Finance Assistant
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- 2024 ACCA – current Applied Skills – Financial Reporting and Audit Assurance
- 2023 Sage Stream – Certificate in Payroll Administration
- 2022 Level 5(NQF level 6) Diploma for Accounting Technicians
- 2021 Level 4(NQF level 6) Certificate for Accounting Technicians
- 2017 Firhouse Community College – Leaving Certificate: All honours, 463 points
Systems used
- Excel – Intermediate / Advanced
- MS GP
- Sage
- QuickBooks
- Word & Outlook
Career Summary
Current Employer – Software
Position – Finance Assistant
Dates – August 2023 – Present
- Works in a team of 6 – reports to the Accounts Receivable Team Lead
- Raising invoices for more than 200 customers across the globe in various currencies whilst considering regional VAT treatments
- Checking out multi-currency accounts for customer payments and posting them to accounting software (Microsoft GP)
- Keeping track of customer invoices and maintaining communication with those outside the agreed payment term, escalating when necessary
- Presenting the weekly collections report to management and directors, suggesting further actions
- Preparing and finalizing the weekly billing and collections report, bad debt provision report and any ad hoc reports needed
- Assisting in month end reporting, which includes the Accounts Receivable report, Blackline reconciliation, monthly sales invoicing report, and the billing report
- Posting journals entries to Microsoft GP
Previous Employer – Financial Services
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – August 2022 – June 2023
- Posted payments from customers across our three portfolios to ARM system
- Uploaded Direct Debit files to bank accounts
- Reconciled cash collections to bank statements across our three portfolios
- Updated daily and weekly interest trackers to ensure interest posted correctly and posted adjustments where needed
- Prepared and finalised month end reports
- Set up and approved payments to beneficiaries
- Responded to email queries from ASU team in a timely manner
- Carried out tasks for mortgage servicing team
- Ensured internal audits were up to date
- Ad hoc duties
Previous Employer – Financial Services
Position – Collection Executive
Dates – September 2020 – July 2022
- Took and made calls to customers of our clients
- Responded to emails
- Discussed and set up repayment options regarding outstanding balances
- Took disputes and liaising with clients
- Trained new call agents
- Hit monthly collection targets set by management
- Manually updated large volumes of accounts when required
- Took and made calls to customers of our clients
- Responded to emails
- Discussed and set up repayment options regarding outstanding balances
- Took disputes and liaised with clients
- Trained new call agents
- Hit monthly collection targets set by management
- Manually updated large volumes of accounts when required
Previous Employer – Cinema
Position – Supervisor
Dates – August 2017 – July 2020
