About Candidate

Education/Qualification

  • Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) – Finalist  
  • BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance Degree

Systems used

  • Excel including Lookups / Pivots / Sums / Table
  • Agresso

Career Summary

Current Employer – Construction

Position – Accountant

Dates – March 2023 – August 2024

  • Reports to the Finance Director and is responsible for Cash flow management / Consulting with the Commercial team in preparation of the cashflow forecast
  • Prepares and manages budgets for different departments and analyses costs
  • Responsible for the preparation of management accounts – production and management of timely/accurate/compliant monthly financial results (P&L and balance sheet
  • Accurate allocation and reporting of actual cost to individual production jobs and cost centres
  • Consults with payroll and production to ensure all labour allocations are submitted, processed, and reconciled
  • Consult with intercompany trading partners to ensure full visibility and reconciliation of recharges
  • Manages all project finances for internal/external auditing and tax purposes and provides detail for internal/external audit queries as requested.
  • Reports any financial risks and budgetary discrepancies to management for review
  • Managing the forecasting exercises (budget and re-forecasts) and risk analysis
  • Prepares CVR each month and consult with projects managers to update WIP and Accrual costing

Reason for Leaving: Redundancy

Previous Employer – Travel

Position – Assistant Accountant

Dates – September 2019 – February 2023

  • Reported to the Financial Controller and oversaw the Accounts Receivable team 
  • Coordinated and assisting with external audits
  • Maintained financial records by analysing balance sheets and general ledger accounts
  • Prepared and verified bank deposits and conducted bank reconciliations
  • Managing accruals and prepayments, Fixed Assets
  • Preparing internal and external reports
  • Assisting with cash flow forecasting
  • Reconciling supplier statements and payments
  • Completing financial reports on a regular basis and providing information to the finance team
  • Resolving errors in financial report and correcting faulty reporting methods4

Position – Finance Administrator

Dates – July 2017 – August 2019

  • Managing day to day transactions, credit card reconciliations, verifying bank deposits
  • Month end duties, Petty cash
  • Posting supplier invoices, verifying bank details
  • PDQ transaction matching
  • Issuance, Maintenance, and cancelation of Corporate Travel (T&E) cards
  • Consulting with credit control and assisting them to respond to client queries

Previous Employer – Airways

Position – Team Leader

Dates – April 2014 – July 2017

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