Promoted from bookkeeper & operations manager to management accounts & operations manager, within the same organisation

Finance management: Handling all daily book-keeping duties & month end management accounts for UK company. Handling all invoicing for both UK & DACH regions. Posting deferred revenue schedules for annual subscription based & services revenue, calculating monthly accrual for recharge licensing & corporation tax liabilities, posting payroll journals, and handling payment of net wages to staff, paying bills & applying incoming customer payments to open invoices in Xero & Sage Intacct, reconciling payroll accounts & multiple bank accounts across multiple currencies. Quarterly VAT return submission, payment of PAYE taxes & pension schedule submissions. Managing audit requests from third party accountant to close year end annually. Ensuring that financial data matches across 2 accounting systems and the sales orders in the company website.Operations: Assisting the financial controller with transitioning to a new ERP system from an in-house bespoke solution that the global company is outgrowing, streamlining workflow on billing, liaising with the ERP implementors on company needs to see through the systems transition. Comparison of VAT returns between systems to ensure new system is producing the same numbers as Xero. Working to bring DACH full finance in-house, like I have for UK finance operations throughout 2023. Calculating commission for account managers for payroll purposes, based on existing ARR of each account.

Full charge book keeping & financial analysis for a successful SME, managing financials for on site sales as well as multiple e-commerce sources. Managing VAT returns and entering payroll & PAYE / NI contributions journals based on payroll information from 3rd party payroll accountant.Streamlining & automating processes with the sales & IT team for better general accounting & day to day book keeping practices.Reconciling PayPal, Stripe, multiple card merchant IDs, Sagepay, eBay managed pay & shop cash sales deposits, and all accounts payable to the bank account monthly. Managing monthly payables to vendors with managing director. Streamlining inventory in Dynamics with base / sales units of measure & vendor cross reference IDs for easier input of vendor invoice purchase lines.Assisting the company accountants with 2 year end closes & posting the necessary journals to close the financial years.

Managed all aspects of financials for a growing e-commerce start-up, specialising in physical music sales. Handled all accounts payable & receivable, importing revenue data from paypal, ebay managed pay & other sources to Quickbooks. Monthly account reconiliations, bank & paypal reconciliations across multiple currencies, quarterly VAT returns & PAYE / NI submissions, payroll journal entries, accruals & assisted the accountants with year end closing, corporation taxes & R&D tax credit claim.Procurement of new supply chains, during COVID-19 closures, resulting in sourcing some of our key distribution sources. Handling contracts and managing credit limits. Daily maintenance of online inventory database for stock levels from up to 20 major & independent distributors, dropshippers & wholesalers.

Freelance book keeping & financial analysis for select clients in the Greater Seattle metropolitan area.

- BookkeepingHandling accounts payable & accounts receivable within QuickBooks. Entering credit card transactions into QuickBooks from IATS merchant services website. Weekly bank deposits. Reconciling multiple bank accounts & credit cards. Assisting the executive director with financial reporting needs & cash flow reporting.Bi-weekly employee payroll processing & reimbursement of employee expenses.Processing medical billing on a weekly basis to be issued to insurance providers for payment, based on 15 minute increments of care provided.

- I.T. Procurement: Management of Information Technology Division work orders within 360 Facility application & maintaining spreadsheets to reflect current status of completion or approval. Entering requisition information from Project Management within Oracle Enterprise One for review & approval from the contracts team. Researching online sources for product pricing and availability. Placing orders with vendors for hardware or software requisitions once POs issued & contract approved at all required management levels.Monitoring database of expiration dates for software licenses, and where applicable, prompting Project or Division Management to submit requisitions for updates prior to license expiration. - Finance: Management of redirection and approval of receivers back to Project Management, against vendor invoices received. Entering receivers in Oracle Enterprise One for management approval & submitting approved hard copy receivers to Accounts Payable for payment. Setting up Blanket Purchase Orders in Oracle Enterprise One, and entering Blanket Releases against existing POs. Reporting balance remaining to Project Management with submission of receivers for items received.Creating Divisional Purchase Orders for small purchases in Oracle and managing approval path for Credit Card payments.- Inventory: Maintained database of Agency-Wide Mobile Devices and reconciliation of fair usage policy forms, signed & received upon issue of new or upgraded devices.

