
Accounts Assistant
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- 2018 Chartered Tax Adviser
- 2016 Lagos State University – MBA Finance
- 2015 Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigerian (ACTI)
- 2008 Olabisi Onabanjo University – BSc Accounting
Systems used
- Excel including Pivot Tables and Lookups
- Xero / QuickBooks / Sage 200
- Internal CRM Systems
- Word & Outlook
Career Summary
Current Employer – Fashion Retailor – Multimillion pound turnover
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – January 2023 – Present
- Based in a team of twenty-five and reports to the Finance Manager
- Responsible for circa 120 suppliers
- Responsible for high volume processing – working in several currencies – GBP, US Dollars, and Euros – volumes are around one thousand per month with values into the millions
- Schedules and prepares weekly receipts and payment runs
- Post clients receipts and suppliers payments on to Sage 200
- Runs end to end Sales Ledger and prepares invoices each day – circa one hundred with values up to £300k
- Responsible for daily bank reconciliations and monthly bank reports
- Posts bank transactions and credit card transactions and reconciles high volumes
- Reconciliation of the supplier base
- Resolving all queries including price and quantity discrepancies
- Updates supplier information on Internal software
- Managing assigned supplier process from start to end
Previous Employer – Food and beverages Restaurant – T/o circa £15m
Position – Bookkeeper
Dates – March 2021 – December 2022
- Reported to the CFO and was based in a team of five
- Updated account information and records of clients
- Scheduled and prepared weekly receipts and payment runs
- Posted clients receipts and suppliers payments
- Processed receipts and payments invoices and expenses posted in the correct nominal codes
- Posted bank transactions and credit card transactions
- Reconciled bank transactions/statements against their Invoices
- Prepared VAT Returns
- Created monthly financial statements that included a Profit and Loss account
- Preparation of monthly management account for sole proprietorship
- Resolved VAT return issue, while ensuring VAT returns were paid timely monthly and quarterly
Previous Employer – Tax Office
Position – Tax Account Manager
Dates – July 2015 – August 2019