Regional Management Accountant
About Candidate
Education/Qualification
- ACCA – 6 exams remaining – self funded
- ATT Level 3 – Complete
- St. Thomas Moore R.C College – GCSEs Achieved, including Mathematics and English
Systems used
- Excel including Lookups / Pivots / Sums
- Sage 50 / Sage 200
- Xero
- Worldpay
- Word & Outlook
Career Summary
Current Employer – Logistics Company (t/o circa £25m)
Position – Regional Management Accountant
Dates – October 2024 – Present
- Reports to the Managing Director and CFO and Financial Controller
- Responsible for two companies, each with a turnover of around nine million
- Company operates under an invoice financing structure, therefore responsible for daily monitoring of Cash Flow which includes drawing down funds, managing payments to Suppliers, HMRC, ensuring there are enough funds to cover operating expenses
- Weekly ‘Flash’ including Weekly sales, weekly payroll, fuel costs and Fleet costs
- Production of monthly Management Accounts on Sage 200
- Posting of Prepayments and Accruals, maintaining Fixed Asset Register
Previous Employer – Mental Health Clinic (t/o circa £15m)
Position – Management Accountant
Dates – February 2018 – Present
- Based in a team of four and reported to the Finance Director and supervised the Credit Control and Purchase Ledger
- Main contact with auditors for yearend audit with responsibility for preparing yearend journals and documents and resolution of any queries
- Responsible for the preparation of the monthly Management Accounts for review by the Finance Director
- Reviewed schedules for Accruals and Prepayments
- Reviewed the P&L identifying any new purchases for the Fixed Assets Register – subsequently calculated depreciation
- Managed and updates intercompany postings
- Prepared the Balance Sheet reconciliations – reviewing transactions, payroll, and treasury
- Ran off the P&L for the four companies in the business and prepared analysis for all four
- Submitted the Management Accounts to the Finance Director for review and with issues such as non shared information adjusted accordingly
- Responsible for analysis of income on a regular basis and identifying changes and informing management
- Responsible for the payroll for the business – circa 350 monthly paid staff – made deductions and additions / amendments – the company worked on a clocking system from which all information was extracted
- Responsible for uploading required statutory information to external bodies such as HMRC and pension regulators
- Ran wages reports – with agencies dependent information and monitored spend and made payments to agencies
Previous Employer – Clothing Supplier (t/o £5m on-line fashion industry)
Position – Accounts Assistant
Dates – September 2015 – February 2018
- Reported to the Office Manager (ACCA Qualified Accountant) and was part of a team of four
- Ran the trial balance report at the month end and exported this data to the Balance Sheet
- Reconciled three bank accounts on a weekly basis
- Responsible for working with Lloyds Banking Platform to download Invoice Finance monies
- Posted Cash receipts daily and posted payments from the bank onto Sage
- Responsible for the management end to end of the Credit Control function – issued invoices, chased debtors via telephone calls, and sent out letters
- Managed the Payroll function for all employees, ensured the deductions were taken from employees where necessary and correctly filed pension deductions and HMRC Payments
- Processed PAYE to deadline and in line with HMRC Rules and ensured employees were paid on time
- Processed and made payment of employee expenses
- Responsible for running Worldpay reports each week and the correct posting of receipts onto Sage
- Posting and payment of supplier invoices and reconciling supplier statements regularly
Previous Employer – Textile Merchant
Position – Purchase Ledger Clerk
Dates – March 2015 – September 2015
- Based in the Finance Team
- Responsible for all suppliers / obtained approval for invoices
- Processed and created payment runs
- Accounted for, and made payments for employee expenses and credit card
- Maintained Sterling and Euro petty cash
Previous Employer – Solicitors
Position – Legal Cashier
Dates – September 2012 – March 2015
- Based in the Cashiering Team and reported to the manager
- Petty cash reconciliation
- Issue of client cheques / Daily banking / Checked and issued of bills
- Input high volume BACs and CHAPs payments
- Input of Purchase Ledger invoices
- Daily client to office transfers
- Posted to journals
- Assisted the Senior Legal Cashier at month end
Previous Employer – Surveyors and Commercial Property Services
Position – Accounts Apprentice
Dates – March 2011 – September 2012
Previous Employer – Truck Repair Shop
Position – Business Admin Apprentice
Dates – March 2010 – March 2011
