Accounts Manager - Walker Catering Supplies
(2025-11 - 2026-06)
- Completing the Daily Banking
- Improving & streamlining the whole service process into Joblogic & training members of staff on the new system
- Owning the Purchase and Sales ledger
- Credit control involvement
- Daily and Monthly Reconciliations of Statements and Banking
- Assisting with any Orders from Customers over the phone or face to face
- Streamline & Improve current process and procedures
- Overseeing & managing 3 members of staff, helping them with training, development & appraisals
- Involvement of working on projects and sales with the project team
- Preparing & presenting monthly management accounts
- Cash flow forecasting
- Reconciliation of balance sheets on a monthly basis
Assistant Finance Manager - University of Nottingham
(2024-09 - 2025-10)
- Built effective working relationships with relevant staff throughout the organisation to support the provision of comprehensive business advice at an operational level
- Advised on the allocation of resources at project level and effective budget management
- Understood problems that arose, liaised with the relevant departments and provided effective solutions and recommendations
- Provided financial and business advice to senior staff within business units through verbal communication, written briefings and input at meetings
- Reviewed funding sources to help with decision making on approving employee posts which are to be created, filled or extended
- Provided educational support and guidance to develop the skills of non-financial managers to aid their financial management role
- Partnered with budget holders to prepare annual budgets and quarterly forecasts (including operating and research activities)
- Met with business units to discuss detailed budgets and produced detailed pay variance analysis for operational discussion
- Updated the financial system and actioned budget and forecast changes during the year
- Helped to identify and create cost saving plans with budget holders as required
- Prepared management accounts and oversaw project monitoring in order to provide the financial data for budget holders to run their business effectively
- Coordinated the month-end process and process transactions to ensure that all tasks were completed to the relevant deadline and the accounts presented accurate financial results
- Produced and analyzed supporting information to assist in the identification of key variances, trends and issues for review and discussion
- Identified and investigated variances from budget/forecast through discussion and liaised with budget holders and managers
- Wrote incisive commentary for business unit management
- Acquired information and documentation from business units and external sources for performing reconciliations, calculations, accruals and prepayments
Management Accountant - Thera Trust
(2022-10 - 2024-09)
- Oversaw and revised the process to prepare budgets, imported into Sage and revised on a quarterly basis
- Prepared the management accounts on a timely basis
- Explained reasons for performance variances against budget
- Updated forecasts and adjusted accordingly to reflect any variances that are not expected to trend
- Prepared the balance sheet, ensuring all control accounts and balances are reconciled
- Developed reporting packs, rolled forward each month/year and took responsibility for the overall maintenance of the file
- Built working relationships with stakeholders, commercial team, sales ledger and Operational teams in particular with the community support leaders and Team Co-Ordinator's. To understand and improve knowledge and flow of information. Provide support and training where required
- Regularly reviewed debtor balances, following up old debt and resolving any issues or delays in accrued income being invoiced
- Contributed to the group's overall cash flow management process
- Prepared lead schedules and other information requests
- Liaised directly with the audits to ensure audit fieldwork is completed in a timely manner
- Supported any other audit or statutory related matters when it was required
- Assisted with the internal audit processes when required
- Direct line management of the Assistant Management Accountant, managing specific issues as and when they occur
- Ensured quarterly reviews were carried out. Development plans were put in place and supported where required by members of staff
- Familiarised and complied with the organisations policies and procedures, promoting best practice in the team
Assistant Management Accountant - Protocol National Recruitment
(2021-12 - 2022-10)
- Take Responsibility for the Weekly Sales Report and Weekly Booking Analysis
- Assist with all relevant month end close procedures including balance sheet and revenue reconciliations, along with GL journals (including accruals, prepayments, deferred income/expenditure, depreciation, intercompany)
- Ownership of Sales Invoicing procedures - Weekly, Monthly, Interim, Self-Bill & Permanent
- Purchase Ledger Management – Overhead Analysis, Payment Runs, giving support to the Trainee Finance Assistant with invoice posting
- Maintaining the Fixed Asset Register and Prepayment schedule
- Oversee Staff Expenses
- Business partner non-financial stakeholders by providing specific financial analysis and reports, to enable performance review and development
- Support additional reporting activities including, financial modelling and analysis
- Ad hoc work as required, including ONS surveys and compliance
Management Accountant - City & County Healthcare Group (Shared Services Centre)
(2017-09 - 2021-12)
- Production of monthly management accounts in the form of a MA pack including profit and loss account, balance sheet and KPI analysis on business performance for pre-determined operating Company within the reporting timetable
- Review and analysis of monthly performance for each reporting branch within the relevant operating Company
- Presenting the performance of each branch to the Group Financial Controller, Group Finance Manager, Regional Directors and Managing Director on a monthly basis
- Reconciliation of key balance sheet accounts/intercompany and profit and loss account analysis on a monthly basis
- Prepare and post month end journals for accruals, prepayments, accrued income, accrued payroll costs, depreciation & amortisation
- Posting of weekly/fortnightly/4weekly/monthly payroll journals for employees paid by the relevant branch
- Liaise with Branch and Regional Managers to improve performance where possible
- Working closely with the Branch and Regional Managers to prepare the annual budget
- Liaise with payroll, purchase ledger and sales ledger departments to ensure that all financial transactions are correctly recorded, executed and monitored
- Liaise with auditors in the provision of information for the audit each year
- Assist in the preparation of the year-end statutory financial statements and taking a lead in Audit queries
