Management Accountant

Education/Qualification

• Currently studying ACCA (self-funded) – four exams remaining
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Accountancy

Systems used

• Excel – including Lookups, Pivot Tables, Concatenations, Ifs
• Oracle
• Xero
• SAP
• Synergist
• Sage 50
• Basware
• Blackline

Career Summary

Current Employer – multinational / multi-million-pound pharmaceuticals company

Position – Financial Accountant

Dates – July 2018 – July 2021

• Reported to the Financial Controller and was responsible for month end / year-end reporting, collecting, and analysing data used in the preparation of monthly accounts
• Contributed to the full Monthly Management Accounts Pack investigating variances and making recommendations for corrective actions
• Prepared the monthly P&L and Cost Centre variance analysis
• Prepared the monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations with a key focus on Payroll where anomalies occurred
• Responded to financial inquiries by gathering and interpreting data, and reporting to the Financial Controller
• Reporting on agreed commissions and rebates to managers and directors – ensuring the automated process picked up all the information; consulted with agents
• Participated with standardisation of processes such as accruals and prepayments
• Worked on the Swiss and German markets, providing country specific statistical and tax reports
• Worked to maintain compliance in the UK and abroad – making local ledger adjustments as necessary
• Maintained Master Data for customer projects; assisted with the projects in the Fixed Asset team
• Consulting with internal and external auditors, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Cash & Bank team to enable smooth running of the processes

Previous Employer – Head Office Activities

Position – Financial Accountant – Assignment

Dates – March 2018 – June 2018

• Responsible for balance sheet reconciliations providing full explanations, month end journals, intercompany reconciliations

Previous Employer – Business and Domestic Software Development

Position – Accounts Assistant / Assistant Accountant

Dates – September 2016 – August 2017

• Preparation of month end management accounts, accruals, prepayments, intercompany reconciliations, intercompany loan calculations and revaluation
• Journals, VAT returns, maintaining the Fixed Asset Register and calculating depreciation
• Overall Accounts Payable responsibility, reconciliations, process improvements and standardisation

Previous Employer – Development of Building Projects

Position – Accounts Assistant

Dates – September 2015 – April 2016

• Consolidated knowledge and experiences all the ledgers, gained exposure to project management tools specifically Synergist software
• Accounts Payable reconciliations, preparation of year-end financial statements
• Helped to convert accounts from Sage to Xero gaining a good understanding of how to set up the chart of accounts

Previous Employer – Activities of Head Offices // TO £533.326m

Position – Finance Officer

Dates – March 2014 – May 2015

• Responsible for the Sales Analysis Report, Reconciliations, Customer Account Queries, Billing Models, Debtors reporting – including aged debt, AP queries, supporting balance sheet reconciliations, and was first line Credit Control

• Production of a sales analysis report analysing all the Tenant income (£600m) from the last two years of trading to enable accurate tenant billing, tracking of income by channel and type in support of account reconciliations
• Standardisation and development of the aged debt reporting reducing the time taken to produce from 1 day to 1 hour in a consistent manner and by developing the report to consider management information needs (e.g., split by over 90 days analysis)

Previous Employer – Support Activities for Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction

Position – Invoice Clerk

Dates – October 2012 – August 2013

• Resolved queries – communicating with customers in Poland, Romania, Ukraine, the USA, Middle East, and Africa
• Processed invoices through Shared Services (Chevron – Ariba), responding to queries, denials, following up on project requirements and rules to avoid further queries
• Consulted with Credit Control, Payroll, and Accounts Department
• Assisted with year-end reconciliations and projects
• Key achievement – faster query resolution by improving communication which produced reduction in debtors

Previous Employer – Renting and Leasing of other Machinery

Position – Indirect Sourcing Administrator

Dates – April 2012 – June 2012

• Leading the contract management project while consulting with colleagues in Spain, France, Belgium, and Germany
• Responsible for purchase order creation and receipt, purchase order and invoice queries
• Document gathering and archiving – coordinated baseline documents, project charters and savings qualification documents
• Key achievement – created a process for managing and organising key contracts that improved profitability by enabling the best outsourcing decision to be made