Lily Hogan

Assistant management accountant for multi entity/multi currency business with 11 entities and 18+ currencies.

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed and analysed overheads, maintaining detailed financial schedules/reports for all entities.
• Managed accounts payable and receivable, ensuring prompt payments and effective cash flow.
• Prepared VAT returns for numerous entities and collaborated with foreign accountants on audits.
• Conducted 50+ bank reconciliations and maintained, balance sheets for intercompany transactions.
• Compiled and analysed data for weekly cash reporting to be presented to CFO and board meetings to improve budget forcasting.
• Produced detailed staff expenses log for review and set up payroll.

Achievements:

• Reduced month end by 5 working days
• Achieved 50% reduction in accounts payable processing time while enhancing productivity and detail on other accounting responsibilities.

Assistant management accountant specialising in department budgeting and end of month analytics.

Responsibilities

• Forecast department spend and organised budget documentation, tracking expenses to maintain visibility of spending.
• Managed bank reconciliations for 11 entities and posted Accounts receivable cash daily.
• End of month responsibilities analysing overheads, raising monthly invoices, processing payroll/credit card journals and creating/allocating Direct Debit runs.
• Processed Accounts payable transactions in numerous currencies.
• Started as Credit controller Clerk, resolving Credit control queries,uploading invoices to portals and auditing customer accounts for billing accuracy.

Achievements

• Project managed implementation of new finance and ticketing systems for credit control (Yaypay and Zendesk). Improved overall efficiency, reducing aged debt from £1.6m to £500k
• Created and managed team proactively acquiring missing purchase orders to improve cash flow. In first month, successfully acquired 31% of purchase orders, worth £146k, by fourth month, 61% of purchase orders worth £670k

Credit Control Administrator responsibilities:

• Created and managed invoices for multiple entities/multi currency and chased clients due/overdue invoices.
• Maintained electronic and paper files of all invoices and client terms of business
• Confidently used Salesforce and Microsoft Office such as Outlook, Word and Excel
• Responded to telephone inquiries from clients, vendors and members of the public

Office Administrator responsibilities:

• Streamlined operations by organising files and documents to implement improved workflow and organisation
• Maintained and organised reception area and greeted candidates/ clients.

• Opened and closed store and executed daily till/safe cash reconciliations accurately.
• Supported management team as floor manager and completed admin tasks producing staff rotas, calculating daily/weekly targets for team members and briefing staff on daily tasks.