Liam Collins

Responsible for daily transactional accounts for Ethical Power Ltd. Duties include:

• Logging, coding and gaining approval for supplier invoices.
• Making card payments for advanced payments raised from purchase orders.
• Accurately validating, coding and identifying VAT reclaimable employee expenses.
• Submitting month end payroll journals.
• Producing weekly CIS returns.

I began my finance career working in a busy purchase ledger department consisting of 5 team members within a larger Finance team. We were responsible for the accounts payable side of Sparex UK, as well as 7 other subsidiaries and our Manufacturing arm Spenco.

• Accurate logging and coding of invoices to correct subsidiary and GL account.
• Gaining approval from correct approver for service invoices and allocate to correct cost centre.
• Matching stock lines to purchase orders, ensuring GRN/ASN is matched to correct invoice.
• Reconciling transactions via statements, recorded activity in Excel spreadsheet and reconciled balances.
• Producing weekly vendor reports detailing movement between payment blocks on invoices for senior management.
• Submitting Month end accrual journals for intercompany transactions for Sparex Fr and Sparex TR.
• Preparing weekly payment runs for all subsidaries.
• Raising internal stock queries to procurement and adjusting lot prices on Varnet/SPX.
• Monitoring direct debit accounts for Sparex Ltd and accruing for debit balances in vendor accounts.

After training in accounts and gaining my AAT qualification, I decided to relocate because of an opportunity to gain (voluntary unpaid) work experience in an accounts department in a respected golf club. I worked primarily in the purchase ledger department and reported directly to the accounts manager.

• I assisted the finance manager with managing general ledgers and account statements.
• Completed bank reconciliations on a month to month basis, graduating from low volume accounts to the principle bank account.
• Accurate logging of invoices to correct tax codes, an important task due to our partial exemption tax status.
• Assisting in month end journals for Accruals and Prepayments.
• Allocating payments to vendor accounts on Croft software.

As a customer service manager it was my duty to perform duty supervisor tasks within our 3 shop marketplace. It was my role to establish a report with our customers and upsell promotions as well as our loyalty products. Aside from customer service functions I was also responsible as duty manager to perform cash management duties, ensuring all cash is accounted for, as well as investigating cash differences and reporting daily figures.

On a day to day basis I was responsible for taking and paying out bets to our customers, whilst complying with GDPR and responsible gambling laws ensuring our customers are in control and safe, reporting concerns if necessary. Being vigilant of the shop floor, making sure money laundering practices are not being performed keeping the shop clean and tidy. Alongside the shop manager it was also our role to monitor and drive weekly promotions in order to hit KPI's and communicating progress regularly to the area manager.

As Bar manager I performed opening, closing and shift change functions to maintain operational standards each day whilst serving food and beverages in a polite and welcoming manner. I maintained detailed inventory of bar supplies and stocked work areas ensuring wastage is low and efficiency is sustained. I worked with the clubhouse manager to keep up to date with the latest trends in customer tastes and implemented promotions accordingly.

Mixed and served both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks for customers by following standard procedures and serving in friendly, polite manner. It was also necessary to follow alcohol awareness procedures for preventing intoxication and dealing with intoxicated guests due to local beer festivals and proximity to the beach.

I operated on both the shop floor, maintaining stock levels on shelves and assisting with customer enquiries, as well as on the POS system serving customers and taking payments. Ensured think 21 procedure is in place to prevent underage people purchasing alcohol or cigarettes.