Management Accountant

Education/Qualification

• Currently studying CIMA – self funded
• AAT Level 4 Qualified
• CeMAP Qualified
• CeFa Qualified
• A Levels achieved – Smithills Sixth Form College
• GCSEs achieved – The Deane School

Systems used

• Microsoft Word and Excel – Intermediate including Vlookups and Pivot Tables
• Open Accounts, and other in-house systems

Career Summary

Current Employer – Separation Services

Position – Assistant Management Accountant

Dates – May 2024-Present

• Assisting with month end reporting and duties
• Monthly Balance Sheet Reconciliations
• Preparation & Posting of Journals in the ERP System – Epicor
• Banking & Cashflow Management
• Overseeing Accounts Receivable Queries
• Overseeing Accounts Payable Payment Runs and Queries
• Overseeing Aged Debtors & Aged Creditors Accounts
• Generating Cost Centre Data for Budget Holders
• Monthly Cost Centre Reviews with Budget Holders
• Key Person in the Annual Fixed Asset Audit
• Fixed Asset Process Support
• Work In Progress ownership – Working with the Project Engineers to Ensure Accuracy of Projects in the Financial Records
• Assisting with the Annual Stock Take & Ensuring Full Documentation
• Lease Management
• Assisting the Head of Finance with:
• Monthly Management Accounts Preparation
• Cashflow Forecasting
• Budget & Forecasting Preparation
• Annual Accounts Audit
• WIP Management – Financial Perspective
• Supporting Finance Team
• Supporting Departmental Teams
• Liaising with external auditors and handling audit requests
• ERP Management & System Maintenance
• Developing, Implementing & Auditing Departmental Policies & Processes

Current Employer – Manufacturer / Supply

Position – Assistant Accountant (Fixed Term Contract)

Dates – April 2023 – April 2024

• Works in a team of 7 and reports to the Financial Controller
• Works across Management and Financial Accounting entities across the UK / Netherlands / Dubai etc
• Prepared Monthly Management Accounts – including Sales Reports and Royalties Reporting
• Dealt with Control Accounts, Petty Cash interest/transactions and all General Ledger transactions / corrections
• Assisted, developed, and implemented Integrating Costing Systems and Methodologies
• Assisted with setting and monitoring Balanced Budgets and Pooled Budgets for different services
• Responsible for Pay Monitoring Reports, Action Year End Reporting and Monthly Budget Revenue Monitoring
• Monitored Capital Projects and Initiatives
• Responsible for ensuring Purchase Ledger Maintenance and Reconciliation
• Accurately entered large volumes of Purchase Invoices and reconciled all Supplier Statements
• Worked closely / Liaised with Suppliers daily – handled and resolved any Supplier queries that arise
• Credit Control Duties – Monitored/Managed payments receipts, chased outstanding payments and completed Aged Debt
• Managed the Cashbook – completed daily bank reconciliations for multiple accounts including GBP, USD & EUR
• Processed Credit Notes, Refunds, and prepared Journal entries
• Managed/Processed Expenses and Company Credit Card Accounts including organising departmental Expenditure
• Processed Prepayments and Accruals
• Helped departments to plan, manage and report their budget forecasts/outturn reporting

Previous Employer – Supplier

Position – Assistant Accountant

Dates – November 2018 – March 2023

• Worked in a team of 5 and reported to Finance Director
• Responsible for ensuring Purchase Ledger Maintenance and Reconciliation
• Accurately entered large volumes of Purchase Invoices and reconciled all Supplier Statements
• Worked closely / Liaised with Suppliers daily – handled and resolved any Supplier queries that arise
• Credit Control Duties – Monitored/Managed payments receipts, chased outstanding payments and completed Aged Debt
• Managed the Cashbook – completed daily bank reconciliations for multiple accounts including GBP, USD & EUR
• Processed Credit Notes, Refunds, and prepared Journal entries
• Managed/Processed Expenses and Company Credit Card Accounts including organising departmental Expenditure
• Processed Prepayments and Accruals
• Prepared Monthly Management Accounts – including Sales Reports and Royalties Reporting
• Dealt with Control Accounts, Petty Cash interest/transactions and all General Ledger transactions / corrections
• Assisted, developed, and implemented Integrating Costing Systems and Methodologies
• Assisted with setting and monitoring Balanced Budgets and Pooled Budgets for different services
• Responsible for Pay Monitoring Reports, Action Year End Reporting and Monthly Budget Revenue Monitoring
• Monitored Capital Projects and Initiatives
• Helped departments to plan, manage and report their budget forecasts/outturn reporting

Previous Employer – Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Position – Various Roles

Dates – November 2009 – November 2018

October 2016 – November 2018: Accounts Assistant

• Worked across both Tameside and Oldham provided support across all Accounts and Finance duties
• Dealt with all Invoices / Supplier queries daily – raising invoices through Software
• Responsible for raising Requisitions/Purchase Orders
• Assisted with Bank Account Reconciliations / Involved in preparing Monthly Management Accounts
• Prepared and actioned Journal entries
• Monthly Budget Revenue Monitoring including Income and Expenditure
• Monitored Capital Projects & Initiatives
• Helped departments to plan, manage and report their budget forecasts/outturn reporting
• Responsible for all General Ledger Transactions/Correction and dealt with control Accounts
• Organised departmental expenditure and dealt with Petty Cash Imprest / Transactions
• Processed Prepayments and Accruals
• Assisted and Action Year End reporting and narratives
• Assisted the Accountants – Liaised with Budget Holders/Other Officers daily regarding financial matters
• Assisted the SA in completing all grant claims and statistical returns for their area on an accurate, timely and regular basis
• Completed day to day maintenance of the General Ledger including journals, and virements
• Completed day to day cash allocation, payments to suppliers and subsequent Agresso maintenance e.g., Updating periodic supplier payments

November 2009 – October 2016: Payroll / HR Officer

• Worked in a small team across all Payroll / HR duties
• Accurately checked all documents and ensure claim forms were correctly coded for input
• Checked and applied P45 details and correctly processed P45s- Liaised with HMRC tax coding notifications
• Ensured sickness system was kept up to date, ensured sickness values were calculated accurately in line with Statutory and Occupational rules and that correct sickness allowances were applied for employees with continuous service
• Override normal sick pay values when appropriate
• Calculated / Processed SMP / OMP / SPP / SAP payments, unpaid leave values and gross to net values
• Set up Attachment of Earnings Orders
• Override sickness entitlements for employees on notice or with continuous service, override normal statutory deductions as required
• Recalculated SMP values in line with legislation and be able to advise employees on Statutory Adoption Pay and the rules for payment of SAP
• Recalculated and override car allowances and ensure expense payments are in line with the policies, override normal court order deduction on instruction from Courts’ service
• Ensured correct coding has been applied to unpaid leave
• Completed pension forms and pass to Pension officer, check that correct Pension scheme has been applied to employee leave record and that pensionable pay values are correct and liaise with Pension officer
• Ensured payments to leavers are correct and tax and NI are deducted in line with legislation
• Checked NI has been recalculated correctly for employees opting in / out of pension scheme
• Calculated and input complex honorarium values
• Assessed whether accounts for overpayments should be raised for gross or net and ensure recovery of overpayment – wrote to employees regarding overpayments