Caroline Preira
Hemel Hempstead,Hertfordshire
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
2007
2007
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Senior Financial Accountant
Bio-Rad Laboratories
Watford, Hertfordshire
2017.01 - 2025.07
- Executed maintenance of General Ledger to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Performed month-end, quarter-end, and year-end activities according to established schedules.
- Prepared and reviewed journal entries for financial reporting.
- Submitted monthly and quarterly reports to Corporate,
- Assisted corporate reporting team with trend analysis and variance reviews.
- Produced balance sheet reconciliations to support financial integrity.
- Coordinated internal and external audit requests, ensuring timely
- Supervise and review activities of junior accountants
- Responsible for SOX controls
Accountant
Energizer
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
2015.05 - 2017.01
- Responsible for month end and quarter end closes
- Full responsibility for Balance Sheet reconciliations
- Variance analysis for month end budgets
- Performing monthly VAT and intrastat return.
- Preparation of annual statutory financial statements (French Gaap)
- Managing the year-end audit and key contact for external auditors
- Involve in implementation of new version of SAP
- Ownership of relationship with AP shared Services team.
- Preparation of intercompany reconciliations at month end
- Responsible for Sox control and recycling compliance
- Maintenance of fixed asset register
Account Payable executive Migration & stabilisation (contract) (shared services centre) – SAP
GLAXOSMITHKLINE (GSK)
Uxbridge, Hillingdon
2014.03 - 2015.05
- Company Overview: Global healthcare company
- Involve in Knowledge transfer project to transfer the French finance functions to the UK and India shared service centers (3 Months weekly travels to GSK France)
- Ensure on-going monitoring including tracker completion for local processes, knowledge transfer and migration issues
- Write or amend global and local standard operational processes (SOP)
- Perform month-end closing duties, prepare journal and perform various reconciliations and variances analysis for the accountants
- Prepare KPI analysis reports for the financial accountants
- Ensure the Sox & controls are being performed, documented and reported accordingly
- Ensure accurate and timely posting of financial transactions in accordance with internal controls processes
- Global healthcare company
Assistant Accountant
CATALYST CAPITAL Inc
London
2014.01 - 2014.03
- Managed all aspects of purchase and sales ledger with precision.
- Prepared monthly bank reconciliations to ensure accuracy.
- Reconciled accounts and statements at month-end efficiently.
- Assisted senior accountant in preparation of monthly and yearly closings, improving process efficiency.
Assistant Accountant
COMPUTATIONAL DYNAMICS
London
2013.07 - 2013.12
- Company Overview: IT & engineering
- Assisted with the preparation of the management accounts for French entity
- Performed month-end activities such as Accruals, Prepayments depreciation, deferred income journals
- Prepare Balance sheet reconciliations in accordance with internal controls & finance policies
- Intercompany accounts reconciliation
- Maintain Fixed Asset Register
- Prepared daily Cashbook and bank reconciliation
- Assisting in monthly preparation of payroll journals & posting
- IT & engineering
Client Accountant
Brookfield Global Relocation Services Ltd
London
2010.11 - 2013.07
- Company Overview: Global policy development, relocation & consultancy services
- Reconciled bank accounts to the ledgers ensuring the correctness of the daily balances and ensure clearing of open items
- Prepare Weekly cash flow management & forecasts
- Performed Weekly bank reconciliation
- Processed SWIFT, CHAPS and BACS payments run and ensure the appropriate authorization is obtained
- Checked if invoices and expenses are processed in line with defined processes and procedures
- Prepared Weekly payment runs including staff expenses
- Perform month end journal entries: Bank Charges, Fx adjustments, Overheads.
- Global policy development, relocation & consultancy services
Accounts Receivable/Credit Controller
Leapfrog
Uxbridge
2010.08 - 2010.09
- Company Overview: Educational Entertainment company
- Dealt with all aspects of the credit control process and collect outstanding debts
- Prepared daily bank reconciliations Statements, Posted sales ledger receipts & issued credit notes
- Reconciled old entries including unallocated cash entries
- Educational Entertainment company
Administrator
Metropole Learning
London
2009.02 - 2010.07
- Company Overview: Training provider
- Training provider
Management Accountant
Cilgere
Paris
2007.06 - 2008.04
- Company Overview: Affordable housing & relocation services for employees
- Monthly Balance sheet & intercompany reconciliations
- Provide monthly analysis of the actual performance vs plan and prior year
- Participated to the preparation of the annual budget
- Reported on KPI & review of cash flow and production of forecasts
- Affordable housing & relocation services for employees
Assistant Accountant
Credit Foncier
Paris
2005.10 - 2006.09
- Company Overview: Banking & real estate
- Preparation of balance sheet reconciliation
- Posted Journals entries
- Invoice processing and payments
- Banking & real estate
Education
MSc - Accounting and Finance
ICG Business school
Paris 2006.09 - 2007.06
BSc (hons) - Finance (Maitrise de Sciences de Gestion)
University Paris XIII
VilletaneuseHND - Law (Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie Carrières Juridique)
University Paris XIII
Skills
- Financial Reporting
- SOX
- SAP and Oracle
- Sage 50 and MS Dynamics
- Qube and Excel
- Microsoft Office Suite
Custom
Available on request
Timeline
Senior Financial Accountant
Bio-Rad Laboratories
2017.01 - 2025.07
Accountant
Energizer
2015.05 - 2017.01
Account Payable executive Migration & stabilisation (contract) (shared services centre) – SAP
GLAXOSMITHKLINE (GSK)
2014.03 - 2015.05
Assistant Accountant
CATALYST CAPITAL Inc
2014.01 - 2014.03
Assistant Accountant
COMPUTATIONAL DYNAMICS
2013.07 - 2013.12
Client Accountant
Brookfield Global Relocation Services Ltd
2010.11 - 2013.07
Accounts Receivable/Credit Controller
Leapfrog
2010.08 - 2010.09
Administrator
Metropole Learning
2009.02 - 2010.07
Management Accountant
Cilgere
2007.06 - 2008.04
MSc - Accounting and Finance
ICG Business school
2006.09 - 2007.06
Assistant Accountant
Credit Foncier
2005.10 - 2006.09
HND - Law (Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie Carrières Juridique)
University Paris XIII
BSc (hons) - Finance (Maitrise de Sciences de Gestion)
University Paris XIII