Jake Appleton

• Undertake tasks related to balance sheet reconciliation, enhancing overall financial accuracy
• Posting journals for month end. Calculating Fixed assets, Prepayment and Accruals.
• Evaluated existing financial systems regularly; proposed improvements where necessary
• Liaised closely with other departments for better understanding of company-wide expenses.
• Manage the Purchase order accrual. Ensuring that all Pos are receipted correctly and identifying correct delivery dates for the Pos that are un-receipted
• Coordinated end-of-month closing activities swiftly; facilitated quicker reporting times.
• Reconcile bank statements meticulously, leading to error-free records and transparency in transactions.
• Managed account payables and receivables, resulting in improved cash flow management.
• Maintained the general ledger, ensuring accurate representation of business transactions.
• Collaborated effectively with external auditors during annual audit process for smooth operations.
• Performed variance analysis between actual and forecasted figures to identify potential areas of concern or improvement.
• Providing the data that goes into the ESG strategy report produced by our CEO

I work in a small team of 3. There is myself, The Finance Manager and an Accounts Apprentice. The department is very fast paced, attention to detail and getting things right first time is always top of the list.

• Assist in the preparation of the management accounts with my finance Manager and the Managing Director
• Posting and allocation payments and receipts
• Bank reconciliation
• Raising sales invoices & processing the job packs to go down to operations, providing support to the sales team with any mixed VAT queries on contracts
• Making payments to suppliers and uploading Purchase invoices
• Producing Daily sales figures to the Sales Manager & MD
• Quarterly VAT returns
• Monthly CIS returns for Purchase & Sales
• Calculating and posting journals, Fixed Assets, Accruals & Prepayment
• Full WIP review with my manager and the Operations Manager
• Full Balance Sheet reconciliation
• Overhead analysis. Accruing up to any missing costs and challenging additional costs/spend
• Calculating Sales Commissions

• Producing monthly reports covering;

◦ Client specific reports (fee's billed, disbursements & current debt).

◦ Cash collection forecasting.

◦ WIP and debt analysis.

◦ Extracting cases to bill in accordance with client specific SLA's.

◦ Producing monthly management reports for the Manchester office. This includes Net profit view, gross profit view as a whole office & a further breakdown for individual teams.

◦ Producing a presentation covering all departments in the business to give the Partners a detailed view for their monthly meeting.

• Producing Daily reports covering;

◦ Month to date billing position against budget

◦ Month to date cash collected against target

◦ Daily bank reconciliations for our Office & Clients accounts

• Calculated the Fee Earners bonus scheme. Giving updates to the partners on this monthly.
• Posting the salary journals sent over from the payroll team to make sure the costs are posted correctly. Updating any changes/movements throughout the year.
• Lots of AdHoc work for Partners & departmental heads around team profitability. Often going into the granular level of person by person profitability including variance analysis of how they would be performing they were fully utilised