Part Qualified Assistant Accountant
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- 3 A Levels achieved in Philosophy and Theology, Sociology and Health and Social – Holy Cross College
- 10 GCSE’s achieved at grade A – C – Tottington High School
Systems used
- Microsoft Word and Excel – including V Lookups and Pivot Tables
Career Summary
Current Employer – Hotel
Position – Various Roles
Dates – 2014 – Present
2018 – Present Group Administrator – Revenue Team
- Works in a team of 3 in the Revenue department – reports to the Revenue Manager
- Works in a split role between Administration and Finance duties – covers a wide range of duties
- Generates various reports for Hotel Managers to analyse costs, margin and forecasts of various events and bookings across the Hotels in the group
- Uses in-house systems and Excel for data extraction and analysis
- Handles incoming telephone calls and emails regarding group / corporate bookings
- Credit checks new corporate Clients and ensures all contracts are reconciled annually
- Manages and processes large / corporate bookings – liaises with Hotel Managers to assign rooms
- Purchase Ledger duties – processes up to 50 invoices per day up to the value of £200
- Prepares the Supplier payment run to be checked and submitted by the Accounts team – value up to £50,000 weekly
- Set up and maintain Supplier accounts and reconciles Supplier Statements
- Responsible for group bookings, budget distribution, rate plans and employee timesheets
- Working as Group Revenue Administrator have further developed administrative and computer skills, time management and business knowledge
2014 – 2018 Wedding and Events Coordinator
- In 2014 was promoted from hotel Reception to the role of Wedding and Events Coordinator for The Stables Country Club
- Within this role daily duties included show rounds for potential new bookings across; weddings, conferences, charity events, parties, and other functions, plus follow up phone calls and correspondence
- Conduct appointments with clients which would entail taking deposits, event planning, gathering final details and taking the final payment
- Part of the role was helping the operations team prepare for events by ensuring all outside suppliers were correctly documented and all aspects of the event, down to the smallest detail, was up to the high standard expected
- Gained skills in sales, diary management, leading meetings and building an essential rapport with all customers
- Responsibility of handling large amounts of money collectively for the event bookings and all other departments of the Country Club
- Alongside daily duties, would also organise wedding shows, corporate events, and exhibitions for outside traders in a business to business environment
- Had monthly and annual targets of sales and revenue which always met and frequently exceeded earning bonuses and higher management recognition
Head of Wedding and Events
- Acquired the role of Head of Wedding and Events, furthering communication and team working skills
- In this position was responsible for recruiting and training any new staff, commuting across sister hotels, and implementing business changes and ensuring the team fulfilled these successfully
2010 – 2014 Hotel Receptionist
- After 2 years working as waiting on staff, accepted the role working on hotel reception, duties included reservation management, guest arrivals and departures, occupancy reports, third party reward and reporting and end of shift/end of week balancing of takings
- Daily administration duties including, filing, photocopying, organising, and distributing documents to all departments and answering the phone
- Working on the reception gained skills in organisation, verbal and written communication and customer service and hospitality, whilst developing phone manner and computer knowledge
- Here also proved skills of working well both alone and collectively as part of a team
Reason for leaving; Redundancy – available from 13th November