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Ayr, Scotland, United Kingdom

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

- Entered all accounting transactions into QuickBooks. - Prepared weekly & monthly sales invoices.- Conducted regular account reconciliations for nominal ledger, purchase ledger & sales ledger.- Improved cash collection by introducing strong credit control procedures.

Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Improved cash collection by introducing strong credit control procedures. • Prepared detailed year-end files enabling audits to run smoothly.• Supervised a 140 person weekly payroll.• Successfully negotiated a VAT inspection through preparing accurate quarterly returns.• Ensured potential customers and sub-contractors are checked using due diligence.• Controlled set up of new users and permissions on the company's ERP system: Evolution M.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Improved sales ledger/aged debt reporting to increase debt recovery.• Devised a HP reporting system to correctly document and process payments. • Introduced a fixed asset register giving much needed clarity to the asset position.

Irvine, North Ayrshire, United Kingdom

Duties & Achievements:• Published an accurate & detailed Monthly Accounts Pack within 6 working days of month-end. • Produced strong year-end file and helped cut published accounts queries to a bare minimum.• Aided cash management with highly reliable and detailed 13 week cash flow forecasts.• Introduced and set up from scratch the Sage Payroll package for monthly salaries.• Managed the finance assistant and helped successfully develop her role, especially in payroll.• Paid all suppliers on time by creating a solid weekly payment run process.• Established strong links with stakeholders such as: banks, suppliers & pension providers.• Implemented a reliable monthly reporting system for a chain of 7 retail stores.

Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom

Main duties included VAT returns, budgeting, payroll and monthly reporting.Clients: I worked for several businesses in the Dumfries area: a veterinary chemist, 3 pharmacies, a public house, an ice cream factory and a property company, I also did some project work for the local health trust in summer 1996 involving management costs analysis.

Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom

Main duties included tariff costing, budgeting, variance analysis and annual accounts.

Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom

Main duties included stocktaking, goods ordering, goods delivery and stock input.

Annan, Scotland, United Kingdom

Main duties included monthly accounts, stocktaking and variance analysis.

Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom

Main duties included bank reconciliations, VAT returns and sales invoicing.

Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom

Prepared accounts for mainly sole traders and partnerships in a chartered accountancy practice during my College vacations.

Postgraduate Diploma, In Management, Pass

Activities and Societies: Golf: Scottish Colleges Championship, handicap winner 1991

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), In Accounting, Pass

Activities and Societies: Football, Badminton, Squash & Table Tennis Subjects studied: Financial Accounting, Management Accounting.

Secondary Education, Mathematics, Arithmetic, English, Physics, Accounting, French, Geography, Statistics & Economics, 1 X Csys (C), 6 X Higher Grades (Aabbcc), 8 X Ordinary Grades (Aaaaaabc)

Activities and Societies: Badminton, Cricket & Chess

Secondary Education, Mathematics, Arithmetic, English, Geography, History, French, Science & Benchwork Drawing

Activities and Societies: Football, Cricket, Chess & Badminton

Primary Education

Activities and Societies: Football: captain of school team and member of district select team, Chess