Black Space Technology specialise in telemedicine solutions for pre-hospital emergency care across remote and challenging environments. The scalable and future-proofed solutions are currently used internationally by IGO, NGO, civilian and military customers.

Delivering a robust, reliable and insightful finance function for Howells, an award-winning design studio with national and international reach. Underpinning the practice is an approach rooted in the constant exploration of ideas about how buildings and cities are made, built, and how they can improve the lives of individuals and communities. In keeping to these core principles, Howells have secured a reputation for delivering high quality buildings and places across all sectors, including residential, masterplaning, office, culture, education, retail, health and leisure.

As a project based professional services business, a key part of the role involved considerable business partnering with architectural staff on subjective project finances including budgeting, forecasting, on-going cost analysis and revenue recognition.

Strongly involved in all aspects of commercial finance for the UK’s number one provider of telehealth technology to the NHS, including move from paper to electronic patient records for West Midlands and North East Ambulance Trusts.— Preparing daily short-term cash trackers, weekly long-term cash flow forecasts and monthly management accounts including individual and consolidated group accounts.— Assisting on and updating budgets and forecasts for upcoming five years by liaising with department heads.— Liaising with external auditors including creating schedules and reconciling nominal balances and discrepancies— End of month journals, accruals, prepayments, stock takes and reconciliations of multiple bank statements.— Collating, posting and payment of staff expenses and payroll as well as pension administration and manage relations with the outsourced payroll provider ensuring accurate and timely payment.— Processing inter-company transactions and carrying out inter-company reconciliations.— Preparing, calculating and submitting of group VAT return including setting up of group VAT registration.— Communicate and liaise with all stakeholders including employees, customers, suppliers, bank and HMRC.— Finding opportunities to save costs including 95% saving on SMS services and over £100,000 annual savings on data by implementing new methods to monitor SIM card utilisation.— Helped implement new Sage 200 accounting software to reduce month-end process from five days to two days with use of processes to manage revenue recognition, fixed asset depreciation and inter-company transactions. — Preparing multi-million-pound financial proposals, leading on and allocating work for tender submissions.

This accounts practice role is best described as fast paced, client focused and target driven by preparing management and statutory accounts in a timely and accurate manner, coupled with undertaking tax compliance work. — Preparing and finalising accounts for sole trader, partnerships and limited companies.— Preparing income tax and corporation tax computations including submission to HMRC.— Liaising with HMRC on behalf of the practice and clients to resolve disputes and tax investigations.— Preparing, reviewing, finalising and submitting VAT returns for clients under various schemes.— Company formation and submission of accounts and annual returns to Companies House.— Calculating, completing and submitting self-assessment tax returns including capital gains tax.— Preparing property investment rental accounts for both commercial and residential property.— Performing audit work and procedures for public limited companies and charities. — Managed a team of four Assistant Accountants with responsibility for appraising, training and supervising.— Presenting complete professionalism when engaging with clients and providing tax advice.— Liaising with HMRC to resolve disputes and tax investigations.— Preparing, reviewing, finalising and submitting VAT returns for clients under various schemes.— Company formation and submission of accounts and annual returns to Companies House.— Calculating, completing and submitting self-assessment tax returns including capital gains tax.— Prepare property investment rental accounts for both commercial and residential property.— Performing audit work and procedures for public limited companies and charities.— Presenting complete professionalism when engaging with clients and providing tax advice.— Training and supervising junior members and other general administrative duties.

My role was to ensure that day-to-day operations at a commercial Asian radio station ran efficiently as well as taking on a great amount of responsibility with regards to accountancy, debtor balances and creditor balances including preparation, calculation and submission of quarterly VAT returns. During this role, I was responsible for:— Book-keeping on Sage Line 50 including sales ledger, purchases ledger and bank reconciliation.— Calculating and compiling monthly budget reports and variance analysis.— Handling the entire recruitment process from collating and reviewing CVs, to interviewing and selecting candidates including provision of training to ensure individuals carry out duties effectively.— Ensuring that all broadcasts and office work is produced in line with the clearly defined quality agreements.— Event management, PR & marketing, sales order processing and producing radio programming.— Applying technical skills and knowledge to operate and supervise the use of production equipment.— Communicating with listeners regarding feedback and resolving any complaint issues with Ofcom.— Fully comprehensive HR, administrative and IT support including designing and keeping records of job application forms, sponsorship forms, media packs and sales contracts.