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London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Procurement Responsibilities - Purchases of Hardware/Software/Servers/Networking/Ad hoc • Provide the procurement lead for major projects, role model the procurement values and strategy in a service driven environment, strong negotiating skills for best value for the project budget / client• Ensuring client procurement policies and guidelines are complied with. • Risk Assessment/Mitigation• Development of procurement strategies and negotiation practices to deliver hard benefits and efficiencies to the client. • Ensuring the successful delivery of contracts that meet users’ needs adhere to all relevant EU legislation, value for money principles and commercial awareness. • Develop close co-operative relationships with clients to leverage their expertise, understand local market conditions, support their specific aims and objectives, and deliver value adding services and agreements. • Maintain records of documentation concerning contractual agreements and supplier communications within area of responsibility and in accordance with Government guidelines and legislation, monitoring hardware & software licenses and user names, deployment and transfers including mobiles & sims. • Management and approval of procurement requests for IT equipment and consumables, monitoring spend to budget allocation, manage the receipt, storage, distribution, and installation of products ordered.• Review procurement requests against existing hardware stocks and software licenses and re-use where possible to meet technical requirements.• Arranging deliveries and receiving the product on behalf of client and raising call logs for configuration of hardware, loading of software and licence control with the IT Team.• Monitoring the process for products in and out using supplier tracking systems.• Updating assets register of hardware & software licenses and user names, deployment and transfers.

London, United Kingdom

Procurement Responsibilities (Hardware/Software/Servers/Networking/Mobile telephones and sims/Ad hoc • Provide the procurement lead for major projects, role model the procurement values and strategy in a service driven environment, strong negotiating skills for best value for the project budget / client• Ensuring client procurement policies and guidelines are complied with. • Development of procurement strategies and negotiation practices to deliver hard benefits and efficiencies to the client. • Ensuring the successful delivery of contracts that meet users’ needs adhere to all relevant EU legislation, value for money principles and commercial awareness. • Develop close co-operative relationships with clients to leverage their expertise, understand local market conditions, support their specific aims and objectives, and deliver value adding services and agreements. • Maintain records of documentation concerning contractual agreements and supplier communications within area of responsibility and in accordance with Government guidelines and legislation, monitoring hardware & software licenses and user names, deployment and transfers including mobiles & sims. • Management and approval of procurement requests for IT equipment and consumables, monitoring spend to budget allocation, manage the receipt, storage, distribution, and installation of products ordered.• Review procurement requests against existing hardware stocks and software licenses and re-use where possible to meet technical requirements.• Arranging deliveries and receiving the product on behalf of client and raising call logs for configuration of hardware, loading of software and licence control with the IT Team.• Monitoring the process for products in and out using supplier tracking systems.• Updating assets register of hardware & software licenses and user names, deployment and transfers.

Angel, Islington

Procurement Responsibilities (Hardware/Software/Servers/Networking/Mobile telephones and sims/Ad hoc • Provide the procurement lead for major projects, role model the procurement values and strategy in a service driven environment, strong negotiating skills for best value for the project budget / client• Ensuring client procurement policies and guidelines are complied with. • Development of procurement strategies and negotiation practices to deliver hard benefits and efficiencies to the client. • Ensuring the successful delivery of contracts that meet users’ needs adhere to all relevant EU legislation, value for money principles and commercial awareness. • Develop close co-operative relationships with clients to leverage their expertise, understand local market conditions, support their specific aims and objectives, and deliver value adding services and agreements. • Maintain records of documentation concerning contractual agreements and supplier communications within area of responsibility and in accordance with Government guidelines and legislation, monitoring hardware & software licenses and user names, deployment and transfers including mobiles & sims. • Management and approval of procurement requests for IT equipment and consumables, monitoring spend to budget allocation, manage the receipt, storage, distribution, and installation of products ordered.• Review procurement requests against existing hardware stocks and software licenses and re-use where possible to meet technical requirements.• Arranging deliveries and receiving the product on behalf of client and raising call logs for configuration of hardware, loading of software and licence control with the IT Team.• Monitoring the process for products in and out using supplier tracking systems.• Updating assets register of hardware & software licenses and user names, deployment and transfers.

Surrey

Procurement Responsibilities(Hardware/Software/Servers/Networking/Ad hoc - Stationary/Artwork)• Ensuring client procurement policies and guidelines are complied with. • Development of procurement strategies and negotiation practices to deliver hard benefits and efficiencies to the client. • Procure & negotiate best value • Ensuring delivery of contracts to adhere to relevant EU legislation, • Develop co-operative relationships with clients to leverage their expertise, understand local market conditions, support their specific aims and objectives. • Maintain records for contractual agreements and supplier communications in accordance with Government guidelines and legislation, updating assets register (CMDB system), software licenses and user names, weekly project reports for management information • co-ordinate procurement requests for IT equipment and consumables, monitoring spend on budget, the receipt, storage, distribution, and installation of products ordered, re-use where possible to meet technical requirements. • Working with the company legal team to raise /update contracts and the novation contracts. • Negotiating with printers for company artwork and stationary. Finance responsibilities: • Collate and approve the data required for monthly unit based billing, prepare pro forma invoices. Work with project/service management and Technical teams to maintain accurate billing data. • Credit control achieving target results • Meet targets for billing, report and manage the credit and financial recovery database, provide weekly updates for the account management team. • Be the single point of contact for client queries and internal finance team • Preparation of financial forecasts, approval of invoices • Responsible for all facility management issues, ordering & Management of office supplies. • Starters/leavers processes • Collating of Monthly statistics Reports

