Daniel Payne

Qualified Chartered Accountant with 10 years of experience in Accountancy, Treasury and Accounts Payable. Looking for roles within the Accountancy space having recently obtained full ACCA membership. A wide range of skills such as Prioritisation, Analytical skills and Attention to Detail that can be incorporated into working as a team and as an individual, extending abilities into Leadership opportunities.

Now seeking an Assistant Management Accountant or Management Accountant position where existing accounting, reporting and analytical experience can be applied and developed within a broader management accounting environment.

Senior Account Payable Analyst at Pacific Life Re Services Ltd (2024-09 – 2026-07)

Experienced member of an Accounts Payable team responsible for the Management of Junior staff members ensuring timely settlement of invoices worldwide, verifying KPIs are met and maintaining systems and schedules to ensure targets are achieved, issues are identified and remedied.

• Expanded responsibility for Processing of payments for UK, Bermudian and Canadian companies, ensuring payments were made accurately and within payment terms. Approximately 250 invoices per Month.
• Managed KPI reporting using PowerBI to present performance across the Accounts Payable function to highlight anomalies or issues which required resolution.
• Prepared Balance Sheet Reconciliations for Payables, Receivables, Deposits, and Bank accounts to ensure that period end figures were accurate.
• Maintained control documents (Opex Mandates) confirming data was kept up-to-date on relevant systems and that legal requirements were met.
• Created Accruals Journals and Correcting entries to correctly record reconciling items and maintain accuracy in the General Ledger, including the record of Tax.
• Supervised and reconciled Employee Personal Expenses (using Concur), answered queries and delivered repayments in a timely manner.
• Managed Junior members of the team, providing training and distributing roles which meet skillsets guaranteeing that team members were quickly integrated and disruption was minimal.

Senior Treasury Analyst at Pacific Life Re Services Ltd (2022-04 – 2024-09)

Joint role between the Treasury and Accounts Payable function, overseeing invoice settlement for Overseas payments, ensuring that liquidity levels are sufficient and creating cash forecasts.

• Oversaw Liquidity balances, created inter-account settlements to confirm that liquidity needs were identified, including cross currency trades.
• Created and presented cash flow forecasts to senior members of the accounting function to provide timely information on expected future cash needs.
• Supervised the use of Corporate Cards, including the distribution of statements and ensuring that costs were accurately input into the ledger.
• Maintained Corporate Card suspense accounts and completed reconciliations to highlight and chase outstanding submissions.

Accounts Payable Analyst at Pacific Life Re Services Ltd (2019-05 – 2022-04)

Junior Member of Accounts Payable Team, responsible for the settlement of UK based invoices, creating intercompany invoices, maintaining intercompany schedules and period end Balance Sheet reconciliations.

• Processed payments for UK based companies ensuring that settlement was completed within 30 days for at least 80% of invoices.
• Spearheaded the production and distribution of Cross Charge invoices, maintained reconciliations of Intercompany accounts, confirming that payments were settled and correctly recorded.
• Utilised software such as Sharepoint Sites, Oracle, Word, Excel and powerpoint to settle invoices and report on any progress or issues identified.

Finance Assistant at Capita IT Professional Services (2018-09 – 2019-03)

• Posted Journals and recharged expenses for Period closes to ensure that information was correctly recorded.
• Forecasting, Revenue and Cost Reconciliation ensuring that commission was recorded accurately, reporting and analysing variances.

Finance Manager at Inspire Digital (2016-09 – 2018-09)

• Provided financial analysis through daily, weekly and monthly reporting in Excel to provide accurate financial information to the CEO.
• Recorded Bookkeeping entries for multiple companies and intra-company transactions (Xero).
• Collaborated with account Managers to ensure that invoices were delivered to correct recipients and chased late payments, aiding in the maintenance of liquidity levels.

BA (Hons) in Accounting and Finance – University of Hertfordshire (2013-09 – 2016-07)