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London, United Kingdom

• Client Account management; monitoring all aspects of client transactions through the auction process ensuring that legal, company and statutory requirements are met. • Sale management; Conduct all pre-sales activities in accordance with processes and policies including; buyer registration and compliance control, seller payment instruction management, liaison with the Commercial finance department regarding special terms and deals for clients• Execute Sale activities within deadlines ; Debt review including direct communication with clients, organisation of contras and intercompany transactions• Collaborate with Commercial finance department to ensure appropriate deal entries are processed. • Facilitate the receipting of incoming payments, dealing with any queries resulting from the receipting process. • Perform seller charge review sale process within specified deadlines liaising with specialist department, business support and postsale teams.• Process all impromptu sale process requests in a timely manner with accurate amendment and review of the ledgers and clear responses to departments and clients. This includes but not is limited to: re-invoicing for clients, after sale request, making items stock, cancelling lots. And issuing and processing vat refunds • Manage the delivery of the sale to the Payments department for settlement, ensuring that all settlement processes have been followed and the sale is in a complete position in order for efficient settlement. • Production of adhoc manual statements as and when required.

London, United Kingdom

• Utilizing JDE accounting software, accurately updating the AP ledger - understanding the ledgers and using the tools provided to follow up and resolve outstanding issues to enable a smooth running of the sales process.• Grouping, batching, submitting payments, and accurately adding payments instructions and data onto the accounting system.• Creating payments on the various corporate banking platforms; Lloyds, Barclays, HSBC and ABN AMRO; Where I create and submit payments as well as reviewing the accounts for returned funds and to confirm payments have been approved and processed.• Liaising with internal departments to ensure payments are sent or held as required.• Sending daily reports to the treasury department with funding requirements, requesting currency exchange rates and processing currency payments when necessary. • Managing the payments inbox ensuring that internal and external payment queries are dealt with in a timely manner. This includes requesting proof of payments, bank trances, stopping cheques, advising clients when funds will be received.• Assisting the payments director in ongoing projects such as the creation of a new inbox and the streamlining of the payments process by reviewing processes, highlighting weakness and developing new ideas.

London, United Kingdom

I moved to Mercedes Benz Retail Group Fleet sales to supervise a small team of finance administrators dealing directly with Mercedes Benz Financial Services and various Car lease brokers.My responsibilities are are mix of team supervision, running reports and specific finance tasks:- Creating a rota and monitoring the volumes of work , ensuring we respond to brokers and customers within a set time frame.- Checking finance contracts and proofs, ensuring we have all of the correct documentation in place before releasing vehicles for delivery.- Using the Mercedes Benz financial services online payout system; checking invoices and uploading all of the correct documentation to have finance deals paid out. Dealing with the queries that arise and ensuring that all of the deals get paid out in the set deadlines.-Processing finance applications on the MBFS system, inputting customer details and relaying answers to brokers on the status of deals. -Appealing Declines by looking at credit reports and company accounts.- Creating excel reports to monitor status of deals and stats for management ; through the access database used to store all deal information and pulling reports from this data-Managing small projects allocated by the Business manager such as the end of quarter activation deadline through reports, liaising with other departments and supervisors and allocation specific tasks to finance administration team. In this job I have also completed the Specialist Automotive Finance test and several Mercedes Benz training courses.

London, United Kingdom

Responsibilities :-Requesting finance agreements from finance companies-Faxing finance contracts off to relevant finance companies on time and ensuring all other paperwork is complete and up to date, and when it is not ensuring that documentation errors are resolved as speedily as possible. -Invoicing external finance companies and updating the Cargiant system when funds are received. -Recording dealer commissions on Cargiant system and updating excel spreadsheets with the relevant data to complete weekly reports on performance and statistics.-Customer service in the form of answering phone calls to assist customers, business managers and finance companies with finance application queries. -Contacting customers and confirming their finance applications then submitting finance applications to relevant finance companies and finally advising customers of the application outcome.In this job I gained a vast knowledge in:-The world of finance and credit; working closely with various Finance companies, understanding criteria, Interest rate variation, calculating interests-Creating various types of invoices to different parties. -Learning to use Cargiant's own system-I have also had to complete various FSA exams due to the nature of job, passing exams to prove my knowledge of money laundering, Data protection and treating customers fairly.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), European Studies With Spanish, 2:1

Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities

Erasmus Year spent at Pompeu Fabra Barcelona studying European History and Social Sciences

Education record

A Levels: Government &Politics (A), Spanish (A), History (B), Portuguese (B) As Level: Biology (B)

Education record

11 GCSEs : Spanish: (A*), History (A*), Double Award Science (A*, A*), Maths (A), English Language (A ), English Literature ( A).