Experience

Red Box Recorders Limited

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Management Accountant

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  • Full responsibility for the preparation of the monthly management accounts and lead the monthly review meetings of the management accounts with Financial Controller and Finance Director, with in depth budget variance analysis. • Managing VAT return and submission to HMRC. • Monthly stocktake and variance analysis. • Management of complex deferred income spreadsheets relating to support contracts ranging back a number of years and journaling accurate revenue releases monthly • Monthly revenue tracking & reconciliations. • Maintaining the fixed assets register and posting the monthly journals for depreciation, additions and disposals. • Managed and mentored the entry level Finance assistant (Purchase Ledger & SOP) to develop their skills and knowledge, supporting them passing AAT level 3 and being able to perform multiple month end management accounts tasks including prepayments, accruals and bank reconciliations. • Lead the audit process providing the vast majority of information and samples requested whilst also advising and assisting the credit controller and finance assistant with the information required from them. • 13 Week Cashflow forecast management liaising with the credit controller for likely receipt dates with weekly meetings to discuss with FC / FD. Show less



Birchwood Price Tools

• Building Materials
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Management Accountant

  • Mar 2017 - Jun 2021

  • Fully responsible for preparation of the management accounts pack including GRNI Accrual calculations, stock movement calculations, supplier / customer rebate accruals, salary and commission payment workings, comparing admin costs to budget / forecast posting any appropriate journals including accruals and prepayments.• Monthly balance sheet reconciliations.• Daily reporting of the previous day’s, MTD and YTD sales performance with commentary, distributed to the wider business including the board of directors and shareholders.• Monthly reporting for each brand team with in depth analysis showing best-selling products by customer industry to help drive further sales.• Adhoc reporting for various stakeholders at different levels across the business to suit their individual needs.• Quarterly submission of VAT return details to group. Show less

• Purchase Ledger Clerk

  • Nov 2015 - Mar 2017

  • Maintaining over 100 different supplier accounts and keeping them accurately up to date.• Ensuring the correct costing of all purchase invoices.• Liaising with goods in and buying teams to resolve queries.• Liaising with suppliers and building good relationships to agree on payment dates / amounts and deal with any anomalies.• Daily Bank reconciliations including tasks such as entering nominal journals and liaising with credit control for queries regarding payments received postings.• Temporarily responsible for payment runs and the multiple foreign currency individual payments ensuring all suppliers are paid to correct terms.• Preparing GRNI schedule for the management accountants to accrue costs into the correct period Show less



Gardner Aerospace

• United Kingdom
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Accounts Payable Officer

  • Oct 2014 - Oct 2015

  • Invoice processing at a high volume (150+ per day). • Month end statement reconciliations for all suppliers and detailed reconciliations for top 20 turnover suppliers. • Liaising with goods in and buying teams to resolve queries. • Liaising with suppliers and building good relationships to agree on payment dates / amounts and deal with any anomalies. • Responsible for payment runs which sometimes involved making decisions on which suppliers to pay during poor company cashflow periods and ensuring the sensitive suppliers are always paid to terms. • Helped to implement and test a document management system / scanning solution to digitize everything and create a “paperless office”. • Working with different accounts packages namely Opera, Sage and Exchequer. • Clearing debit balances and outstanding and un-required historical GRN’s within the Paragon system. • Creating pivot tables / reports for the Finance manager regarding the progress of clearing old debit balances / GRNs. • Inputting the weekly EDI files into the Paragon system. Show less