Kevin Drew Email & Phone Number

Derby, United Kingdom

Ascentant Accountancy provide Accountancy services to Small and Medium sized Businesses across the country as well as niche Outsourced Legal Cashiering services to the Legal sector. We work with over 300 Clients across the country providing Accountancy, Tax and Advisory services. We work with over 50 Law Firms, providing bespoke, tailored solutions to Sole.

London, England, United Kingdom

I provide Consultancy services to other Accountancy practices, Law firms and Small Businesses looking for support with day to day requirements, systems development and training. With expertise in automation, workflow management and training, I help firms to streamline processes. I also provide Legal Cashier services, Virtual Finance Director services and.

London, United Kingdom

• Kindleworth help a range of law firms and new entrants to the legal market from specialist niche law firms to national and global law firms. As part of the finance team, I specialise in providing bookkeeping services.
• Development of client accounting policies, client interest policies, travel and expense polices in accordance with SRA and HMRC requirements.
• Development of bespoke training materials and accounting manuals.
• Implementation of a practice management system to support accounting, billing, time recording and reporting requirements.
• Development and implementation of procedures, workflows, accounting forms and templates.
• New entrant advice on regulatory registrations, engagements and considerations.

London, United Kingdom

• Liaison and supervision of European office multicurrency bank reconciliations, outstanding postings and training. Assisting with postings. Assisting with billing, withholding tax and VAT reconciliations
• Reconciliation of supplier deposit accounts with OHIM, WIPO and EPO
• Posting of client chargeable disbursements, expert fees and counsel fees.
• Management and monitoring of residual client account balances.
• Review of client account policies for SAR compliance.
• Production of draft bills, amendments and final bills

London

London, United Kingdom

Temporary assignment with Davenport Lyons

London, United Kingdom

• Assisting with setting up and coordinating the accounting function for the London office.
• Reviewing all policies and procedures for Solicitors Accounts Rules and VAT compliance including client accounting, billing, accounts payable and credit control.
• Developing a breach procedure to identify and capture breaches and reporting processes.
• Drafting and implementing a client account policy, client interest policy, expenses procedures, billing procedures and credit control procedures.
• Reviewing banking arrangements and office funding.
• Cashflow and expense forecasting and budgeting.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for five members of staff in London, undertaking the cashiering/treasury and accounts payable functions of the firm and supporting international members of the finance team.
• Training, appraising and assisting the team in London and overseas.
• Reviewing worldwide cashflow reports and identifying funding issues in overseas offices or transferring surplus funds to London.
• Review of all client account transactions on a monthly basis with the managing partner
• Reviewing and releasing all departmental payments via the firms bankline system including monthly payment runs and ad hoc payments.
• Reviewing prepayments, preparing schedules and posting appropriate journals to release monthly prepayments.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for four members of staff, appraisals, training and assisting.Running exception reports to find SAR breaches and matter imbalances.Receiving, logging, sending for authorisation and posting of purchase ledger invoices and credit notes.Reviewing and changing fee earner expense system - Previous ad hoc payments now processed through purchase.

Various temporary assignments for CMS Cameron McKenna, Denton Wilde Sapte, Bates Wells Braithwaites and Judge Sykes Frixou.

Multi currency bank reconciliations Cash allocation- Funds received by CHAPS/BACS- High volumeOffice and Client account bank reconciliationsPayments- Sending funds by CHAPS/BACS, ensuring monies cleared and payment details (sort code, SWIFT, IBAN) are present.Transfers and journals including client to office transfersIssuing currency advances, managing.

Banking of chequesPosting Disbursements & Courier feesPosting journals and petty cash postingsPosting direct debits to general ledger & journaling to chargeable filesPosting nominal cheque requests and drawing chequesPosting office account cheques and drawing chequesPosting staff expenses and producing chequesManaging purchase ledger- expert fees only.

Diploma, Legal Accounting

Foundation Diploma, Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Association Of Accounting Technicians

O.B, Business Studiesenglish Languageenglish Literatureengineeringdouble Sciencemathematics