Project Accountant

Education/Qualification

• 2019     Started ACCA
• 2014     Bury College – A levels Achieved        
• 2011     Tottington High School – GCSEs Achieved, including Mathematics and English

Systems used

• Microsoft Word and Excel
• Sage / CCH / Iris / Xero / Alphatax / Quickbooks and many more bespoke software’s

Career Summary

Current Employer – Consultant and General Service

Position – Project Accountant

Dates – May 2023 – Present

• Preparation of monthly management accounts including assisting with the creation of a new finance pack
• Managing a team of two assistants including reviewing bank payment summaries, approving all invoices before they enter our financial system, helping them with queries
• Monthly cash flow projections along with updating the balance sheet and profit and loss notes and doing commentary to provide clarity and explanation to all stakeholders
• Worked with multiple stakeholders in the wider business, communicating effectively with various backgrounds, holding others accountable to tasks in set deadlines to ensure timely and accurate information is provided
• Ensured timely review with the FC to allow circulation of KPIs and variances against forecasts and budget
• Worked with the managers and head of finance closely to improve controls and financial processes
• Maked sure sufficient cash reserves are held to maintain ratios
• Being a point of contact for all those involved in the projects and external stakeholders like banks and authorities
• Completed and submitted VAT returns and Corporation tax payments
• Assisted with the annual audits and liaising with the auditors including providing any documents or backups or explanations needed
• Posting monthly journals on to our system to keep all projects up to date and ensure everything reconciles on a month-to-month basis including bank accounts and balance sheet. This includes accruals, prepayments, general journals, VAT and corporation tax

Previous Employer – Accountants and Business Advisors

Position – Senior Accountant on the Audit and Accounts team

Dates – April 2022 – May 2023

• Managed a team of 7
• Planned out and delegated workload, and oversaw deadline management for the VAT/Management accounts/Accounts for the whole Manchester office, Billing, and constant training and helping of the juniors
• Oversaw preparation of large accounts – tax returns, management accounts, cash flows, internal audits
• Worked as a more senior part of a small team to audit businesses c £40million turnover reviewing financial statements – balance sheets, P+L, cashflow documents
• Gathered supporting documentation to verify transactions and balances, such as invoices, contracts, and bank statements
• Ensured compliance with company policies and accounting standards
• Analysed the client’s financial operations to identify areas of high risk, such as potential fraud, weak controls, or significant variances
• Compiled full audit reports for sign off by audit managers and offered guidance and advice to business on areas of improvement
• Acted as an interim finance manager for a massive multi-million turnover fashion company while the CFO had resigned and they were looking for a substitute – Managed the whole finance department – ensuring all departments were performing, updating client’s software, overseeing debt recovery, immediate creditor reporting and daily reports to the CEO and stakeholders
• Became the Xero ‘Champion’
• Achieved an influx of new clients on the back of my internal audit work

Previous Employer – Accountants

Position – Accountant on the Business Services Group

Dates – January 2021 – February 2022

• Worked as an Accountant who reports directly to senior managers and partners
• Involved in drafting financial statements working with turnovers of up to 15 million
• Going on-site to different clients and either assisting with the systems and bookkeeping or doing the accounts on sight
• Heavily involved in training junior members of staff
• Involved in presenting different presentations to different stakeholders and various reports including management accounts
• Work closely with clients from a variety of different sectors and used to working with clients with complex group structures
• Often the first port of call for many clients, tended to deal with their daily needs more than the managers/partners

Previous Employer – Accounting Firm

Position – Client Manager

Dates – October 2018 – December 2020

• Worked on own portfolio of clients as client manager
• Year-end accounts for SME’s with turnover varying up to 10 million pounds
• Worked with a much larger variety of clients in different sectors
• Completion of tax returns for all my clients and liaising with HMRC on client’s behalf
• Acted as main finance point of contact for a given division of the business, and liaised with the non-finance stakeholders as required
• Provided commentary and additional information to the stakeholders as required
• Balance sheet reconciliations and investigation of queries – ensuring the balance sheet remains “clean” and all issues and opportunities are identified and resolved

Previous Employer – Accounting Firm

Position – Semi Senior Accountant

Dates – October 2017 – October 2018

• The completion of Year End accounts, CT600, and Corporation Tax computations
• Co-ordination and management of VAT, and administration duties
• Completion and submission of forms P11d in accordance with clients completed questionnaire
• Review of bookkeeping records and the completion of VAT Returns
• Met statutory deadlines for VAT, Payroll, Statutory Accounts, and Company Tax Returns
• Liaised with HMRC on behalf of clients
• Took on and managing new clients
• Growing the business through referrals
• Offer bespoke accountancy, taxation and tax planning advice
• Advise clients in relation to IR35 and the associated implications of this legislation
• Respond to client enquiries in line with the company promise
• General administration including post, filing, and scanning
• Online submission of documents to Companies House and HMRC
• Manage the client relationship whilst building a strong rapport and developing client loyalty
• Support the team to continuously deliver the agreed level of service
• To undertake any other duties as requested by my line manager

Previous Employer – Accountants

Position – Accounts Assistant

Dates – March 2016 – September 2017

• Accounts preparation to final accounts (Using Accounting software VT and familiar with Sage)
• VAT Returns
• Corporation Tax calculation and CT600 submission
• Personal Tax returns (Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists, Web Designers, IT managers and many more with income ranging from employment, self-employment and property)
• Balance Sheet, including reconciliation’s
• Familiar with PAYE using software
• Bookkeeping
• Purchase and Sales Ledger
• Client visits and daily interaction
• Trained new trainees