Kelly Dugmore

Supporting financial processes for a business with £99m annual turnover, including:

Prepare management accounts

• Performing monthly bank reconciliations for multi-million-pound accounts (2 GBP and 2 EUR), ensuring AR/AP transactions align with bank activity and posting required journals
• Posting salaries and wages
• Completing credit card reconciliations, ensuring correct GL coding, VAT compliance, and supporting documentation
• Processing and posting employee BACS expense claims
• Managing prepayment schedules and releasing journals to ensure accurate expense recognition
• Reviewing expenditure to identify capitalisable items
• Maintaining the fixed asset register and posting depreciation
• Performing balance sheet reconciliations to ensure control accounts agree to the trial balance

Preparing and submitting quarterly VAT returns

Payroll

• Managing weekly payroll processing: updating workforce management systems, resolving attendance exceptions, and coordinating with external payroll providers for 60 weekly-paid employees
• Overseeing monthly payroll runs: updating employee records, processing bonuses, ensuring right-to-work compliance, reviewing payroll reports, and reconciling payments for 40 monthly-paid employees

Ad Hoc Responsibilities

• Handling payroll and finance-related queries
• Providing headcount reports
• Supporting external auditors by providing records and responding to audit requests
• Covering colleagues’ duties during annual leave to maintain workflow

Systems & Software

• Sage 300 (financial management)
• IMetal (inventory/operations management)
• Breathe HR (HR and absence tracking)
• Imperago (workforce management and payroll)

Overseeing key finance activities within a £223m turnover group, with a particular focus on the Residential division encompassing 4 agencies operating 29 children’s homes and 3 schools, such as:

• 4 monthly Bank account Reconciliations (for each agency), reviewed daily posting high volume GL transactions
• Accruals and Prepayments
• Income Review
• Petty Cash Management
• Review P&L with running commentary
• Raised/Approved Payments
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations
• Intercompany Reconciliations

Responsible for the day-to-day transactional finance activities of a company generating £18.6m annually. Duties include;

• Processed purchase and sales invoices
• Reconciled supplier statements
• Bank reconciliation
• Allocated payments
• Managed credit control