Finance Assistant at Kurt Geiger Ltd (2024-01 – Present)
Promotion to Assistant Management Accountant in summer 2026 due to consistently excellent performance and delivery above Finance Assistant Level.
- Ownership of bank accounts (GBP, USD & EUR), ensuring all bank journals are posted and reconciled prior to month-end.
- Independently preparing prepayment and accrual journals for physical and online store branches at month end, while identifying and investigating variances, such as under accruing for an awaiting charge.
- Ownership of balance sheet reconciliations, including concessions, bank GL Codes and investigating variance post month end.
- Responsible for preparing balance sheet journals for card and online merchants (Paypal, Amex & Klarna), posting entires to relevant control accounts and making adjustment where required.
- Ownership of raising manual invoices to recharge staff incentives back to external brands and liaising with stakeholders to manage balances and ensuring they are recharged to the correct P&L Split and branches.
- Ownership of cost centres, having monthly meetings with departments to ensure on track with budget and to ensure prepayments and accruals are up to date.
- Autonomously reviewing remittance journals prepared by an offshore team, ensuring accurate reconciliation to bank statements and resolving any discrepancies.
Accounts Assistant (Placement to Full Time) at Sterling Solution Ltd (2022-01 – 2024-12)
- Ownership of client portfolio - preparing quarterly VATs, Self Assessment and company tax returns.
- Autonomously processing and analysing pension portfolios in NEST & Simply and ensuring employees are enrolled via HMRC criteria.
- Ownership of payroll - preparing payslips for over 250 clients
- Using Sage50 to invoice clients on a weekly basis and keeping track of overdue balances.
Retail Sales Associate at House of Fraser (2021-01 – 2022-12)
Private Tutor at Kingly Ed Private Tutoring (2017-01 – 2020-12)
