Accounts Assistant
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- Ongoing – Hopwood Hall College – AAT level 2 – 1 exam left – intends to commence level 3 in September – self funded
- Wardle High School – GCSES Achieved, including Mathematics and English
Systems used
- Microsoft Word and Excel – Intermediate
- Epicor ERP system
- In house systems
Career Summary
Previous Employer – Manufacturing
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – January 2022 – July 2024
- Work as part of a team of 3 reporting to the Head of Finance
- Sales Ledger Duties, including posting and allocating payment receipts from customers
- Billing/ Invoicing customers per schedules
- Using customer portals to upload billing – Incl. Arriba for our largest customers Shell and Apache Offshore
- Credit Control, chasing overdue payments from customers by phone and email
- Resolve any queries or disputes raised,
- Liaise with internal departments
- Sole responsibility for the Purchase Ledger
- Processing purchase invoices for stock, matching to purchase orders and identifying any anomalies or variance with quantities and pricing
- Reconciling to supplier statements and requesting copy documents
- Prepare payment run and post to the bank
- Daily reconciliation of the bank payments and receipts to our ERP system (Epicor)
- Posting of Non ledger receipts and payments to the GL/Nominal Ledger
- Ownership of Petty Cash, responsible for logging and balancing the transactions
- Process company credit cards/expenses for all employees and directors
- Posting to the relevant nominal codes and checking/chasing receipts to ensure any VAT is accounted for and claimed back
Position – Receptionist/Technical Secretary
Dates – January 2007 – December 2022
- Greeted visitors to the premises including customers and suppliers etc, in a friendly and professional manner
- Management of the switchboard for three companies; Salt Separation, Desal and KSK Fabrications
- Booking Meeting rooms and arranging buffet lunches
- Typed up and compiling technical documents (QA Data books Quotations and O&M Manuals
- All other ad-hoc duties required