Experience

Nortrade Foods Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT, Finance and Operations Manager

  • Feb 2022 - Present



Trans Global Projects (TGP)

• United Kingdom
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Accountant

  • Apr 2020 - Feb 2022



Harrison Wright

• Rye

• Bookkeeper

  • Oct 2012 - Apr 2020

  Bookkeeper for the Rye franchise of Practical Car and Van Rental, using SAGE 50. Successfully migrated all bookkeeping to cloud based SAGE software to ensure MTD compliance. Bookkeeper for the Rye franchise of Practical Car and Van Rental, using SAGE 50. Successfully migrated all bookkeeping to cloud based SAGE software to ensure MTD compliance.



Stadler UK Ltd

• Ashford, Kent

• Senior Bookkeeper

  • Mar 2016 - Mar 2020

  Responsible for bringing the accounting and payroll function in-house, liaising closely with colleagues in Germany and Accountants in London. I process all purchase and sales invoices, ensuring timely payments are made and reconciling the 4 different multi currency bank accounts, chasing customers for payments where required, calculating intercompany recharges and processing multiple employee credit card statements. I also run monthly payroll, making RTI, NI & PAYE submissions, processing new starters and leavers, calculating and filing CIS, Intrastat, ECSL, P11d, Pension submissions and VAT returns and preparing accounts for year end processing. As the sole member of the finance team in the UK, I have written Finance Operations documentation to ensure that all accounting is dual purpose for UK GAAP and to German accounting standards. The parent company is based in Germany and as such dual currency intercompany invoices are the norm. By single-handedly bringing the accounting function in-house, the company has made significant savings in accounting and administration costs whilst the business has grown in the same period. Show less



JP Wreathall & Sons

• Ivychurch

• Company Secretary

  • Oct 2012 - Mar 2016

  Responsible for all accounting functions, including accounts payable and receivable, VAT returns for three businesses, payroll, auto-enrolment and preparing accounts for mid-year and end of year. Instrumental in significantly reducing the accountancy fees for all three businesses. Undertakes all administrative, office management, advertising, marketing and sales functions throughout the businesses, having increased direct retail sales by over 20% in 2015. Responsible for all accounting functions, including accounts payable and receivable, VAT returns for three businesses, payroll, auto-enrolment and preparing accounts for mid-year and end of year. Instrumental in significantly reducing the accountancy fees for all three businesses. Undertakes all administrative, office management, advertising, marketing and sales functions throughout the businesses, having increased direct retail sales by over 20% in 2015.



Crazy Caterpillars

• Koenigstein, Germany

• Business Partner

  • Aug 2005 - Oct 2006

  Set up Crazy Caterpillars babysitting service, which included sourcing premises, business setup and website creation (www.crazycaterpillars.com), followed by day-to-day running, accounting, banking and website maintenance. Set up Crazy Caterpillars babysitting service, which included sourcing premises, business setup and website creation (www.crazycaterpillars.com), followed by day-to-day running, accounting, banking and website maintenance.



Commerzbank AG

• Germany
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Analyst

  • Jan 2004 - Mar 2005

  Managed the migration of all German reconciliations to GRASS, which included analysing business requirements, managing relationships between German users and UK IT Systems and providing the necessary XML code for the reconciliations. Supervised and trained two team members to take over on my departure. Managed the migration of all German reconciliations to GRASS, which included analysing business requirements, managing relationships between German users and UK IT Systems and providing the necessary XML code for the reconciliations. Supervised and trained two team members to take over on my departure.



Deutsche Bank

• Germany
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Independent Consultant

  • Dec 2001 - Dec 2003

  Leading a team of four, I was responsible for the successful implementation of a new trading system for Agency Trading and Price Improvement at Deutsche. This required me to effectively communicate business requirements to the development team, supporting the business in their testing and quality assurance testing. After the system went into production, I was further responsible for supporting the product and liaising with the necessary business contacts in London and New Jersey to successful resolution. I was also responsible for the overall stability of the Production, UAT and QA environments- and communicating the required information to the users. In addition to this, I was also a key member of support to the General Equity Traders within their use of Imagine at Deutsche, including a successful upgrade to version 5. Within the team, I set up internal rules for the ownership of problems, to successful resolution. Show less



Commerzbank AG

• Germany
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Imagine Trade Support and Sybase Database Specialist

  • Jul 2000 - Nov 2001

  Within Dresdner Bank, I was responsible for maintaining the Sybase database for the Imagine application in Frankfurt- ensuring data integrity, building interfaces between other systems such as Eurex, DRIFT and Bloomberg and general support issues. Completed adhoc requests, consisting mainly of reports from the database for different business users. Within Dresdner Bank, I was responsible for maintaining the Sybase database for the Imagine application in Frankfurt- ensuring data integrity, building interfaces between other systems such as Eurex, DRIFT and Bloomberg and general support issues. Completed adhoc requests, consisting mainly of reports from the database for different business users.



Fidelity Investments

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Team Leader

  • Sep 1999 - Jun 2000

  I joined the Web Systems team as team leader of the support team. The support team was responsible for supporting all Fidelity’s Internet products (from HTML, XML, DHTML, front end, to Sybase database and Java backend). I delegated work, supported the team members in what they wanted to do and wrote weekly performance documents for management.

• Analyst Programmer

  • May 1998 - Sep 1999

  Sybase Technical Development

• Team Member

  • Dec 1996 - May 1998

  Part of the Investment Dealing team.