Stuart Richards Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

• Recording, verification and settlement of invoices and expense claims
• Processing of approx 250 purchase order invoices per week by linking an in-house procurement system with SAP. This involving verification of all receipts, exchange rates & compliance with Standard Bank policies.
• Exception reporting, noting authorised exceptions to policy for Tax, Payroll etc
• Undertaking BACS payments twice a week - checking, blocking and reallocating payments, running the BACS proposal and… Show more
• Undertaking BACS payments twice a week - checking, blocking and reallocating payments, running the BACS proposal and completing the reconciliation.
• Raising of currency wire instructions for payments to be effected by Swift

London, United Kingdom

• Maintenance and valuation of a high volume of financial statements.
• Daily banking including monitoring of GBP, USD, EUR and JPY bank balances and reconciliation of transactions for over 100 underlying accounts.
• Recording and subsequent analysis of all cash receipts and cash payments for underlying investment at company level
• Reconciliation of company investment database to that of our third party administrators. Rec includes 4 main funds and underlying SPV’s
• Maintenance of… Show more
• Maintenance of company-wide document management system including migration to a new bespoke system

London, United Kingdom

• During my final 6 months at BNPP I became a remaining member of the accounts payable team in London chosen to oversee the successful migration of the function to Mumbai. During this time I took on accounts receivable.
• Running daily; open items, posting reports and SWIFT payment proposals.
• Thoroughly checking all posted (open) payments by ensuring all; coding, vendor account detail, authorisation and bank account information is assigned correctly.
• Carrying out manual SWIFT payment instructions and completing the daily SWIFT reconciliation.
• Facilitating all CHAPS, foreign and GBP cheque and Direct Debit payments. Running proposals and clearing all payment runs. Logging and banking all cheques received.
• Preparation of journal uploads for bank charges and received funds.

London, United Kingdom

• The processing of invoices / credit notes from their initial entry to the bank to the final payment. This involves a) studying for invoice validity i.e. addressed correctly, VAT is calculated (where appropriate).
• Addressing all business and vendor… Show more
• Addressing all business and vendor queries.
• Monthly meetings to maintain major vendor relationships including Swift, Deutsche Borse.
• Payment of Legal fees including secondments, compromise agreements and prof. fees.
• Urgent payments of FSA, LSE and all European stock exchange listing fees.

Sydney, Australia

Temporary assignment involved archiving documents for senior management and data migration using in-house software.

Croydon, United Kingdom

• This includes summer placements during University terms and subsequent permanent positions after education;
• Design, implementation and maintenance of all HR shared services web sites. Included several web audits, restructure planning and migration of HR web content such as policies and contracts.
• Responsible for web publishing standards, documentation and web access control rights.
• Trained users in HR web development practice using Frontpage2000 & Dreamweaver4… Show more This includes summer placements during University terms and subsequent permanent positions after education;
• Trained users in HR web development practice using Frontpage2000 & Dreamweaver4.
• Project manager “FAQ Responder System” – Included application testing, process flow documentation, user procedure documentation, and superuser training.