Jane Matthews

Rebellion is a British video game developer based on Oxford and are best known for Sniper Elite and multiple games in the Alien vs. Predator series. There are multiple companies within the group and they also publish comic books. I am solely responsible for the payroll function with the company.

Main responsibilities

• Process end to end payroll for circa 500 monthly paid staff across 9 payrolls, including Salary Sacrifice schemes, Statutory payments, Student Loans App Levy and RTI submissions
• Process all bank payments for staff, pension provider, HMRC and attachments where applicable
• Liaise with Pension Broker to ensure compliance with auto-enrolment
• Work with other departments across the business, in particular HR, to ensure that all payroll information is correct before processing
• Produce and post monthly wages journals to ERP system
• Reconcile all payroll balance sheet accounts and reconcile payroll reports to the P&L, posting adjustments when necessary
• Produce year end P60's and submissions
• Calculate all BIK charges, produce and submit P11D's annually
• Calculate and submit all PSA's annually
• Produce all reports and reconciliations for the financial audit annually
• Act as point of contact for all staff enquiries
• Ensuring compliance to HMRC for all expenses, benefits and payroll processes, including maintaining the Expenses policies for the group

United Legal Services Ltd (ULS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of SMOOVE plc, a company which is listed on AIM. The principle activity of ULS is to develop and provide software that supports the provision of online legal services comparisons, particularly in the conveyancing sector. The software enables customers to choose conveyancing by price, location or rating from a panel of over 200 medium and large UK law firms.

Main responsibilities

• Reporting to the CFO and overseeing 2 members of the finance team
• Assisting the CFO in month-end preparation by maintaining the financial ledgers and cash books
• Preparation of monthly management accounts for internal management
• Prepare year end final trial balance ready for audit
• Ensuring appropriate systems and internal controls are implemented and maintained, including maintaining and updating the group expenses policy
• Complete quarterly VAT returns
• Dealing with the external audit annually and being the main point of contact between the auditors and the finance team
• Process monthly payroll from beginning to end for circa 150 staff
• Act as administrator for the company pension and all salary sacrifice schemes
• Working with all other departments across the business, in particular HR, to ensure that all payroll information is correct before processing
• Process statutory payments in a timely fashion
• Process year end reporting for payroll
• Process and submit all staff P11D's annually for a variety of benefits
• Act as point of contact for all staff payroll queries
• Ensuring compliance to HMRC for all expenses, benefits and payroll processes

While I was working for MacIntyre Hudson LLP I gained valuable experience working for a variety of different clients within different industries. I learnt the importance of completing work accurately and on a timely basis to assist preparation of monthly management accounts and year end accounts.

Main responsibilities

• Prepare monthly management accounts for clients
• Prepare year end statutory accounts for small clients
• Assist small clients with daily book keeping
• Process weekly payroll for small clients

This was my first job within an accounts department where I learnt the basics and developed my foundation accounting skills.

Main responsibilities

• Banking, posting and allocating to Sage
• Maintaining customer / supplier accounts
• Maintaining petty cash and staff expenses
• Day to day telephone / email queries

• Domestic cleaning locally