Collaborate with executive leadership and external audit team to conduct financial audits. Maintain sound relationship with all creditors including key suppliers through timely processing of invoices and international payments. Prepare debtor reports and dispatch collection teams. Allocate and post invoices to internal accounts department for coding and budget holders’ approval. Investigate debit balances, unapproved invoices and company credit card returns for internal departments to action. Document and report petty cash balances and fortnightly cash flow statements. Provide exceptional support to finance controller in journals, prepayments, accruals, and deferred income management for year-end financials. Train and evaluate AP / AR management team and assist with challenging queries.Key Contributions:- Tested and deployed access capture OCR application, automating a significant portion of the AP process and achieving reduction in time and cost.- Mitigated risk of fraud by revamping the internal expense system – implementing two stage authorisations in Focal Point and training management for logging business expense claims and monthly credit card returns to ensure any fraudulent transactions are identified and reported immediately.

Managed all payables / receivables from procurement to payment and raising invoices. Documented staff expenses in internal systems. Allocated and updated funds / incomes in PS Financials from multiple sources including Education Funding Agency, Pupil Premium Funds, and ParentPay. Prepared salary journals and posted schedules for final accounts. Reviewed and maintained fixed asset account.Key Contributions:- Reconciled bank / purchase ledger control accounts and prepared error-free VAT returns.

Ensured timely payments to suppliers through cheques, BAC, and CHAPS using LloydsLink system. Corresponded with suppliers to resolve any queries and re-check payment details; provided remittance advice. Prepared draft bank reconciliation statement after reviewing debit transactions.Key Contributions:- Processed and posted over 150 invoices / purchasing cards daily without a single error or omission.

Finalized monthly payment reports. Communicated and supported clients with financial concerns such as interest and redemption. Analysed customer records and raised any discrepancies with finance department for adjustments and refund in case over-payment for proactive service. Supported managers in consolidating accounts information and performing quality control audits to verify accuracy.Key Contributions:- Ensured CCA regulatory compliance by managing an internal control sheet of over 60,000 clients.

- Lead a warm and friendly team of 7-10 colleagues every shift, ensuring they had a strong focus on customer service at tills, self scans and the shop floor.- Achieved positive MCM (Mystery Customer Measure) ensure customer consistency.- Achieved positive MAC (Making Availability Count) scores by ensuring stocks were always replenished and in date.

- Mentored C-D grade GCSE Maths students to help them achieve a B grade or higher through analysing individual weaknesses and targeting them.- Built up their confidence in solving problems and removing their fear of numbers.

- Responsible for carrying out both the Receivable and Payable functions from start to finish and reconciling all ledgers.- Improved cheque payment run procedures by reducing the time required from 48 hours to around 30 minutes by creating a complexly formulated Excel workbook to automate many of the steps.- Boosted the pace of archiving and data entry processes through a full system overhaul. This significantly reduced the workload of the Data Entry Assistants.- Completed all daily tasks, from receipting and banking cash, posting them to the correct accounts, making payments, writing financial reports for the Client Case Advisors, to mail room duties – within the set deadline through efficient planning and prioritisation.

- Developed strong attention to detail, and a mindset focused on accuracy, being responsible for cross checking financial data, recording dates of cleared payments and filing confidential information of clients