Rebecca Clayton
Cwmbran,Torfaen
Summary
I am a highly determined Finance Professional with 7 years experience in Account Payables, Accounts Receivables, and Credit Control. Delivered precise accounts management and enhanced operational efficiency through strong analytical skills and effective communication. Focused on driving results and contributing to team success by leveraging practical experience and newly acquired qualifications.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance & Accounts Payable
FLS
Pontypool
12.2025 - Current
- Accounts Payable Processing
- Process supplier invoices on a weekly and monthly basis, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
- Electronically match supplier invoices with Proofs of Delivery (PODs/CMRs)
- Update supplier invoice details within the Finance Runsheet
- Issue remittances to suppliers
- Process invoices and statements on a daily basis
- Managed supplier accounts, overseeing communication and resolving queries to maintain strong relationships.
- Manage supplier accounts, including communication, reconciliation, and query resolution
- Liaise with Operations teams to resolve supplier queries efficiently
- Maintain strong supplier relationships through proactive communication and issue resolution
- Data & Reporting Support
- Generate and manipulate data to support business requirements
- Produce bespoke client reports on a weekly and monthly basis
- Support ongoing data analysis initiatives to improve business insight and performance
- General ledger support
- Weekly bank reconciliation for all accounts
- Compile the month end payment run ready for payment
- Management of the fixed asset register
- Assist with other tasks on an ad hoc basis
- Finance & System Support
- Respond to general finance and data enquiries via email and telephone
- Assist with Month end processes and reconciliations
- Provide system and data support to internal teams, clients, and suppliers
- Support adoption and effective use of internal systems and tools
- Worked alongside colleagues to foster a cooperative team environment and achieve shared goals.
- Support Accounts Payable and wider team members in achieving their objectives
- Provide cover for Accounts receivable function including raising invoices and posting cash when required
- Assist with query resolution across the Finance function
- Contribute to a collaborative and high-performing team environment
- Next-day payment requests processed within 24 hours
- Invoice inbox cleared weekly in line with AP targets
- Supplier account reconciliations completed weekly
- Bank reconciliations carried out weekly
- All post received invoices/statements processed daily
- Data and IT support requests completed within agreed SLAs
- High accuracy in invoice processing and reporting outputs
- Facilitated interdepartmental communication, streamlining workflow and enhancing collaboration.
- Monitored debtor balances to proactively identify and address overdue accounts, ensuring timely payments.
- Updated customer accounts and processed payments.
- Managed customer accounts to maintain up-to-date billing information and reduce outstanding debts.
- Processed payments and adjusted accounts accordingly, maintaining precise financial records.
- Maintained regular email and telephone contact with customers to appropriately manage overdue account payments.
- Documented customer payments and credit queries precisely, maintaining accurate and up-to-date accounts.
- Chased customers ahead of payment deadlines, ensuring balanced accounts within agreed invoice timeframes.
- Received and resolved customer queries efficiently, enabling timely invoice processing and payment.
Payroll Assistant
Guilfoyle Sage LLP
08.2025 - 12.2025
- Process various payrolls accurately and on time, ensuring compliance with company policies and legal requirements.
- Maintained precise records of employee hours, leave, and payroll information to support accurate payroll processing.
- Executed data entry for payroll, encompassing new hires, terminations, and employee status changes to ensure up-to-date records.
- Analyse payroll data to identify discrepancies or issues and resolve them promptly.
- Compiled payroll metrics reports for management, facilitating data-driven decision-making.
- Utilise accounting software such as Sage 50, Xero. Processing Pensions on Nest, People's Pension and Creative Auto.
- A knowledge of CIS, including submitting to HMRC website.
- Managed accounting records and transactions in compliance with company procedures.
Assistant Accountant
Forge Solutions Group
02.2025 - 08.2025
- Posting, raising, and matching customer and supplier invoices & payments (including customer portals and intercompany transactions).
- Monitored debtor balances to identify and address overdue accounts proactively.
- Processed payments and adjusted accounts accordingly, maintaining precise financial records.
