Finance Assistant - Whitehead Building Services
(2022-01)
- Raising PO's
- Approving Invoices and raising credit notes
- Using CIS and Docuware
- Liaising with Suppliers to arrange delivery
- Answering the switchboard, and directing calls to the correct Personnel
- Dealing with the internal and outgoing Post
- Welcoming visitors in a safe and professional Manner
- Providing Team Support where required.
Travel Coordinator - Surface Technology Systems LTD (SPTS)
(2021-03)
- Playing a critical role working as part of the global travel management team to implement a new travel management system and support the implementation of a new global expenses system
- Coordinating travel arrangements across SPTS globally
- Analysing travel data and recommending areas for cost cutting and system improvements
- Creating regular travel related reports and dashboards for management analysis
- Ensuring budget holders receive monthly travel spend reports
- Undertaking problem solving and troubleshooting at pace
- Developing good relationships with (internal) customers and vendors with a view to negotiating preferential rates for all aspects of travel
- Ensuring reimbursements are properly documented and issued on time
- Ensuring the new TMC system implemented on time and within budget
- Delivering training to all global offices on the new TMC and travel processes
- Benchmarking SPTS travel processes to ensure best practice
- Supporting the finance team with the implementation of the new online expenses system
- Arranging Per diems
Receptionist - Surface Technology Systems LTD (SPTS)
- Answering the switchboard, and directing calls to the correct Personnel
- Dealing with the internal and outgoing Post
- Welcoming visitors in a safe and professional Manner, ensuring they have completed a Covid Test and provided a Negative result. Documenting the actions.
- Providing Team Support where required.
Procurement Support - Surface Technology Systems LTD (SPTS)
- Raising Po's
- Using Oracle and Wise Systems
- Liaising with Suppliers trying to improve on Delivery dates
Customer Support Assistant - Surface Technology Systems LTD (SPTS)
(2007-01 - 2021-03)
- Ensuring an updated assembled manual is available in both hard and electronic formats
- Ensure service logs are maintained and kept up to date, creating new files as and when required.
- Liaising with our core customers following an engineer's visit to ensure our high standards are protocols are maintained.
- Collaboration with our core customers to promote and encourage Service contract sales.
- Ensuring all information relating to system shipping and installation dates is correct, up to date and enables tracking of all required manuals.
- Create Electrical drawing lists and investigate and resolve duplicate records or missing drawings
- Ensure assembly of several critical manuals are available in both electronic and hard copies, ensuring they are up to date and correct
- Source required documentation for compilation of the commissioning packs for engineers use.
- Prepare and dispatch any additional or outstanding manuals required.
- Responsibility for co-ordination of reservations for flights, hire cars and hotels for senior management.
- Create bi-weekly diary logs for all engineers to establish and maintain communications whilst on site
- Responsibility for Reception cover during breaks and annual leave which entails dealing with switchboard enquiries and internal and external mail
Senior Restaurant Supervisor - Surface Technology Systems plc (STS)
(2000-01 - 2007-12)
- Ensuring hot food and beverages were available for all employees within restricted time limits.
- Ensuring high standards of both customer care and hygiene were maintained in all areas and ensuring customers where served at pace
- Till work including balancing at the end of the day
- Skilled in providing high levels of employee satisfaction, and working as part of a team
Vending Operator - British Alcan
(1984-01 - 2000-12)
- Ensuring vending machines were keep well stocked with in date food and availability for all shift patterns
- Reconciling payments
- Responsibility for regular stock takes and stock rotation
Restaurant Supervisor - Unknown
(1990-01 - 1996-12)
- Responsibility for drafting and preparing menus daily
- Responsibility for co-ordinating the team to prepare and serve the meals in line with shift patterns
- Responsibility for leading the team to carry out the daily process in a cost effective and efficient manner
- Responsibility for departmental finances incorporating budgeting and stock rotation.
Breakfast Cook - Unknown
(1985-01 - 1990-12)
- Responsibility for preparing and serving breakfast to over 150 employees working various shifts. This was carried out under pressure and to tight deadlines due to shift start and end times
Youth Training Scheme - Unknown
(1984-01 - 1985-12)
- Full and extensive training on all aspects of restaurant management including hands on experience including food preparation, food service and till work
