Fathiya Abdullahi

• Business Partnering and supporting 7 schools Secondary, Special and Alternative provision.
• Prepare and review monthly forecast against budgets , conducting subsequent review and challenge of results with budget holders.
• Identify risks and opportunities for review by Finance Director
• Managed month-end close, reviewing prepayments, accruals and actuals
• Calculated and posted month end journals in full compliance with DfE guidelines Post correction journals and reviewing grants such as bursary, pupil premium and SEN grants.
• Prepare comprehensive and timely period-end written commentary for management performance report for trustees
• System administrator for IMP budgeting & PSF/ IRIS financials. Setting up users and maintain access controls.
• Conducted payroll reconciliations, identifying and addressing budget variances with payroll and business managers.
• Prepare quarterly packs for business managers, headteachers, finance director and COOs
• Collaborated with business managers to address budget issues
• Prepare Academies Budget Forecast Return.
• Managed annual and five-year budget setting alongside Director of Finance
• Handled budget considerations, pay changes, and chart of accounts revisions
• Support budget holders and finance staff to ensure consistency, accuracy and compliance
• Assist Director of Finance with adhoc financial analysis
• Provided finance team with query resolutions
• Support Year-end close
• Implemented new financial software, enhancing efficiency.
• Trained new employees on accounting principles and company procedures.
• Calculated and posted month end journals in full compliance with DfE guidelines.

Multi- Academy Trust

• Overseeing and supporting financial accounts for 16 Primary and Secondary schools
• Liaising with finance staff in schools to ensure coding is done correctly and make adjustments' where necessary
• Liaising with Budget holders and non-finance staff on their actual spend and questioning overspend
• Reviewing Bank reconciliations is reconciled and up to date
• Reviewing Balance sheet accounts and control accounts- and making adjustment where necessary such as accruals and prepayment journals or recodes
• Liaising with external payroll provider (EPM) with payroll issues
• Payroll Reconciliations ensuring any discrepancies between payroll submitted and actual payments are investigated- in particular salary advances and third- party deductions.
• Uploading weekly bank statements on to PSF
• Weekly Cashflow balance monitoring
• Preparing and reviewing management account's – variances between actuals and year to date budget and writing commentary for senior managements review
• Posting Intracompany journals and reconciling intracompany
• Assist with year-end duties; Maintain Fixed asset register and provide documents or support to external auditors
• Reviewing and streamlining processes and procedures and reviewing internal controls
• Maintaining Bank signatories and Users
• Monthly VAT returns

Systems Duties involved:

• Setting up new users
• Setting Access levels for users
• Dealing with queries- such as document input, journal uploads, login problems
• Setting up new cost centres, nominals, and locations
• Training new & existing users on PSF Financials and other finance related queries
• Closing/ Opening new periods including VAT periods
• Running reports
• Setting up new suppliers

Company Overview: Retail/ Wholesale DRTV

• Managed purchase ledger, sales ledger and credit control functions
• Multi-currency Bank Reconciliations – USD, EUR and GBP, daily cash receipt reconciliations for sales
• Intercompany reconciliations- and ensure in agreement with other subs before month end
• Post month end Journals, including accruals, prepayments, fixed asset depreciation, bad debt provisions
• Perform Balance sheet reconciliation
• Prepare P&L and Balance sheet, and review variances between actual and budgets
• Month end reports on bad debt and unbilled sales
• Prepare Quarterly Vat returns for UK and bi-monthly Irish vat Returns and submit EC Sales to HMRC
• Ensure all billings for Retail wholesale and DRTV sales are booked on time
• Chase outstanding wholesale debt
• Review Aged debtors and creditors, deal with queries that arise both external and internal
• Prepare weekly cash flow and cash balances
• Prepare audit file for year end and liaise with auditors
• Supporting transactional processing team and working along- side Financial Controller
• Installed internal controls and set up standard procedures for business accounting systems.
• Conducted regular reviews and official audits to validate recordkeeping and controls.

Company Overview: Charity

• First point of contact for queries within finance corporate team
• Day to day reconciliation of store receipts for over fifty stores
• Bank reconciliations, and sales ledger reconciliations, were up to date
• Charity
• Generated invoices based on established accounts receivable schedules and terms.
• Improved operational efficiency by automating various finance-related tasks wherever possible.

