Rakeem Mahmood

ACCA-qualified Management Accountant with six years’ experience across practice and industry, delivering management reporting, budgeting, forecasting and commercial analysis for UK, Irish and US entities across pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and professional services. Track record of recovering lost margin, clearing long-standing reconciliation issues and building reporting that drives commercial decisions. Experienced using Sage 50, NetSuite, Xero, Odoo and Advanced Excel (Power Query).

Outside work, led a £2,000 charity fundraiser.

Management Accountant at Enspec Power Ltd (2025-12 – Present)

Renewable Energy (Grid-Connection Manufacturing) | £12M Turnover

• Prepare monthly management accounts for a £10M manufacturing business, covering revenue recognition, COGS, accruals, prepayments, journals and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Produce monthly reporting packs by revenue stream and company level, with variance commentary for leadership.
• Built sales and pipeline dashboards covering quote values, win probability and sales KPIs to sharpen forecasting and commercial reporting.
• Created the right-of-use (ROU) lease schedule from scratch to bring the business in line with IFRS 16.
• Reworked the payroll journal process, cutting prep and posting time to 45 minutes, and improved the accruals and fixed asset schedules.
• Run the budgeting and forecasting cycles with variance analysis, and hold monthly spend reviews across 15 cost centres with their managers to track actuals plus Forecast against budget.
• Manage the company’s cash and trade loan facilities, running the weekly cash flow forecast and daily cash position, signing off supplier payment runs, and tracking working capital metrics (DSO, DPO, inventory turnover and cash conversion cycle).
• Reconcile inventory accounts including GRNI and WIP, working with operations to investigate variances and improve job costing and stock visibility.
• Own quarterly VAT returns and payroll accuracy, support R&D tax relief claims, and lead year-end audit prep, resolving auditor queries quickly with minimal disruption.
• Mentor junior colleagues to build their accounting knowledge and use Power Query and Odoo to manage large datasets and improve everyday processes.

Financial Accountant at Uniphar Group (2023-09 – 2025-11)

Pharmaceutical Industry | €2.8bn Revenue

• Ran the month-end close across four international entities, hitting the 6-day reporting deadline each month through journals, reconciliations, fixed asset schedules and intercompany work.
• Prepared the weekly and monthly sales and margin reports, analysing margins by customer and product to guide pricing and commercial strategy.
• Built and maintained 12-week rolling cash flow forecasts and wrote the working capital commentary across debtors, creditors and inventory.
• Reconciled stock monthly and ran the inventory accounting to keep cost of goods sold (COGS) accurate.
• Spotted and fixed pricing errors on a key customer account, recovering £3,000 a month in lost margin (5%).
• Cleared legacy posting errors across Sage 50, NetSuite and Xero, improving reconciliation accuracy and audit readiness.
• Worked with the marketing and medical teams on their budgets and forecasts, cutting overspend by up to 10%.
• Prepared reconciliations and documentation packs for the year-end external audit.

Associate Accountant at Caroola | Optionis Group (2021-06 – 2023-08)

• Prepared annual and closure accounts for a portfolio of 150 clients.
• Filed VAT returns, PAYE submissions and P11Ds in line with HMRC requirements.
• Prepared corporation tax computations (CT600s) and advised clients on tax efficiency and dividends.
• Maintained client records in Xero and kept clients well informed with practical financial guidance.

Finance Assistant Intern (2020-09 – 2021-02)

• Processed invoices, helped with reconciliations and prepared financial reports in Excel, building early experience in financial controls and accounting systems.

ACCA Qualified Accountant – Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (2024-10)

BSc in Accounting & Finance – University of Bradford (2017 – 2020)