Semi Senior Accountant
Accountancy & Taxation Services
Total years of experience :5 years, 2 Months
Responsible for overseeing the full compliance process from start to end, including the production of high quality management information reporting for a portfolio of clients. This involved, providing a full suite of annual Accounting and Tax services including Statutory Accounts preparation, Corporation and Income Tax, Payroll, VAT and Capital Gains Tax services.
Delegated to and mentored junior analysts whilst acting as the main point of contact for the client.
Regular correspondence with HMRC, dealing with investigations and penalties as well as other queries on behalf of our clients.
Presenting technical advisory work to clients in a detailed and concise manner. This involved technical research and delivery of the analysis whilst working to tight deadlines.
Providing additional assistance to colleagues during busy periods of the year.
Gained excellent client management skills through account management, responding to client requests often on a sudden and ad hoc basis
Gained people management skills through training and exposure to senior management, often working directly with partner of the firm.
Gained ability to work to strict (statutory) deadlines, and ensuring work is undertaken according to the budget and in accordance with accounting standards and regulatory framework.
Dealing with customer enquiries face to face and over the phone.
Assisting customers and helping them with their purchases.
Handling customer complaints and passing them to the manager.
Handling cash and performing end of day banking.
Ensuring that all sections are merchandised according to the company policy.
Key activities:
• Bookkeeping and management of petty cash transactions.
• Checking incoming and outgoing records obtained from all branches to make sure payments, amounts and records are correct and escalating material discrepancies to senior management.
• Reconciling finance accounts and direct debits.
• Preparing monthly income and expenditure schedules and performing comparative analysis with prior periods to identify trends and issues, developing management reports to provide to senior management.
Responsible for providing customer services to well-known communication and media companies in Canada such as Rogers and Startech. I worked as a team leader on a number of long distance calling projects which helped develop effective communication skills. I was responsible for answering any queries forwarded to me by other team members and for finalizing all new long distance calling contracts with the clients.
Upper Second Class Hons