Karam Baraka Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

• Produce monthly and quarterly financial management accounts to the board and the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), these include monthly management accounts, cashflows, budgeting and forecasting. • Managing all aspects of the college’s financial systems in accordance with the policies.• Undertook finance procedures and budget reforecasting to alleviate the feasibility of the relocation to the main new building. • Processing regular financial activities, such as, VAT returns, managing payroll, AR & AP, bookkeeping and processing journals on Xero, and distribution of bursaries in accordance with DfE and EFA requirement • Support and provide information as required for the annual statutory internal and external audits on financial procedures.• Tasked with conducting monthly bank reconciliations, ensuring precise and punctual reconciliation for each bank. Additionally, I shoulder the responsibility of reconciling petty cash, cash cards, and credit cards across all locations, meeting the specified timeframe for this process.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for undertaking account receivable tasks, invoicing councils on a weekly and 4 weekly terms, this aims to ensure payments are made accurately. • Overlooking purchase & sales ledgers, petty cash & staff expense postings and reconciliations of over 20 branches. • Undertaking credit control procedures to ensure payments are made accordingly, clearing 25% of the assigned councils accounts since taking over. • Updating daily transactions onto ledgers including remittance payments, therefore reconcile accounts on Sage 50. • Work with councils and branches on outstanding amounts to ensure evidence corroborate invoices, therefore payments are made in full.My duties extend to completing monthly bank reconciliations, ensuring accurate and timely reconciliation for all banks. I am also responsible for petty cash and credit card reconciliation, reconciling petty cash, cash cards, and credit cards for all locations within the designated timeframe.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Acca Part Qualified

- Taxation - Financial Reporting - Management Accounting - Financial Management - Performance Management - Corporate and Business Law.

Master Of Science - Msc, International Business Management, Distinction

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Accounting And Finance