Management Accounts / Import

Education/Qualification

• Currently studying CIMA – moving to Fast Track – four papers taken / self-funded
• AAT Level 3 Diploma – Tameside College
• NCQ Level 3 Business Administration – YMCA Training
• Business Administration – Oldham College
• 8 GCSEs achieved at grade A – C – Grange Comprehensive Secondary School

Systems used

• Excel
• Open Accounts
• Sage
• SAP
• Word & Outlook

Career Summary

Current Employer – Property Services

Position – Management Accounts / Import

Dates – May 2024 – Present

Specialist repairs and maintenance service provider to public, domestic, and commercial clients across the UK. Liberty offers professional responsive repairs services, gas installation, maintenance, and servicing, as well as energy solutions, electrical installations and property building services.

• Based in the Finance Division
• Produces accurate management accounts, budgets, and forecasts
• Maintenance of financial ledgers and accounting processes
• Ensure accounting policies comply with the relevant accounting standards
• Prepare monthly profit and loss accounts and balance sheets
• Timely production of statutory and internal financial reports
• Monitor budgets, ensure targets are within the budget
• Ensure all balance sheet items are accurate and reconciled
• Financial modelling, estimating and analysis of contracts
• Ensure appropriate systems and internal controls are implemented and maintained
• Review payroll transactions to ensure accuracy
• Recommend changes that will improve the company’s financial performance and financial controls
• Work closely with the Group Finance Team to facilitate year end consolidated accounts
• Completion of all financial, regulatory, and statutory returns (Corporation Tax Computation, CIS, CITB)
• Ensure VAT recovery is maximised
• Leads the annual stock takes

Reason for Leaving: Role not as described

Previous Employer – Lighting Products Wholesaler

Position – Management Accounts / Import

Dates – August 2022 – May 2024

• Modernised and updated their financial systems and processes -discussions with the Finance Director, looked at where the business needed to be in terms of processes
• Utilised previous experiences and built structure to the month end processes
• One of the key tasks was getting to understand the true value of the stock, how the stock was maintained and dispatched – thus reflecting accurate stock values and movements within the Management Accounts
• Based in the Finance Team and reporting to the Finance Manager
• Responsible for the Annual budgets and forecasting
• Responsible for the monthly preparation of management accounts
• P & L analysis / Balance sheet reconciliation
• Budget meetings with stakeholders – stock reconciliation
• Accruals, prepayments and Fixed Asset balancing and reconciliations
• Journal preparation and postings
• Preparation for weekly trading activities report for the directors to help them plan and react to challenges
• Financial analysis of trends
• Dealing with suppliers in China and Asia / Preparation of documents for Customs import and clearance

Previous Employer – Plant and Machinery Hire

Position – Assistant Management Accountant

Dates – January 2022 – August 2022

• Assisted in the annual budgeting process
• Responsible for management accounts preparation and supported the Management Accounts team
• Assisted in production of monthly financial statement, reports, journals reconciliations and cost centre reviews
• Provided financial analysis and support to stakeholders at all levels of the business
• Assisted in the monthly production of P&Ls
• Fixed Asset Register maintenance
• Board pack, month end and weekly reporting
• Allocating monthly charges to the P&L
• Stock count administration and allocating charges to the P&L
• Contribution to reviews and project improving the division

Previous Employer – Global Pharmaceutical Service Provider

Position – Assistant Accountant

Dates – August 2015 – January 2022

• The role involved generating revenue streams from clients utilising the PreWholesale and Logistics services
• Key focus was monitoring stock and its movement, from order placement to delivery, as all charges were billed directly to clients – stock management played a leading role alongside completing the month-end process and producing management accounts
• Worked within a team of four reporting to the accountant – within a wider finance team of twenty-one
• Worked across the monthly Management reporting and analysis for five companies across Mawdsley
• Responsible for all aspects of Accounts payable; managing all payments and transactions from trial balance to P&L on Open Accounts
• Complete all account Reconciliations including Bank, Sales, and overhead analysis
• Prepared and post of month end Journals including accruals, prepayments, and corrections
• Responsible for processing and preparing multi – currency payments
• Complete Budget and stock analysis monthly
• Reviewed debt balances within portfolio to maximise Cash collection and minimise bad debt risk
• Reviewed Profit and Loss and taking full ownership of Balance Sheet reconciliations
• Assisted in the review the profitability of existing Client contracts and liaised with the Commercial team to identify potential missing revenue
• Checked, verified, and analysed large amounts of data from numerous depots for month to facilitate sales invoicing process
• Produced and analysed reporting of Transport data, understanding network of movements and impact on client charging
• Managed the process for Insurance claims – beginning to end liaising with the depot
• Checked, verified, and analysed large amounts of data from numerous depots for month to facilitate sales invoicing process
• Responsible for banking – check postings, post residual transactions and carry out monthly reconciliation

Previous Employer – Renting and operating house association

Position – Finance Officer

Dates – March 2015 – July 2015

• Worked across all aspects of Purchase Ledger
• Responsible for raising of invoices daily and issuing remittances
• Completed Bank reconciliation (daily and monthly)
• Responsible for Month-end and Year-end reconciliations
• Reconciled Petty Cash weekly
• Responsible for Bank reconciliations of all rental accounts
• Month end Purchase Ledger closing
• Prepared and processed payment runs up to £3m
• Sundry payments (BACS and Cheque payments)

Previous Employer – Independent Charity

Position – Accounts Assistant (Temporary)

Dates – June 2014 – August 2014

Previous Employer – Secondary School

Position – Admission Officer

Dates – September 2013 – December 2013

Previous Employer – Company Interest Company

Position – Senior Finance Officer

Dates – April 2011 – August 2013

• Assisted with year-end audit – preparing information for Accountant
• Prepared revenue budgets, forecasts and plans Marketing Managers
• Implement financial policies and procedures
• Maintained management accounts and effective system for analysing and reporting on operating and capital expenditure.
• Dealt with a turnover of over £500k per year
• Responsible for calculating and submitting VAT returns quarterly
• Prepare and process Payroll
• All ledger accounts including all main ledgers, subsidiary ledgers, and cash books
• Monthly reconciliations
• Prepared income statements and statements of financial positions
• Meet with budget holders and stakeholders on how individual project budgets and being utilised
• Attended board meetings and discuss the business’s financial position
• Reported to all relevant legal establishments, i.e., Company’s House

Previous Employer – Trading

Position – Finance Officer / Senior Administrator 

Dates – August 2003 – March 2011 

• Developed and maintained the computerised accounting systems
• Preparation of revenue budgets, forecasts, and plans Marketing Managers
• All ledger accounts including all main ledgers, subsidiary ledgers, and cash books
• Monthly reconciliations and expense monitoring
• Prepared income statements and statements of financial positions
• Met with budget holders and stakeholders on how individual project budgets and being utilised
• Attended board meetings and discussed the business’s financial position
• Reported to all relevant legal establishments, i.e., Company’s House and the Charity Commission
• Produced the monthly bank reconciliations of the bank accounts posting all transactions to the ledgers
• Responsible for Petty Cash management and reconciliations
• Processed fortnightly payment of invoices for groups overseas companies
• Created and implemented project plans including timelines, resources, roles and responsibilities and risk management
• Continually reviewed and developed more efficient ways of work, identifying, and recommending improvements in the administrative, office and operational procedures and promoted their implementation to improve quality and value
• Provided management and support to the IT, and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers and the Designers