Barcud Shared Services Ltd & Astari Ltd offer Internal Audit Services and other consultancy functions to Housing Associations and other tertiary sector organisations.

Barcud Shared Services Ltd & Astari Ltd offer Internal Audit Services and other consultancy functions to Housing Associations and other tertiary sector organisations.

Barcud Shared Services (Barcud) is a consortium set up of four housing association in South Wales (Bron Afon Community Housing, Merthyr Valleys Homes, Tai Tarian (previously NPT Homes) and Valleys to Coast). My role as a Senior Internal Auditor within Barcud is to provide risk based and compliance based audits across all areas of the housing association sector. Many audits undertaken are carried out to ensure the organisation meets strategic requirements as set out by Welsh… Show more Barcud Shared Services (Barcud) is a consortium set up of four housing association in South Wales (Bron Afon Community Housing, Merthyr Valleys Homes, Tai Tarian (previously NPT Homes) and Valleys to Coast). My role as a Senior Internal Auditor within Barcud is to provide risk based and compliance based audits across all areas of the housing association sector. Many audits undertaken are carried out to ensure the organisation meets strategic requirements as set out by Welsh Government.Working within a small team it has given me opportunity to complete an audit from start to finish including, annual audit planning, scoping of audits, preparing terms of engagement, carrying out fieldwork, writing up internal audit assurance/risk and compliance reports. I further regularly undertake de-brief meetings with the clients and attend audit committees. My role reports directly into the Head of Barcud Shared Services and would cover various element of this role.My role includes a number of tasks, some of which are ad-hoc, these include presenting presentations/training, delivering workshops, tendering for new clients, attending executive/senior management meetings as an observer to identify potential areas for audit and follow up of audit recommendations.My role hs recently changed to include line management for an Internal Audit Assistant, this requires me not only to be work effectively on my own to complete audits and ad-hoc tasks assigned to me, but to also review, support and monitor the Internal Audit Assistant. This includes ensuring that budgets were kept within and meeting of deadlines were achieved.The role requires regular liaison between Board members, Audit Committee members, the Regulator and other stakeholders including tenants. Show less

October 2014 – March 2015 – BBC Internal Audit Secondment – BBC Senior Auditor.While working with the BBC, I was able to take a secondment with the BBC Internal Audit function. While on the secondment I learnt the finer points of audit and covered a variety of areas. During my time on the secondment I was involved on an audit of one of the BBC’s commercial arms, counter fraud investigation, internal investigation service (linked with a police investigation), risk based audits and… Show more October 2014 – March 2015 – BBC Internal Audit Secondment – BBC Senior Auditor.While working with the BBC, I was able to take a secondment with the BBC Internal Audit function. While on the secondment I learnt the finer points of audit and covered a variety of areas. During my time on the secondment I was involved on an audit of one of the BBC’s commercial arms, counter fraud investigation, internal investigation service (linked with a police investigation), risk based audits and financial project reviews. I gained a wide exposure and appreciation of the whole process from planning to report and verification of actions.January 2013 – June 2016 – Pan-BBC (inc. World Service and Monitoring) Fixed Asset Capital AccountantMy role within the BBC meant that I reconciled the Fixed Asset Register for several areas. As part of the role there was emphasis to ensure that a quarterly asset verification exercise takes place, my role was to coordinate and ensure that any and all changes identified were actioned.The BBC is required to report into the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), as part of this there is a requirement that the for this reporting the BBC asset base is revalued. This exercise was large and extensive; this task was coordinated by myself.As the BBC’s Fixed Asset accountant guidance and support was given to the business on the treatment of spend to ensure the allowable elements are capitalised and the rest was put to revenue.As part of the role, I meet many different levels of staff with differing levels of experience to offer guidance and support, as well as getting out into the business to gain a greater understanding and appreciation of the BBC.Within the Capital Accounting Team, my role covered all areas of the BBC, this leads me to deal with many ad-hoc requests and pull together many different reports. It also gave me the ability to look at the wider picture and assess the impact across all areas of the BBC. Show less

