John Mcglynn Email & Phone Number

Wellington, New Zealand

London, England, United Kingdom

• Provided systems support for finance system (QLF), housing management system (QLH), purchase ordering system (Compleat), service charge system (Ensemble), HR and payroll system (Civica) and MS Access and SQL reporting• Operated as bridge between Finance and IT• Maintain good working relationship with all software partners: Aareon, Compleat, MRI, Civica • Upgraded Purchase ordering system to e-Invoicing platform• Performed annual upgrade of HR and Payroll system• Writing Advanced SQL Queries Training certificate: Awarded with Distinction• PRINCE2® Foundation Certificate in Project Management: Pass

London, United Kingdom

• Provided system support to finance team by resolving system issues with Sage 50 and Clarity• Liaised with software provider to implement system changes• Designed SQL queries to extract information from the system• Responsible for the transitioning of sales invoices from the supply chain to the finance department• Documented end to end high level processes to assist with new ERP system implementation• Redesigned cost of sales and stock recognition process• Assisted with the catch up of 7 months of management accounts• Processed back log of 10 months in bank reconciliations

London, United Kingdom

• Provided system support to finance team by implementing system changes, maintaining the general ledger, creating new companies and becoming the go-to person for system enhancements.• Managed the transition from Quickbooks and Xero accounting systems to MS Dynamics NAV 2009.• Performed monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations for Singapore and Australian companies which included preparing quarterly GST returns.• Supplied accounting assistance to finance department by carrying out various accounting tasks from posting year end journals to creating manual sales invoices.

London, United Kingdom

Feb 2013 – Nov 2015 Full-Time Management Accountant, London Executive Offices Limited, London, UKSenior Accounts Payable Administrator, Executive Offices Group Limited, London, UKProgressed from Senior Accounts Payable Administrator to Management Accountant. Developed role from being responsible for the purchase ledger to producing the management accounts. Earned a reputation for dedication, flexibility and positive work ethic; retained throughout major organisational restructuring after company was acquired by private equity firm.• Responsible for preparing monthly management accounts for Finance Controller to review. Review Trial balance and post correcting journals. Process prepayments, adjustments and accruals. • Perform monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations. • Maintain fixed asset schedule, post depreciation and reconcile back to fixed asset register.• Responsible for administering company credit cards.Achievements:• Project lead for Purchase invoice scanning project, responsible for the development and implementation of the scanning of suppler invoices. Designed training manuals and delivered face to face training to end users.• Assisted with the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, completed UAT and guided the design of the finance system. • Super user on Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Responsible for setting up users and maintaining permissions, the general ledger and the finance functionality.

London, United Kingdom

• Managing a variety of Accounts Payable duties with minimal supervision; daily international transfers, weekly BACS payments, employee expenses, supplier queries and monitoring AP email address.Achievements:• Capable user of Oracle and PeopleSoft accounting packages.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for making daily international transfers in a variety of currencies and weekly BACS/CHAPS payments.Coding and entering invoices into Oracle accounting package.Handling accounts payable queries and monitoring AP email address.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Administering of invoice payment process including coding of invoices, data entry into the creditors ledger and filing of source documents.Arranging timely payment runs including international, weekly and 20th of the month, and owning the reconciliation of creditors statements.Demonstrating a high level of attention to detail whilst maintaining the online credit card system.Achievements:Was the driving force for moving paper-based activity on-line, making the department more efficient and reducing manual input. This included the successful implementation of an online credit card reporting system, and organising for Remittance Advices to be emailed to suppliers.Accomplished user of SAP accounting software for creditors' ledger. Covered for team members in their absence including calculating and arranging payment of Inland Revenue Duty fees and providing support and backup to Prize Payment Officer.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Handling General Insurance enquiries from payment queries to explaining insurance cover.Demonstrating excellent customer service and processing amendments to tailor insurance cover to better suit the customers' needs, including ways to reduce their premium where possible.Adept in communication skills, lodging claims during busy periods and after-hours and the ability to show compassion at a stressful time.Achievements:Consistently achieved on call quality by looking for ways to add-value whilst maintaining my adherence and availability scores at high-volume inbound call centre.

London, United Kingdom

Reporting to the Service Financial Manager and Service Financial Controller, responsible for the cost reporting of the Service Labour and Machines-in-Field for Xerox UK.Accurate and timely reporting of the financial data, post month-end journals, accruals and deferrals.Responsible for identifying trends and anomalies in the financial numbers.Perform monthly Balance Sheet reconciliation for dealer royalties.Achievements:Produced monthly cost reports for non-financial managers and collate monthly service finance pack.Enhanced MS Excel skills through use of V-lookups to interrogate large Trial Balance data sets and utilised pivot tables to summarise financial data into a useful format.

London, United Kingdom

Manage Lease contracts principally dealing with termination - required strict attention to detail.Hold customers to their contractual obligations and liaise with Credit Control about payments.Answer contract queries retrieving information from customer's accounts. Acquired professional telephone manner and a proactive attitude to dealing with enquiries.Raise invoices for early settlement of finance contracts. Involves checking the customer's ledger and communicating with the Treasury and cheque-processing departments. Achievements:Pro-actively learnt aspects of other job roles to help colleagues through busy periods.Responsible for the implementation of the Lease Termination email address.

London, United Kingdom

Involved in the transition of data to a new system. Contributed to removing a substantial backlog of invoices.

Master'S Degree, Accounting, Member

B.Sc. Hons, Finance; Accounting

Financial Accounting - Taxation - Accounting for Decision Making - Corporate Investment - Financial Theory and Corporate Policy - Auditing.

Education record

Economics- B - Psychology- C - Mathematics- C

Education record

Ten A - C GCSEs including Mathematics and English at Grade B