- My current position has involved me managing the Purchase Ledger for the South West region of a nationwide house building company. As of Aug 23 I have been the sole Purchase Ledger assistant for the company. Daily duties involve processing supplier invoices and subcontractor certs, dealing with a high volume of emails and post, checking and processing expenses, daily bank reconciliations, processing customer refunds and allocations in COINS. At month end I ensure all payments and remits are sent out on time. Although my time in this role has been short, I am proud of what I was able to accomplish, especially greatly reducing the amount of registered invoices on the system and resolving many of the outstanding unallocated cash payments.

My previous position involved me being responsible for the entire Purchase Ledger function of the Worcester site for a large-scale manufacturer of castings. Main duties included the raising of purchase orders and forwarding to suppliers, booking in of delivery notes on Aventa, matching delivery notes to invoices, and the processing of invoices daily to Sage. What I gained most from this position is an improvement in my excel skills, especially when it comes to using pivot tables and charts, as I helped to create a spreadsheet for one of our key suppliers, which I updated monthly for the finance director to use for analysis.

Working in the credit control department, required a lot of perseverance and resilience as this involved chasing clients for debt via phone and email. A key part of the role was raising the invoices on behalf of head office and while this involved accuracy and focus, I thoroughly enjoyed the task and it gave me a deeper understanding of the systems. In addition to this I was given more responsibility in the form of balance sheets, which I needed to complete monthly for all companies. During my time in the Revenues department, I dealt with the money that was received and outgoing transactions from 9 different companies daily. This involved working through the bank recs and updating it daily, and dealing with site queries, both on the phone and email. This was an incredibly varied role that required the completion of multiple tasks, some of which had strict deadlines, therefore a careful prioritising and time management approach was required. My main duty within the Purchase Ledger role was to manage the incoming invoices for over 80 different sites and to ensure the suppliers are being paid on time. As my job comprised of many different tasks, prioritising was an important quality to have to ensure that the amount of set work was effectively completed.

Job consisted of dealing with all the sales transactions going through the Worcester store. This involved detailed knowledge of computer systems, the preparation of the till floats, securely managing the transfer of money between the store and the bank, investigating cash discrepancies and ensuring they are reported to the allocated store loss prevention officer, sending of data to the sales audit each week, managing the training of other associates/managers in the cash office, ensuring all is achieved within the allocated time scale, responsible for the money order and ensuring the safe is always correctly balanced, ensuring the documentation is kept in an orderly manner, ensuring the data protection act is followed.