Partner Trainee - Direct Motors Ltd - Chigwell
(2024-06)
Motor Trade buying, fixing and selling cars
- Purchasing off auction such as BCA & CoPart
- Purchasing parts from Ebay and other sites on/offline
- Spending time at the mechanics understanding the integral parts of a car
- Taking pictures and ascertaining resale price points using platforms such as Motoway, WeBuyAnyCar and other such platforms
- Putting cars to ride sharing platforms such as Turo, HiyaCar and Driveshare to generate income while car is listed for sale
Co-Host with Founder - Verv Management - Islington
(2022-03 - 2023-03)
Multi-property portfolio manager primarily focused on the short term rental/R2R serviced accommodations in prominent locations of London. Building a long term business, team, brand from the ground up and bootstrapped. Integrating between various software to deliver high ADR and occupancy of units as well as efficiency.
Creation of a vertically intégrated travel and leisure holding company catered towards the hospitality industry; holding shares in the following strategic business units Vërv Holdings - Verv Rooms™.
- Using analytical tools such as AirDNA to identify the ADR and thereafter draft up a DCF to ascertain the profitability of a particular unit
- Drafting templates for the hotel experience in order to automate aspects of the business
- Analytical skills applied in tracking the room rate price over the last 10 year cycle, in order to predict the price according to smoothing averages for the next 10 years
- Delivering more rent to the landlord increasing yields from circa 3% to 6-8% and generating a profit to the business, in order to expand portfolio
Asset Conversion - Deluxe Holiday Homes - United Arab Emirates
(2021-02 - 2022-03)
Managing a modest UAE portfolio comprising of commercial and residential units.
- Converting long term units into short term vacation rentals generating 20%+ additional revenue amidst a global pandemic
- Buying and selling of UAE real estate both off-plan and ready units
- Liaising with lawyers to make an insurance claim to a figure incident suffered by the landlord
- Issuing notices to tenants in order to gain repossession of properties to relet at a higher rate
- Dealing with cumbersome tenants residential and commercial alike
- Accounts reconciliation and keeping updated with the SoA for newly acquired units
- Keeping abreast of community developments and tracking rental trajectories and overall studying the market from a fundamental perspective
Accounts Trainee - Ackroyd Legal - Commercial Road
(2018-10 - 2019-03)
Venturing into the legal industry to develop a legal mind
- Utilised osprey to generate completion statements in order to invoice clients
- Scrapping data from land registry to cross reference with osprey before executing on the above
- Shadowed CEO on M&A deals to grow the firm to a high growth international law firm with offices nationwide, possessing local knowledge with global reach
- Ensuring kanban system of workflow was followed in order that solicitors remained busy with new files and instructions
Inventory Manager - Lazz Pharma - Beani Bazaar
(2018-02 - 2018-08)
- Matching batching and coding pharmaceutical products to the system to ensure an accurate stock count initially manually while suggesting automated routes such as OCR/OMR methods
- Managing a multi decade old pharmacy brand
- Reconciling the register for daily cash takings; which are predominantly cash due to village life being behind on card or other cashless systems
Portfolio Manager - RBSCA - Canary Wharf
(2016-10 - 2018-01)
In charge of overseeing a portfolio of clients, for whom I do the bookkeeping, quarterly VATs including EC sales list, annual accounts and self-assessments.
- Strong knowledge of accruals and prepayments, which I use to perform the year-end adjustments through journals when producing a set of stat accounts in accordance with FRSSE, UK GAAP, FRS 102 & 105
- Proven record of preparing a trial balance, which is then used to prepare the SOFP and SOPL
- Self-review own work as part of control measure for maintaining high attention to detail
- Working knowledge in the use of Iris, Kashlow, Free Agent and Xero, leveraging that knowledge to clients through training
- Proficient in the use of Excel with the ability to perform various functions but not limited to, such as Pivot Table, If then That, V & H Look Up and currently learning macros
- Holding company accounts preparation, group tax relief
Trainee Accountant - Auria Group - Marylebone
(2015-06 - 2016-05)
Gained a wealth of accounting experience; a diverse set of skill working with a variety of software between differing roles, demonstrating dynamism.
- Prepared over 100 private client's tax computation Inc. 1 partnership return with provisions for pension, tax deductions, relief and so forth using CCH. In addition, I performed CGT work, successfully appealed HMRC penalties and set up payment plans for cash strapped clients
- Liaison with clients on a regular basis to procure documents and answer any queries
- Liaison with the wider contacts of the firm such as mortgage brokers (requesting SA302s)
- Completed accountant's certificate to aid clients with mortgages, resulting in wealth creation
- Xero literate, utilised to do the bookkeeping, also dealt with multi-currency invoices
- Ability to critically review and research tax issues to resolve them practically
- Proven track record for completing over 50 sole trader accounts, 10 statutory accounts with turnover from £60,000 to £600,000 from scratch; querying clients to filing the accounts. In addition, I prepared the working papers, maintained client files and reported to seniors at agreed stage of completion
- Adept in preparing and filing VAT (Inc. FRS), registering clients for VAT and dealing with any HMRC VAT related correspondences
- Adept in preparing and filing CT returns (including long periods) with provision for capital and prior year loss allowance, and relevant deductions
- Adept in preparing and filing monthly CIS returns, CIS vouchers and SA returns for CIS clients
- Entrusted with payroll duties, dealing with ad-hoc payroll matters such as salary sacrifice, EYUs, SMP to more technical issues relating to RTI failures
- Ran 25 monthly payrolls for companies with employees from 1-20 and over 100 annual payrolls
- Gained exposure to some audit conducting income and expense testing
- Provided ad-hoc support to the partners, e.g. liaison with BFI on Co-production treaty application, advance assurance and SEIS applications
- Billed over £70,000 worth of time with an hourly charge out rate of £50
Customer Support Analyst - Clear Books Plc - Hammersmith
(2014-08 - 2015-03)
Utilise knowledge of Clear Books online cloud accounting software to assist accountants and end users with bank reconciliations, VAT, CIS returns and becoming a reference for accounting based enquiries.
- Resolving customer queries via email, communications
