Dooshima Lydia Gberbo
Greater London,London
Summary
Meticulous part qualified ACCA accounting professional with over 6 years of experience in a range of industries such as publishing, property management and charities.
Excellent work ethic and analytical problem-solver with demonstrated ability to adapt to new environments, engage a range of stakeholders and deliver value.
Currently and actively seeking new opportunities.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Financial Accounts Officer
The Salvation Army, UK&I
London
04.2024 - Current
- Managing and monitoring the biggest bank accounts for the UK&I territories
- Completing monthly bank reconciliations across 4 bank accounts
- Business Partnering with Fundraising department
- Preparing monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Posting inter-company journals
- Investigating errors and overseeing their correction
- Initiating soft close for Month End by running team reports on a timely basis
- Reduced volume of unreconciled transactions in main bank account from previous years by 95%
- Leading In cross-departmental collaboration by leading meetings with Fundraising and Financial Accounting on a monthly basis
- Creating methods to ensure further transparency for incoming auditors to find and follow flow of information easier.
Assistant Accountant
MS Society
London
10.2022 - 03.2024
- Providing actuals v budget analysis and commentary
- Assisting with monthly management accounts e.g. balance sheet reconciliations, journal postings, accruals and prepayments
- Assisting with monthly budgets
- Coordinating and providing support to Auditors
- Management of Purchase Ordering system for CN team
- Engaging with and maintaining relationships with stakeholders
- Developed and implemented financial process improvements
- Creating systems to decrease errors in data collection and calculations
- Designed and created financial year end process document to monitor activity of 240 groups across multi-step financial year end process, which improved efficiency by 40%
Commercial Analyst
Harper Collins Publishers
London
01.2022 - 08.2022
- Producing departmental P&Ls and detailed sales and title profitability reports
- Creating detailed analysis of forecast and budget vs previous data sets (actuals, prior forecasts etc)
- Preparing annual budget and monthly forecasts
- Preparing investment cases for new acquisitions & liaising with key departments to gain relevant information
- Preparing month end analysis of actual performance of divisions (and departments within) against forecast and budget
- Leading on production of reporting packs for Commercial Director to present to UK exec members including CFO and CEO
- Ad hoc analysis of financial information to assist Commercial Manager with making further commercial decisions. E.g. Sales reporting to show trends, E-Book to Physical trend analysis and analysis of costs
- Led on automation of financial reporting processes which resulted in 50% reduction in processing time and 40% decrease in manual errors.
Assistant Accountant
Incentive FM
London
03.2020 - 12.2021
- Preparing monthly profit & loss reports for a portfolio of clients
- Overseeing Accounts Receivable variable billing function
- Completing critical review of profit & loss accounts via project cost and revenue scrutiny
- Completing variance analysis for material differences against budget
- Reconciling balance sheet accounts, including accruals and prepayments
- Cost re-allocation to ensure integrity of reporting
- Building relationships with and liaising with stakeholders to ensure accuracy of client reporting
- Provided support to ongoing financial system implementation project
- Working closely with Financial Controller to identify process improvement areas in billing processes
- Collating billing schedules of variable billing from Client Reporting team
- Re-designed and optimised documentation to improve efficiency and clarity, which in turn provided extraneous value to client and reduced human errors by 50%
Education
ACCA - Accounting
Part Qualified & Actively Studying
LondonBachelor of Arts - International Relations And Politics
University of Salford
Manchester07.2018
Skills
- Excel (Intermediate- Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPS, ABS, IFS, MATCH, CONCATENATE & SUMIFS)
- Budgeting & Forecasting
- Management Accounting
- Balance sheet reconciliations
- Bank Reconciliations
- Variance Analysis
- Process Improvement
- Systems: Hyperion Business Objects Access Dimensions Agresso
- High levels of accuracy
- Meeting strict deadlines
Languages
Spanish
Intermediate
Timeline
Senior Financial Accounts Officer
The Salvation Army, UK&I
04.2024 - Current
Assistant Accountant
MS Society
10.2022 - 03.2024
Commercial Analyst
Harper Collins Publishers
01.2022 - 08.2022
Assistant Accountant
Incentive FM
03.2020 - 12.2021
ACCA - Accounting
Part Qualified & Actively Studying
Bachelor of Arts - International Relations And Politics
University of Salford
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