Sandeep Panesar

Working for a outsourcing firm.

Assistant Accountant - Sanay-Leeds

(2023-12)

Working for a outsourcing firm.

• Communicating effectively both internally and externally to ensure that the highest standards are maintained with the client base.
• Dealing with a number of different clients.
• Daily bank reconciliations
• End to end AP and AR on behalf of clients - processing supplier/vendor invoices, customer invoices and credit control.
• Setting up new suppliers, supplier account and statement reconciliation, processing employee expenses, multi-currency bank reconciliation, credit card reconciliation.
• Accounts Receivable on behalf of clients - customer account reconciliation, preparation of cashflow report, credit control.
• Ensuring correct VAT rates have been applied and preparing and submitting client VAT returns via XERO.
• Investigating financial queries, and reasons for any queries.
• Managing several inboxes.
• Provide administrative support to clients, including contacting suppliers and customers on their behalf.
• Dealing with HMRC
• Preparation of accounts.
• Exposure of Payroll for clients.
• Month end management accounts.
• Exposure to Fixed Asset register
• Prepayments.
• BS analysis.
• P & L analysis.

Assistant Management Accountant/ Finance Business Partner (Temporary) - West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service-Bradford - Bradford

(2023-08 - 2023-10)

• Budgetary analysis each month end.
• Throughly investigating variances.
• Analysing data and updating with commentary.
• Contacting each budget holder on a month end basis to advise them to manage their own budgets.
• Running reports and manipulating Data.
• Reconciliations
• Monthly and Quarterly BH meetings.
• Updating variances.
• Month end processes and working papers.
• Month end Journaling.
• OPEX
• Excel
• SAP

Assistant Finance Manager (Temporary) - NHS-Bradford - Bradford

(2023-04 - 2023-07)

• Managing certain projects on Elderly and Quality and Safety in Research Finance.
• To support the Finance Manager and provide timely, accurate, financial information and advice to support our budget holders.
• Project reporting.
• Month and budget reporting.
• Month End Duties including monthly income, and expenditure, adjustments and provisions of any budgetary movements.
• Investigating financial queries, and reasons for overspend.
• Raising invoices.
• Updating working papers.
• Working with collaboration schedules.
• Oracle.
• Excel.

Assistant Accountant (FTC) - Tong Leadership Academy STAR Academies-Bradford - Bradford

(2022-05 - 2023-04)

• Using PSF accounting system to raise PO's to payment stage.
• Dealing with month end duties.
• Weekly payment runs.
• AP and AR
• Updating journals
• Managing all inboxes and queries
• Dealing with budgeting and forecasting with Head of Departments.
• Ordering all orders
• Maintaining a good working relationships with suppliers.
• Managing payment from Parentpay.
• SIMS
• Credit card expenses.
• Reconciliations.
• Working with all members of staff.
• Duty supervision with children.

Assistant Accountant - Health Insurance-Yorkshire - Yorkshire

(2019-03 - 2022-05)

Supporting the Finance department daily dealing with month end duties, Prepayments, Accruals, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivables and journaling.

• Updating variances.
• Month end processes and working papers.
• Month end Journaling.
• OPEX
• Excel
• SAP

Assistant Accountant (FTC) - Derwent FM-Harrogate - Harrogate

(2019-01 - 2019-03)

• Assisting with month end management accounts using excel
• Dealing with student queries
• Managing the Tenancy Deposits Scheme
• Using the financial plug in to retrieve rent information for the student
• Working on improving systems and processes

Accounts Payable Transactional Manager (FTC) - Hermes Parcelnet-Leeds, West Yorkshire - Leeds, West Yorkshire

(2018-08 - 2018-12)

• Checking the posting of Accounts Payable documents to ensure accurate coding to the nominal ledger.
• Accurate and timely processing of payment runs.
• Supervision of Accounting Services Team of 5 (Accounts Payable, Cash Book, Personal Expenses and Accounts Clerks).
• Covering duties of other members of Accounting Services team (as above).
• Developing skills of all members of team to ensure team is multi-skilled and organised on a daily basis.
• Resolving queries on supplier/ Complex queries.
• Completion of ledger period end procedures and related nominal ledger reconciliations.
• Completion of monthly ledger reconciliations.
• Ad hoc duties.

Finance Manager/ Fees Clerk/Office Manager/Bookkeeper - St Pauls Barristers Chambers-Leeds City Centre, West Yorkshire - Leeds City Centre, West Yorkshire

(2017-10 - 2018-06)

• Using Sage Line 50 v23 Accounts software to prepare monthly and Monthly Management Accounts.
• Cashflow and Management Control.
• Prepare Trial Balance, PL and completing Year End for the Chambers Accountant's.
• VAT quarterly returns and payment.
• Prepare financial reports when required.
• Assist the Finance Committee with Annual Budgets/Forecasting/Spend.
• AR/AP/invoicing/Bookkeeping/Dealing with suppliers
• Credit control
• Daily Banking and paying Barristers Fees
• Preparing payroll, processing journals and bank reconciliations.
• Assisting with billing Defence, Prosecution, and VHCC.
• Forecasting and Budgeting
• Expenses, Petty cash and payment runs.
• Credit Control and invoicing
• General Bookkeeping and various accounting tasks.
• Weekly Reconciliations
• Updating and downloading AUDDIS/ADDACS/ARRUDS
• Working with a bespoke package alongside Excel
• Monthly Direct Debit preparation
• Using SAGE 200 and Excel
• Managing the running of the Chambers, dealing with Health and Safety.
• Renewing contracts with new suppliers.
• Dealing with any HR queries that arose in Chambers.
• Managing holiday requests and any policies and procedures in regarding employment.
• Setting up new starters

Accounting and Finance (AAT level 3) - Accounting and Finance

LLB - Law - Bradford University (2003 - 2006)

A Levels - Tong Upper School and 6th Form (1995 - 2001)