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Kingston Bagpuize, Gb

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Balance sheet reconciliationsRevenue accountingOperations business partneringVariance analysisTraining junior colleagues

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

- Overseeing the production of the team’s monthly reports, checking before they are finalised and sent to clients by the reporting deadline.- Monitoring the cash position of my team’s sites, requesting adhoc funds requests are prepared if funds are running low.- Checking annual budgets for each site before sending to the clients for approval.- Carrying out monthly progress reviews for all team members, focusing on their progression within their roles and any further support or training they may require.- Ensuring consistency is applied across the department within the reporting and communication with clients.- Assisting with process improvements and efficiency within the department and the business as a whole.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

- Completing numerous month end financial reports to be sent to external clients, including variance analysis between budget and actual results.- Preparing ad-hoc client requests when required & requesting funds when necessary.- Produce annual site budgets, working closely with site staff and regional managers and re-forecasting.- Leading a team to migrate a number of sites from other managing agents in order to report in line with our monthly reporting process.- Peer reviews of team members work during month end reporting.- Remitting funds to clients and sending quarterly cashflow reports.- Processing of tenant refunds and return of deposits, along with ad-hoc payments and banking.- Liaising with site managers, regional managers, other finance departmental staff and senior management where necessary.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

- Calculating, raising & allocating rents.- Entering manually and importing bank payments and intercompany journals.- Processing invoices for monthly payment runs.- Returning deposits to tenants and deducting relevant expenses.- Entering and calculating month end journals.- Bank reconciliations on numerous accounts.- Preparing service charge accounts annually and comparing expenditure to budgeted expenses.- Analysing agency fee reports and reconciling at year end.- Mentoring my junior colleague.- Day to day duties including answering the phones and assisting with property viewings during busy periods.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

- Purchase ledger – Using QuickBooks accounting software, entering and coding invoices, weekly payment runs, transmitting BACS payments using Barclays online banking.- Sales ledger – allocating cash received in the bank, banking cheques and chasing any outstanding debts.- Month end duties - Working with several schedules on Excel including prepayments and WIP which I entered into journals, bank and petty cash reconciliations, debtor and creditor reconciliations. Once finalised I entered these in the accounting software and write brief notes for any discrepancies found.- Preparing a number of costing and profitability schedules, entering actual and budgeted costs which I then report to the company secretary.- Liaise with auditors on each visit and answer any queries they may have.- General office duties including answering the phone to customers, franking mail and ordering supplies when required.