Christopher Preece Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Atherstone, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

• Updating the management accounts on a monthly basis with the updated forecast figures.• Liaising with budget holders through verbal and written communication to provide forecasting on a monthly basis. • Maintain the fixed asset register creating new assets and processing transactions.• Liaise with development team to transfer project costs to fixed asset register up on scheme handover.• Running monthly depreciation, monitoring against budget and identifying reasons for any variances.• Processing capital transactions for monthly, quarterly and annual statutory accounts.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Processing capital transactions for monthly, quarterly and annual statutory accounts.• Maintaining the fixed asset register creating new assets and processing transactions.• Reconciling the fixed asset register to the stock report, looking into and solving variances that arise.• Transferring project costs to fixed asset register, allocating costs and social housing grant.• Processing assets disposals and shared ownership sales, including associated cost of sales.Other duties I have undertaken while a Finance Officer in Capital:Senior Officer- Capital tasks:• Prepared the disposal budget, liaising with management and team leaders to provide a report showing the expected disposals for the year.• Dealt with the vehicle insurance, liaising with insurance brokers, departmental managers and staff to ensure timely vehicle repair and payment of excess.• Reconciling the vehicles covered under the insurance to the vehicles leased and owned by the group, investigating and resolving any discrepancies.• Providing netbook values, showing cost floor breakdown of properties potentially being sold. Treasury tasks:• Coded and processed direct income and expenditure through the group bank accounts.• Recorded and processed manual cheques on to the system.• Reconciled sales proceeds stated on the disposal report to the disposal income received in the bank, identifying any variances.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Registered purchase invoices on receipt ensuring accurately processed and correctly authorised.• Reconciled supplier statements, investigating unmatched items.• Set up new supplier accounts on request and maintained, ensuring they were accurate and up to date.• Dealt with and advised on enquiries from suppliers and staff.• Prepared accurately and timely payment runs through BACs and cheques. Liaising with the Treasury team to process the electronic transmissions.• Processing direct debit payments accurately and allocating to relevant hard posted invoices.• Trained staff on the processes, showing how to run the BAC’s payment run and created a guide for staff to follow.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Registered purchase invoices on receipt ensuring accurately processed and correctly authorised.• Reconciled supplier statements, investigating unmatched items.• Set up new supplier accounts on request and maintained, ensuring they were accurate and up to date.• Dealt with and advised on enquiries from suppliers and staff.• Prepared accurately and timely payment runs through BACs and cheques. Liaising with the Treasury team to process the electronic transmissions.• Processing direct debit payments accurately and allocating to relevant hard posted invoices.• Trained staff on the processes, showing how to run the BAC’s payment run and created a guide for staff to follow.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Assisting the purchase ledger team With Bacs and Cheque Payment runs and registering invoices on to the financial systems.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Part Qualified Accountant

Three professional papers remaining

Bachelor Of Arts With Honours, Accounting And Finance, First Class Pass, First Class Pass

Level 3 Diploma, Accounting

Level 3 Certificate, Financial Studies, B

Level 1, Computerised Accounts, First Class Pass