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London, England, United Kingdom

• Berkmann Wine Cellars was founded in 1964 and have established themselves as the one of the UK’s largest wine importers with a projected turnover of £90mil in the last financial year.Responsibilities:
• Head a team of five credit controllers, responsible for the full company ledgers
• Assist with the implementation of NAV, adding key developments to suit the businesses needs. Directly involved with the data cleansing and uploading. I am still a key Super User for the company
• Directly managing key Off-Trade accounts such as Waitrose, Majestic, Tesco, Sainsburys, M&S and some large On-Trade accounts such as Youngs, Brakspear, Soho House, Caprice and Everyman Cinema’s
• Produced the monthly executive reporting pack, including key finance KPI’s and collections performance reporting
• Identify flaws in upstream processes leading to disputes and communicating with department heads to find a resolution

London, England, United Kingdom

• From playing on the park on a Sunday and snowballing into the UK’s fastest growing Hockey Club, CCHC was created seeing a gap in a market in which a sport is considered elitest. With no assets and in an area in which.
• Arrange all bookings for pitches and events and subsequently arranging all fixtures for the clubs 16 teams.
• Running costing models based and cash forecasts on membership intake. Analysing the income and expenditure, assessing area’s in which savings could be made to improve margins.
• Arranging monthly payment runs with suppliers
• Creating payment systems for our membership base and chasing payments for unpaid bills
• Reconciling the clubs ledgers and bank accounts, providing yearly accounts to our external accountants.Achievements:

London, England, United Kingdom

• Liberty Wines up-and-coming wine wholesaler with an excellent reputation. The company was expanding fast at the time I started, having purchased a new office/warehouse facility in the centre of London, with their.
• Manager a team of two credit controllers, responsible for collections on both their UK and Irish ledgers.
• Reporting to board level monthly statistics on cash collections, account openings, aged debt and concern accounts, whilst detailing and updating provisions to cover potential risk
• Assisting with the continued development of NAV and assisted with the movement of financial data from our old systems.
• Managing customer credit checking and ongoing risk assessment and sales order approvals.
• Assisting with the sales ledger merge with Sogrape UK and assisting with their credit control whilst the company is being wound down. Achievements:

Brewery Road, London, N7 9NH

• This was my first job after moving to London and my first term of employment at Berkmann Wine Cellars.Responsibilities:
• Core Credit Controller responsibilities. In a team of three, I was second to the Credit Control Manager
• I manage over 800 accounts for the Off-Trade, London and Chippenham depots and oversee collections for the Vinoceros and Spirit Cartel brands. Turnover for my portfolio was over £30m in the last financial year.
• Ensure the team’s monthly cash collections always exceeds the forecast target set by accounts payable.
• Supply sales managers/directors, financial and statistical information as well as comparing monthly and yearly sales and collection performances. Achievements:
• As I progressed into a key member of the team, I was given further responsibilities such as risk assessments, overseeing CVA’s and Administrations and direct handling of our accounts escalated to our solicitors.

Hook, England, United Kingdom

• Customer Accounts Advisor, BMW Financial Services, Hook, Hampshire (March 2008 – August 2008)
• In my first month I collected £1.42million from arrears business accounts, a record amount.
• Provided support and advice to the credit control department on existing customers that were looking to refinance their existing agreements.
• Management of customer and business accounts to minimize and identify credit risk.
• Arrange payment dates and plans for customers suffering financial difficulties.
• Provided contractual information to customers and offered advice on financial products.Recovery Advisor BMW Financial Services, Hook, Hampshire (March 2007 – February 2008)

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