
Finance Assistant
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- Ongoing – First Intuition – AAT Level 3
- AAT Level 2 – Qualified
- 2020 Haslingden High School – GCSEs Achieved, including Mathematics and English
- 2015 Helmshore Primary School
Systems used
- Microsoft Word and Excel – Intermediate
- Xero
- XAL
- Pronto
- Internal Systems
Career Summary
Current Employer – Material Transfer Products (T/O ££17.4Million)
Position – Finance Assistant
Dates – October 2022 – Present
- Working in a Team of 7 – Reporting to Finance Director
- Purchase Orders and Overhead Invoices and Code them to General Ledger
- Assisting with Producing/Collaborating Management Accounts
- Performs Month-End Processes – Including Preparing Accruals and Prepayment Schedules – As well as Posting the Accompanying Journals on the Business System
- Assisting in the Preparation of Quarterly VAT Returns
- Reviewing Intercompany Balances at Month-End – Working with GBP/EUR/USD
- Preparing Monthly Fixed Asset Reconciliations
- Preparing Management Accounts for Line Managers Approval – Reviewing the Profit and Loss Statements/ Review Costs in more – Acting on any Adjustments and Performing Balance Sheet Reconciliations
- Ensuring Accurate work within the Transactional Team – For Example Bank Reconciliation/ Debtor and Creditor Reconciliation’s as well as Inventory Reconciliation’s
- Spent time Working on Supplier Payments – Ensuring timely Payments
- Working in the Accounts Payable Department – Processing Invoices for Both Purchase Orders and Overhead Invoices and Code them to General Ledger
Previous Employer – Construction Company
Position – Financial Administrator
Dates – September 2021 – October 2022
- Prepared Weekly Finance Reports and Cash Flow Strategies to be Signed off by Directors
- Dealt with business enquiries as well as compiling drawings and helping run the day-to-day business
- Created company Invoices and ensure these are approved by the client. This would also often include working with a quantity surveyor to ensure all the work we had done was claimed for and that there would be no problems when it came to payment
- Managed supplier accounts/relations – For example keeping up to date with the expenditure of the company as well as inputting data into the business system and spreadsheets preparing it for the company directors to see
- Worked closely alongside Sustainable’ s team of accountants who have guided the way for me to be able to put together accounts as well as submit our monthly submissions to HMRC for both VAT and CIS
- Day-to-day admin – Keeping up with emails, filing and storing paperwork
Previous Employer – Brewery
Position – Waitress
Dates – June 2021 – September 2021
Previous Employer – Discount Store
Position – Cashier / Local Crew Member
Dates – September 2020 – May 2021