Alex Shrimpton

Finance professional with 8+ years' experience across sales ledger, accounts assistance, credit control and financial operations. Currently progressing through AAT Level 4. Experienced in bank reconciliations, nominal ledger analysis, revenue reconciliation, journal preparation, cash-flow forecasting, and financial reporting, alongside strong commercial understanding of working capital and debtor management.

Now seeking an Assistant Accountant or Assistant Management Accountant position to build on existing accounting experience and develop further exposure to month-end, management accounts and financial reporting.

Credit Controller at Emmiera Group Ltd (2024-04 – Present)

• Import/process weekly invoices into the sales ledger, reconciling invoice data to system reports to ensure completeness and accuracy of revenue recorded.
• Prepare and post weekly income journal entries, including allocating income from the ledger to the relevant underwriter.
• Maintain the cash book by recording bank transactions from online banking and complete regular bank reconciliations, investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• Perform monthly nominal ledger analysis, reviewing account activity and investigate differences.
• Prepare and analyse the weekly cash-flow forecasts for the Management Accountant and Finance Director, using expected receipts and expenditure and historic payment behaviour.
• Improved weekly cash-flow forecasting accuracy, reducing average absolute variance by approximately 26.7% and increasing forecasts within £100 of actual receipts from 56% to 72.3%.
• Analyse customer accounts, payment behaviour and aged debt to support working-capital management and cash-flow planning.
• Provide financial information and analysis to senior finance stakeholders.
• Manage the sales ledger and credit-control process, including account reconciliation, aged debt analysis and credit-risk review.
• Manage escalated debt through the full litigation process, including Letters Before Action and Small claims/MCOL proceedings, achieving a 98.8% recovery rate by value across 16 cases.
• Apply and assess VAT treatment on relevant customer transactions, including transactions involving overseas customers and services.
• Contributed to a reduction in debtor exposure from approximately £4.1m to £1.468m, a reduction of approximately £2.64m / 64.3%.

Credit Controller at Premier Medical Group Ltd (2022-08 – 2024-03)

• Managed approximately 150 customer accounts with total debt exposure in excess of £5 million.
• Prepared and reconciled customer statements in line with contractual terms and service level agreements.
• Monitored collection performance, customer credit ratings and external regulatory/company information to assess customer risk.
• Provided weekly account information to internal stakeholders including the Financial Controller and Finance Director.
• Resolved complex invoice and account queries and negotiated payment arrangements where required.
• During periods of absence, independently performed selected duties for the Assistant Management Accountant, including creation and importation of daily sales and purchase reports into Sage 200 and preparation of weekly purchase payment reports.

Senior Sales Ledger Clerk / Senior Accounts Assistant at Premier Medical Group Ltd (2019-03 – 2022-08)

• Managed department scheduling for the Sales Ledger Team and delivered training and support to colleagues.
• Performed complex customer contract analysis and collated financial data into summary reports to support operational and financial decisions.
• Performed monthly nominal ledger reviews, investigating discrepancies and ensuring transactions were appropriately recorded.
• Used Sage 200, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, CRM, MLR and PLS.
• Promoted from Accounts Assistant in recognition of performance and increased responsibility.

Sales Ledger Clerk / Accounts Assistant at Premier Medical Group Ltd (2017-09 – 2019-03)

• Performed bank account reconciliations and daily banking activities, including cash-book maintenance and maintaining the sales ledger.
• Processed supplier and expense invoices, ensuring invoices were approved and signed by the correct budget holders and allocated to the appropriate department and nominal code.
• Investigated and resolved unallocated cash receipts, overpayments in suspense and refunds.
• Raised sales invoices and credit notes in accordance with company guidelines and resolved customer and internal queries.
• Produced daily and ad-hoc financial reports for line managers.

Case Manager at Premier Medical Group Ltd (2016-08 – 2017-09)

• Managed MedCo Legal instructions and case lifecycles while meeting service-level requirements.
• Conducted non-clinical quality assurance and handled customer complaints and queries.

Sole Trader at Independent E-Commerce Business (2025-08 – Present)

• Operate a small e-commerce business selling mattress protectors, managing day-to-day sales and financial administration.
• Maintain records of business income and expenditure and monitoring profitability.
• Prepare and submit personal Self Assessment tax returns to HMRC, including reporting income from self-employment.

Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting in Accounting – AAT

Levels 2 & 3 in Accounting – AAT (2019 – 2023)

Levels 2, 3 & 4 in Furniture Design and Making – City & Guilds (2014 – 2016)

AS Levels in History, Geology and Fine Art – Ludlow Sixth Form College (2013 – 2014)

GCSEs in General Education – Tenbury Wells High School (2007 – 2012)