AIDAN SEWELL

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T: 077*-******* Email: acce3m@r.postjobfree.com

Career Profile

A part qualified accountant with a wealth of experience in accounting and reporting. Plus, strong financial analysis

skills including reconciliations, variance analysis and forecasting. Seeking an analytical reporting role which matches

my skills and experience to date.

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Administrator, RBC –Part Time

Reconcile and update control spreadsheets and database.

Rural Payments Agy, Ledger Accountant – Temp 2012 2013

AP and AR account reconciliations, held in Oracle Financials.

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* Calculate underpayments and overpayments to customers.

* Raise manual invoices, credit memo and debit memo as required.

* Write off debt as requested.

* Maintain various logs and control spreadsheets.

* Liaise with other business units.

Renovations/Painter & Decorator – Development Projects 2009 - 2012

Commissions Analyst, Tektronix, Bracknell – Contract 2007– 2008

Process EMEA sales commissions liaising with senior sales management, commissionable sales employees

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and order management.

* Maintain and develop commission plans through INCA system.

* Month end accruals and forecasting.

* Provide financial support to Finance Analyst Group and Business Service Centre.

Sales Analyst, Lexmark International, Marlow – Temp 2007

Provide UK Management with UK financial sales information as required.

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* Assist in the analysis of sales margins and trends.

* Maintain and develop sales reporting models.

* Report UK channel sales results to EMEA HQ.

* Month end accruals and forecasting..

Reporting Analyst, TNT International, Windsor Contract 2005 2006

Provide efficient administrative and analytical support to the Director of General Services.

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* Provide regular monthly KPI reporting against target for Finance and Admin, Insurance, CSR, Health &

Safety & HR. Identify gaps and support the 40 countries within the EMEA region in information gathering.

* Perform detailed analysis of monthly activity reports relating to the overall performance of Procurement using

SAP R3. Update country procurement plans as required.

* Maintain and update Asset database.

* Provide support and assistance collating monthly CSR and Health & Safety reports. Verify submissions and

maintain control spreadsheets.

* Prepare and distribute monthly Information Document relating to Finance and Admin, CSR, H&S,

Procurement, HR and Insurance.

Commercial Assistant, Siemens, Bracknell – Contract 2005 *

Liaise with account managers to ensure that customer invoicing is prepared in a timely and

accurate fashion.

* Ensure accounts and customer records are maintained.

* Deal with customer queries.

* Support the chargeable billing process.

* Pricing and price analysis.

* Process month end journals.

* Ad hoc requests from Financial Controller.

Finance Co ordinator/ Analyst, Ntl Telecommunications, Wokingham 2002 2004

* Co ordinate expenditure and revenue for Field Operations, liaising closely with P2P supply chain, FSSG

(Financial Services Support Group), A/P and A/R.

* Provide analytical support and advice to field operational managers and contractors.

* Supervise a team of clerical staff responsible for administering finance in other key departments such as

Marketing, Collections and HR.

* Month end reconciliation’s, general ledger reconciliation’s, accruals and prepayments, capex deferrals and

journal postings.

* Assist project managers with cost management of projects, i.e. variance analysis, budgeted expenditure

against revenue.

* Assist with streamlining current processes and procedures.

Financial Accounts Assistant, Rockwell Collins, Reading 2001 2002

* Electronic Cashbook and Bank Reconciliation’s for Sterling Bank account.

Maintain the cashflow model based on daily bank statements, ensuring all non Accounts Receivable and

Purchase Ledger items are posted to the General Ledger, liaise with other members of the accounts

department as appropriate. (FX, Inter company, Inland Revenue, Bank Charges, etc).

* Administer transactions for the Dutch Branch, including preparation of payment instructions for bank

transfers. Post the General Ledger and reconcile key accounts as part of the month end close process.

Liaise with KPMG and the Dutch branch regarding payroll and other customer / supplier related transactions.

* Prepare periodic returns for the Office of National Statistics.

Finance Officer, Reading Borough Council, Reading Contract 2000 2001

* Sole responsibility for asylum team finance, reporting to RBC chief accountant and asylum team manager.

* Process the finance and administrative side of all accounts payable transactions making manual and cash

payments, expenses payments, and the matching, batching and coding of invoices payable by RBC

central payments.

* Maintain control spreadsheet.

* Control imprest bank account for manual and cash payments.

* Forecast weekly cash flows.

* Balance imprest account against manual ledger and bank statements to reclaim weekly asylum team

expenditure from RBC central payments.

* Preparation of quarterly end accounts by cost center and cost code for reconciliation against general ledger.

* Use Oracle Financial System to trace payment progress and investigate queries

Training & Education 1990 Now

ACCA Stage 2

BA Business Administration and Accounting 2nd

BTEC National Certificate Business and Finance (Merit)

6 GCSE Grades (A – C)

Successfully attended training in –

Accounting Systems include, Sage,JDE, SAP Oracle Financials & Infinium

Advanced Excel

Intermediate Word & Access

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