Fatima Mulla

• Prepare and maintain controls, including Cost Centre and Ledger reconciliations, prepayments and accruals during month end processes
• Actively improving processes to allow for quicker analysis and improved decision making
• Supporting the Management Accountant in reporting to multiple stakeholders with the creation of new dashboards and reporting packs
• Collecting and collating information and data to prepare annual budgets and forecast projections.
• Development of Budget Holder training
• Involved in costing of new upcoming projects with detailed research in to the benefits and drawbacks
• Supporting where required for Audit
• Checking and coding of supplier invoices and raising invoices to customers.

Service Accountant

Dec 21 - Mar 23

• Supporting the Research and Innovation department by effectively providing detailed, accurate and up to date reporting to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Costings for new research projects at multiple stages, from a project with a >10K budget to over a million pounds. This also includes costing and reporting on variations to contracts.
• Budgetary control, including preparation of month end accounts and monitoring.
• Forecasting over one year period to multiple years, depending on the needs of the stakeholders.
• Attending and leading budget clinics, joining ad-hoc meetings and minuting meetings with important stakeholders.
• Approval of vacancies, staffing changes and monitoring any overpayment of salary within the R&I team
• Creating payment profiles for contracts and subcontracts
• Responsibilities also entailed producing multiple reports for the Senior Accountants, Department of Health, Trust Board and Committee.
• Provided finance training to new and existing staff for cohesive collaboration between finance and R&I
• Managed and checked support staff workload

Assistant Management Accountant

Sept 18 - Nov 21

• Responsibilities included undertaking budgetary control of four directorates under Corporate.
• Analysis, Detailed Breakdown and Reporting to Senior Management
• Liaising with Budget Holders via Meetings, Email, Phone Calls to discuss and handle any queries
• Monthly forecasting and writing narratives for any variances
• Creating and Distributing reporting packs
• Involved in Central Tasks which impacted the wider finance team
• Training and supporting the students/apprentices within the team

• For a year within this role, worked in Accounts Payable inputting invoice and credit notes in to the system.
• Promoted to Management Accounts team to work in Central Finance
• Efficiently posted accrual and prepayments for all directorates
• Raised Invoices to customers
• Checked through remittances and statements
• Provided analysis when requested by Management Accountants
• Point of contact between the finance team and the outsourced Shared Services regarding invoices, payments and payroll queries
• Observed strict confidentiality policies to maintain data integrity.

Note: Apprenticeship was undertaken at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

• Accounts Payable: Downloading/Printing of invoices, inputting invoices on to the system, communicating with suppliers, checking statements and responding to queries and chasing approvers for invoice sign off.
• Accounts Receivables: Raising invoices, checking bank statements to income received, chasing debtors and general admin duties
• Cashiers: treasury management and handling petty cash.
• Management Accounts: Analysis of data to find variances and supporting the Assistant Accountants in ad-hoc tasks.
• Payroll: input of data into the Payroll system and checking travel claims of staff.

• Completed CIMA Operational Level
• Currently undertaking Management Level