Safa Gungor

*Leading the new ledger system entegration of WorkDay. Testing the system and giving feedback. Training team members.

*Responsible of 2 entities under Metro Bank which are Invoice Finance and Asset Finance Ltd.

*Processing purchase and sales invoices and maintaining inbox up to

date.

*Preparing mothly broker commission payments for Invoice Finance Ltd. raising self billing invoices and liasing with brokers on any query they may have.

*Month End tasks for both Asset Finance and Invoice Finance.This includes preparing banking journals and sales ledger journals.Balance sheet reconciliation for AP Control, Bank and Sales ledger nominals.

*Liasing with wider Finance regarding their queries.

*Managing payment run for entire organization. Metro Bank, Asset Finance Ltd and Invoice Finance Ltd.

*Preparing regular payment run twice a week for suppliers. submitting these to online banking system and helping approvers with any issue they experience when trying to use online banking.

*Preparing International payments for overseas suppliers.(EUR and USD )

*Dealing with all sort of manual payment requests. this usually include monthly regular payments to HMRC for PAYE and VAT, Rent and Service charges. preparing journals for all those payments and posting them to system.

*Preparation of broker commission for Metro Bank PLC. this incldue raising self billing invoices, posting those invoice and preparing payments to brokers on a monthly basis.

*Assisting AP Manager with all queries

*Helping and training other team members. Helping them with any issue they may experience ( ie. preparing their balance sheet recs, preparing journals, showing or explaning how accounts payable function works for inexperienced AP members.

*Preparing Inter company transfers for each month and submitting the journal in relation to these transfers.

*Nominated Assistant AP Manager by AP manager on her absence. Helping and responding all sort of queries both internally and externally.

*Other adhoc works to be done when is requested. this could be quick meetings in relations to invoice posting issues, preparing a report, last minute payment request etc.

*Lead the end to end process for company returns project for all 3 regions (US,UK and HK), after working on it almost 8 months, project has been completed . Trained the entire AP team to show how to use and follow it.

*Monitoring and managing returns from over 1500 brands and around 50m a year ( liaising with brands,reconciIing the accounts, requesting credit notes)

*Liaising with the internal departments , helping to solve issues regarding received,returned stock and payments

*Preparing a monthly aged return report to Head of Buying to show the progress and discuss how to minimise this.

*Being the bridge between Finance, Buying and Merchandising , Distribution centers and AP Department.

*Training the new members of the team

*Preparing Weekly Return Report to Head of Finance. *Preparing monthly report for aging.

*Reconciling the top accounts ( Gucci,NlKE,Alexander McQueen,Balenciaga,Stella McCartney, Hugo Boss,Canada Goose, Bottega Veneta and many more.)

*Assisting the AP team regarding their queries about returns,processing invoice, goods received,statement reconciliation.

*Creating macros on excel in order to automate the certain tasks or reports.

*Statement reconciliations for the brands that had complicated ledger history.

*Dealing with escalations.

*Working and preparing report on bad debt provision.

*Posting Journals and assisting Head of Accounts Payable regarding bank reconciliation.

*Conduct meetings with relevant teams within the business

*Subject matter expert for Microsoft Navision within accounts Payable

*Weekly Cash Reconciliation for all stores in UK ( 179 Stores )

*Preparing a report for Area Managers in order to investigate any discrepancies occurred in Stores.

*Processing Head Office, store expenses and water bills (500/month)

*Processing and preparing payments for expenses spent for stores

*Liaising with suppliers, Head Office departments, managers, staff and the Director

*Preparing Monthly Payments for Contractors and processing invoices

*Dealing with the purchase orders , and assisting other member of teams in order to process the invoices we received.

*Also Calculating the payments we need to make and give report to Director weekly basis.

*Dealing with Till issues and supporting stores daily (cashing up, float in/out, discrepancies)

*Responsibility for a high volume of High Street vouchers ( Reconciling

,scanning and monthly courier arrangements in order to convert vouchers to cash ) between 3.000 - 15.000 vouchers.

*Investigating and resolving accounts payable discrepancies.

*Advance level of using Microsoft NAV Dynamic 2013

*Bank Reconciliation monthly basis ( 11 bank accounts )

*Running payment runs

*Reconciling Vendor accounts

*Assisting to Month end procedure

*Liaising with banks and vendors.

*Processing Sales and Purchase invoices for each clients

*Liaising with clients monthly (Collecting documents ,etc.)

*Monthly preparation of Tax account for clients and submitting to Tax Office.

*Admin Duties