Assistant Management Accountant
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- 2018 Salford University – PG Diploma Accounting and Finance
- 2017 Salford University – BSc Accounting and Finance
- 2014 St. Mary’s Public School – GCSEs including Mathematics and English
Systems used
- Microsoft Word and Excel
- Sage 50
- Sage 200
- Xero
- QuickBooks
Career Summary
Most Recent Employer – Other Business Support Service
Position – Assistant Accountant
Dates – February 2023 – November 2025
- Primary accountant working under the Group Finance Director & Group Finance Manager of IES.
- Daily bookkeeping and bank reconciliation – Sage 50
- Perform procurement and accounts payable functions (invoice posting, payment runs, disputes with suppliers) – Sage 50
- Weekly P&L reporting – High level P&L reporting on prior week performance with accompanying detailed breakdown
- Weekly sales invoice issuance and credit control – Sage 50
- Updating cash flow forecast
- Quarterly VAT return submissions with sales tax control, purchase tax control and VAT liability nominals reconciled to submitted VAT return – Sage 50
- Monthly Management Accounts preparation for Finance Director’s review:
- Ensure all sales invoices are raised, issued and posted
- Check incomplete purchase orders for unposted/missing purchase invoices
- Payroll nominals transactions posted – Direct Wages, Gross Wages, CIS, PAYE, NIC, Pension, Student Loan, Net Wages
- Credit card transactions posted and reconciled
- Fixed Asset Register updated and reconciled to BS balances
- Prepayments and Accruals schedules updated
- Bank receipts and bank payments posted to customer accounts and supplier accounts and allocated. Unique/one-off bank receipts/payments posted to correct P/L or BS nominal
- Bank nominal reconciled to month-end statement
- Checks on accounts receivable ledger with commentary for customer balances exceeding 30 days from invoice date
- Checks on accounts payable ledger with commentary on disputed and withheld supplier payments
- Loan nominals reconciled to statements
- Lease schedule reconciled to nominal balance
- Intercompany transactions posted. Matrix provided for intercompany customer account, supplier account and nominal balances
- Check completeness of all nominals, rectifying any incorrect nominal postings
- Export complete monthly TB to management accounts workbook
- P/L detailed commentary on material balance variances on the month
- BS comparison of the month to the same prior year monthly figures with high-level commentary
- Profitability and liquidity ratios
- Keys points highlighted – Significant P/L variances on the month, cash flow position, sales/revenue forecast, cost saving opportunities.
Previous Employer – Financial Intermediation
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – April 2022 – January 2023
- Daily bookkeeping and bank reconciliation
- Accounts payable functions
- Preparation of weekly KPI packs
- Updating & maintaining cash flow forecast
- Updating and maintaining fixed asset register, prepayments and accruals schedules
- Ad hoc accounting tasks
- Monthly management accounts preparation under Finance Controller’s supervision
Previous Employer – Accounting and Auditing Sector
Position – Trainee External Auditor
Dates – April 2021 – January 2022
- Planning – Preliminary Analytical Review, Walkthroughs of Internal Controls with relevant staff (accounting, administration, prevention, detection and correction controls)
- Execution/Fieldwork – Testing of internal controls, substantive analytical procedures on material balances with high volume transactions, substantive testing of sampled transactions, enquiries with ground, medium and high-level staff, third party confirmations
- Finalisation – Summary of material misstatements, Final Analytical Review, aiding senior auditors with queries
Previous Employer – Financial Services / Healthcare / Manufacturing
Position – Audit Technician
Dates – June 2019 – November 2020
- Junior level contributions to audit planning, execution and finalisation processes
