Karen Rushton

My duties and responsibilities are:

• To update and maintain school fund spreadsheets/systems, ensuring correct accounts are credited and debited, to enable satisfactory auditing and provision of regular updated balances to the teaching staff and Trust Central Finance.
• To ensure that all cash and cheques paid into school fund are banked regularly.
• To ensure that main school petty cash, school fund petty cash and school fund bank account are reconciled on a monthly basis for Trust Central Finance.
• To develop use of Parentpay for all school payments, reconciling transactions daily.
• Maintain accurate records for all school trips and the sale of resources for students, liaising with teachers to confirm participant numbers.
• Undertake all necessary processes to ensure Free School Meals are allocated to eligible students and to issue vouchers during holiday periods to parents/carers of eligible students.
• Assist in the management of school lets, including providing schedules for Trust Central Finance to invoice hirers.
• Organising the administration of music lessons offered to students, issuing renewal letters and processing payments.
• Liaising with Trust Central Finance in regards to any invoices/statements that are sent to school for processing.

• Cooperated with other invigilators as part of a team to maintain vigilance throughout the entire exam room,.
• Managed time effectively to ensure prompt start and end of examinations.
• Reported any irregularities observed during invigilation directly to senior staff members, ensuring transparency and fairness at all times.
• Contributed to smooth running of exams by distributing necessary materials to candidates promptly.
• Collected completed scripts after each examination, maintaining orderliness and preventing loss of papers.
• Assisted in exam set up, creating an organised and conducive environment for candidates.

• Processed weekly, fortnightly and monthly payroll for over 60 clients.
• Filed necessary online reports to HMRC on behalf of the clients including year end reports, adhering to all the necessary time schedules.
• Prepared and processed Limited Company client's statutory books ensuring that all information was up to date, including filing the Annual Returns with Companies House when due.
• Filed Limited Company's Accounts online to Companies House within the strict time schedules.
• Answered the main switchboard and dealt with incoming calls from clients, directing them to the appropriate department.

• Undertaking all payroll duties on behalf of our clients.
• Performing book-keeping tasks to complete VAT Returns and year end accounts for clients.
• Answering the main switchboard and directing incoming calls appropriately.

• This was a Christmas post as a Sales Assistant, working in the Men's Department of the store.
• Familiarised in how to manage stock.

• Learned how filing systems worked.
• Checked purchase and sales invoices before entering them on their appropriate ledgers.
• Trained on how to perform all payroll tasks for the Company.
• Developed the accounts department from manual accounts systems over to a computerised system.
• On promotion to Accounts Manager, ensured that the department ran smoothly.
• Produced necessary management reports for the Directors.
• Completed checks before paying suppliers.
• Responsible for signing cheques.
• Responsible for credit control, ensuring that client accounts were up to date.