Assisting the Head of Finance with monthly management, intercompany & financial statements, maintaining & processing purchase ledger systems, raising sales ledger invoices, nominal ledger administration, monthly credit control, monthly CIS & VAT returns, regular reconciliation of the cashbook, petty cash, and balance sheet. Management of the fixed asset register accounting. Liaising with the commercial and social teams regularly, with regards to expenditure and variances against budgets. Value engineering and purchasing of materials for construction and refurbishment works, analysing supplier spend inline with company procurement procedures. Providing 1st technical support for the organisation IT infrastructure and recommendations on upgrading said infrastructure.

Deputised for the operations director in his absence on operational duties for Crest Cooperative, I was responsible for the day to day health and safety of the organisation and compliance for the organisation. I was also responsible for the IT of the organisation and all the vehicles in organisation arranging MOT’s, servicing and any repairs for all the vehicles, reporting to the board of directors quarterly and the senior management team weekly, liaising with wholesale customers for their white goods needs. Reporting to WEEE compliance schemes monthly and enforcement bodies’ quarterly, attending weekly and monthly meetings with senior managers and clients. Supervising community payback and community work placements on a day to day basis, including allocating work, performance reviews and reporting to the relevant parent organisation. Ran the day to day operations of the first third sector textile exporting centre in Wales, making sure targets are met on time in line with exporting dates, arranging container shipping to Western Africa countries and Pakistan, making sure all textiles in, are of a good quality and liaising with both suppliers in the UK and buyers abroad, ordering consumables for machinery, arranging maintenance of the machinery, reporting on a daily and weekly basis to the senior management team. Line management of thirteen full-time staff and up to ten work programme placements daily, performing performance appraisal every six months for core staff and monthly for those on a work programme. Project managed the relocation of the reuse hub including making sure the refit was completed on time and to budget.n

Weighbridge - Making sure the weighbridge was always ready for use by trade customers, entering customer details into the bespoke software, with the type of waste they disposed and weight, to generate the waste transfer note and the amount to pay either by cash sale or account depending on the customer.Trade Waste - Planning the daily runs for trade waste team along with invoicing the collections and tasked with generating new business for the trade waste collection.Transport - Planning the daily runs for the skip drivers, printing out their tickets for delivery, exchange and collection of skips, downloading both the tacograph cards and machines on alternate weeks to make sure that the drivers do not exceed the regulations set down by the government.

Sales - Dealing with customers with queries and selling reclaimed timber and garden furniture. Cutting timbers to customer sizes as part of the workshop team.IT - Troubleshooting network issues, installing software.

Serving customers, cash handling, cashing up, housekeeping, cellar work, opening and closing the bar as well as stocking up, stock taking and ordering stock.

Accounts - Payroll, Purchase ledger, sales ledger, Nominal ledger, Credit control, VAT, Banking and reconciliation, petty cash and expenses, depreciation, fixed asset register and management accounts.IT - General IT backup including software and hardware installation, maintenance and Microsoft office training.ISO 9001:2000 - Implementation of an ISO 9001 quality management system from start to accreditation.Office Management - Administration from filing and typing letters to arrange insurance and remedial works, purchasing.Graphics Design Management - Producing quotations for customers and clients and planning the workload for the graphic designers, marketing.

Accounts - Payroll, purchase ledger, sales ledger, credit control, VAT, banking and reconciliation, petty cash and expenses, controlling workload of two accounts clerks, cash flow.IT - All information technology problems as and when they arose as well as CAT 5 cabling, new installs of computers, laptops and printers, preventive maintenance of existing equipment and training staff with the software used by the company whether it be off the shelf software or bespoke software of the company. I also designed, programmed and maintained a bespoke database to meet the strict code of practices and regulations of the railway industry.Office Management & Purchasing - Office management duties including the organisation of work load for the office clerks.

General office and customer service duties including, chasing customer orders with head office, filing faxing and answering the phone, stock taking, booking in stock on a SMART & SAP system, booking customer fittings and dealing with customer complaints as well as working on the shop floor selling the products and advising customers on the best products for their needs and budget.

Purchase ledger clerk checking good received notes and purchase orders against invoices, making sure no duplications of invoices, and dealing with supplier account queries as and when they arose on my particular accounts, raising any problems or in correct invoices with the supplier. I also dealt with IT problems with various operating systems, severs and over two locations.

I started as an office junior straight from school and progressed, my duties included, filing, photocopying, faxing, arranging staff cover for annual leave and sickness, legal aid claims, client costing, credit control and arranging repayment terms of overdue accounts. I also implemented and maintained a new IT system from the ground up installing of the network and end user support over three locations.