Accounts Assistant

£27000 / year

About Candidate

Education/Qualification

  • 2024 – Accounting and Finance
  • 2021 – A Levels in Business, Criminology, Public Services
  • 2019  – 12 GCSEs including Mathematics and English

Systems used

  • Microsoft Word and Excel

Career Summary

Current Employer – Supermarket

Position – Assistant Management Accountant

Dates – March 2025 – Present

  • Prepare journals including accruals, prepayments, and currency revaluations.
  • Supporting Month-End and Year-End Closing: Assist with tasks related to closing the accounts cycle at the end of each accounting period.
  • Produce and update sections on the P+L such as revenue and cost of sales.
  • Producing Card and Cash reconciliations weekly and monthly.
  • Perform variance and budget analysis monthly and assess month on month differences.
  • Monitoring daily sales ledger: Performing daily sales reconciliations and ensuring all data is correct.
  • Uploading Payments: Schedule analyse and process payments to vendors and suppliers. Ensure all double entry bookkeeping journals are performed correctly and accurately.
  • Maintain ledgers for third party sites such as: Deliveroo, Just Eat, Uber Eats and more.
  • Process international payments, transfers, and FX‑related transactions whilst also liaising with overseas teams/suppliers/customers.
  • Responding to Inquiries: Address questions from vendors and internal staff regarding invoices and payments.
  • Ensuring all double entry bookkeeping inputs are accurate.

Previous Employer –  Accountants

Position – Bookkeeper

Dates – June 2024 – February 2025

  • Prepare VAT returns, payroll submissions, and self-assessment tax returns as required.
  • Prepare corporation tax computations and draft CT600s for review.
  • Prepare draft statutory accounts for limited companies from trial balance, ready for review.
  • Processing Invoices, receiving, verifying, and accurately entering invoices into the accounting system.
  • Maintaining Records: keep organized and up-to-date records of all accounts transactions, including invoices, payments, and correspondence.
  • Responding to enquiries: Address questions from customers and internal staff regarding invoices and payments to HMRC.
  • Critically reviewing and refining bookkeeping entries to rectify errors and ensure a clean Trial Balance for year-end preparation.
  • Liaise with HMRC on routine client matters

Previous Employer – Supermarket

Position – Customer Service

Dates – June 2023 – September 2023

  • Answer an average of 45 Third Party calls.
  • Answer an average of 20 email cases that customers have emailed in.
  • Provide updates to both customers + suppliers regarding the claim.
  • Settle Third party claims.
  • Settle customers membership queries.
  • Settle missing items from home deliveries / if driver failed to deliver the goods to customer

Previous Employer – Insurance Company

Position – Third Party Department

Dates – May 2022 – September 2022

  • Answer an average of 45 Third Party calls.
  • Answer an average of 20 of our policyholders calls regarding their claim.
  • Provide updates to both Third party + policyholder regarding their claim.
  • Settle Third party hire claims.
  • Query Third party hire claims.
  • Contact Third party insurance companies regarding status of claims Settle payment packs and handle cases

Previous Employer – Specialist in Wills and Documents

Position – Sales Negotiator

Dates – June 2021 – September 2021

  • Answer of average 100 calls a day resolving customers issues, approach elderly people with precaution, providing an exceptional service.
  • Communicate with the customers needs effective and with ease.
  • Selling appointments and additional services.
  • Worked hand in hand with the counsellors, lawyers, and the elderly in need

Previous Employer – Retail

Position – Inbound and Outbound Sales

Dates – May 2021 – June 2021

  • Answer an average of 45 Third Party calls.
  • Sustain weekly insurance plans targets
  • Communicate with the customers on how to maintain their product.
  • Settle customers membership queries.
  • Assist customers with their purchases if their ‘mildly intrigued’.
  • Adding extra services onto the customer’s order