- Reconciliation of customer and supplier statements including raising proforma and scrap invoices.
- Reconciliation and agreement of intercompany balances.
- Reconciliation of bank accounts and cash books including assisting with monthly & quarterly cash forecasting.
- Balance sheet reconciliations.
- Assisting with the preparation of the weekly and monthly management accounts.
- Reporting weekly and monthly aged analysis Debtors and Creditors to the Site FD & GM and Group FD & CFO.
- Investigated and resolved queries promptly, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
- Cash Management.
- Nominal ledger transactions, assisting, preparing and posting of journals.
- Quarterly Cut-off testing.
- Training on all aspects of the finance department, for holiday/sickness cover.
- Audit queries.
- Handled ad-hoc requests as needed.
- Compiled monthly reports on account receivables and aged debt for senior management review, facilitating informed decision-making.
- Managed telephone credit collections efficiently, resolving account issues swiftly to maintain positive customer relationships.
- Negotiated payment plans with customers experiencing financial difficulties, maintaining positive relations.
- Spend Analysis.
- Process management of Accounts Receivable and Payable Ledgers.
- Assisting and supporting the site FD with capital projects, to include.
- Ensuring project spends are within the approved budgeted spend and company guidelines, monitoring spend, and informing project sponsors when nearing limit.
- Oversaw manufacturing processes to ensure efficiency and quality.
- Managed telephone credit collections efficiently, resolving account issues swiftly to maintain positive customer relationships.
- Negotiated payment plans with customers experiencing financial difficulties, maintaining positive relations.
Finance Manager
Recovery Rollers
09.2022 - 03.2024
- Prepared monthly reports on account receivables and aged debt for senior management review.
- Managed customer accounts to maintain up-to-date billing information and reduce outstanding debts.
- Documented customer payments and credit queries precisely, maintaining accurate and up-to-date accounts.
- Handled telephone credit collections promptly and professionally, quickly resolving account issues.
- Negotiated payment plans with customers experiencing financial difficulties, maintaining positive relations.
- Developed and maintained strong relationships with customers, enhancing client satisfaction and loyalty.
- Chased customers ahead of payment deadlines, ensuring balanced accounts within agreed invoice timeframes.
- Implemented effective credit control procedures, minimising financial risk to the company.
- Reviewed new credit requests, verifying eligibility and capability to understand credit position of clients.
- Completed cash journals accurately, ensuring all transactions were recorded.
- Completing Bank reconciliations.
- Forecast spending.
- Completed monthly expense reports to track company spending.
- Consulted with banks to manage financial transactions and optimise banking relationships.
- Paying PAYE.
- Prepared VAT statements and actioned them, ensuring compliance with regulations.
- Uploading VAT to HMRC.
- Uploading Invoices to make sure they will be processed and paid on time.
- Sending Invoices.
- Organising paperwork for audits to be conducted also liaising with outside companies for the audits.
- Completed all month end processes.
- Head of a team of four.
- Make sure team development plans and reviews are conducted regularly.
- Helping others in areas they struggle and mentoring them (Push them to their full potential).
- Well-being meeting conducted regularly.
- Chased customers ahead of payment deadlines, ensuring balanced accounts within agreed invoice timeframes.
- Fulfilled various ad hoc duties as required.
- Oversaw manufacturing processes to ensure product quality and efficiency.
- Consulted with various businesses for orders, facilitating smooth procurement processes.
- Monitored stock levels regularly to ensure inventory accuracy.
- Track orders that have been sent out and to be received.
- Draw down monies.
- Processed weekly payroll for employees, ensuring timely and accurate payments.
- Processing Pensions.
- Preparing Reports for creditors and debtors for the MD.
- Meetings to compare where money needs/should be spent.
- Reviewed new credit requests, verifying eligibility and capability to understand credit position of clients.
Finance Assistant
Welsh Power
Cardiff
02.2022 - 09.2022
- Reviewed and reconciled credit accounts for accuracy.
- Invoiced clients and resolved queries to ensure timely payment.
- Liaised with businesses to facilitate debt payments and collections.
