on the operational performance of well production.