Senior Accounts Payable

Education/Qualification

• A Level Geography – Our Lady’s Sixth Form
• 7 GCSEs achieved at grade A – C including Maths and English – Our Lady’s RC High School

Systems used

• Microsoft Word and Excel – Intermediate
• Sage 300
• Syspro
• Concur
• Oracle
• SAP

Career Summary

Current Employer –Healthcare

Position – Purchase Ledger Accountant

Dates –April 2023– Present

• Reports to the Finance Controller – works as part of a small Finance Team
• Initially worked to clear a Purchase Ledger of Invoice / Supplier and Payment issues – this took c 6 months
• Working across Sage 200 – referring to Sage Line 50 for historical data
• Works end to end Purchase Ledger from Supplier Invoices / Queries and Payments – gaining approval for Payment
• Also works across Rental Invoices and Lease Agreements
• Responsible for issuing Credit Notes
• Prepares and processes Fortnightly Supplier and Employee Expenses Payment runs
• Collate, check and process Employee Expenses – checking for accuracy
• Prepares Monthly Supplier Statement Reconciliations
• Reconcile and process Monthly Company Credit Card Statements
• Preparation and posting of Overhead Accruals and Prepayments
• Ad hoc duties as requested

Previous Employer –Motor Company

Position – Accounts Assistant

Dates –January 2021 –April 2023

• Worked across elements of Sales and Purchase Ledger – up to and including Month End
• Monthly Petty Cash Reconciliation for 3 branches

Previous Employer – Paper Distributor

Position – Purchase Ledger Clerk

Dates – December 2021 – January 2023

Reported to the Finance Controller – worked as part of a small Finance team with end-to-end responsibility for Purchase Ledger – including.

• Processing Invoices against Purchase Order/GRN’s, investigating Variances with relevant Departments
• Coding and posting all non-Purchase Order Invoices, correctly Allocating Costs
• Prepare and process Weekly Payment run, using online banking bulk payment file
• Raise EUR and USD Payments on the online banking system
• Reconciliation of Monthly Supplier Statements
• Monthly Analysis of open Purchase Order/GRN’s
• Responsible for Multi-Currency Petty Cash
• Resolving all Supplier queries in a timely manner
• Responsible for Account maintenance including setting up new accounts, changing bank details and ensuring all details are correct
• Maintain Supplier coding database and role procedures
• Preparation of Purchase Ledger for Month End

Reason for Leaving; Redundancy

Previous Employer – Manufacturer

Position – Accounts Payable Controller

Dates – May 2021 – December 2021 

• Reported to the Senior Management Accountant – works as part of an AP team of 2
• Responsible for processing Stock Invoices against GRN’s, investigating any Variances with the Purchasing team
• Coded and Posted all Nonstock Invoices, correct Allocation of Costs
• Prepared and processed Weekly Payment run, creation of BACS file for Bank upload
• Raised EUR and USD Payments on the online Banking system
• Responsible for Reconciliation of Monthly Supplier Statements
• Responsible for Processing Employee and Company Credit Card Expenses
• Extensive Query Management and Resolution of Supplier Queries
• Responsible for Account maintenance including Set up New Accounts, changing Bank details and ensuring all details are correct

Reason for Leaving; role not as expected and high staff turnover

Previous Employer – Garden building Supplier

Position – Accounts Payable Clerk (Temporary)

Dates – April 2021 – May 2021

Previous Employer – Airline

Position – Various Roles

Dates – August 2001 – September 2019

April 2018 – September 2019 Hotel and Transport Contractor

• Sourcing, negotiating, and contracting Hotel and Transportation requirements for all Airline Crew and Ground Staff both in the UK and overseas, approx. budget of £25m
• Worked with targeted Budgets to drive costs down whilst abiding to Health and Safety standards set out by Unions and standard business policies
• Produce Monthly Expenditure reports for Month End Accounts
• Regular interaction with Finance providing findings and commentary on Variance Analysis
• Supply and analyse seasonal reports prior to Contract renegotiations
• Building and maintaining internal and external relationships
• Always communicate with all relevant internal departments to ensure up to date information was accurate as and when required

May 2005 – April 2018 Accounts Assistant

• High volume preparation and processing of Invoices – check Codes across Travel and Hotels approx. 500 invoices per week
• Resolution of all Supplier invoice queries
• Completion of Supplier Statement Reconciliations
• Produced and analysed Monthly business travel expenditure reports, identifying spending patterns and trends with findings to be communicated to Director Level
• Produced Monthly crew travel expenditure reports for Month End Accounts
• Regular interaction with Finance providing findings and commentary on variance analysis
• Processing of Weekly and Monthly journals into SAP system
• Daily Reconciliation of department credit/business account cards, approx £600k spend per month
• Production of Monthly Balance Sheet Reconciliations for Control Accounts
• Assisted with the production of Budgets/Re-forecasts for crew travel costs

August 2001 – April 2005 Finance Assistant

• Production of Monthly Overhead Accounts for 15 departments, analysing actual spend and imputing of accrual and prepayment journals
• Variances analysis against Budget, Forecast and Prior Year
• Production and analysis of Monthly overhead reports, findings to be used for high level management and Director use
• Production of Balance Sheet reconciliations for Accrual, Prepayment and Control accounts
• Control of Balance Sheet recharge codes such as Intercompany and Third-Party Debtors, producing month end reconciliations and agreeing balances with other business units and ensuring all items recharged on a timely basis
• Producing Budgets for Finance and Head Office departments
• Collating of all Budget figures for all other Overhead departments and imputing into the system
• Overall responsibility for company cars, fuel cards and mobile phones

Previous Employer – Foodservice wholesaler

Position – Various Roles

Dates – February 1999 – August 2001

May 1999 – August 2001 Financial Accounting Assistant / Cashier

February 1999 – May 1999