Senior Assistant Management Accountant
Shelter
Total years of experience :21 years, 8 Months
2012 July- Present SHELTER
Senior Assistant Management Accountant
* Responsible for delivering monthly management accounts reports on time.
* Carry out monthly variance analysis.
* Review quarterly forecast reports and challenging the Budget Holders.
* Review Bids on projects to ensure they are competitive.
* Up load budgets on time to the new projects won on Sun Accounting system.
* Carry out annual budget meetings with Budget Holders and prepare budgets for
Cost centres.
* Provide monthly/quarterly variance reports to the Management.
* Prepare monthly divisional reports to the Regional Managers.
* Carry out monthly phone call catch up meeting with Regional Managers on their
Management Accounts reports.
* Provide quarterly donor reports to the funders on projects.
* Prepare ad- hoc finance reports to the Budget Holders and other internal users.
* Prepare year-end accruals/deferrals journals after analysing the income and expenditure for the year on projects in accordance with year-end procedures.
* Assisting and closely working with external auditors during annual company audit.
2011 May- 2012 June SHELTER (UK)
Assistant Management Accountant
* Posting monthly accrual journals within the month end deadlines.
* Posting Salary Journal and running Salary Reports for cost centres
* Delivery of Management Accounts reports on time in line with the monthly reporting timetable.
* Running transaction listing for the month end
* Dealing promptly with queries raised by budget holders via emails and phone calls.
* Making salary code corrections as and when requested by the Budget Holders after checking for authorisations, backups and establishment list.
* Prior to the relevant monthly deadline ensure the budget holders submit variance reports and forecasts on time.
* Review and challenging Budget Holders on inadequate variance explanations.
* Review of restricted funds to check for any under or overspending.
* Preparing donor reports.
* In preparation for the Annual Budget, I ensure that I send the Budget Holders the budget templates, establishment information and other relevant information before the Management Accounts deadline.
* Assisting Management Accountants in preparing and uploading Budgets.
* Assisting Management Accounts Team on year end process to make sure that the year-end schedules are prepared in accordance with the year end time table.
2006 April- 2011 April SHELTER (UK)
Purchase Ledger Administrator
* Posting expenses journals from Vision Excel to Sun Accounting System.
* Investigating and resolving budget holders and administrators queries as well as dealing with external suppliers. Where necessary posting adjustments journals.
* Working together with the Financial Accountant to meet the month end deadlines such as posting all invoices related the particular month as well as ensuring head office petty cash and supplier statements are reconciled and posted on time.
* Generating payment runs via BACS and cheques ensuring the correct authorisations are obtained.
2005 Oct - 2006 March CLARIDGE'S HOTEL (MAYBOURNE HOTEL GROUP), LONDON
Accounts Payable Supervisor
* Assisting Assistant Financial Controller with month end process which involved preparing Accrual Journals, posting on the system and regular feed-back of the day to day activities of the Accounts Payable section to the Financial Controller.
* Processing high volume and value bought ledger invoices
* Processing staff expenses
* Dealing with petty cash expenses
* Reconciling supplier statement
* Generating monthly payment via BACS and cheques
* Dealing with queries
* Conducting Accounts Payable section meetings and liaising with the staff and Financial Controller.
2002 Oct- 2005 Sep SAVOY HOTEL, LONDON
Accounts Payable
* Processing high volume and value bought ledger invoices
* Processing staff expenses
* Dealing with petty cash expenses
* Reconciling supplier statement
* Generating monthly payment via BACS and cheques
* Dealing with queries
Managerial Level: Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting Strategic Level: Performance Strategy, Enterprise Strategy and Financial Strategy Top CIMA: Completed in July 2011
2003 -2011 CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS (CIMA) Exam Qualified Certificate Level: Exempted.
2001 - 2002 INSTITUTE OF COMMERCIAL MANAGEMENT (UK) (Diploma in Finance & Accounting-Fully Qualified) Accounting I, Accounting II, Business Management & Administration, Cost Accounting, Business Law, Economics for Business, Numeracy & Statistics.
2001 March INSTITUTE OF DATABASE MANAGEMENT Diploma in Computer Studies (DICS)
