Lauren Darnell
Lower Stondon,Bedfordshire
Summary
Detail-oriented Clerk and Responsible Financial Advisor with strengths in financial management and compliance monitoring. Manages daily financial operations, ensuring accuracy in processing transactions and maintaining meticulous records. Delivers efficient collaboration with external bodies to enhance service delivery and community value.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Clerk and Responsible Financial Advisor
Shillington Parish Council
Shillington, Bedfordshire
06.2024 - Current
- Financial management
- Processed invoices, receipts, payments, and other financial transactions with accuracy to maintain financial records.
- Compiled financial data and drafted billing reports to track past-due accounts and support financial reconciliation.
- Managed daily operations of council, ensuring smooth functioning and adherence to policies.
- Manage the day-to-day business of the Council.
- Manage the council's documentation and communication effectively.
- Facilitated collaboration with external bodies to enhance operational effectiveness and service delivery.
- Actively manage the Council's assets to optimise value to the community.
- Ensuring compliance with legal duties.
- Ensuring statutory obligations of health and safety, risks, and matters of insurance.
- Coordinated parish council meetings to facilitate discussion and decision-making.
- Conducted data entry tasks with a high degree of accuracy, updating databases and maintaining up-to-date records.
- Handled confidential documents, ensuring secure filing and retrieval as per compliance regulations.
- Secured data by following confidentiality procedures.
- Handled photocopying documents, updating files and faxing communications for staff.
- Answered telephone calls to offer information, direct callers and take messages.
- Managed daily office operations and administrative support for senior management, enhancing organisational efficiency.
- Assessed customer needs through clear communication, anticipating and responding appropriately to queries.
- Responded to incoming requests for information or forwarded to appropriate individual.
- Safeguarded sensitive and confidential data in compliance with security best practices.
- Monitored deadlines for projects and tasks, proactively reminding team members to ensure timely completion.
Sales Assistant
Disco-licious
Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire
03.2022 - Current
- Processed sales transactions efficiently, handling cash, credit, and debit payments accurately.
- Greet customers with a friendly and helpful attitude.
- Answered phone calls, relayed messages to colleagues, and provided accurate information to customers.
Postmaster
Ansell Village Stores
Shillington, Bedfordshire
09.2018 - 02.2022
- Inspected mail for correct labelling, postage and documentation.
- Scanned letters and parcels with handheld devices, ensuring accurate and timely updates of system locations and movements.
- Managed telephone and email communication systems effectively.
- Maintained accurate stock counts of supplies and initiated reorders to prevent shortages.
- Maintained and organised confidential documents securely.
- Managed monthly bank reconciliations and reporting, ensuring financial accuracy and balance.
Treasurer
Club 2000 Bingo
Bedford, Bedfordshire
10.2015 - 02.2018
- Monitored expenses, income, budgets and petty cash records and acted upon errors.
- Managed receipt and banking information to monitor and protect company funds.
- Managed accounts payable and receivables, raising invoices, reconciling accounts and processing cash transactions.
- Oversaw daily treasury operations, ensuring accurate transaction processing and financial record-keeping.
- Drafted and submitted monthly reports to relay financial situation and developments.
- Controlled expenditure, oversaw recordkeeping and monitored compliance with standards.
- Produced year-end financial statements in line with regulatory standards.
Education
A-Levels - Health and Social Care
Hastingsbury Business and Enterprise College
Bedford, BDF2017
Skills
- Financial management
- Data entry
- Customer assistance
- Organisational skills
- Reporting accuracy
- Document management
- Compliance monitoring
- Team collaboration
- Confidentiality practices
Timeline
Clerk and Responsible Financial Advisor
Shillington Parish Council
06.2024 - Current
Sales Assistant
Disco-licious
03.2022 - Current
Postmaster
Ansell Village Stores
09.2018 - 02.2022
Treasurer
Club 2000 Bingo
10.2015 - 02.2018
A-Levels - Health and Social Care
Hastingsbury Business and Enterprise College