Accounts Assistant
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- 2016 Extended Business Diploma / Certificate of Finance / Leisure and Tourism – Oldham Sixth Form College
- BTEC Level 2 Extended Sports (QCF) and Business (QCF)
- 2013 GCSEs achieved in Maths and English at grade B – Oasis Academy Oldham
Systems used
- Microsoft Word and Excel – advanced – formulas / macro / v-lookup and /pivot tables
- Oracle
- Sage 200
- Other in-house systems
Career Summary
Most Recent Employer – Design and Manufacturer of Bedding Products
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – July 2024 – August 2025
- Bank reconciliation
- Clearing down bank feeds
- Credit card reconciliation
- Reconcile balance sheets for banks, petty cash and aged creditors
- Posting cash from the bank making sure to look into mutli currency accounts such as Euros and Dollar accounts
- Daily cash posting and prompt allocation
- Updating and working on overdue debtor’s sheet
- Processing Supplier payment runs fortnightly
- Ensuring all invoices are on purchase ledger and are being approved on sicon
- Uploading bacs files and ad hoc payments on to the bank
- Preparing sales manifest for invoicing using pivot tables
- Responding to emails from key accounts
- Raising and following up disputed debit notes from key accounts such as ASDA, Sainsbury’s and Argos
- Processing orders on EDI, importing 3 to 4 times a day and exporting all prior day’s orders
- Exporting Sales reports from Orderwise
- Run reports for month end process such, Sales & Margin Report, and Accounts Journal Report
- Formatting remittances to prepare large sales receipts for allocation
- Using Vlookup for many daily processes such as to prepare sales manifests
- liaising with national account managers making sure debit notes, rebates and fines are agreed
- Ensuring rebates and fines on debit not logs are up to date by exporting transaction listing report
- Exporting Daily Transaction listing (sales Ledger) for key accounts
- Weekly Journal upload
- Frequently reviewing debtor’s sheet
- Sending monthly statements of accounts
- Assisting with month end duties
Previous Employer – Healthcare Provider
Position – Finance Officer
Dates – December 2021 – August 2023
- Reported to Finance Team Leader – worked across elements of Sales and Purchase Ledger up to and including Month End
- Worked to assist across a range of Financial Accounting tasks – including.
- Accurate processing of Sales and Purchase Ledger Invoices
- Allocation of correct Nominal Codes / keeping up to date Register
- Allocation and Reconciliation of Payments Posted
- Preparation of BACS Payments / Remittance Advice
- Calculate Accruals
- Credit Notes / Refunds
- Create PO’s
- Query Management and Resolution
- Assisted with Bank Reconciliations
- Assisted with preparation for Year End
- Ad hoc duties
Previous Employer – Services
Position – Head of Ecommerce
Dates – July 2020 – October 2021
- Worked in a sole role reporting to the Managing Director
- Was brought on board from the start of the business to head up purchases / costings / products and merchandising
- Managed sales from eBay, Amazon, and own website
- Set up the website for the business – designing layout and updates
- Responsible for all inventory management
- Update al pictures, prices, and products across all sites
- Responsible for researching trends in sales on product development
- Source new products to purchase and liaise with MD re information/reports found
- Set up new products on the website and in house systems
- Prepare and update purchasing budgets and run reports on spend
- Produce monthly reports on sales trends for Directors
- Involved in all aspects of admin to offer support across the business, this included recruitment
Reason for leaving: Downturn in business – hours were reduced to part time
Previous Employer – Home Textiles Company
Position – Ecommerce Assistant
Dates – October 2019 – July 2020
- Worked in a team of 8 reporting to the Ecommerce Manager
- Worked across major accounts including Argos, Dunelm, Wayfair and Ocado
- Managed an email inbox across these accounts dealing with product queries
- Responsible for updating prices and products across all sites – liaising daily with Account Managers re products and descriptions
- Process purchases and follow up with Warehouse for dispatch information
- Produce monthly reports on forecasting and pricing for Management
Reason for leaving: Furlough
Previous Employer – Multinational Company
Position – Store Sales
Dates – December 2018 – September 2019
- Based in the central hub but also worked across several sites across Manchester
- Worked in store pushing sales and dealing with Customers face to face
- Achieved many unprecedented records such as beating the store daily targets as well as weekly and monthly targets
- Processed daily sales and produced reports on sales
Previous Employer – Computer Repair Company
Position – Ecommerce Assistant
Dates – September 2015 – November 2018
- Worked in a team of 4 reporting to the Merchandising Manager
- Worked on B2B accounts for mainly online sales and some retail sales
- Worked across website, eBay, and amazon sales
- Managed an email inbox of queries dealing with product information and pricing
- Run daily reports on products sold in previous 24 hours
- Complete weekend reporting on a Monday
- Complete bi-weekly forecasting report based on previous 2-week sales
- Responsible for adjusting information online – updating prices and product information
- Responsible for researching new products and competitor information and products
- Work across all marketing campaign – designing for social media platforms and prepare adverts
