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Melanie Barrett

Harlow,Essex

Summary

An enthusiastic, adaptable and resourceful individual with experience of accounts to Trial balance. Well disciplined, professional and driven, a highly organised team player with a proactive and methodical approach. Valued team member with excellent problem solving and inter-personal skills, keen eye for detail with ability to prioritise and work to tight deadlines. Computer usage on Excel, Word, Outlook, Lotus Notes, SAP, TSYS, Revel, AvantGard, Winbits, IDDC, BBM, BIB, EB2 and Great Plains and Online Banking Platforms

Overview

34
34
years of professional experience

Work history

Senior Accounts Assistant

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
04.2020 - 08.2025
  • Processing invoices & credit notes on a daily basis, at a high volume, that also needs to meet deadline's For payment runs
  • Run reports, weekly to send to the business of unapproved invoices
  • Create new suppliers in the system, as, overseas purchase/UK purchase/freelancers
  • Looking after the AU & UK payment runs, twice a month, have to be kept in the deadline's
  • Looking after 3 areas of the businesses in regards to the suppliers invoices
  • Taking calls from suppliers , to assist their quires
  • Making calls to suppliers, re chasing for missing documents or information regarding refunds or rejected payments
  • Month end close for PL, UK and AU
  • Reconciliation of suppliers account's against their monthly sent statements
  • Adhoc tasks Involve - checking returned payments, rejected invoices posted, update current suppliers details, chasing for old outstanding invoice details to clear from their accounts.
  • Improving finance processes. (SOW/PO system re IR35).
  • Streamlined all 3 entities into alignment to the UK.
  • Handle twice a year the Royalties payment run.
  • Oversee the team in general day to day issues.
  • Cross train on all areas of our dept.

AP Executive

KMMS
10.2019 - 03.2020
  • Dealing with 70% of supplier inquiries across all regions
  • Supplier reconciliation 20%
  • Supplier payments 10%
  • Responsible for interacting with suppliers and internal departments to successfully resolve queries.
  • Identifies internal issues causing supplier disputes and proactively works with internal departments to identify and find resolution.
  • Working closely with the suppliers ensuring you are collaborating to resolve queries whilst providing first class service
  • Managing high volume of queries and responding to daily account queries promptly
  • Supplier Statement Reconciliation
  • Management of regions and overhead accounts
  • Tracking of weekly queries

Classic Cleaning/Atlas
  • Managing workload of a team of 3 cleaners
  • Ensuring all cleaning done to high standard – checks on areas cleaned
  • Help cover for holidays/sick in other contracted company's

Investment Processor (still within PB Ltd)
04.2018 - 10.2019
  • Managing the approvals of all daily disbursements, to ensure adherence to the internal matrix
  • Approval of foreign currency payments via 3rd party Co-processor platform
  • Reporting of cash received into various entity's following the part sake of the business
  • Preparation of journals to be then sent for posting by (ACCEN)
  • Manage the balances in SAP once Journals have been posted to ensure the month end close agrees back to the reports of each country
  • Cash management across 70 banks accounts, organizing of surplus cash to the US counterpart Treasury team
  • Review working capital requirements across entity's

PB Software Group (still within PB Ltd)
10.2012 - 04.2018
  • Preparation/input of daily bank statement, both manual and auto upload
  • Raise global payments & preparing/posting journals required
  • Prepare/Reconcile all bank reconciliations – manage any open cash items
  • Cash management of accounts in remit, managing any loans/deposits held with internal bank/funding
  • Support training to 3rd party provider (Accenture) for cash allocation
  • Manage reported aged debt AP invoices and DDs
  • Manage creation of vendor templates to be approved via our Co-processor banking platform to facilitate foreign currency payments, which are not payable via our local banks
  • Supporting newer members of the team to ensure all tasks are completed correctly and timely
  • Senior level and take on tasks out of my daily remit to ensure work force flow is on a steady level
  • Working closely with other internal/external groups to provide supporting backup/documentation for reporting purposes i.e.: Auditors

Senior Cashier/Investments - Treasurer

Pitney Bowes Ltd
07.1991 - 10.2012
  • Part of the payments and treasury team supporting the UK & ROI PB Ltd, PB Finance, Secap, PBIMS, EMTEX, Postage by Phone entities responsible for:
  • Nominal, bank and balance sheet reconciliations (SAP)
  • Daily Cash transactions are managed to ensure maximum cash utilization
  • Schedule the necessary transfer of funds and liaise with the US Treasury team (PBIF)
  • Managing and reconciling a supply of Petty cash.
  • Creation of all internal/external disbursements across
  • Maintaining cash books and posting to purchase ledger.
  • Journal postings
  • Review Cash flow, ensuring maximum surplus cash invested daily and sufficient funds forecast
  • Responsible for producing various reports related to income and expenditure for senior management.
  • Managing currency accounts, buying and selling currency when required by Accounts Payable team.
  • Analysis of expense payments ensuring compliance to expense policy and providing support and training to outsource expense processing team.
  • Resolving internal and external accounting/billing/debt related queries
  • Responsible for all banking, ensuring this is completed correctly and on time
  • Supplier statement reconciliations – weekly/monthly complete Qtr. and year ends in more depth
  • Preparation of balance sheet/cash books for various company divisions
  • Run reports for review at month end, and end of year reports.
  • Support 3rd party provider (Accenture) where needed with cash allocation.
  • Support Accounts Payable dept. in clearing aged debt items on accounts and creating new bank templates for customers

Skills

  • Financial forecasting insight
  • Statement verification
  • Strategic financial planning
  • Month-End closure experience
  • Allocation of payments
  • Discretion and confidentiality
  • Invoice processing
  • Payment Processing

Accomplishments

  • Identified development requirements and provided training and support to an outsource team which included occasional business travel
  • Analysed, developed and updated expense policy enforcing more structured guidelines, saving 300k over 12months on unnecessary company expenditure.
  • 25 years long service March 1991 - 2016
  • Star awards within my Dept.

Affiliations

Reality TV, Travelling, Music

Timeline

Senior Accounts Assistant

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
04.2020 - 08.2025

AP Executive

KMMS
10.2019 - 03.2020

Investment Processor (still within PB Ltd)
04.2018 - 10.2019

PB Software Group (still within PB Ltd)
10.2012 - 04.2018

Senior Cashier/Investments - Treasurer

Pitney Bowes Ltd
07.1991 - 10.2012

Classic Cleaning/Atlas

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