Sunil Mistry
Leicester
Summary
I have thoroughly enjoyed my career in finance and I am grateful for the chance to work in several different industries as well as the amazing people I have met along my journey. Starting my career as a credit controller, accounts payable, then a management accountant and I believe the gradual progression has allowed me to be versatile in my approach to working in Finance.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance Assistant
Cofresh Snacks (Vibrant Foods)
Leicester
01.2022 - 03.2022
- Managed credit control team, reducing aged debtors and resolving customer queries to expedite debt collection.
- Introduced new processes to help manage weekly cash flow and brought back a good cash balance to pay suppliers as per payment terms.
- Providing all levels of versatile support and assistance to the Financial Controller – from delivering training, resolving various finance processes to one-off reporting or filling in as a cover for an absent role.
- Enhanced intercompany reconciliation, resolving longstanding queries through improved communication to align agreed balances.
- Daily banking to monitor receipts and payments and ensure the reconciliations were up-to-date.
Management Accountant
PTS Ireland (Plumbing Division of Travis Perkins)
Leicester
07.2021 - 10.2021
- Closing of month end management accounts for PTS Ireland, including commentary, variance analysis to budget and forecast and detailed analysis of all eight branches.
- Maintained and recreated the all the balance sheet reconciliation as well as clear up historical balancing issues.
- Created a new budget template for 2022 and improved the current formulas that could be adapted for future budgets.
- Created a new Fixed Asset reconciliation sheet to help fix historical balancing issues and align it with the FA register and the general ledger.
- Updated daily sales and carried out the regular checks to ensure tied back to general ledger.
- Prepared VAT reconciliation to ensure it was ready to be submitted by the Finance Manager.
- Trained my replacement and created a training schedule to ensure a smooth and efficient handover.
- Updated and improved all processes in my role as well as creating and updating all process notes.
Project Accountant
Brush Traction
Leicester
09.2020 - 01.2021
- Improving and building relationships with the production departments and proactively understanding their processes for better financial reporting.
- Creating better communication channels between departments to ensure weekly and monthly sales forecast are being achieved.
- Constantly monitoring various projects sales and costs to ensure their individual profits were on target.
- Completing and continuously improving the project month end, including, finalising sales, posting labour & material costs.
- Monthly HFM reporting to the group and carefully reconciling year to date figures whilst ensuring current month movements aligned correctly.
- Efficiently organising the daily labour process to ensure the accuracy and timely submission of timesheets.
Management Accountant
Condé Nast Britain
London
06.2019 - 11.2019
- Reviewing, reconciling and recharging all major centrally absorbed costs on a monthly basis.
- Reviewing all central departments, including accruals, prepayments, variance analysis with commentary.
- Intercompany reconciliations, queries, clearing up outstanding debt and arranging payments with all entities.
- Separate intercompany process for Condé Nast Russia that included posting and reconciling exchange differences.
- Circulation promotion review across all brands and be commercially aware to accrue as per monthly activity.
- Monthly corporate tax posting, balance sheet reporting and cash flow reporting in line with deadlines.
- Financial Statements for the group to update monthly transactions and resolve queries before submission.
- Process improvement to simplify and streamline daily bank transactions and editorial billings.
- Reviewing and submitting headcount figures for monthly reporting in Cognos.
- Providing essential support to the line manager on ad-hoc requests and during her handover period.
- Assisting accounts payable to code invoices and control all costs are captured for my departments.
Assistant Accountant
Genesis Oil and Gas Consultants Ltd
London
02.2018 - 05.2019
- Successfully reconciled all thirty-one bank accounts whilst resolving all longstanding queries.
- Took on the new quarterly balance sheet reconciliations and ensured timely submission to the group.
- Supported the management accountant and financial accountant during busy month end periods.
- Improved the cash flow reporting to easily capture all the necessary data and eradicated manual data collection.
- Pivotal member of the team in completing the year’s audit and ensuring all requests were submitted on time.
- Partnered with the HR assistant to provide lunch learning sessions for all employees.
