Finance Officer

• Nov 2022 - Present

Assistant Fund Accountant

• May 2022 - Nov 2022

• Investigated and resolved discrepancies in monthly bank accounts while under tight deadlines. • Executed wire transfers, distributions, and vendor payments, booking the movement as well as other activity during daily cash reconciliations. • Participating in the onboarding of new investors and performing call-backs as necessary to authenticate clients’ and investors’ instructions and maintain investor contact list. • Assist with the completion of routine audit queries, investor queries and answering ad-hoc queries. • Updated currency tables and open trades with existing bank accounts. Liaising and maintaining relationships with existing banks and open new bank accounts on various banking platforms. • Assisted Senior Fund Accountants with US GAAP and UK Tax-Returns. • Reconciled 60 bank accounts monthly with bank statements and daily cash movements to maintain accurate financial records. • Maintained cash flow for multiple funds by doing weekly forecasts via monitoring bridge statements and invested deals. Show less

Trainee Accountant

• Oct 2020 - Apr 2022

• Efficiently processed all AR/AP invoices and ensured 100% of approved invoices were paid in full and on time. • Liaising and maintaining relationships with clients and key stakeholders and answering ad-hoc queries. • Sole responsibility for credit card, petty cash, director loan accounts and wages reconciliation and assist with reviewing expenses, payroll records. • Delivered training to international junior accountants to help them achieve daily and monthly performance targets. • Reconciled bank statements and accounts to maintain accurate, current and compliant financial records. Managing bank transaction reconciliations for individual clients to assist with their accounts. • Prepare reversal charge workings for foreign clients for domestic and international clients. • Prepare working papers and annual accounts alongside Senior Accountants in various industries including retail, consultancy, letting and leasing. Create accounts PACK for each client (Eg. CT600, Advice Letter, Letter of Representation etc). • Supporting the accounting department for Personal and Corporate Tax work plus VAT Returns. Documenting all financial, tax and VAT submissions to ensure they are correct for the HMRC. (Eg. Creating Tax Return Bundles on CCH Central). Strengthened financial management processes to bring errors to near zero in reporting, payroll admin and general bookkeeping. • Assist accounts manager with random selection of audit sampling. Show less

Bookkeeper/Accounts Assistant

• Jul 2020 - Sep 2020

• Performed all AR/AP, bank reconciliations, and credit cards statements monthly. • Assisting financial controller with month end reconciliation. • Maintained cash flow by doing weekly forecasts via monitoring bank balances and various income and expenditure. • Performed all AR/AP, bank reconciliations, and credit cards statements monthly. • Assisting financial controller with month end reconciliation. • Maintained cash flow by doing weekly forecasts via monitoring bank balances and various income and expenditure.

Tax Associate

• Sep 2019 - Sep 2019

• Shadowing members of the Global Compliance and Transformation team and developed tax knowledge. • Inputting data from invoices into the cash book payments. • Filing and referencing VAT returns as inputs and outputs with the client report. • General accounting for client business’ to be used in preparing income tax returns, including preparation of trial balances and related adjusting journal entries. • Correcting and formatting the Multi-Firm Engagement for 83 different countries. • Attended meetings from the Audit and Business Technologies team – an insight on K-Trinity Accounts Production Software. Show less

Accounts Assistant

• Jul 2019 - Aug 2019

• Processing, matching and registering invoices and credit notes onto systems such as OpenAccounts and Ab-intio. • General bookkeeping duties including purchase ledger analysis. • Maintaining spreadsheets for the department. • Daily responsibilities included transaction matching, document entry and enquiry on OpenAccounts. • Calculating credit note totals and inputting data via Microsoft Excel. • Writing branch codes for invoices. • Reception duty. • Processing, matching and registering invoices and credit notes onto systems such as OpenAccounts and Ab-intio. • General bookkeeping duties including purchase ledger analysis. • Maintaining spreadsheets for the department. • Daily responsibilities included transaction matching, document entry and enquiry on OpenAccounts. • Calculating credit note totals and inputting data via Microsoft Excel. • Writing branch codes for invoices. • Reception duty.

Customer Service Assistant (Part-time)

• Jul 2015 - May 2019

• Aided the manager with paper work, managed stock, worked on the till and provided a high level of customer service. • Achieved 100% on mystery shopper scheme. • Aided the manager with paper work, managed stock, worked on the till and provided a high level of customer service. • Achieved 100% on mystery shopper scheme.

Accounts Trainee

• Jun 2018 - Jun 2018

• Examined bank statements and client invoices. • Summarising the workings for bank statements for different clients. • Managed bookkeeping for manager. • Used spread sheets to create and do calculations for invoices. • Examined bank statements and client invoices. • Summarising the workings for bank statements for different clients. • Managed bookkeeping for manager. • Used spread sheets to create and do calculations for invoices.

Accounts Trainee

• Aug 2015 - Aug 2015

• Liaised with clients by phone or face to face. • Examined bank statements and client invoices used for the yearly audit. • Used spread sheets to create and do calculations for invoices. • Liaised with clients by phone or face to face. • Examined bank statements and client invoices used for the yearly audit. • Used spread sheets to create and do calculations for invoices.