Management Accountant
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- CIMA Part Qualified – self funded – P1 and F1 scheduled
- 2009 Chartered Accountancy (Foundation)
- 2005 University of the Punjab Lahore – B Com (IT) Equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree
- 2003 High School – A Level Standard
Systems used
- Excel including Lookups / Pivots / Sums / Formulae
- Xero
- SAP / Oracle / Receipt Bank
- Quick Books 2010 and Quick Books Online
- VT Transaction Plus and VT Cash Book
- IRIS / My Business Works
- CRM Systems: Pabau, Zoho, SaaS Optics, Sales Force
Career Summary
Current Employer – Gym – 177 Gyms nationwide
Position – Management Accountant – Contract
Dates – July 2023 – December 2024
- Reports to the Head of Finance
- Assisting with Internal/External Audit
- Prepares and presents regular financial reports, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements
- Provides explanations for variances and key financial performance indicators
- Provides financial insights and analysis to support strategic decision-making
- Analyses revenue streams from different gym locations
- Managing Accrued/Deferred Income Schedules/Accruals/Prepayments Schedules on the balance sheet
- Preparation of Month End and various internal reports
- Processing invoices on Xero, posting journals/transactions, matching payments received to invoices
Reason for Leaving: End of Contract
Previous Employer – Data Analytics for Health – t/o circa £10m
Position – Management Accountant
Dates – March 2023 – June 2023
- Reported to the Financial Controller
- Assisted with Internal/External Audit
- Managed the AR Function (including SaaS Optics), building key relationships with Sales/Sales Admin to ensure all customers are invoiced and paid accurately and on time as per the agreed contracts
- Managed Accrued/Deferred Income Schedules on the balance sheet
- Managed Accruals/Prepayments Schedules on the balance sheet
- Prepared Quarterly VAT Submissions
- Reviewed the Bank Reconciliations
- Assisted with Revenue Recognition
- Assisted with Intercompany transactions and general data analysis
- Assisted in the preparation of Month End and various internal reports
- Worked on Xero, posting journals/transactions, matching payments received to invoices and assisting the team with ad-hoc requests on the platform
Previous Employer – Screencasting App
Position – Consolidation Analyst
Dates – December 2022 – January 2023
- Assisted in the hard close, half year and year end audit providing full support to our auditors
- Assisted with the preparation of key monthly milestone reporting namely: D+3, D+6, cash-flow, and transmission reporting models
- Ensuring compliance to Sarbox controls related to consolidation, revenue and costs and maintaining the related Sarbox control documentation
- Assisted in periodic balance sheet reviews of entities to ensure IFRS compliance and adherence to internal accounting policies and controls
- Liaison with regional and country controllers and senior fiscal management to resolve issues
- Ensured compliance to group accounting policies and procedures
- Continually drove for process improvement/efficiency and identified areas for improvement
Previous Employer – Company
Position – Financial Process Controller
Dates – December 2021 – November 2022
- Involvement in the period-end close processes, providing oversight on the consolidation process, ownership of consolidation companies and journals, error handling and ensuring the businesses submit high quality information on time
- Supported the Group external audit process, preparing deliverables and responding to audit queries
- Central finance coordination for the Group’s operating model
- Coordination of month end finance timetables, processes, and controls
- Maintenance of Transfer Pricing for all intercompany trade routes
- Reviewed and coordinated activities with local finance teams to clear daily error checks
- Collaborated closely with a cross functional team in Accounting, Treasury and Tax and supporting with queries raised and adjustments required
- Reviewed transactional postings relating to the groups operating model as well as the preparation of monthly reconciliations to ensure the integrity and quality of numbers reported
- Assisted with the submission of data on reporting systems and the development of management reporting to be more dynamic and insightful
- Promoted and championed the group reporting model
Previous Employer – Business Management Service
Position – Management Accountant
Dates – August 2021 – November 2021
- Responsible for transactional cover – receivables and payables end to end processing
- Bank and supplier reconciliations
- Low level debt chasing and reporting
- Posted journals, accruals, and prepayments
- Revenue recognition
- Assisted with production of month end packs
- Covered various team members BAU duties during projects
- Assisted Finance Manager in budget and reporting
Previous Employer – Start Up Luxury Spa
Position – Assistant Management Accountant
Dates – January 2020 – December 2020
- Developed, implemented, and monitored financial processes, automation, and systems to ensure sound financial control for the start-up business
- Built improved operational processes and support between Finance and Sales teams
- Responded to ad hoc queries from supplier, customers, and outsourced accountants
- Supported COO with experience building and leading Finance functions
- Posted manual journals and expense processing
- Production of ad hoc management information and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts including bank accounts
- Imported and reconciled sales from CRM to accounting system
- Month-end (accruals, prepayments, posting adjustments, cash flow forecasting etc)
- Continuously improved and implemented new Finance processes and systems
- Setup of improved management accounting and longer-term financial planning, variance analysis and KPI tracking and analysis
Previous Employer – Luxury Flagship Spa
Position – Bookkeeper/Assistant Management Accountant
Dates – May 2018 – May 2020
- Responsible for co-ordination of financial and performance reporting
- Supported CFO in preparation of monthly management report, KPIs and supplementary ad-hoc reporting
- Utilised accounting information to support the management team to establish and execute business improvement opportunities and cost efficiencies
- Payment reconciliation reports for elite clients
- Imported and reconciled sales from CRM to accounting system
- Managed Bank Account, credit cards and Balance Sheet Reconciliations
- Budgeted, forecasting and variance analysis
- Posted manual journals, accruals, and prepayments
- Prepared and submitted 8 VAT returns without any supervision
Previous Employer – Translation and Interpreting
Position – Finance Assistant
Dates – April 2013 – June 2016
Previous Employer – Organisation
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – October 2012 – December 2012
Previous Employer – Organisation
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – September 2012 – October 2012
