Nancy Afriyie Asante

Highly motivated, AAT Level 4 qualified Finance Professional and Part-Qualified ACCA candidate with over 4.5 years of hands-on experience spanning month-end close operations, management reporting, and multi-site financial analysis. Proven track record of optimizing transactional finance workflows, increasing month-end reconciliation tracking efficiency, and delivering precise audit schedules. Advanced software user across Sage and QuickBooks combined with advanced Microsoft Excel capability to build transparent, reliable data models for corporate and non-profit stakeholders.

Finance Assistant at Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund (2024-10 – Present)

• Support core month-end close workflows, preparing key analytical working papers used directly for management accounts and robust trustee reporting cycles.
• Calculate and post essential accounting journals for monthly accruals, prepayments, and fixed asset depreciation schedules.
• Lead multi-currency bank reconciliations across a range of accounts and multiple banking providers, successfully tracking down unrecognized entries and clearing backlogs.
• Produce detailed variance analysis and commentary for senior management, proactively investigating and resolving month-end transactional discrepancies.
• Manage end-to-end purchase ledger routines, processing high-volume supplier invoices, verifying vendor master data compliance, and executing secure payment runs.
• Coordinate tax compliance documentation, preparing quarterly VAT workings for HMRC submissions and assembling clean audit packages to streamline external testing.
• Partner cross-functionally with operational teams to collect expenditure tracking records, supporting core budgeting and forecasting tasks.

Accounts Assistant at Capital Arches Group (2021-03 – 2024-10)

• Assisted with monthly management accounts production, ensuring transactions were accurately coded against the corporate chart of accounts.
• Monitored and updated intercompany accounts and aged ledgers, keeping sales and purchase transaction processing moving smoothly across multiple sites.
• Generated critical weekly sales flash updates and site-level cash flow models, highlighting trading line performance trends for leadership visibility.
• Processed high-volume vendor invoices using Sage, matching purchase orders to receipts and systematically resolving supplier payment disputes.
• Collaborated closely with the wider finance desk to populate and clear critical data schedules for the year-end external financial audit cycle.

Store Finance Manager at McDonald’s (2019-06 – 2021-03)

• Managed daily site financial and commercial operations for a high-turnover unit, executing daily cash reconciliations, safe logs, and safe balance verification.
• Monitored local labor spend metrics and inventory wastage lines, providing the regional finance team with clear data to support local budget forecasting and site profitability.
• Investigated transactional errors and implemented local corrective workflows to strengthen cash control and reporting accuracy.

AAT Level 4 Diploma in Professional Accounting

Part-Qualified – ACCA

GCSEs in Mathematics & English