Middlesex

•A key member of the Finance team, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail when handling the day to day functions of the purchase and sales ledgers, raising billings, handling petty cash and reconciling bank statements, credit control, asset register, budgets, aged debtors report, preparation of the final accounts for inter company.•Utilising comprehensive financial experience to monitor work in progress, assisting in the preparation of management accounts, inter company accounts and balance sheets, also dealing with VAT returns •Effectively monitoring allocated budgets and funding including bursaries and undertaking credit control•Providing useful and practical financial advice to staff and the public face to face and over the telephone•Initiating and implementing a new electronic system for recording inter company accounts from an existing manual system, improving efficiency and introducing structure to the process

After being at the TDA for 3 years in the finance department, I transferred to the Legal Procurement & Contracts Team gaining expertise in this field, Managing the Tendering process from writing the Tender with the policy team to completion of awards and raising the contract (Cradle to Grave), Interviewing the bidding companies, after award then reviewing the contracts, KPI's, Risk Assessment/Mitigation whilst monitoring the budgets and the contractor.

•Initially recruited within the Finance team as an Accounts Manager over a team of 2 staff and transferring after 3 years to the Procurement and Contracts Team as a financial link between both departments. In the Finance team line management of 2 staff - Contracts line management of 1 member of staff.Budget Control, Financial reporting analysis, Treasury, Payroll - Tax & NI of contractors. Legal finance communication & correspondence between government departments.

Systems used: SUN Accounts Package, Excel, Word, Powerpoint.* Work in Finance team of approx 15 staff.* Line Manager to two other members of staff (quarterly appraisals given).* Preparing payments for suppliers and grants for schools* Raising payments by cheques/BACS* Reconciling budget accounts/liasing with other company team meeting to resolve queries and discuss budgets.* Reconciling BACS rejects bank account* Liasing with heads/admin staff at schools by telephone/email/fax* Deductions at Source for Consultants - Sage software* Payroll journals/general journal preparation and entry* Liasing with bank by telephone to discuss and resolve queries* Assisting Manager with any queries that need to be resolved urgently.; London NW5Book-Keeper, reporting to Technical DirectorSystems used: Progression accounts package, Word, Excel. * Management of the cash book - including inputting receipts and payments, cash allocations, preparation of nominal journals and reconciliation to bank statements.* Preparing and entering sales ledger invoices into the system, checking receipts against invoices and reconciling client accounts. * Preparation and input of contra notes.* Withholding tax for overseas inter companies in foreign currency.* Registering purchase ledger invoices out for approval and subsequent input into the system. * Raising cheques and BACS payments, (sterling, Euros, Malaysian ringgit, Thai Baht Australian $ etc). * Checking and reconciling supplier liaising with suppliers regarding queries.* Administration of the monthly payroll for around 40 employees.* Liaising with external accountants, notifying them of any changes.* Collating details of new staff and overtime etc., preparation of redundancy payments.* Preparation and entry of monthly payroll journals. * Control of petty cash, including reconciliation of ledger, and preparation and input of monthly journals.

Treasury Accountant - reporting to Commercial Manager Systems: JBA, SAP, on-line Bank Link* Management and control of all cash book activities including allocations, reconciliation's and banking in sterling and foreign currencies.* Checking supplier statements and resolving any queries, telephone chasing for late payments.* Raising supplier cheques and arranging for priority payments.* Credit control - sterling and foreign currency, (mainly Swiss Francs), including preparation of a spreadsheet for transmission to inter company in Switzerland identifying outstanding debts.* Preparation of invoices using computerised billing /job management techniques, together with order processing and reconciliation of W.I.P.* Liaison with dealers regarding spot or F.E.C. transfers for company investments on the trading money markets.* Initiating new and effective filing and administrative systems, including setting up an Excel spreadsheet to produce regular cash flow forecasts.* Quarterly VAT returns and intrastate VAT.

London W2Work In Progress Supervisor, reporting to Accounts Manager I started as a Work In Progress Clerk, earning promotion to final role within one year.Responsible for the day-to-day control and supervision of the Work In Progress section, ensuring all systems function effectively and deadlines met.Systems Used: IBM computerised system specific duties included: * Resolving sales and purchase ledger queries. * Receiving all purchase orders and liaising with production buyers.* Job costing.* Checking costs and job numbers.* Preparing and checking all sales ledger invoices.* Liaising with account handlers for monthly meetings regarding client billings and sales.* Regular reconciliation of nominal, sales and purchase ledgers on work in progress, including inter-companies.* Preparation of work in progress figures for year end and quarterly analysis sheets for all companies in the group.* Checking of job numbers, expenses and signatures etc.

Media Payables/Production Billing Assistant, reporting to Accounts Mgr.* Reconciling supplier accounts, allocating cash and raising computerised /manual cheques, and foreign/UK bankers drafts.* Preparing and entering journals, resolving billing and supplier invoice queries including liaison with buyers, account handlers and suppliers.* Some cash book duties - returned cheques and reconciliation's etc.Duties later expanded to include all aspects of production billing's included costing jobs, preparing and raising client invoices, budgetary control and calculation of targets. Gained excellent experience of working well to tight deadlines, left when the company relocated.

Involved in all areas of retailing. Greatly enhanced inter-personal and organisational skills, left to pursue career outside of the retail sector.

Bought Ledger Assistant, reporting to Accounts Supervisor