Andrew Doyle

Key responsibilities:

• Support the month-end close through the preparation of journals, accruals and prepayments.
• Produce a weekly cash flow forecast and monitor liquidity requirements.
• Run the trial balance to support management accounts preparation.
• Analyse profit and loss performance and investigate variances.
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and resolve reconciling items.
• Maintain the fixed asset register, including additions, disposals and depreciation.
• Support VAT return preparation using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Process purchase ledger and sales ledger transactions, ensuring accurate financial records.
• Perform daily bank reconciliations and investigate reconciling items.
• Process bank payments accurately and in line with company procedures.
• Process employee expenses through the ExpenseIn system.
• Manage petty cash for drivers, ensuring accurate records and reconciliations.
• Produce monthly supplier payment runs and credit control and aged debt reporting.
• Work closely with the group accountant to support financial reporting and month-end activities.
• Use Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Continia Document Capture, Coach Manager and Microsoft Excel to improve reporting accuracy and efficiency.

Key achievement:

• Progressed from predominantly transactional accounting responsibilities into supporting month-end accounting, financial reporting, cash flow forecasting and management accounts preparation.

• Working in a fast paced finance team in a varied role utilising a wide range of skills.
• I was responsible for the day to day running of the finance mailbox, posting purchase ledger invoices and reconciling month end statements.
• Additional day to day tasks included: Sending out sales ledger invoices and also a weekly credit control document and chasing customers for outstanding debt.
• Posting and reconciling multiple company credit cards to the finance system.
• Posting and allocating a weekly direct debit run to the system.
• Setting up new supplier accounts and using multiple systems such as Sage 200, Affinity and CRM.
• Taking incoming calls and card payments over the phone and internal calls and queries from account managers and query resolution.

• I was the cashier in the finance department for Crown Commercial Service.
• My role was to allocate and balance approximately 3000 daily receipts per month for new and existing customers.
• In alignment with the relevant procedures to ensure all credit and debits are correctly identified and are coded to the correct customer accounts and matched against the correct invoices / credit notes within a daily cut off time.
• Any items which cannot be allocated are investigated and the customer is contacted to obtain additional information.
• Tasked with liaising with customers via telephone and email to discuss disputed transactions and over payments, payments in error and refunds on client accounts.
• Make domestic and International payments via online banking and comply with audit requirements for bank details.
• Coding any outgoing payments to the finance system and liaise with payroll and HR for internal and external payments made from the bank.
• Monthly bank reconciliations ensuring all banking transactions reconcile to zero and any reconciling items are cleared for the following month end.
• Manage our internal GPC (Government Procurement Card) account online making sure cards are issued to employees, setting card limits and signatures from designated signatories in the company.
• Assisting with credit control, managing a busy ledger and chasing debt as per the payment terms and producing a weekly report for higher management.