Nada Junaid

I am now looking to settle with a permanent remote position. I have been temping/contracting due to a personal family commitment but now I am on the look to stabilize my career. I have vast overall finance experience and I am a great team manager. My people's skills have been acknowledged at my previous roles and I am very motivated when it comes to finance.

Head of Billing & Collections - London & Capital

(2023-06)

• Managing a team of 3 billing/collections analyst and 1 senior queries analyst (including 1-2-1's, performance appraisals).
• Managing/maintain team SLA's/KPI's
• Managing the whole O2C cycle including WIP
• Ensuring billings are actioned accurately and on time (monthly billings in excess of £5m).
• Ensuring collections are timely and no aged debt.
• Reviewing team processes and making improvements
• First point of contact for any AR queries/escalations
• Attending weekly/monthly finance meetings with the wider finance department.
• Month end review and sign off for bank/ledger recs, journal postings, write offs etc.

Transactional Finance Manager - Scott Dunn Ltd

(2022-09 - 2023-05)

• Managing a team of 4 AP/AR personnel
• Managing team SLA's/KPI's
• Managing the whole O2C cycle, managing WIP
• Ensuring contract, client/rate set ups are actioned and accurate.
• Ensuring all billings/WIP is managed and actioned correctly (WIP ledger est £40m)
• Ensuring cash collection is maximised (est debtors ledger £25m)
• First point of contact for any AR/AP related queries/escalations
• Representing finance in leadership/client meetings
• Month end SL rec, journal postings, write offs etc.

AR Finance Manager - Baringa Partners LLP

(2022-03 - 2022-09)

• Managing a team of 8 (6 billers, 1 credit controller, 1 junior finance assistant)
• Managing team SLA's/Contractor KPI's
• Managing the whole O2C cycle
• Managing WIP and responsible for WIP meetings
• Ensuring contract, client/rate set ups are actioned and accurate.
• Ensuring all billings/WIP is managed and actioned correctly (WIP ledger est £58m)
• Ensuring cash collection is maximised (est debtors ledger £49m)
• First point of contact for any AR related queries/escalations
• Month end SL rec, journal postings, write offs etc.

Financial Advisor (B2C) - HGS Global Solutions

(2020-10 - 2022-03)

• Answering inbound calls from consumers regarding financial issues e.g., debt issues, bank account issues etc
• Providing excellent customer service
• Ensuring all customer queries are answered or directed to the correct department.
• Working with the team to ensure KPI/SLAs are met

Senior Revenue Analyst- Agency Billings/Revenue - Travelport

(2020-01 - 2020-05)

• Managing a team of 4 WIP controllers (including 2 offshore)
• Improving current billing/collections processes/procedures
• Business partnering with other stakeholders.
• Ensuring all trial and final bill runs are on time and accurately processed by the team.
• Ensure collections team are performing as expected.

Sales Ledger Team Leader - Wyevale Garden Centre

(2019-04 - 2019-08)

• Managing a team of 4 (including accounts asst, and a cash clerk)
• Managing the credit control, billing and cash of the business (aged debt currently at £6m)
• Improving processes/procedures
• Business partnering with other stakeholders.
• Dealing with rebates

Credit Control Business Partner - Muller

(2019-01 - 2019-04)

• Managing a team of 6 credit controllers
• To cascade relevant information across and around the business of all reportable key issues relevant to our trading accounts, in such a way that it creates engagement and drives results.
• To hold regular meetings with Sales to discuss account issues & resolutions.
• To hold customer visits - to enforce best practice & agree new & improved ways of working.
• To identify possible process improvements and communicate to management with suggested best practice solution.

Credit Control Team Leader - Wolters Kluwer

(2017-07 - 2018-08)

• Manage a credit control team of 4
• Monthly cashflow forecasts
• Monthly bad debt write off.
• Managing the credit control ledger made up of nearly 300k clients all different values. Ledger balance of £4 million.
• Working with team to reduce aged debt/aged queries.
• Liaising with supplier/customers and debt management consultancies for queries resolution
• Monthly/weekly cash collection dashboards
• Liaising with cashier's team for allocation disputes/queries etc
• First point of contact for any queries for credit control
• Recruiting for the credit control team, from selection of CVs to telephone/F2F interviews
• Administration of the team/ HR
• Any other tasks as required.

