John Kavanagh Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

The role involves:- Splitting and allocating ownership of our 4000 accounts- Managing all key and global accounts. When I took these over, I worked through each to bring historic balances up to date and establish standard operating procedures going forward- Assist in setting up formal Credit Control processes and ensuring monthly cash targets are met.

The role involved:- Clearing and reducing a commercial regional ledger of 600 clients with a value of £10 million which was months out of date. I achieved the debtor level target required by our April year end close.- As required, liaising with negotiators and partners on the best approach to specific accounts and with company solicitors with regard to.

London, England, United Kingdom

The role involved:- Clearing the franchise accounts prior to a contract with Starbucks coffee chain ending, including taking actions to tackle the most difficult clients that led to immediate improvements. - Keeping on top of current franchise debt, posting and allocating all cash receipts.- Drilling down into historical data to correct misallocations.

London, England, United Kingdom

As this was a contract role filling for a permanent staff member whose start had been delayed, I had to hit the ground running with very little support, working with departments to reconcile historical ledgers and establish starting points for billing. The role involved:- Raising all monthly sales ledger trade and non-trade invoices.- Reconciling sales.

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

The role involved:- Establishing and running business-focused intensive immersion courses in English for finance and business professionals. - Offering residential courses of between three and ten days duration- Implementing and running the company's billing and aged debtor collection process - Ensuring aged debt was cleared and bad debts escalated where.

London, England, United Kingdom

The role involved:- Preparing monthly cash flow forecast to accurately report on expected cash collection.- Ensuring cash collection targets were met for monthly Airline payment deadline. - Ensuring sales ledger debts were collected in accordance with our credit terms and posting and allocating all cash receipts. As part of this task, I had sole.

London, England, United Kingdom

The role covered a period of transition from Access Accounts to Open Accounts. I had sole responsibility for a project that involved tracking and analysing overall debt, debtor days and forecast receipts during this period.Other responsibilities included:- Ensuring that the monthly cash collections were accurately forecast and achieved- Continually.

London, England, United Kingdom

The role involved- Clearing old balances and working forward to clear more recent debt- Sole responsibility for business ledgers of one division, working through it to highlight persistent problem accounts- Sole responsibility for resolution of long-term debts for another division, where I uncovered erroneous postings and duplications. I then produced.

London, England, United Kingdom

The role involved managing two key projects:o Winding up Mitsubishi's Food department for transfer to new owners, Princes Foods, Rotterdam. This involved reconciling, clearing and purging our accounts, and transferring the agreed balances to Princes Foodso Migration of ledgers from Mitsubishi’s in-house ‘matic’ accounting system to SAP accounting system..

London, England, United Kingdom

During my time in the role, Price Waterhouse merged with Coopers & Lybrand to create PwC. I managed a project to support in the following ways: o Reconciling the transfer of fixed asset data for both companies. This involved reconciling legacy accounts for both companies, ensuring all were up to date and their balances reflected a true and fair value. I.

Aat, Accounting

Leaving Certificate (A-Level Equivalent), Leaving Certificate (A-Level Equivalent)

Accountancy, Mathematics, Economics, English, Irish, History, Technical Drawing.