Experience

M3

• United Kingdom
• Internet Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Finance Manager

  • May 2022 - Present



Gigaclear

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Management Accountant

  • May 2020 - May 2022

  Key Responsibilities:• IT, Marketing, Health&Safety and Chief Engineer’s Office business partner.• Preparation and aid of the monthly management accounts.• Providing accurate and timely monthly accounts to the CMO and CTO and meeting to discuss costs and revenue, identify where savings can be made.• Working closely with the IT and marketing teams to ensure quality of work is upheld.• Preparation of monthly accrual, prepayment and recode journals.• Completion of balance sheet reconciliations, updating of cashflow on a weekly basis.• Working with the CFO on reforecasts and budget for IT and marketing.• Maintain relationships with suppliers in supporting the accounts payable function.• Ensuring month-end deadlines are met within the team, also helping the assistant management accountants and AP. Key Achievements:• Creation of cashflow template that is used to this day, reconciling over a years’ worth of bank statements to get the cashflow to what it is now (Adhoc).• Preparation of very detailed reforecasts for presenting to the CFO, CMO and CTO.• Creation of the IT, marketing, HSEQ, Chief engineer’s monthly report templates when new to the company and getting departments to a clean reporting position.• Maintaining a very good relationship between finance and it’s business partners.• Reconciliation of one of the biggest supplier accounts.• Creation of fixed asset register guidelines and improved processes for going forward.• Being known for a can-do attitude and taking on many adhoc tasks.



Oxford Policy Management

• United Kingdom
• International Trade and Development
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Assistant Financial Accountant

  • Jan 2019 - May 2020

  Key Responsibilities:• Export of timesheets and WIP into SUN.• Review of cashbooks and preparation of international office’s cashbook journals to upload to SUN.• Control of period closure and releasing of WIP and sales invoices.• Preparation of payroll journals.• Completion of bank recs for both the UK and all international offices.• Monthly update of fixed assets depreciation and depreciation journals.• Monthly update of prepayment and accruals.• Ad hoc duties such as creating central finance’s PO’s and GRN’s for payment run. Key Achievements:• Being a go to for help on the financial systems.• Creation of financial templates such as Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet and Trial Balance for all international offices.• Training international offices and new starters on journal preparations, uploads and reversals.• Company-wide advances rec to fix imbalance on Trial Balance.• Gaining knowledge about international VAT and withholding tax.

• Project Finance Accountant

  • Jul 2018 - Dec 2018

  Key Responsibilities:• Prepare and update of monthly programme management accounts and international offices management accounts, review and investigate differences.• Update of project P+L and completion of P+L checks.• Compiling project information for year-end audit.• Preparing finance packs and attending project review meetings with project managers and country directors to highlight discrepancies and enquire about project’s current financial status.• Undertaking other ad hoc duties on behalf of other project finance managers.• Intercompany invoices reconciliation.• Updating of project key performance indicators and health checks for project review.• Journaling project data in V1 such as timesheet queries. Key Achievements:• Creation of guidelines for financial reports and preparation of financial reports.• Development and management of programme budget template for SUN input.• Updating and training stake holders on the Budget Analysis Tool (BAT).

• Accounts Assistant

  • Apr 2017 - Jun 2018

  Key Responsibilities:• Use of IPOS to approve contract’s financials and checking VAT is correctly accounted for.• Use of V1 to upload budgets, billing schedules and check charge-out rates.• Ensure that all financial data and information from a project Head Contract with client/donor, is uploaded into the project accounting system.• Checking and releasing of client invoices.• Creation of budget trackers and P3 budgets.• Running Financial review reports from V1 and updating NBD management accounts/ P+L.Key Achievements:• Creation of budget trackers and P3 budgets.



GRAFTON MERCHANTING GB LIMITED

• Accounts Payable Assistant

  • Nov 2016 - Feb 2017

  Key Responsibilities:• Use of Microsoft AX and Opal to authorise, hold and query invoices/credits from suppliers.• 3-way invoice/credit matching.• Creating daily invoice/credit reports and delegating supplier’s invoices/credits for matching.• Use of documation and wesupply to locate invoice/credit files and document invoices.• Excel: use of VLOOKUP, pivot tables and IF functions. Key Achievements:• Reconciliations of supplier statements.• Telecommunication with various branches regarding held documents and suppliers on stop.



Waitrose & Partners

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Customer Service

  • Aug 2014 - Oct 2016

  • Stock takes – calculating stock levels, ordering new stock and reducing current stock with a close use-by date.• Working with layouts given by head office to design shop structure. • Multimedia training – learning about ethical practices/ protocol within store and how to deal with multiple situations with customers.• Computer skills – using MS to make tables and plans for noticeboards and social events. Look up thefts or drive offs with CCTV and log data into shop system, referring data to police or manager.• Social sec – using set budget to organise events for varying amount of employees. Organised social events outside of work, integrating new staff into the team.