
ACCA Part Qualified Assistant Accountant
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- ACCA – Part Qualified – 3 exams sat – self funded
- 2020 Keele University – BA Accounting and Finance with International
- 2016 Cheadle Hulme School – 4 A Levels Achieved, and 9 GCSEs Achieved, including Mathematics and English
Systems used
- Microsoft Word and Excel – Intermediate
- Xero
- Sage Line 30
- ApprovalMax and Rapport3 software packages
Career Summary
Current Employer – Construction / Tarmac
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – February 2025 – Present
This candidate has quickly realised that the has made a mistake joining this company – they would like to return to a professional office-based role
Previous Employer – UK based Renovations / New Build / Project
Position – Finance Assistant
Dates – November 2021 – December 2024
Reported to the Finance Controller – worked as part of a team of 2 people
Assisted with elements of Financial and Management Accounting tasks.
- Assisted with Journal Preparation
- Update of Cash Flow
- Assisted with Input / Update across Balance Sheet
- Assisted with Bank Reconciliations – ongoing
- Supported Monthly and Quarterly Financial reporting process
Sales Ledger / Purchase Ledger
- Tasked with manually drafting and sending out 150+ invoices a month to Clients equating to £1.5m
- In charge of ensuring Engineers provided correct and timely information for Invoicing
- Responded to external queries quickly and with precision to ensure timely Payment of Invoices
- Co-ordinated the upload and assigning of Timesheets to the project system Rapport3
- Updated for Month End
- Code / Batch and Post of Invoices
- Processed and ran Payment runs for Employee Expenses
- Reconciling the Credit Card Accounts and assigning the items against the correct nominals, while also chasing the card owners for receipts when necessary
Credit Control
- Chased overdue Invoices daily for Payment, and rectified any issues that came up
- Created a Debtors list to be shared across the team, to allow for communication when multiple people were chasing
- Ensured the Collection process was followed
- Assisted with Reconciling Month End Accounts