Company Overview: Fashion Retail

• Responsible for all retail store receipt reconciliations
• Update Bank statements on JD Edwards
• Assist with Internal and External Audits
• Multi -currency (GBP, USD, and EUR) bank reconciliations: consisting of 8 Bank accounts, ensuring all direct debits are recorded and accounted for
• Supervise credit controller for Wholesale outstanding debt and ensure debt is collected on time, be reviewing aged debtors, and credit terms
• Ensure timely process of Wholesale billings
• Prepare journal entries for bank funding transfers done between bank accounts, and provision for obsolete stock Journal entries
• Prepare Payroll accrual Journals from European office
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations, ensuring aged item are cleared off or investigated, within 90 days audit guidelines from US office, and ensure SOX compliance
• P&L Reviews and Analysis, investigating any variances between budget and actual, and providing commentary reviews for budget holders for management packs at month end
• Month end close, includes Journal entries accruals and prepayments, Double entry bookkeeping
• Liaising with US Corporate AP, AR and cash management team, to ensure cash applied and invoices processed correctly
• Conducted research on market trends to support forecasting and budgeting efforts.
• Identified potential financial risks by meticulously reviewing transaction histories.
• Generated invoices based on established accounts receivable schedules and terms.
• Managed cash flow effectively to ensure smooth business operations.
• Ensured prompt payment from clients by efficiently managing accounts receivable.
• Reviewed and processed employee expense reports and vendor invoices for payment.
• Utilised advanced Excel functions for speedy data processing and analysis.

Company Overview: Fashion Retail

• Key Duties include inputting multi-currency stock invoices on to Sun system using Vision
• Reconciliation of stock accounts
• Raising debit notes for faulty stock, processing proforma invoices, matching packing lists for delivered stock to invoices, checking unit prices and billed amounts are correct
• Raising queries with supplier, requesting credit when due
• Prepare of stock (intrasat) vat returns processing of all company employee expenses, personal and credit cards
• Checking expenses are in line with company policy and procedures, raising queries with senior managers
• Processing cash advances for employees and ensuring receipts is submitted on time
• Reconciling employee accounts
• Maintaining multi-currency petty cash and reconciliation
• Prepare stock accruals for month end
• Updating Age creditors daily, Posting Direct Debits
• Provide cover for team members
• Fashion Retail
• Expertly prioritised busy workload and conflicting deadlines to meet accounting targets.
• Reconciled supplier statements to achieve accounts accuracy.
• Sorted, coded and matched large amounts of invoices each month, exceeding department target.

• Company Overview: BGS, Logistics
• Sole responsibility for Purchase Ledger and managing one other when required: matching, coding, and batching of invoices on to JD Edwards and Sage Accpac
• Processing 3rd Party & Inter-company invoices onto in-house system and cost variance analysis
• Distributing invoices for approval and ensuring payments are made
• Ensure that invoices have new supplier forms completed, Purchase orders, authorised by the correct signatories and ensure AP SOX procedures are me, and liaise with our audit teams in SOX testing
• Reconciling statement, dealing with supplier queries
• Issuing Purchase orders and responsible for maintaining petty cash and employee expenses
• Creating CHAPS, Bacs runs, cheque runs and foreign payment
• Dealing with multi-currency accounts
• Allocating payments
• Bank account reconciliations
• Running Month end reports and month end accruals
• Ad-hoc duties included chasing customers for payments when Credit controller was absent
• Raising approximately 50 Sales Ledger invoices per month on in- house systems for airline handling, ensuring rates were kept up to date and send out to custom
• BGS, Logistics

• Experienced telephone interviewer, duties included interviewing clients for purpose of market research, inputting data into system and grading individuals
• Each Task involves working towards achieving strike rates dependent on length of survey
• Led punctuality surveys to assess service provisions and enable improvement planning.
• Recorded, handled and processed data for accurate analyses.
• Maintained and encouraging attitude even in face of rejection or hostility from respondents.

• Processing Invoice and ensuring orders matched.
• Arranging weekly bacs runs to suppliers
• Inter-company reconciliations
• Overhead allocation, inputting expenses into general ledger and posting journals
• Also working with credit control and arranging contras with suppliers, dealing with queries, and year-end balance sheet reconciliations
• Completed daily and monthly bank reconciliations and noted any discrepancies.
• Monitored accounts payables and receivables to proactively spot and handle problems.
• Assisted senior accountant for audit preparation.
• Monitored account activity, detected discrepancies promptly.
• Followed bookkeeping regulations and tax legislation to maximise external compliance.
• Navigated various accounting systems and followed different accounting techniques to meet company standards.