Manage the day to day running of the office including:- Weekly and Monthly payrolls including maintaining absence records- Provide Job costings/Estimates - Taking phone calls and dealing with queries- Assisting the Managing Director and General Manager with various ad-hoc matters- Raising and sending invoices and chasing payments using our Quickbooks accounting software.- Management and processing of application for payments for our construction clients.- Processing and issuing of RAMS and health and safety documents required by each client.- Organising and booking of company events and meetings.- Ordering materials and keep up to date with stock levels.- Managing the office petty cash.- Liaising with staff, suppliers and clients.- Management of Health & Safety documents, systems, insurances

Finance ManagerIntroduced new finance procedures to business, including setting up Quickbook Accounts system, including payroll. Set up new staff pension scheme with NEST.Sales Ledger, raise weekly invoices, monthly statements and chase overdue invoicesPurchase Ledger, ensure all invoices are paid to terms. Created new job pricing tool using Excel formula, to make it easier for transport operators to provide customers with job rates.Monitored Fuel costs to ensure Job costing was accurate.Finance reporting to company director and company accountant.Preparing accounts for VAT and year end returns.Monitored Driver hours, using tachograph readings to ensure DVSA regulations are adhered to.Created new driver handbook for induction for new starters, to ensure that DVSA regulations are adhered to, Driver hours, defect reporting etc.

• Provided financial and administrative support to schools in London and South East, dealing with financial and non-financial stakeholders. • Advising all school leadership and staff on the following:- Building 3 year budgets with the school’s leadership team, gathering all stats and factors together to make informed decision on future planning, Staff levels, Teacher retention for example.- Communicating with local council’s to receive correct information regarding schools data: pupils numbers, free schools meals, deprivation levels for example.- Attend meetings with school’s leadership including governing body to discuss future plans, building renovation, academy conversion, generating additional income for example.- Once budgets are agreed, I would provide monthly monitoring reporting to Head Teacher and governing body, identifying any factors for over/under spending.- Helping schools with academy conversions, from pre-conversion audits to restructuring of school personnel.• I would also provide support to the school’s finance and admin office on the following:- Setting up various procedures and school policies, cashless schools (parent pay), pupil dataprotection for example.- Train staff to produce month and year end submittals to local authorities.- Provide pre-OFSTED checks to ensure schools would pass audits.• Other duties would include:- Help develop the company’s in-house budgeting software SBSonline, from product testing, feedback on any improvements needed and defects that required fixing. I also trained new staff members in using software.- Provide training sessions with school staff, booking venue’s, setting up presentation and training software in venue, preparing the training agenda, and book catering for training sessions.- Attend quarterly company days, where occasionally I would need to do a presentation on issues affecting the finance section of the company.

• I managed all non-education functions for school and was a member of the school leadership team.• Budget planning, communication with Local authority and external partners on annual funding levels.• Discussed with leadership team different cost factors, Teacher retention and progression, staff levels, pupil numbers, building maintenance and development. • I project managed numerous developments including, “Building Schools for the future”, which was a 3 year building improvement scheme. I also introduced a “cashless school” school scheme, involving Parent-pay and isometric finger print readers for school lunch and clubs payments.• I produced all monthly and year end returns to local government.• When academy conversion was decided I produced the pre-audit checks