maternity cover contract. All AP, Pay Roll, Bank Reconciliations, General Ledger transaction and reconciliation and General office duties

IRD Paye and GST, Accounts receivable and payable, Budgets and variance reports, H & S, compliance, I have just completed project managing the conversion of our farm from crop to Dairy.

I was promoted from the branch to the company Head Office and became the accounts payable administrator. Within this position I processed over 250 suppliers invoices. This involved checking the branch staffs coding and entering, reconciling to the suppliers statements and ensuring the Job costings at our end were in order. Bank transfers for payments which were done weekly and on the 20th of the month depending on supplier. General Ledger adjustments and also reception duties. I also supervised 7 branch staff throughout New Zealand and produced and updated the staff manual for these staff to use. I regularly traveled to each branch to ensure all aspects of there jobs were being maintained and provided training were required.

I was the office administrator for 10 staff. Within this position I did all the invoicing and credit control, daily banking, Sales support and a lot of customer liaison with recording of colors, building materials etc for both houses and garages. I checked all accounts and coded to jobs, proceed and then forwarded to Head Office for payment. Reception, Telephones and Secretary duties were also a large part of my position.

Initially I took on the position of part time cook to allow the Chief to have days off. I was also going to help behind the bar as a relief bar tender. Within 2 weeks the Chief quite and I was offered the job. I was responsible creating a simple but robust menu including ordering of product and pricing dishes to ensure the best profit could be attained whilst still keeping it affordable for the patrons. Cooking 5 days per week and also jumping behind the bar if we got a bus in and I wasn't to busy in the kitchen. Checking all kitchen invoices before sending for payment.

I purchased a very run down tearooms and proceeded to work hard to build a business that I later sold as a very profitable business. I started by finding out what worked on the menu and what didn't. Asking clients what they wanted on the menu and what services I could provide to help them. I ended up with a business where I made all the product sold on the property from Pies to cakes to soup to sandwiches and rolls. I also started a delivery service to 3 businesses where we would deliver before morning tea with a selection of food so the staff didn't have to leave there factory's to purchase there morning teas. (all three were small establishments). We also started doing outside catering for functions. After building it to the point where I didn't think it could go much further I decided to sell. I had worked for two years starting at 5am finishing at 4pm 5 days per week and also Sundays 1pm till 5pm baking for the next day. I only had one part time staff member and was tied so decided to take a month off to recover. I lasted 1 week.

I began my career with United Building Society in the Head Office and quickly was offered a position as a teller. I worked my way up within United to become a loans officer at Papanui mainly doing housing but with some commercial. With the merger between Countrywide and United I was offered a job as a Customer Service supervisor at the Armagh Street Branch. This was in charge of 5 tellers and a receptionist/typist. I started going to other branches when there Managers were away to supervise and this position continued to grow until there was a 2IC employed at Armagh Street and I would be away about 2.5 weeks per month. I would be responsible for the running of the branch, ensuring Loans Staff were keeping up and helping where required and also reporting to the Area Manager.

I was successful in obtaining a position as Receptionist/Cashier in our local branch of the Farmers Co-op and so left school having just completing my School Certificate but not Knowing my results. Within this position I was responsible for the day to day receipting of payments by clients for there monthly accounts, cashier to the shop tills and banking. I also provided reception duties to the branch manager, helped in the shops both rural hardware and grocery as required. I was offered a position within the Christchurch Head Office and took it. I was junior cashier first, then went to an input operator int the punch room. This involved imputing all the stock and clearing sales into the computer system, running a cheque run for the payment of these items and reconciling them all. I was then promoted to head cashier which I did for 4 months before there was a merger between us and another company and my job was on the line. I didn't want to be without work so went looking and got the first job I applied for. When I handed in my notice I was advised my job would be there for me if I would stay but decided to continue with the change.