Ryan M

A driven and motivated finance professional with over 6 years experience in transactional finance. Proficient in accounts payable processes, including invoice posting, payment processing, and reconciliation. Skilled in bank account reconciliation across multiple currencies (GBP, USD, EUR). Strong attention to detail and organisational skills in managing financial records and ensuring accuracy.

Finance Assistant - Purchase Ledger at New Bridge School (2024-09 – 2026-05)

• Processed accounts payable transactions, including supplier invoices and reconciliations
• Posted invoices and matched to POs
• Managed the finance inbox and dealt with any queries
• Responded promptly to finance-related queries from students, staff, and parents, provided clear and professional support

Finance Assistant at Eurosonic Group Limited (2019-11 – 2024-08)

• Entered large volumes of invoices from domestic suppliers onto the company's accounting system
• Ensured the stock levels matched with what was invoiced, highlighting any discrepancies to the finance manager and stock controller to ensure accurate stock reporting
• Posted payments to suppliers as well as for the sales ledger
• Reconciled the bank accounts to ensure everything matched correctly - across three currencies, GBP, USD, and EUR
• Chased cash with the credit control team and chased cash for GBP as well as some USD customers
• Allocated cash paid in and paid out of the business. This included posting in GL ledgers as well as completing the VAT deferment
• Chased debt owed to the company, as well as profit margin reporting, ensuring that the company was profitable in dropship (E-Commerce)
• Presented the report to the board of Directors regularly
• Filing, answering the phone, taking card payments from customers, credit card reconciliation, as well as managing in and outbound post

Purchase Ledger Clerk at Marty Hygiene (2018-03 – 2019-11)

redundancy

• Posted and processed invoices, credits, and statements for the five subsidiaries that were part of the Group
• Posted payments, reconciled statements, and posted invoices, credit, and debit notes to the system for each company
• Reported data, including month-end reports of aged creditors and attending meetings regarding why invoices were unpaid as well as expected payment runs of other invoices
• Attention to detail was vital to ensure the right entity had the right invoice processed for i
• Answered the phones and took messages

Accounts Assistant at Fifth Generation Limited (2017-05 – 2017-12)

apprenticeship

• Processed invoices onto the CRM system Xero as well as recorded them on different spreadsheets (Excel)
• Made payments to suppliers through BACS/CHAPs as well as paid by company card over the phone
• Processed invoices, statements and provided queries to our suppliers via phone and email
• Processed the payroll of the staff within Fifth Gen
• Completed bank reconciliations from what we had paid out against what we had been paid as well as matched against our payments due, to ensure payments weren't duplicated
• Input journal transactions into our CRM software

Level 2 AAT in Bookkeeping