Mina Armanious
Northolt,Middlesex
Summary
•Knowledgeable , confident Finance Manager with experience in forecasting, budget administration and cash-flow management.
•Responsible for financial accounts including budgets and cash -flow. •Conducting regular business reviews of financial performance •Looking for a company where I can progress in my career and grow with the business •Excellent skills in Excel (V Lookup, Pivot Tables), Sage 50, Sage enterprise (X3) , Peoplesoft and IRIS accounting System and Xero.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work history
Finance Manager
Taqueria Limited
London
07.2021 - Current
- Monitored and reviewed financial controls, processes and procedures to enable best practice development.
- Delivered training and development to junior finance employees for progression and best practice improvements.
- Implemented new HR/PAYROLL for the company for better performance.
- Liaised with the bank for opening new bank accounts and implemented new Payment facilities for more efficiency.
- Reviewed and approved weekly pay run for wages and suppliers.
- Review of payroll on weekly basis and submitted all relevant and statutory reports to HMRC and pension.
- Provided support for Payroll including review of weekly payroll and pension submissions.
- Managed timely and accurate reporting of various financial transactions and information for detailed analysis.
- Developed thorough forecasting and cash-flow management processes to maximise progression and profitability.
- Reviewed bookkeeping and management accounts to achieve clear and correct reports.
- Represented business in negotiations with external partners.
- Processed invoices and payment runs with complete accuracy.
- Wrote reports outlining project progress and results.
- Review of balance sheet reconciliations.
- Reviewed and submitted month end process including accruals, reconciliations,…etc
- Ownership of inter company charges and monthly reconciliations.
- Lead the finance team to secure, supervise the outsourcing of accounts assistant.
- Managed cash flow and liquidity, mitigating financial risks and ensuring stability.
- Finalised VAT returns with rigorous transaction checks.
- Worked to scale and enhance finance function, implementing new processes and refining existing ones.
- Worked closely with head of departments to provide financial support.
- Worked on a strict deadlines to submit relevant information to various stakeholders.
Finance Assistant
The Royal Central School of Speech of Drama
London
04.2021 - 06.2021
- Ownership of Prepayment schedule and updating on monthly basis for the month end.
- Sending out the correct service agreement to the visiting professionals on time.
- Supported month-end processes to maintain department efficiency.
- Reconciled supplier statements for the Year End
- Performed open Floats reconciliation for all the member of staff .
- Performed account reconciliations and conducted investigations into any discrepancies.
- Maintained accurate records of financial transactions using Microsoft Dynamics GP.
- Supported Finance Manager by preparing various reports requested.
- Monitored the Accounts Payable mailbox and process accordingly.
- Maintained accuracy when reviewing and reconciling general ledger.
Accounts Assistant
Virgin Limited Edition
London, Hammersmith
11.2019 - 10.2020
- Assist with month end closing.
- Ownership of the month end accruals and other management requests.
- Prepare analysis of accounts.
- Post journals.
- Post bank receipts journal and maintain the ledger on a daily basis.
- Allocate the receipts and payments on a timely manner.
- Post recharges, reconcile the accounts and raise invoices to the various properties of the business.
- Reconcile intercompany accounts on a monthly basis.
- Provide support to the management accountant with any adhoc for the month end closure while adhering to the deadlines.
- Process credit card reconciliations and staff expense claims.
- Sort, code and match invoices.
- Enter and upload invoices to the system.
- Reconcile accounts payable transactions.
- Research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues, correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries.
- Perform payment runs in line with the company’s policy and deadlines.
- Setup of new suppliers as requested.
- Produce monthly reports.
- Performing vendor statement reconciliation, credit card and bank reconciliations including multi currency.
- Provide supporting documentation for audits.
- Prioritizing the work load while sticking to deadlines.
Finance Analyst
Hilton Worldwide
London, Brentford
04.2018 - 09.2019
- Administer and processes all Petty Cash transactions within the parameters of Hilton policies and procedures.
- Maintain the Petty Cash float.
- Prepare Reimbursement Claims on a weekly basis.
- Receive, issue receipts and deposits all cheques collected from clients.
- Allocate payments received to the invoices.
- Review the ledger and always keeping the balances low.
- Ensure that debts are paid in a timely manner.
- Chase overdue invoices by telephone, email & letter within agreed timescales.
- Maintain accurate records of all chasing activity.
- Propose write off of irrecoverable receivables.
- Providing ad-hoc reporting as and when requested by management.
