Finance Officer seeking work in South America

Previous Employment Details:

Aug 2006- London Metropolitan University,
Present Finance Officer, (Web Designer, IT Support – Secondary roles)

Duties Include:

• All areas of Finance managed for the English Languages School. Including: Budgets, forecasting, Payroll, PAYE, NI, Tax, procurement, statistical analysis, reporting both internally and externally on a variety of areas to many agencies. Purchase ledger, credit control, managing debtors / creditors, providing quotes for UK and international partners.
• Accounts managed contributing on average £1.2m annually to the University.
• All areas of the departments Website managed including design, implementation and marketing.
• Digital marketing projects also undertaking using HTML ezines. Set up departments profile on Twitter, Facebook, Lindkedin, Bebo, and Gowalla.
• Various miscellaneous duties such as IT support, room bookings, HR issues, tendering projects to outside vendors.
• Liaising daily with a number of international offices across the world, mainly Japan, China, Saudi Arabia.
• Managing teaching staff with regards to Contracts, teaching schedules, IT setup and usage, payroll queries
• Daily contact with students both confirmed and prospective regarding Visa issues, CAS, SVV, accommodation, Finance, IT.
• Signatory for multiple budgets in excess of a million pounds, also responsible for price setting for out services to meet budget requirements and to compete in a competitive market.

Mar 2006- Mychild Ltd, Holborn, London
Aug 2006 Finance Manager – Fixed Term 6 Months

Duties Include:
• General Bookkeeping duties. Payroll, PAYE, NI, Bank Reconciliations, Credit control, Financial Reporting on company trading at approx £900k per annum.
• Visiting Creditors to resolve Legal issues and to propose payment schedules.
• Monitoring of sales, whether targets were met. Support for sales team. Providing performance reports for weekly meetings with MD and Sales Team Leader to discuss financial forecasting and budgets.
• Various projects undertaken, setting up of debt recovery, distribution of merchandise.
• Set up of new revenue channels in order to increase income, performance reports provided weekly/monthly.

Sept 2002-
Mar 2006 Methodist Colleges & Schools Head Office, London
Senior Finance Administrator/Projects Reporting Officer

Duties Include:
• Responsible for the regular transfer and management of computerised financial data from 5 independent sites.
• To prepare weekly status reports on all financial data
• Responsible for bank reconciliations, ensuring employee salaries and NI are regularly paid, and various other pension payments totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds.
• Nominal Ledger postings for central office receipts and payments
• Assisting with the annual statistics for the Board of Governors of all nine independent schools
• Monitoring various departments’ budget data and information
• Building and sustaining working relations with external partners
• Training other members of staff in I.T. Skills.