Kevin Simms, Assistant Management Accountant

Kevin Simms

Assistant Management Accountant

HS Admin

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance
Experience
9 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 4 Months

Assistant Management Accountant at HS Admin
  • United Kingdom - Liverpool
  • November 2014 to June 2015

• Producing full set of monthly management accounts for 3 entities
• Revenue and Commission analysis
• Accruals and Prepayments
• Accrued and Deferred Income
• Fixed Assets (Acquisitions, Disposals and Depreciation)
• Intercompany Reconciliation across 6 entities
• Reviewing and managing Sales and Purchase Ledgers
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations
• Variance Analysis
• Month End Adjustment Journals
• Implementation of new process to more accurately track Commission income
• Introduction of in depth analysis by cost centre to produce condensed P&L for each department and split overheads by revenue
• Quarterly VAT return including calculations for disallowed input VAT relating to Commission income
• Assisted with implementation and testing of system upgrade from Sage 50 to Sage 200
• Rewriting macros in MS Excel to accommodate new import templates for Sage 200
• Supervising, training and reviewing work of 3 junior members of staff

Assistant Management Accountant at Caip Ltd
  • United Kingdom
  • February 2014 to September 2014

• Producing monthly P&L and Balance Sheet
• Bringing together data from internal and external sources to produce daily payment schedules to ensure all projects went ahead without issue
• Calculating monthly Accruals and Prepayments
• Daily Cash Book maintenance
• Daily Bank reconciliation
• Reconciling and posting credit card payments monthly
• Investigation of aged and negative balances
• Ad-hoc analysis tasks for the Finance Manager and Directors

Accounts Assistant at Powder Systems Limited
  • United Kingdom - Liverpool
  • November 2013 to January 2014

•Matching, batching and coding around 500 invoices per month using Sage Line 200
•Working within cash flow constraints to produce a weekly supplier payment run
•Closing the purchase ledger at month end
•Entering journals and employee timesheets into Sage
•Responsible for multi-currency petty cash account including foreign exchange
•Working in 5 different currencies, with awareness of how the business can hedge against foreign exchange loss

Accounts Assistant at Caip Ltd
  • United Kingdom
  • April 2013 to November 2013

•Matching, batching and coding around 1000 invoices per month using Sage Line 50
•Setting up CHAPS and BACS payments in online banking
•Responsible for over 70 contractors payments each month including calculating CIS (tax) deductions
•Ensuring VAT is correctly calculated for company cars
•Bank reconciliations and allocating payments
•Supplier statement reconciliation
•Liaising with external auditors
•Assisting with company fleet management
•Resolving customer queries by phone and email
•Raising, recording and reconciling all cheques
•Providing quality information to Quantity Surveyors and Project Managers

Purchase Ledger Clerk at AAK Foods
  • United Kingdom
  • February 2013 to March 2013
Finance Data Analyst at Marsh and McLennan Companies / Mercer Ltd
  • United Kingdom - Liverpool
  • March 2012 to December 2012
Petrol Supervisor / Cash Office Cashier at ASDA Stores Ltd
  • United Kingdom - Liverpool
  • October 2004 to November 2010

Education

Bachelor's degree, BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance
  • at LiverpoolJohn Moores University
  • July 2010

Degree Classification 2:1

Diploma, Mathematics
  • at University of Liverpool
  • May 2006

Mathematics - Certificate of Higher Education

Diploma, A-Levels
  • at Cardinal Heenan Sixth Form College
  • June 2004

A-Levels: Psychology (A), Mathematics (B), Physics (B)

Specialties & Skills

Accounting
Variance Analysis
English
Microsoft Excel
MICROSOFT EXCEL
ACCRUALS
BALANCE
BANK RECONCILIATION
PROGRAMMING
RECONCILING

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

CIMA
  • Student
  • March 2012