PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Detail-oriented and analytical professional with 6+ years of experience providing optimum support to accounts teams. Skilled in creating accurate reports, processing payrolls, and managing accounts receivable/payable. Established record of preparing annual audits and assisting clients. Looking to bring organisational and teamwork skills to ensure high accuracy of financial data at PwC.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Hays, Sheffield
Assistant Accountant, 2020 – Present
- Provide active support in weekly, monthly, and quarterly closures while delivering direct reports to the head office
- Efficiently processed ACCORD certificates for a client with large property acquisitions worth over £2.75M on a short deadline
- Prepared, reviewed, and submitted employee and executive expense reports while assisting CFO in the preparation of 2 financial applications for bonding and credit
- Update invoicing details into cash flow report on a day-to-day basis and liaise with purchasing department to attain required approvals/information
- Estimate accounts receivable and accounts payable using Sage 50cloud Accounting
Volaris Group, Sheffield
Assistant Accountant, 2018 – 2020
- Reduced task completion time by 65% through introduction of semi-automation advancements in daily and monthly accounts reconciliation
- Successfully mitigated critical system errors by 100% by adding extra steps
- Developed worksheets for the ageing process to efficiently collect AR
- Customised multiple financial statement templates through the prologue system for internal report generation
- Assisted accounts team in annual audit preparation while formulating detailed reports on audit results for maintaining records
- Processed payrolls and quarterly tax filing reports and conducted ad hoc analysis
Saputo Inc., Sheffield
Accounting Intern, 2016 – 2018
- Processed payroll for over 200 employees and evaluated expense reports with high accuracy
- Reduced period close time by 60% by integrating entire reporting into NetSuite ERP system
- Organised, updated, and retrieved accounting data to aid in the preparation of monthly audits
- Led reconciliation of accounts, bank statements, and financial information for reporting
- Maintained general ledger and balance sheets in QuickBooks
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
CPAPRO® (UK)
- CPA
QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY
- Master of Science in Business Management (Distinction)
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
- Bachelor of Science in Accounting (first-class honours)
KEY SKILLS
- Financial accounting
- Documentation & reporting
- Database management
- Accounts payable/receivable
- Internal/external communication
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Sage 50cloud
- NetSuite ERP
- QuickBooks
HOBBIES & INTERESTS
- Reading
- Meditation
- Gardening
- Hockey