Simon Scott

Certified Bookkeeper up to Trial Balance with ICB. Have experience in financial operations, VAT compliance and international trade. Adept at reconciling accounts, processing invoices and supporting audits with precision and clarity.

Knowledge of Xero, Quickbooks, SAGE, SAP and Excel. Efficient, organised Administrator with extensive experience in international trade and the consumer electronics industry. Producing work to a high standard, maintaining accurate data and records that are audit ready.

Trusted contributor to system testing and process improvement.

Supervisor / Senior Sales Assistant - McColls Newsagents / Morrisons Daily

(2023-05 - 2024-10)

• Preparing the shop for opening, ensuring all the tills are ready for service
• Arranging all the newspapers for deliveries and the shop floor
• Facing up all the shelves so the shop is presentable
• Post office duties including sorting of parcels, cash deposits and withdrawals, calculating the correct postage for items, customer drop off and pick up, bill payments for consumers
• Serving customers in the shop and post office
• Processing price changes in the system, updating all displays on the shop floor
• Checking of dates on food and drink items in the shop, managing writing down of out-of-date items
• Checking of food stand temperatures throughout the day, ensuring stock is removed when required
• Booking in and processing all deliveries of stock, papers, and perishable items
• Carrying out cyclical stock checks and resolving any issues identified
• Ordering of stock using an in-house scanning system
• End of day closing and cashing up for the shop and post office, reconciling tills, safe, lottery scratch cards, ensuring all assets are secured at end of day

Accounts Administrator Temp - Ecowater

(2020-01 - 2022-12)

Ad hoc Part-time temping to cover holidays, tasks undertaken through Chiltern Recruitment for Ecowater:

• Checking and processing sales invoices
• Processing sales orders, checking to customers purchase orders and resolving discrepancies or queries
• Processing orders on the Exchequer system
• Checking sales invoices raised to purchase orders, resolving queries raised by customers
• Checking and processing purchase invoices received via email
• Accurate account coding of purchase invoices
• Assisted the accountant to prepare and clean data for an internal audit
• Created a spreadsheet to speed up data conversion for imported sales invoice data, highlighting bill of material items to be processed and ordering the data for upload in the correct format

Customs Administrator - PANASONIC UK

(2005-02 - 2020-06)

Leading supplier of consumer and business electronics with a global £60 billion turnover, which has > 270,000 employees.

• Managed the internal and external business partners to ensure the flow of goods into the UK was compliant with HMRC rules
• Maintained accurate records for management, audit, and compliance purposes
• Reviewed and chased customs entries completed by brokers to ensure compliance
• Maintained accurate entry of data relating to warehouse movements on SAP and in Excel
• Ensured that all errors or discrepancies were resolved so the correct duty and VAT was paid to HMRC
• Coordinated with freight forwarders daily to resolve any operational issues
• Secured and checked invoices received were correct and accurate
• Ensuring all documents received from factory on imports were correct
• Managed the INTRASTAT submissions for 13 countries on a monthly basis to a strict time schedule
• Provided support to finance department for VAT deferment queries
• Raising of purchase orders to suppliers from the sales and marketing departments
• Tracked purchase orders through the SAP system to ensure delivery times were adhered to
• Kept sales and marketing informed on the status of orders
• Coordinating with the warehouse on shipping of orders across Europe
• Created spreadsheets to support colleagues with various logistics processes and reduce manual workload
• Developed Excel spreadsheets to translate information from SAP to MIC customs software
• Developed macro enabled spreadsheets to process CE sales lists
• Was the UK tester for a new customs system that was set up for use around Europe
• Was involved in finding a new Logistics company to deal with outbound shipping through Europe

Level 2 & Level 3 - Bookkeeping - Institute of Certified Bookkeepers

Computerised Bookkeeping using Xero - Institute of Certified Bookkeepers

Quickbooks Online advanced certification - Sage University (2022-05)

Bookkeeping Essentials - Sage University (2021-09)

Accounting – Get it right from set up - Sage University (2021-09)

HTML5 and CSS3 Fundamentals | Python Fundamentals | Javascript Essentials | Microsoft 70-480 Programming in HTML5 with Javascript and CSS3 - IT Career switch (2021-01)

HTML | Code Foundations Skill Path | Learn How to Code | Code Foundations Career Path - Codecademy (2021-01)