TUPE transfer from Amey. Same roles as Amey

Amey ABSSC was a specialised part of the Amey group that dealt directly with central government. It was a contractor to several government departments, mainly BIS and DECC.There were two distinct areas within Amey ABSSC, there was a transactional services and accounting services. Accounting services covered a wide range of functions for the government department from Cash Management to training. My main duties as a Finance Assistant were to maintain and report on monthly… Show more Amey ABSSC was a specialised part of the Amey group that dealt directly with central government. It was a contractor to several government departments, mainly BIS and DECC.There were two distinct areas within Amey ABSSC, there was a transactional services and accounting services. Accounting services covered a wide range of functions for the government department from Cash Management to training. My main duties as a Finance Assistant were to maintain and report on monthly bases, the current standing of the departments fixed asset registers, to process and monitor the department’s actual and forecasted budgets and to process all BACS transactions received for the UK Trade & Investment's Overseas Market Introduction Service (OMIS). Due to the nature of the work I had to be very thorough and accurate. Reconciliations include, but not limited to fixed asset register, assets under construction, bank reconciliations for the OMIS service.Other key areas of my role were to work closely between BIS, Royal Mail and HM Treasury to process and manage large loans from BIS to Royal Mail. These transactions are time and data sensitive. My main accounting jobs included:-•Help with the day to day running of Fixed Asset Registers.•Processing OMIS invoices from loading, through to reconciliation and filing. •Helping with the reconciliation of many different items including Royal Mail Loan facility, Assets Under Construction and bank accounts.•Collated, coordinated and reported on a quarterly bases a wide variety of commercial bank accounts.Other roles included:--Daily posting of budgets to a Oracle based system (Mentor)-Dealing with telephone, email and postal queries.-Fire Marshall, I had been trained on how to tackle most office fires with the extinguishers available, plan and action fire escape routes and to work as a team to clear the building.-At year end, my role expanded to assist the National Audit Office with any queries and suggestions raised by them. Show less

My main accounting jobs included:-•Help with the day to day running of both the Sales and Purchase Ledgers.•Processing invoices from loading, through to authorisation and filing. •Helped with the reconciliation of supplier statements for monthly payment run.•Assisted with the bank statement reconciliations.•Had responsibility for handling cash, cheque and credit card banking, this also included the control of petty cash and the issuing of refunds to… Show more My main accounting jobs included:-•Help with the day to day running of both the Sales and Purchase Ledgers.•Processing invoices from loading, through to authorisation and filing. •Helped with the reconciliation of supplier statements for monthly payment run.•Assisted with the bank statement reconciliations.•Had responsibility for handling cash, cheque and credit card banking, this also included the control of petty cash and the issuing of refunds to customers.•Introduction of BACS system to the business, then the up keep and monthly Direct Debit collection from customers normally in the region of £400,000 per calendar month.•Liaise with funding banks and auditors.•Communicated with mangers and salespersons to resolve problems and notify the outstanding debt from their customers.Other roles included:--Implemented, developed and overseen the transfer from the old dealer management and accounting system to the new system (Motivity, an Oracle based system)-Dealing with telephone, email and postal queries.-As a systems administrator I dealt with the majority of IT queries, updating new users, customers and suppliers. Issued passwords to staff, monitored and controlled priorities, security and access to the system.-Helped with the daily running of the 1-Link system.-Carried out many fleet maintenance tasks, including road fund monthly renewals, dealing with DVLA queries, vehicle condition reports, VE103B form issuing and dealing with lease car drivers problems and queries. Show less

While at Morrisons I worked on several departments, the main ones being produce (fruit and veg), fish bar and cash office. Main duties for fish included knowing the full range of the fish products sold and advising customers of how to cook to ensure full satisfaction guaranteed. Preparation of the fish i.e. filleting etc prior to display on fresh counter. Health & Safety procedures were followed.Fully responsible for the opening and closure of the department ensuring correct storage procedures… Show more While at Morrisons I worked on several departments, the main ones being produce (fruit and veg), fish bar and cash office. Main duties for fish included knowing the full range of the fish products sold and advising customers of how to cook to ensure full satisfaction guaranteed. Preparation of the fish i.e. filleting etc prior to display on fresh counter. Health & Safety procedures were followed.Fully responsible for the opening and closure of the department ensuring correct storage procedures were carried out without supervision. Main duties for Cash Office were to refill the ATM machine, to re-float the tills and carry out till investigations. Other responsibilities include dealing with Securico and carrying out banking procedures. Show less