Bookkeeper

Education/Qualification

• 2022 – AAT Level 4 – Qualified
• 2019 – A Levels
• 2017 – 11 GCSEs

Systems used

• Excel
• Word & Outlook
• Xero
• Sage
• QuickBooks

Career Summary

Most Recent Employer –   Property Business

Position – Bookkeeper/Administrator (Reason for leaving – Relocated to Salford)

Dates – July 2022 – October 2024

• Worked in a small team reporting to Finance Manager
• Assisting with preparing year-end accounts for audit
• Contributing to Month-End – Cashflow forecast, budgeting and reporting for month-end meeting
• Daily cashbook, petty cash and Barclaycard reconciliations
• Management of sales and purchases ledger (Input of invoices, Debtor/Creditor reporting, payment runs)
• Processing up to 50 purchase ledger invoices a week with values varying between hundreds to thousands of pounds
• Performing payment runs both weekly (15/20 payments per run) and at month end (40/50 payments per run)
• Accurately recording transactions across the Purchase and Sales Ledgers
• Employee and viewing staff timesheets and expenses VAT returns Payroll, Key2
• Payroll system, HMRC Pension P60, P11D, starters and leavers
• Finance system (Landmark) management, training, maintenance
• Support Business and Finance Manager
• Client Bookkeeping
• Management of lettings (tenants in and tenants out) as well as CMS deposit holding and management
• Processing lettings invoices and landlord payments
• Management of client bank accounts, recording transactions and regular reconciliations
• Management of rural client accounts (Farm rents, payments, and receipts of other invoices)
• Management of residential client accounts (Paying of supplier invoices, payments to landlords, receipts of rent)
• Client cashbook management, cashflow and bank account reconciliations
• Preparing and submitting client VAT returns Monthly client payroll
• Preparing client harvest accounts
• Preparing client financial accounts, or sending data to clients nominated accountants
• Support Land Agent and attend meetings Trainee Accountant Sep 2019 – J
• Filing and office management (Post inwards, post outwards, office sundries, banking cheques)

Previous Employer – Accountancy Practice 

Position – Trainee Accountant

Dates – September 2019 – June 2022

• Assisted with the preparation and filing of yearend accounts for Sole Traders, Partnerships and Small and Medium sized companies
• Prepared working papers to agree to yearend accounts
• Analysed, reconciled and maintained general, sales and purchase ledgers
• Maintained detailed fixed asset registers
• Adjusted year end accounts for accruals and prepayments
• General bookkeeping duties such as posting and checking invoices and receipts, using different accounting software packages. (Xero, Sage, QuickBooks)
• Reconciled bank, supplier, and customer accounts
• Assisted with the preparation and filing of Tax Returns for Individuals, Partnerships, Trusts, and Small and Medium sized companies
• Reconciled client tax liabilities and payments on account
• Prepared backing documents using client information
• Entering client information onto tax software and preparing tax returns

• Administration duties:
• Corresponded with clients over the phone and via email.
• New client checklist procedures
• Preparing letters sending accounts and tax returns to clients
• Corresponding with HMRC on behalf of clients
• Drafting bills to clients
• Scanning and filing backing documents and client information

Previous Employer – College

Position – Casual Server

Dates – July 2019 – August 2019