Finance Assistant
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- 2022 – AAT Level
- 8 GCSEs including Maths & English
Systems used
- Excel – Intermediate
- Sage 50
- Open Accounts
- Word & Outlook
Career Summary
Most Recent Employer – One Manchester (Housing Association and Builders)
Position – Finance Assistant – Interim
Dates – April 2024 – October 2024
- Reported to the Head of Finance – worked as part of a larger team
- Processing 150 Supplier Invoices and Credit Notes per day using data entry skills
- Reconciling Supplier Statements using OpenAccounts and Excel skills
- Sending remittances to Suppliers – via Excel
- Extensive Query Management and Resolution – worked Internally and Externally with Suppliers / queries related to Invoices / Payments etc.
- Sending Invoices and Credit Notes to the relevant Coding departments.
- Reprocessing Invoices and creating dummy Credit Notes by editing PDF’s.
- Ad hoc duties as required
Previous Employer – Halliwell Homes
Position – Finance Administrator
Dates – September 2023 – March 2024
- Calculating, raising and issuing c 500 Sales Invoices to Customers – Monthly
- Created PDFs for each Invoice / Allocated Nominal Codes
- Reconciled Credit Cards and Supplier Statements – negotiated Payment Terms / set up Banking etc.
- Processed Expenses and Penalty Charge Notices
- Extensive use of Excel and Sage Line 50
- Raising and issuing Credit notes
- Credit Control duties involving consulting with LAs by Telephone and Email
- Allocation and Reconciliation of Payments – used Excel Formulas to manage Accounts
- Set up new Customers
- Created and issued PO’s verifying with relevant Invoices
- Created Daily and Monthly Forecasts using historical data to predict expected Income and Expenditure
- Reconciled Bank Statements to Sage 50 daily and resolving any discrepancies
Previous Employer – Bury Council
Position – Private Hire Driver
Dates – June 2015 – September 2023
Previous Employer – Liverpool Council
Position – Private Hire Driver
Dates – June 2014 – June 2015
Previous Employer – Bains & Ernst
Position – Debt Solutions Advisor
Dates – October 2005 – December 2012
- Interviewing clients to assess their financial situation and discuss debt solutions.
- Analysing documents such as wage slips and bank statements provided by the customers to calculate affordability for debt repayments.
- Drafting IVA paperwork using Word and Excel detailing customer’s assets, creditors, personal history and proposed dividends to creditors.
- Making any necessary amendments to proposals requested by insolvency practitioners.
- Won prizes for best interviews and highest quality draft proposals.
Previous Employer – Coral Racing
Position – Betting Office Manager
Dates – April 1997 – September 2005