Management Accountant
Science Ltd
London
03.2017 - 09.2017
- Prepared and completed monthly management accounts for the two restaurants (Pharmacy2, The Quay).
- Re-created the management accounts to display better management information and improved reporting.
- Created initiative to improve reporting by analysing covers per dining session and gross margin.
- New balance sheet reconciliations to resolve past issues and encourage regular monitoring of all accounts.
- An excellent array of new graphical analysis to compare prior year sales accompanied with commentary.
- Created new procedures whilst also improving and formalised current processes to maintain control in accounts.
Management Accountant
Samworth Brothers
Leicester
09.2016 - 03.2017
- Reporting the gross margin on a weekly basis to outline the most profitable Walkers Deli products.
- Producing weekly management accounts for all Walkers Deli product range, in-line with budget and forecast.
- Reporting the daily labour and material variances to key production managers and supervisors.
- Automated the daily labour and material spread sheets to save time and provide better information.
- Excellent communication with key production managers to help resolve daily production issues.
Management Accountant
Daily Mail
Leicester & London
08.2012 - 07.2015
- Prepared and completed the monthly management accounts for the Technical department of Mail Online.
- Created a new management accounts pack, in-line with budget/forecast along with commentary and analyses.
- Editorial spend analysis to show cost efficiencies for news services to allow better contract negotiation.
- Payroll reconciliations and employee cost analyses to keep track of monthly fluctuations and variance to budget.
- Provided additional help at the financial half-year and year-end accounts for various Daily Mail business units.
- Provided essential commentary for the dmg media weekly profit and loss summary whilst highlighting trends against budget, forecast and prior year results.
- Excellent business partnering during budgeting and forecasting meetings with key directors of Mail Online.
- Improved all fixed asset reconciliations, to summarise assets in sub-categories and display future depreciation.
- Weekly expenditure analysis for Daily Mail Australia to track salary, editorial and advertising costs.
- Constantly improved processes that added value to various reports and analyses, which also helped to save considerable time on tasks.
Payables Administrator
Daily Mail
Leicester
11.2010 - 08.2012
Credit Controller
Daily Mail
Leicester
09.2008 - 11.2010
Education
Diploma in Management Accounting - Operational Level
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
01-2020
BA (Hons) - Accounting and Information Systems
Sheffield Hallam University
01-2008
3 A-Levels -
Wreake Valley Community College
01-2004
10 G.C.S.Es -
Wreake Valley Community College
01-2002
Skills
- Google DFP
- Oracle Sun Systems
- SAP Business Objects Financial
- IBM Cognos Analyst
- Agresso
- IBM Aurora
- Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains
- Microsoft Excel
- VLOOKUP
- HLOOKUP
- SUMIFS
- IF
- INDEXMATCH
- Macros
- SQL coding
Custom Section
- Strategix - Google DFP (Advertising)
- Oracle - Sun Systems (including Q&A Excel add-in)
- SAP Business Objects Financial (reporting module)
- IBM Cognos Analyst
- Agresso (UNIT4) - IBM Aurora
- Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains
- Microsoft Excel - Intermediate Level
Timeline
Finance Assistant
Cofresh Snacks (Vibrant Foods)
01.2022 - 03.2022
Management Accountant
PTS Ireland (Plumbing Division of Travis Perkins)
07.2021 - 10.2021
Project Accountant
Brush Traction
09.2020 - 01.2021
Management Accountant
Condé Nast Britain
06.2019 - 11.2019
Assistant Accountant
Genesis Oil and Gas Consultants Ltd
02.2018 - 05.2019
Management Accountant
Science Ltd
03.2017 - 09.2017
Management Accountant
Samworth Brothers
09.2016 - 03.2017
Management Accountant
Daily Mail
08.2012 - 07.2015
Payables Administrator
Daily Mail
11.2010 - 08.2012
Credit Controller
Daily Mail
09.2008 - 11.2010
Diploma in Management Accounting - Operational Level
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
BA (Hons) - Accounting and Information Systems
Sheffield Hallam University
3 A-Levels -
Wreake Valley Community College
10 G.C.S.Es -
Wreake Valley Community College