David Heaton

I was the full-time carer for my late wife who was diagnosed with stage 4 Cancer in 2017.

• Responsible for managing a £50M PA rental revenue process for the Group (Liverpool, Manchester Ship Canal, Clyde Port, Heysham Port, Medway, and Great Yarmouth).
• Working with the group surveyors in the estates team to ensure the property system was kept up to date to account for new tenant income streams and tenants vacating. Accounting for rent uplifts and RPI increases.
• Full sales ledger responsibility. Invoicing tenants each week/month/quarter and dealing with any customer queries and debt queries.
• Posting and accounting for the rental revenue and checking monthly control reports explaining any variance against budget.
• Assisted the estates team for five years with regards to budget and forecast preparation, producing line by line budget reports for all projected tenant income streams for each business entity.
• Responsible for invoicing shipping lines for accumulated marine operational costs including the costs of using the pilotage service, costs of ship tie ups and vessel movements on the quay side.
• Responsible for invoicing customers for refrigerated shipping container charges.
• Responsible for billing our large 3rd party electricity customers.
• Assisting other departments within the business (as and when they needed support) with regards to bank reconciliations, supplier, and intercompany reconciliations.
• Ad hoc assignments such as producing financial reports and trackers to assist and continually improve in key business areas. One area being the ports 8M PA private electricity network business. This involved analysing the electricity consumption of the Port to provide management with information on how electricity is consumed internally and by our third-party customers.
• Responsible for amalgamating newly acquired business entities (being Clyde Port and Great Yarmouth) rental processes and systems in line with the groups existing system to ensure smooth transitions.

Achievements within the role:-

• Managing to successfully complete budget and forecast processes for my business areas.
• Produced an excel/vision report that looked at individual rental trends by individual leases to give department heads a tool that assisted to budget and forecast effectively.
• Building good working internal relationships with key individuals in Estates, Marine and Port Operations. This assisted to continually improve and maintain a smooth operation of various business areas revenue streams.

• Responsible for managing my own portfolio of clients, consisting of Partnerships, Sole Traders and Limited Companies.
• Responsible for completing annual accounts for these clients. As with my other practice jobs this involves; either preparing accounts from client’s manual cashbook records or from their account’s software data. Then completing various analysis work, such as control accounts (i.e., bank, Debtor, Creditor, wages & VAT control accounts). Updating the fixed asset register to account for acquisitions and disposals. Also drafting schedules to deal with adjustments for the likes of Stock/WIP, prepayments and accruals.
• Responsible for completing company secretarial work for individual clients, as necessary.
• Liaising with the partners and tax clerks for the individual clients.

Achievements within the role:-

• I took on more responsibility than with my previous two practice roles and managed my own portfolio of clients.
• Successfully produced annual accounts for a variety of clients.

• As with my previous role, accounts preparation through to the completion of annual financial statements.
• Client VAT returns.
• Audit work for various manufacturing, PR and not for profit organisations. Working as an audit junior liaising with the client to undertake full audit work such as purchasing and income testing.
• Balance sheet testing (e.g., completing debtor circulars and fixed asset testing).
• Completing Various Stock takes.

Achievements within the role:-

• More responsibility was given than in my previous role as I took part in more audit work for some of the firm’s large clients.

• Client VAT returns.
• Accounts preparation through to the completion of annual financial statements. This involves; either preparing accounts from client’s manual cashbook records or from their Sage data. Then completing various analysis work, such as control accounts (i.e., bank, Debtor, Creditor, wages & VAT control accounts). Updating the fixed asset register to account for acquisitions and disposals was also another responsibility. Also drafting schedules to deal with adjustments for the likes of Stock/WIP, prepayments and Accruals.
• Producing Extended Trial balances or coding up the above working papers to post onto Iris accounting software package.
• Completing other final year end adjustments and posting final journals.

• Stock control and replenishment.
• Serving customers and dealing with customer queries.
• General shop duties.