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Support the Chief Accountant in the development of all relevant reporting and accounting processes within Finance and Accounting department. • Proactively identify areas of efficiency and effectiveness improvement in all Finance & Accounting functional responsibilities, across the service centre. • To establish a reconciliation framework of compliance and to drive quality and ensure compliance with the statutory and Volvo Group Financial Policies and Procedures. • Responsibility for preparing reconciliations for balance sheet accounts and key income statement accounts to ensure accuracy and validity of general ledger balances. • Responsibility for the preparation and reporting of month-end results in the group reporting system, BCS. Providing timely, accurate, complete and compliant financial, commercial and statistical data according to service level agreements • Analyse and provide financial reports as required to support Financial Planning, Forecasts and associated processes. • To structure collated information in a meaningful and relevant format based on the recipients need/usage and purpose. • Actively share best practise amongst the network of colleagues. • Provision of information to external and internal auditors. • Adherence to Financial, Company and Group Internal Controls and associated frameworks

Responsible for the timely and accurate production of management accounts for use by the company. To ensure the integrity of key balance sheet accounts and to maintain compliance with relevant accounting standards and internal reporting requirements• Produce management accounts by function, for internal and external parties• Accurate accounting of accruals, prepayments ensuring allocations reflect business activityDevelop systems and processes to improve the completeness and timeliness of reporting • Assist the Senior Finance Manager to develop balance sheet reporting matrix and suite of reports• Regularly reconcile and maintain clear records (to audit standards) of key control accounts• Reconcile all inter-company transactions on a regular basis (minimum monthly)• Assist the Senior Finance Manager to produce group consolidation and statutory accounts that are compliant with relevant SORP’s and accounting standards, including notes to agreed deadlines• To oversee the production and maintenance of fixed assets register (FAR) and ensure monthly reconciliations between capitals spend and FAR are undertaken• Control depreciation posting and ensure policies are adhered to• Manage monthly payroll cut-off by communicating with all managers to ensure exceptions have been cleared and adjustments have been made within given deadlines• Responsible for the production of all quarterly VAT returns• Support the FBP and Senior Finance manager in developing and re-forecasting the budgets for each business unit to ensure a consistent approach and carrying out regular budget review meetings• Maintain continuous communication with the business to ensure key understanding of the underlying business assumptions used and ensure accurate representation of financial information reflecting those assumptions through monthly review meetings

Responsible for providing financial and administration support used by the company and external accountants, accurate input and up keeping of financial recordsCash flow maintenance and forecastingManaged customer and supplier contractsManaged and kept account files up to date for yearly tax submissions and auditsPerformed all necessary account, bank and other reconciliationsMonitored customer accounts for non-payment and delayed paymentGeneral accounts payable and accounts receivable functionsChecked, verified and processed invoicesDealt with and resolved invoice queriesAccurate data entrySet up new supplier accounts and maintained existing account details within the purchase ledgerManaged monthly reconciliation of supplier statementsAssisted in the preparation of purchase summaries​Processed business expense returnsCashbook and petty cash chequesOther ad-hoc dutiesKey Achievements Streamlined billing and payment processesNegotiated better supplier rates which significantly reduced costs and increased revenues

Assisted the Finance and ICT department in their day to day duties including; Provided administration and practical support to the Finance and IT teams Assisted with Data Migration to New Housing Management Systems Data entry and cleansing of existing databases Updated and maintained year end working papers Maintained/updated excel spread sheets including component accounting schedulesInvoice queries and purchase orders Assisted in the planning and installation of new ICT hardware and softwareAssisted in the centralisation of processes for Company Group mergerSales and purchase invoice inputting in the general ledgerAssisted in the systems training of new team members General administration duties including EG filing, scanning, printing and phone enquiriesKey Achievements Identified key unplanned bottlenecks in the merger plan and assisted in the resolutionSuccessfully balanced two departments workload needs without missing deadlines or sacrificing quality

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