Ken Grundy Email & Phone Number

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

• General bookkeeping and accounts duties using Sage 50.• Preparing monthly outstanding suppliers list to ensure that all invoices are authorised and ready for payment.• Liaising with factoring bank and posting daily transactions.• Dealing with day-to-day accounts administration.• Providing assistance with purchases and sales ledgers.• Processing purchase orders and staff expense claims.• Chasing debts.

Watford, United Kingdom

Assisting firstly the Outpatient Clinic Preparation Team, then the Antenatal Department and most recently the Oral Surgery Office at Watford General Hospital with administration of health records for the well-being of patients. The role included retrieving patients' notes from the Health Records Libraries and various offices as well as preparing notes for clinics with reference to the NHS Trust's Clinicom Patient Administration System and, in the Antenatal Department, the Ciconia Maternity… Show more Assisting firstly the Outpatient Clinic Preparation Team, then the Antenatal Department and most recently the Oral Surgery Office at Watford General Hospital with administration of health records for the well-being of patients. The role included retrieving patients' notes from the Health Records Libraries and various offices as well as preparing notes for clinics with reference to the NHS Trust's Clinicom Patient Administration System and, in the Antenatal Department, the Ciconia Maternity Information System (CMIS). I also trained new Antenatal Department staff in procedures. Show less

Watford, Hertfordshire

• Setting up and maintaining employee and client records.• Interviewing prospective staff and taking up references for them.• Visiting potential clients in their homes to ascertain their care needs.• Conducting risk assessments and administering staff training.• Completing tender documentation and keeping policies & procedures up to date.• Checking timesheets, compiling payroll data, invoicing clients, reconciling accounts, chasing debts, bookkeeping using Sage Instant… Show more • Setting up and maintaining employee and client records.• Interviewing prospective staff and taking up references for them.• Visiting potential clients in their homes to ascertain their care needs.• Conducting risk assessments and administering staff training.• Completing tender documentation and keeping policies & procedures up to date.• Checking timesheets, compiling payroll data, invoicing clients, reconciling accounts, chasing debts, bookkeeping using Sage Instant Accounts 2012.• Responding to queries by email, letter and telephone. Show less

Watford, Hertfordshire

• Maternity cover contributing to the administration of schemes which supply surveys and advice to over 1,300 participating national and international Haematology and Blood Transfusion laboratories, working under direction but with minimal day-to-day supervision within agreed policies and procedures, to tight deadlines• Maintaining administrative systems and processes needed for the registration, de-registration, re-registration and invoicing of participants in liaison with scientific and… Show more • Maternity cover contributing to the administration of schemes which supply surveys and advice to over 1,300 participating national and international Haematology and Blood Transfusion laboratories, working under direction but with minimal day-to-day supervision within agreed policies and procedures, to tight deadlines• Maintaining administrative systems and processes needed for the registration, de-registration, re-registration and invoicing of participants in liaison with scientific and managerial staff as appropriate• Preparing accurate invoicing data (including VAT) then producing invoices for UK and non-UK participants and distribution agents using the Pegasus Opera II accounting package• Resolving participants’ written and verbal enquiries concerning re-registration and invoicing in a sensitive and professional manner, referring to other members of staff where necessary• Giving support, direction and advice to less experienced staff Show less

London, United Kingdom

(Initially as an associate then on staff from November 2006)• Developing and enforcing the company’s quality procedures and updating the Quality Manual• Proof reading and editing proposals, specifications, presentations, tender documents and internal reports to ensure the quality of documentation• Ensuring consistency between sections of pre-contract documents so that a single, professional style was achieved• Ensuring that documents had authorisation by all relevant… Show more (Initially as an associate then on staff from November 2006)• Developing and enforcing the company’s quality procedures and updating the Quality Manual• Proof reading and editing proposals, specifications, presentations, tender documents and internal reports to ensure the quality of documentation• Ensuring consistency between sections of pre-contract documents so that a single, professional style was achieved• Ensuring that documents had authorisation by all relevant personnel before being issued to clients• Auditing documentation stored on the company’s server to ensure completeness and compliance with company standards• Gathering data for and writing case studies, ensuring that up-to-date examples existed for all of the company’s services in all sectors• Liaising with clients and Client Managers to convert appropriate company projects into Demonstration Projects• Leading Key Client Management meetings• Conducting Client Satisfaction Surveys and managing a process for improving scores, setting targets and monitoring their attainment by staff• Assisting with the preparation of Pre-Qualification Questionnaires and Invitations to Tender Show less

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Credit control, allocating and reconciling payments received, checking data for discrepancies, resolving customer account queries, preparing and issuing monthly customer account statements, disbursing commission payments to brokers, maintaining the filing system, sorting incoming post, banking duties.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Various projects including marketing discounted electrical goods and promoting computer consumables; I struggled so sought secure employment.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

(Mar 1999 – May 1999 on temporary contract with Accent Employment Services Ltd, then May 1999 – Dec 2001 on permanent contract)• Managing the preparation of financial data and controlling the accounting processes required to generate the financial and management accounts• Preparing variance reports (actual to budget)• Assisting managers in the production of annual budget data• Presenting financial information internally and to purchasers of the Society’s… Show more (Mar 1999 – May 1999 on temporary contract with Accent Employment Services Ltd, then May 1999 – Dec 2001 on permanent contract)• Managing the preparation of financial data and controlling the accounting processes required to generate the financial and management accounts• Preparing variance reports (actual to budget)• Assisting managers in the production of annual budget data• Presenting financial information internally and to purchasers of the Society’s services• Extracting information required for annual and monthly accounts, including accruals and deferments• Making journal entries to move financial data between cost centres• Maintaining control schedules and debtor analyses using Excel and the Epicor accounting system• Reconciling bank accounts, rent reports and petty cash returns to the computerised accounting records• Supervising the Assistant Finance Officer and temporary staff in checking finance returns, inputting this information to the accounting system, maintaining the cashbooks, producing invoices to funders and the processing and payment of purchase invoices Show less

National Vocational Qualification Level 2 In Business Administration (Financial Route), Nvq Level 2

City & Guilds Certificate In Technical Communication Techniques, Credit

Eston Diploma In Software Support Documentation, Credit

Ordinary National Diploma In Technology (Engineering), A-A-C

O-Levels: English Language, Physics, Biology, Geography, A, B, C, E

Cses: English (Language, Literature & Oral), Physics, Biology, Mathematics, Geography, Art, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3