Anika Rahman
Summary
I am a driven, adaptive and skilled Assistant Accountant with 4 years of experience in finance roles (both accounts payable & receivable) within large-scale national companies, in which I have shown significant progression.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work history
Finance Assistant
The Royal Society of Medicine
Oxford Street, London
12.2024 - Current
- Taking full responsibility of account receivables.
- Rectifying misallocated payments from 2017 till present and creating new processes to prevent future errors.
- Answering audit queries.
- Investigating past debt and working towards recovering the monies.
- Liaising with internal and external customers to remedy differences and discrepancies in invoices and receipts.
- Reorganising and resolving past financial matters.
- Managed credit control procedures effectively, reducing the incidence of bad debts significantly.
- Covered Accounts Payables where necessary.
- Generated account statements outlining payments and balances.
- Performed regular account reconciliations for improved financial management accuracy.
- Created new procedures and forms to smoothen workflow.
- Using accounting systems daily such as Quickbooks, Xero and iPlicit.
Assistant Financial Accountant
Asthma + Lung UK
Aldgate, London
01.2023 - 11.2024
- Performing weekly payment runs.
- Managing supplier and debtor accounts within Sun (Accounting System) & Medius (P2P System); including creating new suppliers/debtors/staff accounts, updating their details and maintaining an up-to-date approved listing.
- Reconciling supplier and debtor accounts, investigating and resolving unknown or missing transactions to minimise discrepancies.
- Processing staff expenses, ensuring alignment with business policies.
- Producing monthly aged creditors/debtors reports.
- Completing monthly bank reconciliations of several different accounts such as company bank accounts and credit card accounts.
- Completing balance sheet reconciliations.
- Preparing and posting journals including accruals, prepayments, month end/year end adjustments and cash book journals.
- Raising & keeping a log of sales invoices and following up with debtors for payments as required.
- Managing the finance mailbox and ensuring all queries are responded to in a timely manner.
- Hosting and preparing group training sessions, creating process notes for company-wide distribution and providing 1 to 1 training to both new starters and senior colleagues.
- Assisting with audit requests.
- Coding invoices to payment runs.
- Verifying invoices against purchase orders to ensure the smooth execution of month-end processes.
- Processing ad hoc payments/duties when necessary.
- Covering Financial Accountant and the other Assistant Financial Accountant in their absence.
Accounts Assistant
TrustFord
Barking, London
08.2021 - 01.2023
- Overseeing the finance of five different sites and managing the workload generated by three different teams.
- Tasked with managing and training new recruits within 6 months of joining the company.
- Posting daily bank statements, banking & clearing down daily till accounts.
- Processing sales & purchase ledger payments.
- Registering invoices, recording journals and reconciling the bank.
- Processing payment requests for dealership transactions.
- Completing monthly reconciliations.
- Performing monthly vehicle stock checks; monitoring invoices/loan forms for missing vehicles.
- Analysing and processing fuel invoices, identifying and implementing ways to improve efficiency.
- Acting as a passionate contributor to companywide fundraising activity.
Personal Assistant
DUSK
Brentwood, London
12.2020 - 08.2021
- Managing the CEO's calendar, scheduling meetings and appointments and communicating with staff, suppliers and clients.
- Interviewing and hiring candidates for the CEO's multiple businesses.
- Creating engaging presentations, spreadsheets and reports for various clients.
- Interpreting briefs from clients to develop and produce design packages for menus, websites, leaflets etc.
Education
Level 3 - Business Administration
City & Guilds
10.2022
Bachelor of Arts - Digital Design
London South Bank University
Southwark10.2020
3 A-Levels - Graphic Design, Media & Photography
City and Islington Sixth Form College
Angel Islington08.2017
10 GCSE's (A-B) - Including English, Maths & Science
St Paul's Way Trust School
Bow Common08.2015
Achievements in post
- Recovered £100k worth of debt (unpaid invoices from 2020 till present) within 6 months of joining the company and resolved past financial matters. (Royal Society of Medicine)
- Built up my own tasks and processes for efficient working. (Royal Society of Medicine)
- Nominated for a PPA award for the training of new staff within 6 months of joining the company. (TrustFord)
- Stepped up to cover higher level duties (Financial Accountant/Senior Financial Accountant) during demanding periods, ensuring no loss in accuracy or operational effectiveness. (Asthma + Lung UK)
- Enhanced key working sheets such as payment logs and balance sheets by adding formulas and improving layouts to aid efficiency. (Royal Society of Medicine)
- Completed audit requests within 3 months of joining the company by thoroughly investigating and resolving unanswered questions with very limited available data. (Royal Society of Medicine)
- Worked through the transition period of a new finance system introduction while balancing daily tasks using Xero/Quickbooks and audit queries. (Royal Society of Medicine and Asthma + Lung UK)
Professional Competencies
- Extensive experience with taking lead within a team; training and mentoring both new starters and senior colleagues on the P2P system, creating process notes for company use and providing supervisory support.
- Quick to learn and master new duties; always willing to grow and evolve existing responsibilities in response to business needs.
- Proficient in operating key business software such as SUN, Quickbooks, Xero, iPlicit, Kerridge and Microsoft Excel.
Timeline
Finance Assistant
The Royal Society of Medicine
12.2024 - Current
Assistant Financial Accountant
Asthma + Lung UK
01.2023 - 11.2024
Accounts Assistant
TrustFord
08.2021 - 01.2023
Personal Assistant
DUSK
12.2020 - 08.2021
Level 3 - Business Administration
City & Guilds
Bachelor of Arts - Digital Design
London South Bank University
3 A-Levels - Graphic Design, Media & Photography
City and Islington Sixth Form College
10 GCSE's (A-B) - Including English, Maths & Science
St Paul's Way Trust School
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