About Candidate

Education/Qualification

  • 2023    AAT Level 4
  • 2013 -2017      Trafford College
  • 2015    IAB Level 3 Certificate in Payroll
  • 2015    AAT Level 3 Certificate in Accounting
  • 2014    Pearson BTEC Level 2 Award in Employability Skills
  • 2014    AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting
  • 2014    IAB Level 2 Certificate in Payroll
  • 2013    Barlow Hall Primary School – 10 GCSEs Achieved, including Mathematics and English

Systems used

  • Microsoft Word and Excel
  • VLookUps
  • Compass
  • OpenHousing
  • OpenAccounts

Career Summary

Current Employer – Property Services

Position – Various Roles

Dates – August 2018- Present

Position – AP Assistant                                                      

Dates – September 2023 – Present

  • Processing of invoices and credits in a timely and accurate manner ready for weekly BACS runs
  • Reconciled supplier statements and feeding back with findings
  • Resolving general AP related queries coming in such as non-payment of invoices and allocation of historic payments made
  • Used Excel to perform V-Lookups for statement reconciliations and create Pivot Tables for information to be displayed and communicated clearly and concisely to colleagues
  • Skills obtained and developed: communication, teamwork, organisation

Position – Senior AP Assistant

Dates – April 2023 – September 2023

  • Prioritisation of accounts on stop and legal payments in relation to those at risk, with an understanding of the implications for the different vendors and its customers
  • Supported the Junior Team Leaders/Senior Team Leaders with any additional duties and reports and taking ownership of tasks allocated
  • Liaised with suppliers to negotiate with them to bring accounts off of stop
  • Liaised with internal colleagues in relation to queries and support them in resolving disputes with suppliers
  • Skills obtained and developed: communication, teamwork, prioritisation

Position – AP Assistant

Dates – July 2019 – April 2023

  • Processed of invoices and credits in a timely and accurate manner ready for weekly BACS runs
  • Reconciled supplier statements and feeding back with findings
  • Resolved general AP related queries coming in such as non-payment of invoices and allocation of historic payments made
  • Used Excel to perform V-Lookups for statement reconciliations and create Pivot Tables for information to be displayed and communicated clearly and concisely to colleagues
  • Skills obtained and developed: communication, teamwork, organisation

Position – AP Payments

Dates – January 2019 – July 2019

  • Internal promotion within the company due to restructuring
  • Prepared, processed and posted journal entries to ledger to be picked up on weekly BACS run
  • Helped with other AP related tasks such as processing CHAPS payments, batch posting purchase invoices and credit notes and preparing payment runs for single and multi-bank account suppliers
  • Used Excel to extract information from NAV and then prepared data filters and V-lookups to help with reconciling supplier accounts with ours
  • Skills obtained and developed: communication, time management, delegation

Position – Supplier Service Advisor

Dates – August 2018 – January 2019

  • Advise with helping suppliers with invoice and purchase order queries such as submitting an invoice to us via Tradeshift (e-invoicing portal ) or advising on a payment date for an invoice. This is done either through an email or on the phone
  • Used Microsoft Dynamics NAV to look up and view purchase orders, invoices with or without a valid purchase order number, manually code invoices awaiting to be posted to the ledger and send remittance advices to suppliers
  • Used Excel spreadsheets to look up information for suppliers via data filters
  • Completed admin tasks such as allocating emails to cases and passing messages to people via Compass, which is a case management system
  • Liaised with internal colleagues on how best to resolve an issue a supplier was having
  • Skills obtained and developed: managing own workload, communication, time management, speaking to people

Previous Employer – Housing Association

Position – Finance Officer

Dates – May 2018 – June 2018

  • Temporary assignment for a few weeks clearing an invoice backlog
  • Printed and processed supplier invoices and credit notes on Docuware and Excel coming through the payables inbox
  • Reconciled payments up to a certain date so they could be added into previous years accounts as an accrual
  • Used data filters and pivot tables to organise and present Excel data
  • Statement reconciliations with data on Open Accounts
  • Skills obtained and developed: managing own workload, time management, working to deadlines, communication

Previous Employer – Housing Association

Position – Purchase Ledger Clerk

Dates – March 2018

  • Logged and Processed invoice batches on OpenAccounts
  • Scanned invoices and sending them to a server via Documotive
  • Looked up and processed invoices using Purchase to Pay (P2P) and Stock Right Now
  • Skills obtained and developed: teamwork, delegation, working to deadlines, communication

Previous Employer – Housing Association

Position – Finance Apprentice

Dates – January 2017 – January 2018

  • Worked with the Finance department once a week to get a real understanding of how Accounting looks
  • Reconciled purchase card statements, processed rent receipts into the housing management system (OpenHousing) and also in the finance system (OpenAccounts), completed cash book journals and undertaken other spreadsheet-based reconciliations onto a control sheet
  • Had a look at what other people do and how everything ties into the daily running of the department along with the production of the month end and year end accounts
  • Skills obtained and developed: communication, working to deadlines, team working

Previous Employer – Chartered Accountants                                                                         

Position

Dates – June 2013 – July 2013

  • Utilised electronic accounting systems such as the Cashflow Manager software
  • Undertook different tasks such as bank reconciliations and quarterly VAT returns
  • Skills obtained and developed: team work, mentoring, communication and working to deadlines

Previous Employer – Development Platform with Management Features

Position – Enrichment Week

Dates – February 2016

  • Worked in groups to analyse charities’ paperwork and drew up income statements and balance sheets from this
  • Skills obtained and developed: team work, decision making, delegation

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