Todd Barker
Benfleet,Essex
Summary
I am a finance professional with over 3 years experience across accounts receivable, credit control, cash allocation, accounts payable and financial administration within Wilmington PLC and Phoenix HSC. I am AAT level 2 qualified with an Advanced Excel certification and currently progressing towards further AAT studies. I am experienced in accounting software such as Business central and Sage 200. I have a strong track record of meeting month end deadlines, improving processes and supporting multi-currency finance operations.
Overview
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1
Certification
7
7
years of post-secondary education
7
7
years of professional experience
Work history
Finance Assistant
Phoenix HSC (Part of Wilmington PLC Shared Services)
2025.07 - 2026.07
- My main responsibilities in this role are processing journals for cash receipts and invoices/credit note imports. Performing cash allocations and reconciliations. Processing customer refunds. Invoicing delegates and business from booking forms received. Dispatched invoices and statements to customers as requested. Creating accounts on accounting software. Supporting month end tasks consistently meeting the deadlines. Investigating payment queries and liaising with operational teams. Actively participate in regular team meetings, contributing to discussions, sharing updates, and supporting continuous improvement within the department. During my time at Phoenix, I successfully supported our finance operations during the company’s system migration.
Accounts Clerk
Wilmington PLC
2024.04 - 2025.07
- This role involved me managing multi-currency cash postings, journals and cash allocations. I maintained sales ledger accuracy through remittance management via JIRA. Reducing unidentified cash by improving the suspense account process which significantly improved identification of suspense account transactions and enhanced communication between finance teams, this initiative was recognised and highly praised by management. Delivered month-end reporting including trial balances. Posting reversals and corrections when required as well as write off journals, cash transfer journals and chargeback journals. Coding receipts and refunds to their relevant account. Identifying zero allocations via using Pivot tables to help isolate accounts on a zero balance.
Credit Control Administrator
Wilmington PLC
2023.02 - 2024.04
- This role involved managing high volume credit control and refund inboxes. Processing customer refund requests in line with company controls and approval limits. Investigated and allocated unallocated cash. Maintained accurate customer account records and audit trails via making relevant notes on their accounts. Coordinated month end statement distribution. Assisted in onboarding and training new team members.
Accounts Payable Assistant
Wilmington PLC
2023.10 - 2024.01
- This role involved creating supplier and contractor accounts requests ensuring if they were inside or outside IR35 regulations, making sure they have the correct details on the account such as bank details, currency, contact details VAT code. I processed invoices and matched with purchase orders on Concur ensuring the details including invoice value, currency and suppliers address matches up so it can be approved to be on our company’s payment runs. Reviewing employee expense claims ensuring they were in line with our company policy. Identifying proforma invoices submitted by suppliers which had to be approved by financial controllers to be on our payment runs. Verifying if any Out of Cycle payment requests were valid with our company policy.
- Secondment
Office Administrator
3Ways Railway & Construction Services
2021.11 - 2023.02
- Administrative role supporting a small business across office operations, finance administration and customer support
Online Shopper
Sainsbury's
2020.10 - 2021.10
Office Clerk (Work placement)
NHS
2019.11 - 2019.12
Education
Level 3 BTEC - Sport Studies
The Appleton School Sixth Form
Benfleet, Essex 2017.09 - 2019.07
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The Appleton School
Benfleet, Essex 2012.09 - 2017.07
Skills
- Accounts receivable
- Accounts payable
- Credit control
- Cash allocation
- Reconciliation
- Journal posting
- Multi-Currency transactions
- Month end processes
- Excel
- Business central
- Sage 200
- Salesforce
- Stripe
- CyberSource
- Concur
Certification
- Full Driving Licence
- AAT Level 2
- Advanced Excel qualification (New Skills Academy)
Timeline
Finance Assistant
Phoenix HSC (Part of Wilmington PLC Shared Services)
2025.07 - 2026.07
Accounts Clerk
Wilmington PLC
2024.04 - 2025.07
Accounts Payable Assistant
Wilmington PLC
2023.10 - 2024.01
Credit Control Administrator
Wilmington PLC
2023.02 - 2024.04
Office Administrator
3Ways Railway & Construction Services
2021.11 - 2023.02
Online Shopper
Sainsbury's
2020.10 - 2021.10
Office Clerk (Work placement)
NHS
2019.11 - 2019.12
Level 3 BTEC - Sport Studies
The Appleton School Sixth Form
2017.09 - 2019.07
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The Appleton School
2012.09 - 2017.07