Accounts Manager
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- Training 2000 – AAT Level 2, studying level 3
- Fearns Community Sports College – 14 GCSEs Achieved, including Mathematics and English (A* – C)
Systems used
- Microsoft Word and Excel – Intermediate
- Sage 200 / Sage Line 50
- In House Systems
Career Summary
Current Employer – Business Manufacturing and Supply
Position – Accounts Manager
Dates – July 2024 – Present
- Reporting to Company Shareholders – Working in a Lone Finance Role
- Reconcile all Areas and Update all Areas of the Financial Records from Purchase Ledger/Sales Ledger/ P&L /Balance Sheet
- Produce Accurate Management Accounts for the Financial Year Before Onboarding New Accountants – Working with Them to Produce the Year End Accounts Both on Time and Accurately
- Working on the Current financial Years Financial Data – Ensuring the Data is Accurate
- Running the Company’s Payroll on a Weekly Basis for 15 Employees – Implemented and Maintained a Detailed Cashflow
- Manage All Aspects of the Company’s Financial Information – Including Sales and Purchase Ledger
- Producing Management Accounts
- Working with External Accountants with the Company’s Year End
- Liaise with Production Staff to Ensure Critical Payments are Made on Time
- Make all Payments for the Company
- Chase Debtors
- Produce and Submit the VAT Returns
- Regularly meet with production managers to ensure supplier payments are made at relevant times for production and unnecessary spending are not made
- Deal with company HR – such as Holidays/Memos/Company Policy and Attend Disciplinary Meetings
Previous – (TO c £10M) – Manufacturing and Supply
Position – Senior Management Accountant
Dates – November 2023 – July 2024
- Reports to Head of Finance
- Produced the monthly management accounts and KPI’s
- Assisted the ledger team with any transactional queries
- Reviewed the nominal codes and ledgers and making any corrections if necessary
- Payroll Journals
- Accruals and Prepayments
- Maintained the fixed asset register and depreciating the asset
- Intercompany loan accounts
- Balance sheet reconciliation
- Produced the monthly Profit and Loss and balance sheet
- Ran, reviewed and submitted four VAT returns
- Produced budgets and reforecast
- Produced monthly KPIs to coincide with the management accounts
- Monitored and reported actual income and cost against the budget
- CIS returns
- Reviewed and amened finance policies
- Produced and maintained cash flow along with producing forecasted cash flows
Previous Employer – Property investment
Position – Management Accountant
Dates – October 2018 – October 2023
Producing the management accounts for seven of the companies within the group.
Reviewing the account with the operations director and then to the executive directors of the group.
Producing the budgets and reforecast with the operations director for seven of the group companies.
Responsible for two members of the team, ensuring that their work was completed in a timely manner and train them withing their roles. Rolled out Sage 200 and trained the rest of the finance department with the AP/AC manager.
- Reported to the Group FD – worked across a range of Reports and Projects
- Acted as initial 1st point of contact for Year End Audit
- Assisted with preparation and presentation of Year End Accounts
- Produced Budgets / Reforecasts and Notes – also monitored and reported on Actual Income v Cost v Budget
- Prepared and presented Monthly Management Accounts Pack and KPI Reporting – including Accruals and Prepayments / Fixed Assets and Depreciation / Profit and Loss Reporting
- Prepared Balance Sheets Reconciliations and Intercompany Loan Accounts Reconciliations
- Prepared a range of Journals – including Payroll
- Prepared and submitted VAT Returns
- Prepared and submitted Self-Assessment Returns for Group Investors
- Produced Monthly Service Charge Accounts compared to Service Charge Budgets
- Assisted the ledger team with any transactional queries
- Reviewed Nominal codes and ledgers and making any corrections if necessary
- Payroll Journals / CIS Returns
- Assisted Ledger Teams
- Travelled to Sites for internal Audits on operations, produced operation reports etc
Reason for Leaving; significant internal changes across the Group
Previous Employer –Waste Management
Position – Management Accountant
Dates – August 2018 – October 2018
Previous Employer – Property Investment
Position – Management Accountant
Dates – June 2017 – August 2018
Produced Management Accounts for three of the Group Companies
- Produced Monthly Management Accounts and KPI’s
- Pack included Profit and Loss / Income – Expenditure and Costs
- Assisted with preparation for Year End Accounts and Audit
Previous Employer – Meal Delivery
Position – Various roles
Dates – February 2011 –June 2017
Worked across a range of Financial and Management Accounting tasks
