Richard Wallace
Gloucester
Summary
A detail-oriented and results-driven professional with advanced Office expertise and a proactive approach to problem-solving. Demonstrates exceptional attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in all tasks. Committed to delivering high-quality outcomes while continuously seeking opportunities for growth and improvement.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work history
OTC Administrator
Nomad Foods Europe
Hammersmith
06.2023 - 02.2024
- Credit control for the Sainsbury and Morrison's accounts ~£15m
- Cash allocation
- Deductions management
- Supplying requested data to internal and external auditors
- Responsibility to head of OTC for SOX compliance and oversight
- Generation of weekly and monthly reports for both team and wider business
- Completion of month end aged debt reporting
Credit controller
Birds Eye
Gloucester
11.2009 - 06.2023
- Collection of debt within agreed payment terms
- Obtain documents from customers to support allocation of payments and deductions
- Respond promptly to customer queries
- Responsible for gaining repayment of rejected deductions
- Ensure integrity of data held in SAP system
- Maintain and review credit management data
- Own the process for clearing valid customer deductions
- Comply with audit requests by ensuring that all documents are filed correctly
Ledger Administrator
Capita Insurance Services
Gloucester
08.2006 - 06.2009
- Agreeing broker statements including foreign currency reconciliations.
- Inputting payments and receipts to ledgers.
- Allocating payments and receipts to reinsurance accounts including partial settlements.
- Verifying ledger balances.
- Querying ledger discrepancies internally and externally by telephone and e-mail.
- Sending out statements and initially chasing balances until / unless bad debt is identified.
- Understanding and reconciling monthly reports.
- First-level telephone and e-mail support to the customer's new outsourcing office in India.
Accounts Officer
EDS
Innsworth
09.2000 - 07.2006
- Controlled the day-to-day reconciliation of control and bank accounts
- Resolved any exceptions from payroll accounting into the correct control account, to ensure that accounts balanced.
- Processed daily payments to personnel via BACS and CHAPS
- Liaised with RAF stations to resolve queries.
- Operated two MoD bank accounts, dispersing funds to correct sections, ensuring accounts balance to 100% accuracy each month.
- Produced quarterly account summaries for National Audit Office
- Resolved errors with personnel records as identified by mainframe runs.
- Answered written and verbal queries from external and internal customers.
Education
A-Levels -
Sir Thomas Rich's School
09.1995 - 07.1997
Skills
- Microsoft Office expertise
- Attention to Detail
- Results-driven
- Proactive approach
- Financial reporting
- Financial governance
Affiliations
- I enjoy gardening, crafting models, and learning about history
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
OTC Administrator
Nomad Foods Europe
06.2023 - 02.2024
Credit controller
Birds Eye
11.2009 - 06.2023
Ledger Administrator
Capita Insurance Services
08.2006 - 06.2009
Accounts Officer
EDS
09.2000 - 07.2006
A-Levels -
Sir Thomas Rich's School
09.1995 - 07.1997
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