Flexible and tailored administration services for business owners, working remotely and virtually from my home office in Brockenhurst, New Forest National Park.

Provision of administrative support to facilitate a large and busy Planning team with one direct report. Diary management and PA responsibility to Head of Department. Co-ordinating consultations, issuing of press notices, handling planning application fees, management of public website, fielding complaints and compliments and production of monthly and quarterly national stats.

Accounts duties in team of six at Organon Laboratories Ltd, part of Schering-Plough, global pharmaceutical company. Accountabilities included cash reconciliation, credit control, processing Sales Rep expenses, raising invoices and assisting with payment run.

Busy team of three at Abcam PLC, global pharmaceutical company, directly responsible for the day-to-day workflow of the purchase ledger, ensuring the input of stock invoices via purchase orders and general purchase invoices were timely and accurate. Accountable for supplier payments and picked up tasks of the Chief Accountant when required.

Supervisor to two Sales Ordering Team staff, overseeing the production of a high volume of customer invoices. Company’s turnover of £167 million; over 800,000 invoices raised per annum by running system interfaces as well as manually generated using CODA Financials. Requests individually checked and converted from Sterling into multi currencies specifically Euros and US Dollars. Extensive liaison with service departments in order to preserve consistent data, sustain invoices in an agreed format and manage timetables to ensure that debt was passed to the Credit Control Team for collecting quickly and efficiently.

Key part of the planning and execution of large centralised Accounts Receivable function. Management of new Billing Team of 5 staff with responsibility for raising a total of £40 million per annum, 30,000 sundry debtor invoices Council-wide. Close working relationship with Debt Recovery Team improving efficiency and radically reducing bad debt levels. Dealing with disputes of a large and varied customer group. Extensive practical experience of Oracle Financials, CODA Financials, SAGE and Citrix.

Key administrative duties at Barnardo's, The Knotley Project. General office functions, processing invoices, monitoring sick leave, typing reports, memos and minutes, answering phone calls and dealing with confidential client records.

'Industrial Placement' assisting in all Human Resources functions.

Administrative practices in support of processing individual visa applications.