- Deal with all the queries related to credit card transactions and respond to chargebacks with the relevant documents.
- Attend credit meeting with all the relevant departments.
- Respond to queries raised by the head office.
- All Accounts payable duties below.
Accounts Payable Assistant
Hilton Worldwide – Kensington
London, Kensington
10.2017 - 03.2018
- Assist with month end closing.
- Ownership of the month end accruals and other management requests.
- Prepare analysis of accounts.
- Reconcile accounts payable transactions.
- Monitor accounts to ensure payments are up to date.
- Research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues.
- Maintain vendor files.
- Enter and upload invoices to the system.
- Review and verify invoices and check requests.
- Sort, code and match invoices.
- Processing up to 120 invoices per day.
- Set invoices up for payment.
- Setup of new suppliers as requested.
- Correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries.
- Produce monthly reports.
- Performing vendor statement reconciliation, bank reconciliation, credit card reconciliations.
- Provide supporting documentation for audits.
- Prioritizing the work load while sticking to deadlines.
Finance Assistant
Kensington Suite Hotel
London, Kensington
06.2013 - 09.2017
- Preparation of various reports for company directors.
- Preparing sales invoices & the upkeep of an accurate accounts filing system.
- Preparation and input of month end journal vouchers.
- Inputting, matching, batching and coding of invoices.
- Debtor and Creditor reconciliations.
- Responsible for financial accounts including budgets and cash -flow.
- Conducting regular business reviews of financial performance.
- Proactively identifying business improvement opportunities.
- Ensuring that information is accurately collated & entered into systems.
- Preparation of bi-weekly invoice and expense claim payment runs.
- Assist in the preparation of monthly balance sheet account reconciliations.
- Inputting of supplier invoices and employee expense claims to the ledgers.
- Preparing payment and cheque runs due to suppliers within the deadlines.
- Preparing, reviewing employees’ time sheet and preparing wages payment runs.
- All hotel manager duties listed below.
Accounts Assistant
Brayan and Spencer Associates
Borehamwood
05.2016 - 10.2016
- Running payroll for clients using Payroll Manager Software, dealing with HMRC related queries.
- Preparing VAT return for the clients within the deadline date.
- Using IRIS Software in producing accounts, reports including Trial Balance and various financial statements.
- Dealing with client’s various queries including, tax issues, HMRC refunds, …etc
Education
Chartered Instiute of Management Accountant - Operational Level - Accounting
Chartered Instiute of Management Accountant
: Institution: Kaplan Financial. Qualification: Distance learning AAT Level 2 – Certificate in Accounting. Full knowledge of Sage Accounting Software. - undefined
Bachelor Degree in Accounting - Accounting
University of Alexandria
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El Nasr Boys’ School (EBS) English School
Skills
- High Proficiency in Windows, Microsoft Office (Words, Excel – including V lookup, Pivot Table), Sage 50,200, X3, psi, Peoplesoft and IRIS, Payroll Manager, Employment Hero, XERO accounting Systems
- Numerate, Investigative, Pro-active problem solver
- Team leader, great managerial skills
- VAT returns
- Xero proficient
- Cash Flow forecast
- Balance sheet reconciliations
- Raising Inter-company invoice and posting recharges to relevant company
- Accounts payable
- Payroll
- Accruals
- Matching, coding,etc
- Reconciliations
- Team management
- Self-motivated
- Communication skills
- Team leadership
- Extremely organised
- Team player
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Attention to detail
- Payroll /HR
Timeline
Finance Manager
Taqueria Limited
07.2021 - Current
Finance Assistant
The Royal Central School of Speech of Drama
04.2021 - 06.2021
Accounts Assistant
Virgin Limited Edition
11.2019 - 10.2020
Finance Analyst
Hilton Worldwide
04.2018 - 09.2019
Accounts Payable Assistant
Hilton Worldwide – Kensington
10.2017 - 03.2018
Accounts Assistant
Brayan and Spencer Associates
05.2016 - 10.2016
Finance Assistant
Kensington Suite Hotel
06.2013 - 09.2017
: Institution: Kaplan Financial. Qualification: Distance learning AAT Level 2 – Certificate in Accounting. Full knowledge of Sage Accounting Software. - undefined
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El Nasr Boys’ School (EBS) English School
Chartered Instiute of Management Accountant - Operational Level - Accounting
Chartered Instiute of Management Accountant
Bachelor Degree in Accounting - Accounting
University of Alexandria