Accounts Manager
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- Ongoing Stockport College
- 2015 Stockport College – Business Diploma
- 2012 Hull College – Platinum Social Care
- 2011 Aquinas Sixth Form College
- Level 1 Religious education
- Level 2 Digital applications
- Level 2 Business diploma
- 2010 HarryTown Catholic School – GCSEs Achieved, including Mathematics and English
Systems used
- Microsoft Word and Excel
- Sage 50 / Sage Payroll
- Haultech
Career Summary
Current Employer – Logistics Services
Position Various Roles
Dates – August 2020 – Present
Position – Accounts Manager
Dates – January 2021 – Present
- Head of the accounts department now with two assistants working along side
- Taken over most of the daily tasks like daily invoicing out, putting invoicing onto the system. Dealing with queries etc.
- Do month end to end processes for all four of the logistics companies, processing the profit and loss and balance sheet to the CEO. Ensuring this is completed in tight deadlines
- Posting any accruals/prepayments which are required. Bank reconciliations for all of the bank accounts
- Complete and submission of VAT and PAYE. Making sure these are completed and paid in time
- Do the monthly and weekly wages. Paying any mileage or expenses the directors may have
- Paying out any payroll deductions for example child maintenance, also pay the pension suppliers
- Producing the debtors and creditor reports ready our weekly meetings
- Paying the suppliers and chasing in the debts from customers
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – August 2020 – December 2020
- Worked alongside the finance director for a busy logistics business
- Worked on both sales and purchase ledgers to ensure everything was completed for month end
- Raised and sent out customer invoices for all four of the logistics businesses, then could drawdown any cash from the invoicing id line (close brothers) maintaining a good relationship with customers
- Delt with any queries they may have
- Raised credit notes if required
- Reconciled supplier statements ensuring our ledger balances match, requesting any copy invoices if required. And posting them onto the correct company ledger
- Posted any supplier invoices onto the correct account using our match batch and coding system
- Processed and payment and the weekly drivers’ wages
Previous Employer – Financial Service
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – August 2019 – June 2020
- Raised invoices and paid all the Bill’s on time putting this into the xero system promptly and acutely
- Chased for any commission reports or money that was due in if needed
- Reconciled the accounts on a daily basis
- Managed the petty cash and posted this onto the system also
- Keeping copys of all receipts for each month
- Did the pre payments and accrual report for the accountant to do the end of month duties
Previous Employer – Paint Manufacturer
Position – Purchase Ledger Clerk
Dates – November 2018 – July 2019
- Processed high volumes of invoices, match batch and coding them to the correct nominal ledgers
- Reconcile statements and answer any quires the customer may have
- Sorted out BACs run on a regular basic once approved for the relevant department
- Also sort though everyone’s expenses on a monthly basic and payout any
- Money which may be owed back, after reconciling them to each bank statement
- Also do the monthly instastate report for HMRC’s. And any basic admin duty like filing etc
Previous Employer – Property Management
Position – Purchase Ledger Clerk
Dates – February 2019 – May 2018
- Sorted through a high volume of invoices form suppliers each day
- Match batching and coding them all correctly with a keen eye for any duplicates and processing them through to payments
- Would also work over the fines dealing with any quires or informing them if there payments and/or supply have been accepted still awaiting decision or declined and them to resolve this
Previous Employer – Flower Store
Position – Admin
Dates – March 2017 – November 2018
Previous Employer – Solicitors
Position – Legal Cashier
Dates – October 2016 – February 2017
- Required to maintain the purchase and sale ledger accounts
- Would update the accounts system on a daily basis for any payments that may have come in or out
- Would write any cheques, payments, invoices or credit notes what are due and process them onto the system to match our accounts
- Any payment that would have been made, would email a remittance to also along with the codes to match on our customer coding system. This was almost like ‘double’ double entry for certain solicitor laws
- Would also do credit control and email any invoices that may be due to any clients
- Chase payments and answer any quires client may have had by post, Email or telephone call on a daily basis
Previous Employer – Protective Clothing Supplier
Position – Credit Control / Purchase Ledger Clerk
Dates – January – March 2016
- Doing credit control, chasing payments and updating the system with correct account details stating if a payment was due, if it was paid on time or when the
- Client was going to make their payment
- Would also take card payments over the phone and process all credit card payments into the system
- Had to then reconcile them onto an excel spread sheet to make sure it balanced with all the invoices and credit notes
- Created and correctly code up any invoices or credit notes
Previous Employer – Accounting Services
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – July 2015- November 2015
- Required to sort out all the paperwork such as, bank statements, invoices
- and receipts. Then enter them into the correct ledgers and make sure they balance to put
- through the clients year end or VAT return
- Noticed any information was missing such as peoples wages etc
- Chased customers for missing information and arrange a pick up or drop off to be able to complete their accounts
Previous Employer – Financial Services
Position – Cash Finance
Dates – August 2011
- Required to ring people up who have been interested in taking a loan out and go through an application form to see if they were eligible to proceed with one of our lenders. If this was successful we would send them a copy of the paper work to check over and sign the agreement
Previous Employer – Manufacturer
Position – Call Centre
Dates – May 2011 – June 2011
Previous Employer – Church
Position – Playgroup
Dates – July 2009 – July 2009