- Uploaded invoices to ensure prompt processing and payment.
- Preparing VAT statements.
- Uploading VAT to HMRC.
- Recorded daily cash transactions in journals.
- Provided assistance to colleagues in various tasks.
Business Owner
Bex hair and nails
01.2012 - 09.2022
- Developed and implemented marketing strategies that enhanced visibility of business offerings.
- Built and maintained a loyal customer base through effective customer service.
- Assisted customers in addressing inquiries and resolving issues to ensure satisfaction.
- Cash flow / P&L Ownership.
- Inventory management & stock control.
- Operating as a sole trader, I undertake all aspects of the business:
- Annual Accounts production / submission.
- National Insurance return.
- Related legislative and technical training / certification.
Finance Assistant
BAE Systems
Usk
06.2021 - 01.2022
- Billed companies, ensuring accuracy of values for billing and credit adjustments.
- Consulted with businesses regarding payments and billing value changes, conducted audits, and verified completeness of supporting information.
- Posted financial data in Excel spreadsheets and managed inventory.
- Prepared monthly and year-end closing statements, financial documents and invoices.
- Reconciled bank statements to maintain accurate financial records and identify discrepancies promptly.
Credit Control Administrator
New Directions
Cardiff
08.2020 - 06.2021
- My main Job role is to support the credit controller in charge of the Education Ledger as well as:
- Maintained regular email and telephone contact with customers to appropriately manage overdue account payments.
- Handled telephone credit collections promptly and professionally, quickly resolving account issues.
- Chasing monies.
- Documented customer payments and credit queries precisely, maintaining accurate and up-to-date accounts.
- Reconciled customer disputes efficiently, ensuring accurate invoicing and prompt payment.
- Answered customer inquiries concerning credit standing, loan balances and penalties.
- Managed daily banking activities, including deposits and withdrawals.
- Recorded cash transactions accurately in the financial system.
- Reconciled complex accounts to prevent balance sheet discrepancies and check for fraud, rectifying the general ledger.
- Updating the Ledger when needed.
- Emailing clients.
- Calling clients.
- Processed self-bills for accurate account management.
- Developed frameworks for effective financial reporting and analysis.
Education
Masters - finance and Investment
University of South Wales
Pontypridd11-2021
BSc Hons - Finance and Accounting
University of South Wales
08-2020
Level 2 Teaching Assistant -
Croesyceiliog Centre
01-2016
NVQ - Level 2 Hairdressing
Pontypool College
01-2012
A-Levels - Biology, Sport Studies
St. Alban’s R.C High School & Sixth Form
01-2009
Skills
- Accounts payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Payroll
- Payroll administration
- Payroll Manager
- Bookkeeping
- Accounting
- Invoice processing
- Payables processing
- Bank reconciliation
- Account reconciliation
- Financial reporting
- Cash management
- Data analysis
- Excel
- Query resolution
Custom
Running my own business whilst studying for a degree has demonstrated drive to develop my skills and knowledge with a formal qualification, Ability to manage time and prioritise workload, Communication skills with range of people from customers to Lecturers, Proficient use of Microsoft Office and SAGE Accounts
Personal Information
Industry: Accounting
Timeline
Finance & Accounts Payable
FLS
12.2025 - Current
Payroll Assistant
Guilfoyle Sage LLP
08.2025 - 12.2025
Assistant Accountant
Forge Solutions Group
02.2025 - 08.2025
Finance Manager
Recovery Rollers
09.2022 - 03.2024
Finance Assistant
Welsh Power
02.2022 - 09.2022
Finance Assistant
BAE Systems
06.2021 - 01.2022
Credit Control Administrator
New Directions
08.2020 - 06.2021
Business Owner
Bex hair and nails
01.2012 - 09.2022
Masters - finance and Investment
University of South Wales
BSc Hons - Finance and Accounting
University of South Wales
Level 2 Teaching Assistant -
Croesyceiliog Centre
NVQ - Level 2 Hairdressing
Pontypool College
A-Levels - Biology, Sport Studies
St. Alban’s R.C High School & Sixth Form