Accounts Assistant

• Collaboration with clients to gather their detailed transactional process requirements and objectives
• Analysis of transactional processes to ensure system functionality aligns with client’s requirements
• Configuration and customisation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations to integrate with client’s company processes

• Daily transactional activities including processing income & expenditure
• Timely payments to suppliers to maintain strong working relationships
• Reconciliation of key balance sheet accounts to ensure correct recording
• Quarterly forecasting to input into cashflow projections and enable decision making

• Ensured correct recording of £25 M income
• Expedited the issuing of invoices for income and posting onto Ledger
• Processed invoices and credit notes, posted cashbook entries and cash receipts, prepared weekly BACS payment runs for all 5 schools
• Conducted monthly bank reconciliations, reconciliation of purchase ledger to trial balance, reconciliation of supplier statements to purchase ledger

• Promoted to improve finance processes to provide more accurate, real time finance data for management decision making
• Ensured correct recording of £25 M income, improved accuracy by c. 5%
• Expedited the issuing of invoices for income and posting onto Ledger, cut 5 days
• Increased debt recovery by 30%
• Processed invoices and credit notes, posted cashbook entries and cash receipts, prepared weekly BACS payment runs for all 5 schools
• Conducted monthly bank reconciliations, reconciliation of purchase ledger to trial balance, reconciliation of supplier statements to purchase ledger

• Processed c. £1 M in annual invoices and credit notes for Pimlico Academy and Millbank Academy
• Conducted monthly Bank reconciliations, reconciliation of purchase ledger to nominal ledger balance, reconciliation of supplier statements to purchase ledger for both academies
• Prepared and executed weekly BACS payment runs, posted daily cash balances for both Academies