Interim HEO Finance Administrator - Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
(2026-04 - 2026-06)
Investment Assurance and Approvals Team
- Managing the FSoD inbox responding to queries, triaging and escalating where necessary.
- Providing expert advice on the EA's Financial Scheme of Delegation (EA's FSoD) and influence all parts of the business to ensure finance regularity and compliance.
- Supporting different teams within EA to secure timely and compliant approvals
- Ensure all relevant approvals are received and logged to SharePoint and Figtree for a clear audit trail
- Updating Figtree with relevant business cases/OBC/PDC/FBCs with approval status or pending status
- Supporting assurance groups with FSoD advice as required including Large Project Review Group (LPRG).
- Providing adhoc information and reports from the FSoD Figtree database.
- Prepare and process timely and accurate data records that support the good data integrity on the Figtree database.
- Assisting and liaising with different teams for NAO audits requests.
- Confident liaising with different teams, e.g. Fixed Asset Team
- Confident in working towards tight deadlines during month end (WD1-WD4), preparing journals, uploading the forecast by WD4
Management Accountant - Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)
(2025-05 - 2026-04)
Cost Recovery and Income Team
- Management of and responsibility for the production of all monthly/quarterly regulatory recoverable income from industry (covering four different income regimes).
- Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring charging queries are promptly dealt with, ensuring clear communications are issued to all stakeholders and active participation in cost recovery meetings as required.
- Leading and managing ONR's invoicing process. This includes managing the full process, leading to the issuing of timely charging breakdowns and invoices to duty holders for all areas of regulatory activity.
- Support the production and the interim and final audits of the ONR Annual Report in relation to cost recovery by collating and providing audit evidence and walk-through demonstrations, as required, to the NAO.
- Continually work with Cost Recovery stakeholders, including Programme Managers, OTiS team, and SSCL, to resolve issues relating to charging and time recording.
HEO Interim Management Accountant - Government Property Agency (GPA)
(2024-05 - 2024-10)
- Preparing balance sheet reconciliations including accrual and prepayment journals for assigned directorates (COO and CEO)
- Investigate variances and ensure transactions are accounted for correctly
- Raising and receipting POs and invoices for assigned cost centres in Proactis
- Preparing and processing month-end journals
- Facilitating forecasting and reporting
- Monthly forecast meetings with budget holders to determine trends
- Identifying trends, risks and opportunities in the financial data
- Preparing month-end slide packs for COO for senior managers
- Producing financial reports for corporate stakeholders in Anaplan and Business Central
- Review and analysis of payroll and staff costs
- Confident in my ability to use Proactis, Business Central, Anaplan and Google Sheets
HEO Management Accountant - Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
(2023-02 - 2024-03)
- Analysis of the ledger to understand the financial position and provide insight into the monthly management accounts.
- Develop a good understanding of their assigned area of responsibility and liaising with budget holders, Finance Business Partners and other management accountants.
- Ensure the integrity of transactions in financial systems, ensuring good controls and checks are in place to maintain accuracy
- Support business areas with their month end activities, including the approval of material journal adjustments and accruals, ensuring all journal evidence is compliant with internal processes
- Use the management reports to identify key variances between actuals, approved position and forecast, and obtain insight from business areas to explain material variances and movements.
- Support the Senior Management Accountant with the production of high-quality reports for budget holders and project managers, and Finance Business Partners
- Overseeing relevant audit requests
- Monitoring the Assets Under Construction shared mailbox and dealing with complex queries.
- Processing Capital setup forms ensuring the classification of projects is in line with IAS16: PPE and IAS38: Intangible Assets
- Confident in Fixed Asset Accounting.
- Ensuring projects are correctly classified (capital tangible, capital intangible or resource)
- Working through my assigned region of the Assets Under Construction list (150+ projects) ensuring operational assets have been capitalised and added onto the Fixed Asset Register to begin depreciation.
- Liaising with Project Managers regularly to ensure operational assets are capitalised
- Liaising with different departments within Defra (Management Reporting, Fixed Assets Team)
- Ensuring Capital Asset Completion Forms are completed for operational assets.
- Flexibly support other finance teams with key financial activities, such as year-end activities and audit requests
- Assisting junior colleagues with training and AUC processes
- Running reports on Qlik and expenditure listing reports via Oracle (SOP)
- Ensuring costs are correctly coded to cost centres, incorrect costs to be transferred via a Project-to-Project transfer form.
- Supporting audit requests received from KPMG and NAO
Assistant Accountant - UnderwriteMe, London
(2022-05 - 2023-02)
- Completing weekly bank reconciliations for UME, UMTS and UMNA multi-currency bank accounts
- Entering month end journals for unposted and unaccounted transactions
- Creating new suppliers in Oracle where new invoices are received
- Preparing, processing and scheduling weekly AP payment runs
- Processing payments to suppliers by completing weekly pay cycles
- Creating AR invoices into the system and sending emails to clients with updated invoices
- Processing manual payments to suppliers via HSBC bank and DB
- Monitoring Accounts Payable shared inbox, uploading invoices into accounting system
- Entering month end journals, including prepayments and accruals, fixed assets depreciation and amortisation journals
Senior Accounting Co-ordinator - PPD, Cambridge
(2018-01 - 2022-05)
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Cash Management – daily banking transactions, dealing with queries arising from bank and ensuring that transactions are netting down in the bank reconciliations.
- Balance sheets reconciliations on monthly basis and investigation for unreconciled balances.
- Recording miscellaneous cash book transactions
- Confident with bank reconciliations, assigned 13 entities which included multi-currency bank accounts (USD/ZAR/EUR)
- Experience in preparing balance sheet reconciliations for 13 entities
- Preparing adjustment/accrual journals during month end
- Dealing with cash receipts to ensure the ledger matches with bank statements.
- Dealing with payment runs and managing queries raised by banks on payments
- Experience in preparing weekly AP payment runs
- Confident with credit control – applying the invoices against the bank transactions in Oracle
- Confident in liaising with different departments – Tax/Treasury/Payroll/Audit
