Khadine Melissa Oke
Shoreham-by-Sea,West Sussex
Summary
Accomplished finance professional with expertise in VAT compliance, account reconciliation, and payment processing. Demonstrates strong skills in budget management, cash flow management, and month end processes. Proven track record in client relationship management and process improvement, with a keen eye for detail and effective communication. Adept at reviewing data and problem resolution, ensuring accurate invoice processing and timely financial reporting. Committed to leveraging skills for continued professional growth in financial operations.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Cashier
Studio Lambert
London
02.2025 - 07.2025
- Managing the ART department expenses and float expenditure across three series.
- Equals floats reconciliation (180K worth of floats) – Checking for VAT applicable items and claiming where needed. Reviewing receipts and budget line items.
- Credit card reconciliations - Checking for VAT applicable items and claiming where needed. Reviewing receipts and also line and budget line items.
- Circulating Credit Card balances – Ensuring production is aware of available cash on a weekly basis.
- Art department Labour - Cross referencing the Art department labour log against the cost manager budgets, working with Production to ensure the tracker was reconciled and agreed with the budgets in the system raising discrepancies when they arise.
- Managing the Art department budget codes with PMI system – carefully checking that the correct regions are applied to budget lines to fall in line with reporting.
- Processing expenses: Weekly sweep of expenses raised by the production team/crew – reviewing in PMI and raising the payments within the bank (manual/bacs).
- Uploading invoices for review and payment.
Adhoc Bookkeeping
Above Title Production Finance Limited
- 07.2025
- AR/AP processing.
- Setting up talent for payroll on Moneypenny.
- Processing journals.
- Petty cash/Credit Card Reconciliation.
- Intercompany recharges.
Financial Accounting Assistant
Church of England
01.2022 - 07.2025
- I work as part of a team of three to manage 3 crucial areas within the Financial Accounting department of a large financial team. My main areas of focus is Treasury, this involves processing payments through the bank system, working closely along side the Accounts Payable team to ensure we have sufficient funds to send payments, that all UK and international payments are set up in a timely manner and signed off before the deadline. Resolving any issues which may occur. As well as this I also set up new bank accounts in our account package. Updating daily balances, uploading the daily bank statements to SAP, ensuring monies are received and reported for all property sales and dealing with day-to-day enquiries. Monthly I am responsible for uploading all bacs files relating to payroll across the 7 NCIs ensuring all DD arrangements are set up for the property management team. Add new mandates as needed.
- Journal processing, uploading, and posting financial journals into the SAP system, working with the wider teams to ensure information uploaded is correct and documentation is attached for audit purposes. I am also involved in retiring assets, ensuring all journals are uploaded to the correct company in time for month end closing.
- The 3rd area of focus is all month end tasks. This involved running our monthly settlement process, running the FICO report, and dealing with any differences to ensure the balance sheet is correct. Producing investment uploads for the Account Receivable team to document all income from investments. Preparing the quarterly investment revaluations, producing journals for bank charges, FX differences. Running depreciations and contacting the relevant teams. Bank reconciliations as well as balance sheet reconciliations for our investment accounts.
- Alongside this I have 3 cash flows that I manage for 3 of our NCIs (companies) I manage the clearing down of settled items for one of our treasury ledgers and any adhoc duty as required.
Client Account Assistant
United Agents, The Literary and Talent Agency
Soho
01.2018 - 01.2022
- Working within the Film and TV department I process client monies for mainly writers and directors, as well as our theatre clients. Accurately calculating monies received, allocating to the correct client, and processing incoming fees to client’s accounts in a timely manner paying particular attention to VAT implications – raising VAT invoices where needed, pension deductions and any overseas tax for foreign deals. Examine and approving client invoices/contracts on behalf of the agents’ assistants, to comply with UK VAT regulations resulting in speedy payments. Scanning contracts ensuring the correct individual or loan out company has been invoiced and that the money received it linked to the correct entity. Processing royalties and weekly fees from BBC and ITV.
- Use of SUN accounting system to carry out double entry bookkeeping and ledger entries. Processing manual oversea payments from our USD/EUR accounts, payment reversals and perform corrections on client/company accounts. Identifying and rectify accounting errors in time avoiding further complications. Generating client ledger reports/statements.
- Investigating monies received without supporting documentations and allocating efficiently. Resolve client/purchaser/accountant telephone and email queries maintaining a high level of professionalism and discretion when dealing with clients or their accountants and adhering to GDPR rules.
- I am currently responsible for the reconciliation of our client Euro account.