- Accounts Payable & Receivable for small business and the non-profit for which they handle administration, Northwest Energy Efficiency Council (NEEC), including monthly inter-company billing, monitoring & chasing payment of outstanding customer AR, bi-weekly bill payments to vendors, tracking student tuition payments & allocating them to student accounts in CVENT. Downloading credit card payment information from CVENT on a monthly basis and importing payment information to quick books. Banking, handling deposits & monthly account reconciliations. Tracking company credit card receipts and entering them in quick books.- State & federal tax reporting on a monthly & quarterly basis for both companies including DOR taxes, L&I taxes & BIA taxes, quarterly federal grant reporting to the DOE, Handling W-9 & other compliance requests from vendors or customers.- Program Administration for various projects handled by the non-profit (NEEC) including marketing list creation & maintenance of mailing lists, grading Building Operator Certification (BOC) student examinations & uploading test scores to the online database, quarterly billing to various utility companies who sponsor the BOC program on a quarterly basis, based on class completion & site visits to BOC classes and other projects administered by NEEC.- Office Management, Processing payroll & Employee reimbursements on a monthly basis, Distribution of weekly office staff schedules, Coordinating meetings, Handling new hire paperwork for health benefits, ORCA cards & SIMPLE contributions, Ordering office supplies when needed, Preparation of board meeting materials, distributing incoming mail & managing finance files.

- Accounts Payable & Receivable for small business and the non-profit for which they handle administration, Northwest Energy Efficiency Council (NEEC), including monthly inter-company billing, monitoring & chasing payment of outstanding customer AR, bi-weekly bill payments to vendors, tracking student tuition payments & allocating them to student accounts in CVENT. Downloading credit card payment information from CVENT on a monthly basis and importing payment information to quick books. Banking, handling deposits & monthly account reconciliations. Tracking company credit card receipts and entering them in quick books.- State & federal tax reporting on a monthly & quarterly basis for both companies including DOR taxes, L&I taxes & BIA taxes, quarterly federal grant reporting to the DOE, Handling W-9 & other compliance requests from vendors or customers.- Program Administration for various projects handled by the non-profit (NEEC) including marketing list creation & maintenance of mailing lists, grading Building Operator Certification (BOC) student examinations & uploading test scores to the online database, quarterly billing to various utility companies who sponsor the BOC program on a quarterly basis, based on class completion & site visits to BOC classes and other projects administered by NEEC.- Office Management, Processing payroll & Employee reimbursements on a monthly basis, Distribution of weekly office staff schedules, Coordinating meetings, Handling new hire paperwork for health benefits, ORCA cards & SIMPLE contributions, Ordering office supplies when needed, Preparation of board meeting materials, distributing incoming mail & managing finance files.

Booking international artists through talent agencies, booking local support acts, promotion of events on social media & via street team, on-site sound engineering, performing as resident artist, co-ordination of promotional materials with creative team, for the United States longest running weekly event for drum & bass music.

Telephone customer service assisting BT customers with billing inquiries & tech support issues over the phone in a busy call center environment.Meeting stringent calls per hour & sales targets, adhering to training guidelines & matching customers to the best possible packages for their requirements.Upselling & upgrading customer packages including high speed internet, television & telephone package deals & customer retention when necessary.Assisting customers with instruction on setup of technology for use of new & upgraded packages. Temporary position while saving to move back to the United States to reunite with family.

- Primary duties included processing customer payments via a secure payment system & Reconciling all external GRNI Accounts & multiple Bank Accounts monthly. Journalized month end adjustments for various accounts.- Assisted Management Accountant with month & year-end reporting including Balance Sheet, P&L, Audit preparation and monthly, quarterly & annual fiscal period end reporting. - Maintained customer, vendor, class, expense & item account lists & databases. Provided cross functional support to the Accounts Payable & Receivable teams when needed. - Extensive MS Excel use of pivot tables, v-lookups & add-ins for linking data to in-house ledger system.- Temporary position, initially working away from home in Slough at a location that was to be imminently closed down, in order to bring the knowledge of their working systems & procedures to head office in Tonbridge, Kent after different branches of the business were merged together into one location

- Primary finance duties included General Ledger journal entries, recording of Cash Deposits, Bank Reconciliation, & Accounts Payable Accrual. - Allocation of unidentified payments to correct accounts, billed clinics for Pre-Paid Expenses, generation of month-end Financial Reports to management & DOH. - Maintained contract & agreement database. Set up new Cost Centers & Account Codes for the General Ledger.

I initially began working as a customer service representative / liaison between the local council's departments of housing & education and the various construction contractors assigned to building technical services contracts within the borough.I was trained on the job in finance & transferred to the finance team as an entry level accounting assistant, tracking projects by phases completed & paying contractor invoices accordingly.I left the position in 2004, when immigrating to the United States