Finance Manager - OYES Industrial Co. Ltd
(2025-11)
- Directing all financial operations, including budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning to support organizational growth.
- Managing and mentoring a distributed finance team, ensuring high productivity and accuracy through digital collaboration tools.
- Overseeing internal controls and ensuring full adherence to regulatory standards and tax compliance across all business units.
- Preparing comprehensive monthly, quarterly, and annual financial packages for executive leadership, providing actionable insights into P&L and cash flow.
- Spearheading the transition to cloud-based accounting workflows to improve transparency and efficiency for remote stakeholders.
- Acting as the primary point of contact for external auditors, ensuring seamless year-end close and audit completion.
Accounting Associate II - Charles Ardor & Company Ltd
(2025-07 - 2025-10)
- Prepared financial statements and management reports in line with applicable accounting standards.
- Performed reconciliations of general ledger accounts including AP, AR, and bank accounts.
- Ensured tax compliance by preparing VAT, PAYE, and withholding tax computations
- Utilized Zoho Books for accurate financial data management and supported system transitions
- Provided guidance and support to junior staff fostering a collaborative team environment
Account Assistant - Diocese of Coventry
(2023-09 - 2025-06)
- Managed collection and reporting of parish share, ensuring timely variance analysis
- Owned Reconciliation processes including bank, balance sheet, fund, supplier, aged debtor and accrual reconciliations while issuing monthly statements to deaneries and parishes.
- Owned Accounts Payable/Receivable processes including invoice processing and credit control
- Processed employee expenses, weekly payment runs and managed grant payment schedules
- Utilized Xledger for accurate financial data management
- Resolved complex customer and supplier queries delivering exceptional service.
Finance Assistant, Business Partnering - Coventry University
(2023-06 - 2023-09)
- Supported financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting in line with organizational goals.
- Collaborated with department heads to maximize resource efficiency, profitability analysis and P&L reviews.
- Conducted variance analysis, balance sheet reconciliations, and assisted with internal and external audits providing documentation to auditors and working with them to resolve audit queries.
- Leveraged Agresso and Advanced Excel (VLOOKUP, Pivot tables) for detailed reporting and analysis.
Account Assistant - British Showjumping
(2023-01 - 2023-04)
- Owned Accounts Payable/Receivable processes including invoice processing and credit control
- Processed employee expenses, recharges, weekly payment runs
- Owned Reconciliation processes daily bank, credit card, intercompany, customer statement and supplier statement reconciliations while issuing monthly customer statements
- Leveraged Sage 200 for detailed reporting and analysis
- Assisted in producing month-end management accounts and compiling regional financial reports.
Finance Assistant - Skyfarer
(2022-03 - 2022-09)
Assistant Accountant - OYES Industrial Co. Ltd
(2020-11 - 2021-12)
Graduate Management Consultant - KPMG
(2019-10 - 2020-10)
Accountant (Intern) - OYES Industrial Co. Ltd
(2017-05 - 2017-06)