- I provide cover when the Technicians Accountant and the Client Accountant are on leave. During this period, I will run the biweekly pay runs as well as manual payment to clients with foreign accounts, as well as processing the weekly fees for our technical client’s payroll drawing payslips down using systems such as Moneypenny, Sargent Disc and TPH.
Team Administrator/ Finance Officer
CAID
01.2013 - 01.2018
- Managing the cash flow spreadsheet updating the daily balances moving money where necessary to ensure a healthy balance for all accounts, checking for income, updating payments due to leave the account i.e. payroll, invoices and expenses. Selling currencies and withdrawing from reserves where needed.
- Making grant payments to respective partners before daily deadline, ensuring all grants submitted are checked and approved within 3 days from receipt in accordance with monthly KPI. Processing between 100-350 grants a month.
- Uploading the weekly bacs payments for invoices and expenses as well as monthly payroll. Taking charge of manual overseas payments for international invoices and overseas payments. Ensuring the relevant level of authority has been received and that the necessary paperwork supplied for payment.
- Reconciling USD currency account, international salary account, accrual and debtors accounts monthly. Checking discrepancies against the ledger and making corrections where needed.
- Checking and posting journals for the international departments expenses and reconciling bank/cash books through Standard Financial Returns. processing country offices cash flow for the month, ensuring requests are within the budget allocated requesting documentation for excess funds. Setting up Grant codes/ new employees into SUN. Approving bank validations within Promise and liaising with teams when information is needed.
- Updating the monthly exchange rate table including GBP, NGN, INR and EUR for uploading into SUN systems and Promise.
- Working to monthly/year end timetable. Collating information for audit purposes.
- Creating monthly signing rota to allocate finance colleagues days to approve payments within the banking systems, interview coordination meeting and greeting candidates ensuring the interview rooms are set up, storing tests for review.
- Hand out petty cash in terms with organisations policy and procedures, collate receipts and allocate correct budget/expense codes to invoices, raise POs and input information into Proactis/SUN.
- Order currency, arrange the approval of budget holders and ensure security documents are valid for travelers.
- Managing journal and storage files/storing financial information in a protected manner.
- Responding to queries, relaying messages to the relevant person/s.
- Posting general journals for non-finance departments to make corrections liaising with teams regarding budget cross coding ensure relevant teams are aware and the right approval was sought.
Sales Advisor
Dune Group Limited
10.2009 - 01.2013
Office Assistant
Eco-T Ltd/ The Hemp Trading Company
09.2008 - 01.2010
Administrator
Bailey Bravo Jobling Solicitors
London
09.2005 - 09.2008
Standard Assistant/Facilities Co-ordinator
The Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practitioner
09.2003 - 09.2005
Education
BA Hon - Event Management
University of East London
London 01.2011 - 01.2013
Access to HE Diploma - Access Fashion Media and Communications
London College of Fashion
01.2008 - 01.2009
Level 3 Advanced Book-keeping - Accounting
AAT
LondonDiploma in Production Accounting - Accounting for Film and TV
NFTS
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire 09.2024 - 05.2025
Skills
- VAT compliance
- Account reconciliation
- Payment processing
- Budget management
- Reconciliation
- Client relationship management
- Invoice processing
- Cash flow management
- Data analysis
- Problem resolution
- Attention to detail
- Time management
- Effective communication
- Process improvement
- Asset management and depreciation
References
References upon request
Timeline
Cashier
Studio Lambert
02.2025 - 07.2025
Diploma in Production Accounting - Accounting for Film and TV
NFTS
09.2024 - 05.2025
Financial Accounting Assistant
Church of England
01.2022 - 07.2025
Client Account Assistant
United Agents, The Literary and Talent Agency
01.2018 - 01.2022
Team Administrator/ Finance Officer
CAID
01.2013 - 01.2018
BA Hon - Event Management
University of East London
01.2011 - 01.2013
Sales Advisor
Dune Group Limited
10.2009 - 01.2013
Office Assistant
Eco-T Ltd/ The Hemp Trading Company
09.2008 - 01.2010
Access to HE Diploma - Access Fashion Media and Communications
London College of Fashion
01.2008 - 01.2009
Administrator
Bailey Bravo Jobling Solicitors
09.2005 - 09.2008
Standard Assistant/Facilities Co-ordinator
The Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practitioner
09.2003 - 09.2005
Adhoc Bookkeeping
Above Title Production Finance Limited
- 07.2025
Level 3 Advanced Book-keeping - Accounting
AAT
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