Sidra Iqbal
Accounts Professional with 6+ Years in Retail Industry
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About
I am an enthusiastic, outgoing and determined individual with a strong work ethic. I have a strong background in accounts within the retail industry, due to working as an account's assistant for over 6 years. At present, I am studying AAT to further my accounts knowledge and expand my experience within this industry. Outside of work, I enjoy travelling and cooking for family and friends. Had a career break but now available and committed to returning to the workforce.
Experience
Career Break - Career Break
(2020-01)
- Planned career break to raise two children (one born during covid)
- Provided family support and care
- Maintained financial knowledge through monthly home budgeting and money management
- Developed strong organisation, time-management and prioritisation skills
AP London Team Leader - Internet Fusion Ltd
(2019-06 - 2020-01)
- Managing AP team
- Ensuring invoices are received and posted in the system in a timely manner
- Implemented a process on how to receive and save accounts documents in shared drive due to different office location- have visibilities for all members of the team
- Created a spreadsheet to import large batch of invoices instead of manual postings
- Reviewing ACR report and getting the team to action on debit balances
- Continue to assist in general ad-hoc tasks like posting on system
- Tracker to visualise team's supplier statement reconciliation
- Payment run proposal and processing
Senior Account Assistant - Internet Fusion Ltd
(2017-08 - 2019-05)
- Bank Reconciliation
- Managing 12-week Cashflow daily with various currency bank accounts
- Actualising and reporting daily cashflow to Finance Management
- Preparing payment run reports on a weekly basis
- Processing the payments for suppliers on a weekly basis
- Consolidate group cashflow balances into one report to send out to Head of Finance
- Worked on historical bank reconciliation for Internet Fusion
Account Assistant - Surfdome Shop Ltd/Internet Fusion Ltd
(2016-01 - 2017-07)
- Income Posting- experience with PayPal/Ayden/Amex
- Monthly sales reconciliation to ensure sales are recorded as per the payment providers statement
- Upload income on accounting system through import file
- Assisting with month end procedures
- Managing direct debit supplier payments- ensure journal is created in the account for bank reconciliation
- Credit card reconciliation and posting journals
- AP Reporting sent out to Finance team and management weekly
- Cross checking invoices against what is posted to minimise errors and to ensure correct value is paid
- Analysing ACR and maintain supplier accounts
Purchase Ledger Assistant - Surfdome Shop Ltd
(2013-02 - 2015-12)
- Posting supplier invoices and credit notes into accounting systems
- Dealing with supplier queries via emails and telephone
- Reconciling supplier invoices to stock received and raising any discrepancies found
- Reconciling supplier statements to ensure the ledger is accurate with the correct balances which reflect our credit liability
- Setting up new supplier accounts and maintaining up to date account details
- Pulling various reports from the accounting system for management to review
Finance/Office Assistant - Age UK Charity
(2012-01 - 2013-12)
Volunteer work
- Posted invoices and credit notes
- Dealt with petty cash
- Helped with the ad hoc office work
Education
Foundation/Advance Certificate - Accounting - AAT (2019-01 - 2020-12)
Beginner Certificate, Intermediate Certificate, Advance Certificate - Microsoft Excel (2018-01 - 2019-12)
BA (Hons) - Business Management and Marketing - Buckinghamshire New University (2006-01 - 2009-12)
