Experience

Belasko
• Guernsey
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Accountant

  • Mar 2023 - Present


Castle Trust Bank

• United Kingdom
• Banking
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Management Accountant

  • Jun 2018 - Mar 2023

  - Reconcile balance sheet accounts investigating any non-reconciling items. - Prepare and post daily, weekly and monthly journals including accruals - Process daily and monthly payments to retailers/brokers and send remittances. - Daily bank processing, payment receipting and reconciliation of bank accounts - Monthly calculation and payment of commission to brokers. - Monitor and action emails to the Accounts Payable shared mailbox from Retailers and colleagues, responding within agreed timescales. - Ad-hoc projects; liaising with IT for the creation of a more appropriate report for the calculation of monthly broker commission (this included identifying and communicating requirements), creating and maintaining monthly spreadsheets to calculate and monitor the broker commission payments for a large broker; writing and collating process notes for the team.



nDreams

• United Kingdom
• Computer Games
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Finance Assistant

  • Nov 2016 - Jun 2018

  • Preparation of management accounts including updating the month-end schedules and reconciliations • Reconcile all balance sheet accounts monthly, dealing with any non-reconciling items. • Prepare all audit review files for annual audit and provide evidence for any ad-hoc queries. • Process all supplier invoices in a timely manner, ensuring have relevant approval for payment. • Draft all sales invoices for review by the Financial Controller. • Reconcile all bank, petty cash and credit card transactions ensuring relevant VAT evidence is obtained. • Update of monthly reporting packs for management. • Assist with the monthly update of the forecast file. • Collate all payroll changes for processing monthly and review outputs to ensure they are accurate. • Prepare the regular monthly payment run information for review by the Financial Controller and enter the payments into Bankline. • Monitor and action emails to the three Finance team shared mailboxes from suppliers, partners and colleagues. • Provide support to colleagues around Finance processes including expense claims, mileage claims, purchase orders and payroll queries. • Ad-hoc tasks as required by the business including preparation of Sales Tracker to monitor gross revenue and sales units, budget and forecast update templates to streamline these processes.



Stannah

• Spain
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Management Accountant

  • Dec 2014 - Jul 2016

  • Produce, analyse and present monthly management accounts for Stannah Management Services, including allocation of costs across UK trading companies within the group. • Maintain and control of all UK fixed asset ledgers and the capital expenditure process. • Prepare, reconcile and issue the file for the monthly bonus payment. • Maintain and control balance sheet control accounts. • Raise manual invoices for distributor training and metal scrap recycling. • Developed working relationships with department heads and become first point of contact for Stannah Management Services financial queries and fixed asset and capital expenditure queries. • Prepare year-end financial accounts and supporting schedules for the annual audit. • Working with auditors to answer queries, organising and providing further information as required.



Hampshire County Council

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Credit Controller

  • Apr 2014 - Dec 2014

  • Recovery of debt relating to businesses, individuals and schools for services provided or funded by Hampshire County Council.• Use of SAP to monitor customer accounts and ensure that debt problems are dealt with in a timely manner.• Use of workflow system to prioritise and answer queries from internal and external customers.• Flexible working as new processes and procedures come into place to support colleagues and ensure that work is still completed on time, including completing tasks from my previous role.• Instigate debt recovery proceedings.

• Finance Officer

  • Nov 2012 - Mar 2014

  • Debt chasing relating to care fees contacting clients by letter, phone or email.• Monthly invoicing of care fees for Hampshire County Council owned residential and nursing homes.• Use of SAP to monitor accounts and process transactions such as refunds, write offs and transfers.• Worked in a large team, effective communication was essential to co-ordinate workflow, to manage a large workload and to ensure correspondence went out in a timely manner.• Liaised with other departments and outside agencies such as the Office of Public Guardian, solicitors, Treasury Solicitors and the Probate Office.• Use of Microsoft Excel to produce reports and statements that were used internally and sent to customers.• Training new colleagues of the team in the processes and procedures for the role.



John Lewis

• United Kingdom
• Truck Transportation

• Selling Assistant

  • Apr 2012 - Jul 2012

  • Used knowledge of the product range to sell to customers, with particular focus on providing excellent customer service. • Supportive team member, willingly undertook all duties to assist the team. • Communicated effectively on all levels with colleagues and customers. • Used knowledge of the product range to sell to customers, with particular focus on providing excellent customer service. • Supportive team member, willingly undertook all duties to assist the team. • Communicated effectively on all levels with colleagues and customers.