Qualified By Experience Management Accountant

Education/Qualification

• AAT Level III – ACCA Foundation
• 2017 A Levels achieved in Double Business and Financial Studies
• 2015 10 GCSEs achieved including Maths and English at grade B – C

Systems used

• Microsoft Word / Excel including V Look Ups / Pivot Tables
• Access Supply Chain (ERP System)
• Power Bi
• SQL
• Sage 200

Career Summary

Current Employer – Wholesale of Household Goods

Position – Management Accountant

Dates – April 2025 – Present

• Reports to the Finance Manager and works as part of a team of three.
• Supports year-end and audit preparation, with key activity taking place ahead of the December year end.

• Prepares the monthly management accounts pack for review by the Finance Manager, including accruals, prepayments, fixed assets, hire purchase, and tangible assets.
• Month end accounts preparation some of the key tasks:
• Collaborates with the senior leadership team ahead of month end to understand key business activity and operational updates from their perspective.
• Manages ledger close activities, including stock, debtor and creditor ledgers, alongside stock usage roll-up processes.
• Maintains asset registers, including fixed asset and intangible asset registers.
• Prepares balance sheet reconciliations covering VAT, debtors, creditors, prepayments, accruals and intercompany balances.
• Completes wages reconciliations, including commentary against reforecast and prior-month values.
• Performs month-on-month and profit and loss analysis after adjustments, comparing results against prior-month activity and the latest reforecast.

• Prepares cash flow reporting, including actuals and variance analysis.
• Manages stock and overhead reporting, including stock usage analysis.
• Conducts cost analysis for inclusion in the profit and loss account, reviewing performance against the original budget and preparing monthly analysis and reforecasts.
• Works closely with cost centre managers to gather analysis, commentary and supporting insight.
• Prepares a range of balance sheet reconciliations, including debtors, creditors, VAT and intercompany balances.
• Produces sales recognition reports by channel, including online, retail, merchant and key customer channels, for director review.
• Prepares daily sales reconciliations and reports findings to the senior leadership team and external stakeholders.
• Completes detailed bank reconciliations across multiple sterling and foreign currency accounts.
• Prepares stock analysis using SQL, including stock adjustments and manual inventory updates.
• Reviews daily customer product discount approvals to ensure alignment with margin expectations.
• Reports on customer rebate approvals.
• Prepares quarterly VAT returns.
• Processes payroll journals for a payroll of approximately 200 employees.
• Supports weekly payment runs, liaising with the Accounts Payable Manager to ensure statement reconciliations are complete and up to date, and comparing payment values against cash flow forecasts.
• Updates the weekly cash flow forecast.
• Submits monthly ONS returns.

Previous Employer – Activities of Other Holding Companies

Position – Management Accountant

Dates – January 2022 – April 2025

• Reported to the Finance Manager and supported a broad range of finance activities.
• Managed commercial tenant credit control, including raising sales invoices and chasing outstanding debt through to clearance.
• Prepared monthly overseas landlord statements.
• Supported cost analysis to assist with budget preparation and service charge planning for the future financial year.
• Reconciled monthly company credit card transactions.
• Recognised monthly managing company costs and processed recharges to special purpose vehicles.
• Prepared monthly development management charge invoices.
• Completed month-end procedures across 16 companies, providing supporting commentary to the Financial Controller.
• Rental revenue workings based on accurate tenancy list.
• Assured rent journals.
• Bad debt provisional workings.
• Interest schedules on financial loans.
• Accrual journals.
• Prepayment journals.
• Depreciation journals.
• Monthly payroll journals.

• Monthly intercompany reconciliations.
• Monthly supporting analysis of revenue and costs supported with KPI reporting.
• Annual Service Charge Deficit Reconciliation –
• Costs reconciled with current year budget.
• Cost allocation to correct budget department.
• Collaboration with Block Management to draft future budget.
• Queries & Questions answered from Year End audit.
• Deficit invoices raised based on apportionment working with Assured Rent properties.

• Monthly Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) return.
• Assistance with yearend Audit’s and forecast for future budgets.

Previous Employer – Other Business Support Service

Position – Assistant Management Accountant

Dates – October 2017 – January 2022

• Worked in a team of seven and reported directly to the Financial Controller / Management Accountant
• Started this role as an Accounts Apprentice and has worked up to Assistant Management Accountant