Microsoft Office Applications- word, excel (Vlookup, Pivot table, formulae, power point)
CHRISTOPHER UADIA
Bedford
Summary
Offering two years of related experiences in the financial sector, 4 years in customer services and experiences gained within the recruiting agency (working at REED and Celsus Group). Eager to be part of a robust team, to contribute and build on the teams success. Prepared to bring commitment and leadership to an organization and known for identifying improvement opportunities and spearheading activities to drive effectiveness build harmony among team members.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Primary Care Recruiter
Celsus Group
2022.08 - Current
- Developed strong understanding of industries served, allowing for targeted recruiting efforts for specialized positions.
- Identify staffing needs within primary care practices. Matching qualified healthcare professionals (GPs, ANPs, ACPs, Practice Nurses) to available positions. Working closely with over 25 clinicians and ensuring that their Locums needs are sorted.
- Managed high-volume requisitions in timely manner to meet client staffing needs efficiently. Thereby maintaining continual relationship with practice manager or any point of contacts like rota managers
- Negotiated competitive salary packages with candidates and clients, resulting in successful offers and acceptances. Taking into consideration current market climate in ensuring favourable client negotiation.
- Worked closely with over 10 clients and have had several placements worth over £30000 with just 1 client within 3 months of working with them
- Trained over 4 junior recruiters on best practices, contributing to overall team success and improved efficiency.
- Provided exceptional customer service to both clinicians and clients, fostering long-term relationships with new business opportunities.
- Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements related to staffing and placements. Maintain accurate records of placements, contracts, and agreements.
- Develop contingency plans to address unexpected staff shortages (like maternity cover and sick covers ).Ensure continuity of care by promptly filling vacant positions.
- Discussing with clients about the ARRS fundings and seeking business opportunities with PCN
Talent Executive
REED
8 2021 - 2022.08
- Conducted vacancy briefing calls weekly on all newly ordered roles to facilitates and provide an avenue for hiring managers to provide suitable information that can aid in identifying the ideal candidates.
- Communicated with over 23 suppliers and presented qualified candidates to hiring managers and solicited feedback to refine recruiting strategy.
- Worked and recruited on different borough accounts such as Nottingham, Leicester city, Leicester county, Lewisham, Reading, Solihull and Oxford city.
- Sourced and screened candidates for administrative roles, Finance roles, social worker roles and worked with hiring managers to coordinate interviews, offers and onboarding.
- Optimized sourcing networks by maintaining constant communications with all the suppliers and used proactive methods to identify any issues during the recruiting processes.
- Tracked candidates and pushed for feedback on disqualifications, time-to-fill statistics and chased for compliances of the candidates.
- Cultivated an in-depth understanding of the Qualified social worker and every related industry trends within the council.
- Operated and maintained applicant tracking management systems with the operating software that is utilized at the company.
- Rectified and resolved disputes between 3 different suppliers on the right to represent a candidates. This is a constant problem within the recruiting sector as a candidates CV's are easily obtained.
- Recruited for over 40 roles that are for different industries and ensured that sourced CV's are forwarded to the hiring managers and feedbacks are derived within a timely manner.
- Worked alongside accounts managers and different hiring managers to source for 5 candidates (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub role) during a hard time within the Solihull council. To ensure that candidates are suitable for the role.
- Chased the Hiring managers to authorized over 24 timesheets and request if already booked candidates contracts should be extended.
- Aided managers via teams call in creating orders on the company's internal system.
- Met with clients every friday via teams call to develop strategies that could aid in the recruiting processes
- Assisted candidates and suppliers in resolving issues that relate to the candidates bookings, pay rates, timesheets, compliances etc.
CITATION CORDINATOR
Enterprises Holdings
2019.09 - 2021.07
- Processing traffic violations including Parking, Speeding and Bus lane penalties
- Responsibility for incoming correspondence and Liaising directly with customers and local councils regarding queries on penalties.
- Perform the reconciliation, verification of payments and ensuring that the cash amounts in the company's accounting ledgers are according to the monthly bank statements.