Financial Management Associate - EY

(2016-07 - 2017-05)

• Review and monitor WIP and variance analysis across portfolio to identify risk and provide key stakeholders with up-to-date details on potential exposure to revenue and debtors.
• Ensure maintenance of up-to-date and meaningful commentary across your portfolio for stakeholder visibility.
• Support client teams with project pricing; review, investigate and thoroughly challenge engagement code set ups.
• Manage and Analyse billing trends/cash flow for the client teams.
• Maintain good awareness of the sales pipeline and ensure correct procedures and processes have been agreed on client and engagement set up, i.e., billing schedules and payment on account.
• Minimise Revenue Days
• Exhibit a good understanding of how targets are calculated.
• Ensure the Business understand their targets, what is required to achieve them and the impact of not achieving.
• Have an impact on how to engage with clients to increase engagement margin and improve our working capital.
• Advise teams how to engage with their clients to optimise both engagement margin and working capital.
• Provide relevant and timely working capital management information to your key stakeholders, including gap and trend analysis to effectively influence continuous performance improvement within your portfolio.
• Process & Escalation for Consistency / Improvement
• Identify and escalate process improvement opportunities.
• Involvement in additional ad hoc projects.
• Promote the use of the Shared Services team. Build successful relationships with the team to effectively utilise the team.
• Develop commercial awareness and demonstrate understanding of the key issues driving the overall performance of realisation and revenue days.
• Exhibit thorough understanding of key financial metrics and how these impact our cash flow and management accounts.

Senior Accounts Assistant - Contentive Ltd

(2016-01 - 2016-04)

• Manage all invoicing / credit control for the entire business and subsidiaries.
• Bank/ supplier/ credit card / debt reconciliations
• Managing all credit issues
• Liaising with supplier/customers and debt management consultancies
• Monthly/weekly accounting daybooks/journals
• Supervising 1 junior apprentice
• Any other duties as required.
• First point of contact for any queries

Finance & Credit Manager - Greensleeves Homes Trust

(2015-07 - 2015-10)

• Managing 18 bookkeepers (all based at various sites)
• Managing invoicing/credit control issues
• Liaising with suppliers/contractors
• Dealing with any escalated queries in relation to credit control, billing, WIP etc.
• Approving PO's and direct debits
• Monthly/Weekly reports
• AR Month end duties
• First point of contact for any queries

Senior Commercial WIP Controller - MITIE Technical Facilities Management

(2013-06 - 2013-12)

• Liaise with Management Accountants and Contract Managers
• Approve Purchase Orders up to £80k.
• Training staff/client/customers on internal systems and processes
• Training staff/client/customers on commercial/financial training
• Collating and reviewing Aged Debt
• Ensure labour rates are up to date in Oracle/SUN
• Reporting on WIP issues
• Monitoring WIP and driving down with admin team and managers/supervisors.
• Review/monitor and upload credit notes
• Raising Invoices/credits - consolidated and single invoices
• Review and update Billing Schedule
• WIP Report - Ensuring jobs have been completed and that all costs have been received in then reporting back to the management accountants' team
• Managing London/Southeast region project accounting
• Collating comments on loss making, high margin etc.
• Reviewing contracts, and liaison with contract managers/operational teams to make changes.
• Addressing financial reports or lack of in order to investigate P&L issues.
• Review and collate accrual submissions.
• Review and support in decision making of budgeting and forecast of revenue/actuals/budget.
• Overall P&L management and reporting
• Investigating issues causing the P&L queries on the Actuals V Budgets using various reports on the finance drive
• Provide guidance on Management Packs and Actuals V Budget for managers.
• Attend Finance Clinics for contract P&L review.
• First point of contact for accounts payable/credit control/finance and forward queries as required
• Provide suggestions for streamlining and improving existing financial/commercial and internal systems and processes.
• Point of contact for process and procedure queries from Managers and admin
• Attend monthly team briefs with Contract Managers and regular project reviews.
• Supervision of 3 junior staff members