Experience

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  Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare UK

  • Halifax, England, United Kingdom

  • Management Accountant

    • Apr 2023 - Present
    • Halifax, England, United Kingdom

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  Clipper Logistics plc

  • United States
  • Warehousing and Storage
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Team Supervisor

    • Jun 2022 - Apr 2023

    Supervising the Head Office accounts team in producing the accounts for the overhead departments.

  • Management Accountant

    • Aug 2017 - Jun 2022

    Responsibilities include:• Producing the monthly p&l for the company• Producing and reviewing Balance sheets• Producing Budgets for the central overheads centres• Reviewing cost centres for discrepancies’ against budget.• Training junior members of staff, including allocation of work load• Preparation of the VAT submission for the company• Compiling and reviewing weekly KPI reports

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  Ison Harrison Solicitors

  • Leeds, England, United Kingdom

  • Assistant Accountant

    • Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
    • Leeds, England, United Kingdom

    Responsibilities include:• Producing the monthly p&l for the company, for the group and each individual department.• Producing management reports, such as the balance sheets and profitability for the owners of the company, the management team and the individual departments.• Managing the purchase ledger process from beginning to end, from entering the invoices to getting approval to pay, to issuing payment.• Bank reconciliation of multiple bank accounts to ensure payments are handled correctly.

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  DISPOSABLES UK LIMITED

  • Meltham, England, United Kingdom

  • Assistant Accountant

    • Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
    • Meltham, England, United Kingdom

    Responsibilities include:• Supporting the Financial Controller in the month end procedure by creating various accrual and prepayment journals.• Creating a monthly P&L and Balance sheet to report to group HQ• Liaising with department heads to create a budget for the year and to forcast sales figures.• Generating a weekly progress report that shows performance against budgeted sales figures.• Daily reports to HQ for cash position of business as well as sales and production figures• Validation and creation of payments in non Stirling currencies to international suppliers.• Supervising a full accounts team of 4 in the day to day running of the business.• Adhoc analysis and reports for the directors of the business as and when required.

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  AECOM

  • Leeds, England, United Kingdom

  • Project Biller

    • Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
    • Leeds, England, United Kingdom

    Responsibilities include:• Generating and distributing Client invoicing to specific customer requirements.

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  Xerox

  • Assistant Accountant

    • Aug 2008 - Dec 2014

    Responsibilities include:• Reporting the month, quarter and year end position of the company to the main financial unit of Xerox and also to the senior management team within our business entity• Analysing and communicating the entities margin in order to locate errors in the group’s pricing and locating areas for improvement• Creation of Journals for Month end, including Journals for Accruals and prepayments, Depreciation of Fixed Assets and transferring Inter Company costs.• Analysing the entities expenses, both employee related and necessary business operations and looking at the trends for these.• Leading several projects to improve various areas such as the purchase to pay process and the inter company cost reconciliation process • Submitting the quarterly VAT return for the entity to Xerox’s head office. Involved investigating a large outstanding VAT amount that had not been reclaimed by Xerox.• Creating and reconciling all of our entities balance sheets which have been through two successful external audits • Providing support for the payables team.• Ad-hoc duties as necessary to support other areas of the Finance and commercial team.• Working in cross department teams on various business projects to improve service tower performance

  • Billing Clerk

    • May 2007 - Aug 2008

    • Using the Oracle IT system in order to deal with the payment aspects of the multi-million pound DWP contract. • Regularly using Excel to create high level reports of the current financial situation with regards to the conversion of our orders to suppliers.

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  Jewson

  • Huddersfield, England, United Kingdom

  • Accounts administrator

    • Feb 2006 - May 2007
    • Huddersfield, England, United Kingdom

    • Creating and maintaining a variety of different accounts including expenses and stock.• Changing payment methods for customers from cheques to BACS and visa versa.• Contacting customers and managers to create new accounts and set limits.• Dealing with general accounts queries across the company.• Working closely with Purchase Ledger Accountant.• Reconciling and allocating payments from inter brand companies.• Collecting data to make sure invoices can be paid.• Assisting with preparation of payment runs.