- Due diligence regarding time sheets and maintaining a strict punctuality routine.
- Maintained EHI Fleet Customers satisfaction with forward-thinking strategies focused on addressing customer needs and resolving various concerns.
- Advised and trained the team members and supervisor on a more efficient way in reducing the workload which was experienced at every month end.
- Processed and generated over 1000 invoices for over 600 different clients accounts with or without a purchasing order, per day using KERRIDGE invoice system.
- Achieved the reduction of workload by ensuring that invoices are processed early so as to assist in improving the finances ( every department is issued £70000 but expected to recover at least 90% of expenses via invoices)
- Facilitated weekly staff calls and monitored the work activities across the team members during the absence of the supervisor during the Covid Lockdown.
- Performed Independent task without a proper supervision during the lockdown thereby improving on knowledge in reporting, bank reconciliation and dealing with difficult customers.
- Training new team members on how to use TradeX in uploading invoices online for the client's use.
- Slashed 400 emails down by 30% by responding, re-directing and resolving the difficult queries and negotiating/dealing with difficult customers and ensuring the continuation and enhancements of services.
- Communicate with TFL over the removal of previous registered customers on a vehicle and provided them with V5 to assist with their decisions.
- Managing timely invoice uploads using Tradex, 1link for EHI Fleet Customers.
- Record and update aging AR contact information and contractual agreement of clients using excel and PRISM system.
- Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.
Retail Assistants
Marks And Spencers
2016.04 - 2019.08
- Trained and supervised new team members on product placement and how to increase sales.
- Assisted customers in selecting products that best fit their current needs and suggest additional products.
- Achieved three consecutive monthly forecasted budgets of £10000; In March 2019, the store manager and the team received an acknowledgement certificate for being top in performance budget in M&S Format.
- Attained 12% sales revenue in 2018/2019 as compared to the 5% in 2017/2018 sales revenue.
- Devoted special emphasis to punctuality and worked to maintain outstanding attendance record, consistently arriving to work ready to start immediately.
- Received and processed stock into inventory management system.
Accounts Assistant
Tax giants
2017.12 - 2018.02
- Performed administrative and clerical duties such as word processing, data entry, and copying.
- Organized data into multiple spreadsheets which would be used by the supervisor.
- Used Ms Excel to prepare weekly financial reports reflecting clients business daily expenses.
- Reconciled account information and reported figures in general ledger for each clients by comparing to bank account statement each month.
- Performed administrative and clerical duties such as word processing, data entry, faxing and copying, keeping records of clients business expenses, reviewed figures.
- Investigated daily variances uncovered with clients bank statement to correct errors to resolve discrepancies.
- Reviewed figures, postings and documents for correct entry, completeness and accuracy.
- Maintained and organized files by keeping accounts payable records up-to-date.
Education
Master of Science - Accounting And Finance (ACCA)
BPP University
London, ENG 2016.02 - 2019.02
Master of Science - MSc in Forensic Audit And Accounting
University of Southwales
Cardiff, CRF 2014.09 - 2015.12
Skills
Team building and supervision
Account Reconciliation- Monthly forecast of expenditures v Bank records statement
Written and Oral communication- reporting to low level and senior level management on status and timeframe of a a given task
Eye for detail- Observing and cross-checking for any errors and proactively correcting this discrepancies before it becomes a major issues
Problem-solving and conflict resolution skills
Ability to work independently and collaboratively
Software
Kerridge and Tradex (invoice processing application)
Adobe suites- photoshop, Lightroom, premiere pro
Eclipse
Timeline
Primary Care Recruiter
Celsus Group
2022.08 - Current
CITATION CORDINATOR
Enterprises Holdings
2019.09 - 2021.07
Accounts Assistant
Tax giants
2017.12 - 2018.02
Retail Assistants
Marks And Spencers
2016.04 - 2019.08
Master of Science - Accounting And Finance (ACCA)
BPP University
2016.02 - 2019.02
Master of Science - MSc in Forensic Audit And Accounting
University of Southwales
2014.09 - 2015.12
Talent Executive
REED
8 2021 - 2022.08