Bookkeeper Accountant With Management Accounting Skills
Bookkeeper Accountant With Management Accounting skills looking for employment in London
Objectives:
Seeking a Full-time Senior/Semi Senior Accounting role within a small to medium size company, in Central London. It could be a long-term temporary role but ultimately am seeking a permanent job (maybe via the temporary vehicle) as a hands on Management/Financial Accountant
Skills:
Bookkeeper/Accountant with a variety of bespoke and off the shelf systems experience (especially Sage and Excel) including implementing & developing new systems and introducing audit trails. With Management Accounting, trouble-shooting, investigational, analytical, organisational, controlling, reconciliatory and supervisory skills. Specialised in producing accurate Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet Accounts, Budget Control and Variances, VAT Laws, VAT Returns, Instrastat, & EC Sales Lists. Vast experience in: Maintaining & Supervising Bought & Sales Ledger (Credit & Proforma Customers), VAT, PAYE, Multi Currency Cash Books, Bank Reconciliations, Accruals, Staff Advances, Petty Cash, Credit Cards, Fixed Assets, Suspense and general Nominal Ledger Control & Reconciliation of accounts. Skills gained within a number of business sectors.
27 Years Accounting Experience in both Manual & Computerised Accounting Systems
Work Experience:
Eurospan Ltd: 1994-2007
Duties And Responsibilities:
To process and generate accurate Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Nominal Ledger accounts
To produce an efficient and accurate Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger, multi currency Cash books, Nominal Ledger and Trial Balance
Posting, Monitoring and reconciling the major Nominal Ledger accounts including:
- multi currency cash Book entries & bank reconciliations
- updating proforma customers records and sales ledger control
- purchase ledger control, petty cash control, VAT control
- credit card control
- maintaining list of outstanding items in suspense
· To become conversant in and then improve/develop all the financial systems used by the company
· To install, test and implement these changes in the most cost effective way.
· Develop and maintain an effective audit trail, introducing controls wherever necessary
· Introduce and monitor an electronic credit card system
· Lead the Finance Team through all the changes
· Introduce and ensure accuracy of electronic submissions of : EC Sales Lists & Intrastat
· VAT Returns: collecting data from various sources and completing returns manually
· Take care of all HMRC requirements within our software
· To organize year-end procedures including:
- ensuring that all data has been posted to Sage
- ensuring purchase ledger, sales ledger. cash books and nominal ledger have been fully reconciled
- running Sage year-end
· Accruals and prepayments
Achievements:
Commenced as a temporary assistant accountant, progressing to permanent Group accountant. After meeting all the requirements of the earlier targets and deadlines of the new role, was entrusted with improving, developing and implementing all the financial systems throughout. This included improving/modifying the bespoke invoice production facility and subsequent database to match with EU directives for EC Sales reporting. Was given the extra responsibility of all the year-end tasks because of these successes and because of my knowledge of the systems. Was heavily involved with the successful hand-over of accounting to Turpin which included. Assisting in the development of new bespoke Sales invoicing function at another location whilst still maintaining the same Bought Ledger and Nominal Ledger within Sage
Regional Daily Advertising Council (Known as: The Word) 1995-1998
Duties And Responsibilities
· To take sole charge of Sage Sales and Purchase Ledgers, Cash Books and Bank Reconciliations
· To take control of invoice processing, daily banking and payments incs:
- posting receipts and payments to Sage
- reconciling newspaper’s invoices to orders and then posting invoices to Sage
- printing remittance advices and reconciling to suppliers statements
- organising sales invoice runs from database within Excel
- payments control (including BACS & cheques)
- producing monthly sales analysis, per client, from Excel
- importing sales invoice data from Excel to Sage and run off statements from Sage
- credit control requirements
- bank reconciliations
· To implement a BACS payment system to replace cheques
· To upgrade Sage to Y2K compatible.
· Take responsibility for month-end and year-end procedures in Sage
· Maintain accrual lists of uncharged invoices from unallocated orders
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Achievements:
The company became so confident in my abilities and skills to entrust me with a free-rein over developing/improving the accounting functions throughout. Introduced cost effective functions such as a BACS system and a more accurate & efficient Bought Ledger. Liaised with Computer programmer to improve invoice production facility.
Sun International Ltd: 1992 to 1993
Duties And Responsibilities:
To take control of invoice processing (200 invoices per week), get familiarised with the system, reduce the backlog, introduce a more efficient system, train new staff and general assistance with the Nominal Ledger Control accounts, monitoring staff expenses and loans and car fleet rental charges. Tasks included:
· Registering incoming invoices onto the system as unauthorised
· Once registered, distributing the invoices for authorisation
· Changing status of invoices from unauthorized to authorised and then to payable, on the system
· Organising printed cheque runs, after reconciling print-outs to suppliers statements
· Staff liaison regarding expense sheets and loans including: advances, training loans & season tickets
· Ensuring that VAT receipts are attached to expense sheets, calculating VAT recoverable.
· Monthly monitoring of car fleet rental charges, reconciling our list with the invoices submitted from Supplier
Cookson Precision Castings Ltd: 1988 to 1992
Duties And Responsibilities:
To assist the Chief Accountant by taking overall responsibility of various departments within the Accounts function at nationwide sites under the umbrella of the Industrial Sector. To take direct responsibility for managing the Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger, Nominal Ledger, Cash Books, Bank Reconciliations, Petty Cash, Fixed Assets, VAT Returns, Energy accounts, Payroll control accounts and Accruals. Individual tasks including:
· Supervising and training of staff within the London branch of invoice reconciliations to orders and GRN’s
· Batching invoices and posting. Also supervising credit control, assisting in the process when necessary
· Bought Ledger Reconciliation, ensuring accurate historical records
· Supplier payments, computerised cheque runs and remittance advices
· Accruals record kept of GRN’s without invoices
· Maintaining a manual cash book with resulting Bank Reconciliations and cash flow control
· Monthly production of Trial Balance, Profit & Loss accounts (for the cost centres), reconciliation of accounts within the Nominal Ledger and consolidation of accounts
· Maintaining current computerized accounting systems and assisting in the development of new systems
Other tasks (after the Head Office decided to centralise its operations to Worcester) included:
· Liaising with banks: closing & opening bank accounts, unpresented cheques instructions, etc
· Transfering of Industrial Sector’s accounts from London to Worcester
· Monitoring the integration of accounts in the centralization process, onto a totally new computer system
· Development. Implementing accounting procedures and training of staff on the new system
· Monitoring closure, relocation costs of the London site, and the transfer of fixed assets, i.e, Plant & Machinery to the Newcastle site from London (development program) and to other companies within the Cookson Group
· Submissions for grants and the monitoring of the capital expenditure programme
· Reconciling of the Working Capital and Fixed Assets Control accounts
Schroder Securities International Ltd: 1986 to 1988
Japanese Arbitrage and Foreign Exchange accounting.
Self-Employed and Temping: 1982 to 1985
Gardening/decorating business for 3 years, followed by a number of accounts jobs for 1 year.
Hays Allan: 1976 to 1982
Responsible for the Company’s own bookkeeping to Trial Balance. 4 years manual, 2 years computerised
Education:
1988-1990 Kingston Polytechnic: BTEC, HND Business & Finance
· Final Year: 5 Distinctions, 3 Merits
· First Year: 4 Distinctions, 2 Merits, 2 Passes
1973-1976 Loxford High
· O Levels: Accounts, Mathematics, Commerce, English Language
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