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Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

Remote

• Proactively oversee full-cycle accounts receivables and payables for the US division of Healios.• Spearheaded the US expense system change to Spendesk, saving time and money.• Skilfully prepare accurate month-end journals, encompassing accruals, prepayments, and intercompany adjustments• Efficiently process bi-weekly payroll using ADP Run software and collaborating with People Operations Director on changes and improving processes.• Foster close collaboration with the CFO and SVP US Operations, facilitating the delivery of weekly and monthly financial reports for CEO and board presentations.• Analyse and provide essential data on unit economics, empowering the CEO with informed decision-making.

Responsibilities:• Accountable for designing, monitoring, and maintaining the financial control framework and reconciliation process for the balance sheet, control accounts, and bank accounts. • Process adjustments, accruals, and prepayments, ensuring timely relevance in the month and year-end timetable.• Reporting Non-Compliance and control failures to the Corporate Reporting Manager, leading to changes in procedure and lowering the risk to the company.• Support internal and external audit teams in reviewing key controls. • Implement automation in the reconciliation process, streamlining accessibility for stakeholders.

• Successfully reconciled complex accounts with large unallocated transactions by liaising with debtors and business finance analysts • Provided valuable assistance to the accounts receivables team with queries and reconciliations.• Offered cover for the Central finance team based on previous experience.• Assisted with other project work and contributed to year-end reporting for external audit.

Yaxley

• Led the consolidation of weekly flash reporting and KPIs, providing essential data for board meetings. • Supported budgeting, forecasting, and business planning processes with quick adjustments for multiple scenarios. • Ensured timely updating of monthly reports to reflect changes in the business and stakeholders. • Prepared comprehensive written reports on internal audit for risk reduction and process improvement. • Provided financial data review and insights for finance and non-finance teams.

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Designed, monitored, and maintained the financial control framework and reconciliation process for the balance sheet, control accounts, and bank accounts. • Identified non-compliance and control failures, leading to procedural changes and risk reduction. • Processed adjustments, accruals, prepayments, and intercompany journals accurately and timely. • Spearheaded the transition to a computer-based reconciliation process, resulting in time and cost savings. Key achievements:• Changed the reconciliation process to be completely computer based using spreadsheets rather than printed paper• Completely reconciled the balance sheet accounts ( Some accounts went back to 2015)• Lead on a project to create a new authorisation framework spreadsheet for Accounts payable• Set up new processes for the expense system reconciliations• Training and mentoring my colleague into this role

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Provided analytical review on income and expenditure to service managers. • Conducted internal audits on 'People we support' funds and reported findings to the Business Partner and Area Managers. • Facilitated training sessions for new service managers on finance systems and budgeting. • Assisted Service managers and Area Operation managers in decision-making and budgeting. • Played a key role in resolving complex funding issues for the Accounts Receivable team.Key Achievements:• Given an additional area to look after to help out the Senior BFA (from 4 to 5)• Involved in the Tendering process with one of the councils I looked after• Reduced the time taken in the budget process when liaising with Area managers• Provided refresher finance training to 6 Service managers in two days for a new area This was a great role for learning more about the support that Mencap provides to the people we support. I was in contact with a lot of Service managers and I had to provide a lot of financial information to non-financial staff. This involved great communication skills and really enjoyed going into a service and speaking to staff and the people we support face to face.

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Responsibilities: • Efficiently managed debt collection and resolved queries while achieving 0% debt over 90 days within a year. • Handled Bacs and cheque payment processing and allocation against invoices. • Conducted account reconciliations and provided support for complex funding queries. • Introduced a monthly debt chasing figures template to enhance team efficiency.Key Achievements:I started this role a temp and then was offered a role permanently. In my first year I achieved 0% debt over 90 days for all of my accounts and was the first to do it in the team. I helped introduce proper monthly debt chasing figures with my manager.

Responsibilities:• Running the payment run• Raise the cheques and Bacs Payments• Assisting in Cash flow forecasting• Entering Supplier invoices• Banking Cheques received• Managing the Accounts department• Assisting with the payroll process• Reconciling the Petty cash• Bank Reconciliations• Ad Hoc work

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Aat, Accounting

Level 2 & 3 Diploma Pathway AAT

A Levels

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