Assistant Management Accountant
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- Ongoing ACCA Studies – Part Qualified
- 2021 University of Salford – BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance
- 2017 Bolton College – BTEC Business Level 3
- 2015 Bolton / Heathland School – GCSEs Achieved, including Mathematics and English
Systems used
- Excel
- Xero
- Oracle
- SAP
- Word & Outlook
Career Summary
Most Recent Employer – Translation Services
Position – Assistant Management Accountant – Assignment
Dates – June 2024 – September 2024
- Based in the Finance Team and reported to the manager
- Prepared and posted journals within Xero
- Prepared accruals and prepayments overheads
- Maintained Fixed Asset registers and capital expenditure analysis
- Prepared monthly balance sheet reconciliations
Previous Employer – Retail Company, Northampton
Position – Finance Analyst
Dates – September 2021 – May 2024
- Based in the busy central team and worked across a variety of activities
- Responsible for producing Travis Perkins 2022 year-end notes on revenue, profit, net finance costs, tax, inventories, and deferred tax. Also, worked on Covenant certificates, Statutory accounts, and dormant companies. Collaborated with KPMG auditors during annual financial audits
- Ownership for a monthly overseas subsidiary with a turnover of £5 million
- Prepared the subsidiarity P&L and balance sheet and uploaded on Travis Perkins Group portal, ensuring accurate financial reporting
- Ensured that balance sheet reconciliations were prepared monthly – all balances correct, and differences investigated; Scheduled a meeting with the FD to go through the recs
- Analysed and successfully recovered missing margins for low margin accounts and products, leveraging strong analytical skills to identify trends in extensive datasets
- Monitored Travis Perkins £400m bonds, SPV, and borrowing costs, resulting in accurate recognition of interest payables on the loan
- Calculated loan interest based on a margin plus a fixed interest rate, using the EBITDA v borrowings (net debt) ratio
- Worked closely to ensure accurate accruals of hourly wages of for contractors – involved reconciling actual wage expenses with projected amounts and to ensure it aligned with budget forecast and financial target
- Collaborated with the Treasury department to manage cash flow and liquidity
- Actively engaged to optimise the cash flow management and ensure liquidity for operational needs
- Maintained cash balances to support the company strategic objectives
- Monitored and recorded credit card expenditure, accurately allocating amounts to respective cost centres for each Director, ensuring financial transparency and accountability
- Managed the rebate process – included analysing current rebates and suggesting renegotiation of rebate deals with suppliers
- Performed margin analysis on a daily and monthly basis
Reason for Leaving: Travel time
Previous Employer – Electrical Power Distribution
Position – Management Accountant
Dates – September 2019 – July 2020
- Based in a team of twenty and reported to the Team Manager
- Analysed budget variances against actual financial performance to identify discrepancies and optimised resource allocations
- Ran regular ledger reports to reconcile the bills posted on the P&L accounts, matched those that were posted to the Balance Sheet accounts
- Calculated the Energy cost produced through Embedded Generation to calculate the Pence per unit of KHW produced from the wind turbine and income generated through Purchase Power Agreement (PPA)
- Prepared a presentation each quarter for the Director of Retail, detailing the total supplier accounts, market share and movement of suppliers Quarter on Quarter
- Partnered with colleagues to ensure the group and senior executive team in Spain had a clear understanding of the performance of the business
- Developed a tracking document which generated insights into Scottish Power customers gain/losses daily
- Raised £500 by starting a charity focused on providing milk bottle for tea and coffee consumed by the team
Previous Employer – Accountancy
Position – Finance Accounting
Dates – May 2019 – July 2019
- Managed the financial accounts for a range of clients and crosschecked receipts with payments made
- Conducted a VAT Analysis and tracking invoices/expenses in Excel
- Demonstrated diligence as all data had to be analysed thoroughly and inputted accurately
Previous Employer – Government Body
Position – Research Intern
Dates – May 2018 – June 2018
