Management Accountant
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- Ongoing ACCA – Finalist 2 papers left
- 2016 Manchester Metropolitan University – Ba Hons Accounting and Finance: First Class
- 2013 Loreto College – A Levels Achieved
- 2011 Stretford High school – 9 GCSEs Achieved, including Mathematics and English
Systems used
- Microsoft Word and Excel – Intermediate / Advanced
- Access Dimensions
- Cognos IBM / Drive
- Rev8 and V8
Career Summary
Current Employer – Beauty Product Supplier
Position – Interim Financial Controller
Dates – March 2025 – Present
- Developed and implemented robust financial controls and improved procedures to support a fast-growing eCommerce environment.
- Conducted detailed margin and cost analysis to optimise product pricing, shipping costs, and marketing spend
- Managed month-end and year-end close processes, including journal entries, reconciliations, and financial statement preparation
- Partnered with commercial and marketing teams to analyse ROI on paid campaigns, influencer partnerships, and promotions
- Integrated Bank accounts, Shopify, payment gateways, and third-party apps into SAGE 50 to streamline revenue recognition and reconciliations
- Prepared monthly management accounts and presented financial insights to senior leadership and stakeholders
- Implemented inventory tracking and COGS reporting systems to improve stock valuation accuracy and purchasing decisions
- Identified inefficiencies and cost-saving opportunities across fulfilment, returns, and payment processing
- Provided financial due diligence support for supplier contract negotiations and strategic partnerships
Previous Employer – Luxury watchmaker
Position – Management Accountant
Dates – September 2024 – March 2025
- Proactive management accounting and reporting service to the Commercial division, ensuring monthly management accounts are prepared in an accurate and timely manner in line with Group deadlines
- Reporting on profit performance monthly, explaining any variances vs comparators, and analysis to support understanding of performance
- Monthly Balance sheet and P and L review calls presented to senior management, where all risks and analysis highlighted and explained thoroughly
- Continuous improvement of processes and systems, streamlining procedures and the architect of numerous reports to improve the month end and finance function.
- Monthly accounting adjustments, including balance sheet reconciliations, accruals and prepayments, etc.
- Assisting with the audit and group reporting requirements
Previous Employer – Building Management Solutions
Position – Interim Management Accountant
Dates – August 2023 – June 2024
- Leading the full month end cycle, preparing full set of management accounts.
- Revenue recognition and reporting for all region and divisions.
- Analysing utilization and recovery of engineer’s time booked to jobs.
- Providing detailed EBITDA reports with commentary and analysis for difference divisions.
- Monthly accounting adjustments, including balance sheet reconciliations, accruals and prepayments, etc.
- Help with migration of new ERP system, carrying out recs and extensive checks and report generating and building tools.
- Improve previous methods of reporting, increasing efficiency in the team and building a more structured and streamlined method of reporting
Previous Employer – Cross Directional Optimization Company
Position – Management Accountant
Dates – July 2022 – April 2023
- Monthly financial statements preparations, including balance sheet and P&L statements.
- Carrying out monthly accounting adjustments, including balance sheet reconciliations, accruals and prepayments, etc.
- Revenue recognition reports and variance analysis with commentaries.
- Assisted with the production of year-end audit packs and statutory account.
- Liaising with other departments to complete the budgeting process.
- Evaluating and monitoring financial information systems and recommending improvements where needed
Previous Employer – Global Technology
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – February 2020 – May 2021
- Handling all sections of the balance sheet, including monthly accounting adjustments (accruals, prepayments, PPE, leases, etc) and monthly balance sheet reconciliations, including cashbooks journals and bank reconciliations.
- Acting as main finance contact for the admin / site expenses for 15 offices and leading the budgeting and forecasting for each office. Providing analysis of spend variances to the office managers and challenging office costs.
- Monthly review of consultancy projects to aid the project completion cycle.
- Liaising with project managers to report and review monthly consultancy revenue recognition.
- Monthly reporting on deferred income by revenue recognition of subscriptions, reviewing movement and variances.
- Producing of monthly management accounts for four Subsidiaries, with analysis of the P&L, reporting on variances between budgets.
- Leading the budgeting and forecasting process for 15 sites
- Assisting with statutory fillings globally including financial statements and tax returns
Previous Employer – Automative Dealer Group
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – February 2017 – July 2019
- Analysing financial information of businesses to be credit worthy and attain approval from management.
- A variance analysis, on company’s creditors, ensuring the branches have not exceeded the credit limit.
- Liaising with other departments to ensure the processing of daily internal and external payments and the processing of credit card receipts.
- Working with the financial reporting accountant assisting with the audit. Reconciling nominals and data capturing to be analysed and presented to auditors. Identifying items of tax relief in line with the accounting standards and applying the appropriate treatments.
- Preparation monthly reports such as fuel analysis reports, consolidated accounts receivables reports, sales cut-off reports.
- Bank, month end and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Assisting with preparation of management accounts and producing a monthly consolidated summary of all the different branches across the group.
- Administrating and maintaining the company’s fuel card system
Previous Employer – Software Company
Position – Data Cleanser / Accounts Verifier
Dates – July 2016 – October 2016
- Analysing large amounts of data and accounts ensuring they are still viable.
- Ringing out over 100 accountancy practices per day explaining the future of the company software and its advantages for their business.
- Lead generating for the sales department
Previous Employer –Organisation
Position – Administrator
Dates – May 2015 – September 2015
- Effectively plan and deliver exam scripts process for electronic marking.
- Ensuring all scripts are robustly tracked and partner actions are completed to the agreed quality and time framework.
- Data entry and clerical checking, paying attention to detail and demonstrated a high level of accuracy and speed at entering data
Previous Employer – Insurance
Position – Customer Service and Sale Operator
Dates – June 2014 – September 2014
- Building and maintaining relationships with colleagues and customers
- Working alongside clients and customers to provide superior customer service and knowledge based on Insurance products.
- Renewing contracts and selling extra packages
