Susan Pool Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh

‪Provide annual statutory accounts and schedules for audit for Link Education International and dealing with any queries.Developing and maintaining COA and financial management mechanisms and templates that facilitate accurate financial planning and reporting for the whole Link family and partners.‪Provide in-house finance training for all LCD staff and partners in Ethiopia, Malawi and Uganda.‪Compiling budgets and cashflows for LCDI and current programmes, as well as produce management accounts.‬‪Attending monitoring visits with external monitoring teams and producing donor reports for various programmes.‬‪Ensure that all donor financial reporting deadlines are met without exception with accurate figures based on actual expenditure and agreed donor allocation of budget lines.‬‪

Dunedin Road, Edinburgh

Create Fixed Asset register going back 10 years and agree to Year end accounts

Stirling Innovation Park

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

-Oversee year end timetable and assist Head of Financial Services with the production of the annual accounts, answering queries and providing schedules for audit-Develop management information ensuring consistency between the NHS consortia-Develop and monitored day to day controls and procedures within the financial services department-Identify weaknesses and influences and coming up with improvements-provide advice and guidance on technical accounting issues to finance and non-finance staff throughout NES-Prepare statutory returns to deadline-Review monthly VAT return-Review expenditure to identify capital items and maintain asset register-Ensure payroll ran smoothly, prepare and post month end interface journals and ensure payroll costs coded correctly-Review monthly payroll control accounts and ensure any outstanding items followed up and cleared

Roslyn

-Worked on a project to monitor contracts expenditure including job costings for grant applications-prepared procedural notes for costing proposals and created detailed budgets for Financial Controller.-liaised with course co-ordinator with respect to allocation of vet student research grants

-Managed day to day finance function with one direct report for the the BP building facilities account for Scotland and Norway covering 3 sites (Aberdeen, Grangemouth & Stavanger)-Completed monthly reconciliations between the company management accounts and client reporting system.-Provide detailed monthly reports on account spend, cost variance analysis and forecasting to senior management-improved BP collection rates leading to improved cash flow

-Provide monthly management reports including variance analysis fore health-Review and re-align the pay budgets for 3 business units for the Agenda for Change project-Liaise with Senior Managers, Project Managers and Budget holders-Analysis of expenditure against revenue for possible capitalisation -Process accruals and prepayments-Collating and analyzing financial data

-Prepared financial and management reports for timeshare for senior management-Prepare budget packs-Provide detailed and concise annual cost budgets, revenue forecasts, cash flow and variance analysis with special emphasis on cash control-Prepare WIP reports for Spanish Timeshare resort still under construction-Liaised with managers in Spain regarding financial matters-Calculated monthly sales commissions for UK and Spain-Responsible for streamlining accounting procedures within timeshare sales

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

-Employed in a temporary capacity to clear backlog, implement control and review procedures-Manage the finance department of 3-Set up reporting function-Improve workflow between operations department and Finance-Prepared daily cash flow forecast for company owners-Prepare year end accountsAs part of this assignment, I flew to Spain to see one of Clansman Monarchs larger customers to negotiate shorter payment terms to ensure that they paid more promptly given they were one of the biggest commercial retailers

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

-Investigation of reconciliation items to identify root causes eg system or processing errors and then remedy them.-Develop the testing of a new database system-Reporting and re-testing faults

Hnd Accounting

Matric Exemption