2024 Qualified Finance Manager

Profile.

Education / Qualification

ACCA – Chartered Certified Accountant, 2024 (Qualified)

University of Liverpool, Degree: (Bachelor of Arts Honours) Accounting and Finance, 2014 – 2017
College, Manchester 2011 – 2014
4 A-LEVEL’s/equivalent: Business – A* [6 units], Double ICT – 2 A’s [12 units], Accounting and Finance – C [4 modules]

High School, Manchester 2006 – 2011
6 GCSE’s grades B – C, including English and Maths

Systems Used

Advanced level of Excel, creating pivot tables and writing macros and coding. Proficient in Excel VBA programming, Outlook, Ms Office word, PowerPoint, Sage 50 and Sage 200, Netsuite Oracle, OpenAccounts Financial management system, CorVu, ECM, Causeway project accounting, Power Bi

About

ACCA-qualified accountant with a strong commercial mindset and a track record of delivering accurate, insight-driven financial support. Highly numerate, analytically strong and confident working with complex data to support decision-making. Experienced across OpenAccounts, NetSuite Oracle and Sage, with advanced Excel capability including modelling, VBA, macros, pivot tables and automation. A collaborative team player with proven organisational skills, clear communication style and leadership experience, working toward a long-term goal of progressing into a finance business partner role.

Career Summary.

• Support the operations across a group structure of three companies, acting as a key point of contact for finance queries and reporting directly to the Financial Controller within a growing £15m turnover business, as part of a finance team of four
• Provide financial support, modelling and analysis on the performance of the portfolio
• Own the month-end process, including preparation of management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations and controls, and detailed variance analysis across customer numbers, consumption volumes, pricing, costs and Opex
• Produce monthly financial performance reports for executive review and Board reporting
• Develop and maintain forecast models, with ownership of the annual budgeting cycle and mid-year reforecasting processes
• Support year-end accounting, preparing audit deliverables and liaising with auditors to resolve queries
• Provide cost control and financial support to departments across the group
• Approve payments, purchase orders and other expenditure

• Prepared and managed the budgeting and forecasting process, contributing to robust financial planning across the business.
• Delivered commercial analysis and provided operational financial support, partnering with department heads to drive insight and inform decision-making.
• Led the month-end close process, including preparation and review of management accounts and balance sheet reconciliations alongside department heads and the CFO.
• Oversaw accruals and prepayments to ensure accurate reporting and reliable budgets, and managed client invoicing, query resolution and basic contract reviews.
• Built and maintained effective working relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders on a range of financial matters.
• Acted as a key contact during year-end audit activities, addressing audit queries and supporting the accounts review process.
• Managed payment runs, including international transactions — handling payments with combined annual values around £18m.
• Performed monthly cost of sales reconciliations (flash sales) and resolved variances with clients, ensuring reporting integrity.
• Trained and coached an assistant accountant on adhoc reconciliations, improving accuracy and consistency in the management accounts.

• Full set of accounts:
• From bank reconciliations to looking into costs
• Quarterly and monthly VAT returns
• Management accounts produced quarterly as standard
• Year-end accounts
• Producing audit packs and answering queries from external & internal stakeholders
• Overseeing all statutory requirements
• Mortgages managed and that all banks are kept sufficient
• Oversee new purchases of properties and making sure correct VAT paperwork filed and sent to HMRC
• Ensuring information is passed over from asset manager to keep system up to date
• Manage commercial side to keep an eye on what the debtors are and next step to be taken and report
• Liaising with credit control
• Work with purchase ledger to ensure processes are kept up to date.

Property, October 2018 – October 2020
Title: Assistant Accountant

• Full month-end close, including management accounts, P&L review, balance sheet and bank reconciliations
• Ownership of accruals, prepayments, deferred revenue, GRNI and manual depreciation
• Fixed asset accounting, including capitalisation, proposals and disposals
• General ledger review and posting of journals, including intercompany and batch journals
• Management of bad debt provisions, write-offs and AR reporting
• AP and AR adjustments, internal payment runs and raising payment transactions
• Intercompany and management fee recharges, prepaid card expenses and invoicing
• Cash-flow forecasting and quarterly VAT returns
• Preparation of audit deliverables and resolution of audit queries
• Production of weekly transaction reports for external clients
• Ongoing support to the Financial Accounting & Reporting Manager and resolution of site, system and client queries