Sufia Abida

I am self-driven, hardworking, and dedicated to any Financial transactional jobs that are given to me, and I try my best to deliver them on time proficiently to the management team, as I feel highly accountable for my role in the organisation I represent. I am very organised as someone who evaluates my own work performance to bring better quality of work. This is why I am taking practical training with Future Connect in the tasks that I had previously done at my job roles to ensure that I could perfect my sales and purchase ledger duties accurately according to company procedures in systems I had previously used, and also to the ones I had never used such as Xero, Iris or FreshBooks.

I enjoy working with my Finance team, supervising or assisting them with their work when they are under pressure for strict deadlines in addition to my own work. To build a strong network of communication and trust between customers and staff I have always been approachable and responsive.

Trainee Management Accountant at Crampton and Moore Television Limited (2023-08 – 2024-04)

• Ensure that the bank is fully reconciled and cash book entries are correct on a daily basis
• Reconciliation of purchases and completing payment runs
• Work as a team to ensure all purchase ledger invoices are entered daily
• Work alongside non-financial managers to ensure that costs are captured and allocated accurately
• Balance sheet reconciliations to support balances
• Download bulk sales from online platforms i.e.. eBay and reconcile against payments
• Undertaking nominal ledger tasks including processing journals
• Developing and maintaining financial controls
• Aid the management of workloads and deadline achievements

Finance Assistant at Sheffield Theatres (2023-05 – 2023-07)

• Maintaining and administrating purchase ledgers, including monitoring and posting purchase orders/invoices.
• Processing and coding supplier invoices.
• Ensuring correct approval is obtained for purchase invoices and payments.
• Generating BACS payment runs and checking BACs run prior to uploading to the bank.
• Processing and reconciliation of Box office takings, including balancing sales, managing associated control accounts.
• Company credit card administration and credit control for all group companies.
• Managing petty cash
• Managing emails and handling supplier queries and liaising with colleges internally and suppliers externally to resolve them.
• Cash counting and preparation for banking of Box Office and bar/catering income.
• Checking and reconciling bank statements onto financial accounting software (Exchequer) and posting transactions when required.
• Filing and scanning

Accountant Assistant at AH Accountancy Services (2021-11 – 2022-12)

• Monitoring daily communications and answering any queries.
• Ensuring payments, amounts and records are correct.
• Working with spreadsheets, sales and purchase ledgers
• Recording and filing cash transactions.
• Invoice processing and filing.
• Processing expense requests for the accountant to approve. Financial Statements
• Bank reconciliation.
• Preparing VAT returns for quarters

Accounts/Manager Assistant at Heavenly Nights Guest House (2012-05 – 2022-12)

• Processing and producing customer invoices for daily, weekly, and monthly for auditing and in agreed timescale.
• Producing and monitoring customer statements against company's agreed credit terms and debtor activity report.
• Allocating cash /bank sales and purchases to petty cash book or cash book..
• Dealing and resolving invoice enquiries or other finance enquiries and issues such as raising of purchase orders, new contract HMRC and payment plans over the phone, face to face and email on time.
• Attend meetings with the external Accountant to discuss financial concerns and new matters.
• Meet and greet guests upon arrival and leave

Accounts Assistant at MillWood Accounting (2019-02 – 2019-12)

• Setting up new accounts for customers and suppliers.
• Processing business expenses,
• Maintain stock sheet with receipt, purchases & dispatches.
• Preparing financial documents such as invoices, bills, and accounts payable, receivable and VAT receipts for customers.
• Managing and allocating financial information details on appropriate ledger account.
• Checking invoices such as sales, purchases and credit notes against customers and supplier orders daily.
• Ensure invoice information such as customer payment or return has been correctly recorded and resolve any issues or imbalance.
• Raising invoices and completing financial reports on a regular basis and providing information to the finance team.
• Monitoring credit control of customers and posting written communication regarding their credit limit.
• Balancing of control accounts such as sales ledger control at month end report.
• Checking VAT has been included on invoices.
• Managing payroll.
• Coordinating internal and external audits.

DipHE in Forensic Accounting – Sheffield Hallam University (2013 – 2018)

Level 3 in Access to Higher Education in Business Studies – Hillsborough College, Sheffield (2012 – 2013)

Level 3 in Certificate in Manual Bookkeeping – Hillsborough College, Sheffield (2012 – 2013)

Level 2 in Certificate in Manual Bookkeeping – Hillsborough College, Sheffield (2007 – 2008)