Finance Officer
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- 2020 BA Hons Accountancy – University of Bolton
- 2017 3 A Levels achieved in Business Studies, ICT and Citizenship – Burnley College
- 2014 8 GCSEs achieved at grade A – C including Maths and English – Shuttleworth College
- CIMA Part Qualified (6 exams remaining)
Systems used
- Microsoft Word and Excel – including V Lookups / Pivot Tables, Sage 50 Accounts / Sage Payroll, QuickBooks, Xero, and other In-house systems
Career Summary
Current Employer – Property Services
Position – Finance Officer
Dates – May 2022 – Present
- Works in a team of 3 – reports to the Transaction Manager
- Liaises with Accounts Assistants to produce month end accounts
- Reviews balance sheet reconciling key control accounts, for example ledger control accounts, prepayments, accruals and HMRC liabilities
- Reconciles intercompany balances
- Processes purchase invoices – 250+ per week and credit notes
- Assisted with data inputting of weekly stock figures and adjustments in the system whilst investigating variances
- Checks pricing discrepancies
- Raises inter-company recharge invoices
- Weekly GRNI – Goods received not invoiced reconciliation and looking into rejected invoices and credit notes
- Assists with journal entries – prepayments, accruals, petty cash, and credit cards
- Supplier statement reconciliations and setting up suppliers and customers
- Helped with product code set ups/pricing and maintenance and inputting data around cost information into Excel
- Weekly sales reporting using Excel
Previous Employer – Hospitality Business
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – October 2021 – May 2022
- Performed the weekly sales and wages for all hotels, inns, and managed houses
- Dealt with accruals and prepayments
- Dealt with the company credit cards and the expenses of a range of hotels, inns, pubs, and the company itself
- Performed bank reconciliations
- Dealt with a range of nominal codes using Dynamics365
- Liaised with pub managers/inn managers around their revenue and expenditure whilst trying to maximise their profits as much as possible, giving advice where necessary and dealing with any queries.
Previous Employer – Accounting School
Position – Accounts Assistant (Part time training / work course)
Dates – October 2020 – May 2022
- Based in a Team of twelve and reported to the Manager / Trainer
- Clients were predominantly SMEs with turnovers up-to £200,000
- Clients were across various Industries including Retail, Technology, Agriculture, Online business, and Construction industries
- Worked on bookkeeping activities, including VAT submissions based on different VAT Schemes like Cash, Standard, Flat Rate and Retail VAT Schemes
- Dealt with MTD on different software’s including Sage 50, QuickBooks, and Xero
- Accountable for Purchase and Sales Ledger control with Reconciliations and Credit Control activities
- Dealt with various Nominal Codes, Chart of Accounts and Tax Codes
- Processed Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
- Dealt with HMRC regarding VAT related inquiries
- Dealt with foreign currencies, EC Sales, and Intrastat Returns
- Resolved Account Payable / Receivable issues / queries via telephone and email
- Posted general, Debtor / Creditor Journals, and Wages Journals
- Dealt with Accruals, Prepayments, Depreciation, Double Entries and calculating Loan Interest
- Investigated, processed, and evaluated Bills / Invoices for services rendered
- Processed Payroll, generating Payslips, Maternity / Statutory pay, Forms P45 / P60, RTI submissions, and Pension Schemes using Sage 50 Payroll – these were weekly / monthly for up-to 10 Employees
- Worked on Month End with Clients on MS Excel to validate the concepts of reversals and other important Journals
- Developed monthly financial statements that included Profit / Loss Account and Balance Sheets
- Prepared CIS monthly returns and dealt with Contractors / Sub-contractors
- Tracked financial progress by creating quarterly / yearly Statement of Profit and Loss and the Statement of Financial Position
