James Simpson ACCA MAAT

Experience

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  ANCHOR INTERIOR SOLUTIONS LIMITED

  Aug 2005 - May 2012

  Accounts/General Assistant
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  AFP Services Limited

  Jun 2012 - now

  Job PurposeTo provide support to the Financial Accounts Manager, delivering a quality financial accounting service for a portfolio of clients and leading a small team of Financial Accounts Assistants.Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities• To manage a small team within the larger Financial Accounts department and liaise with both the Financial Accounts Manager and Assistant Financial Accounts Managers on a regular basis to ensure consistencies between the smaller teams• To manage the performance of team members through setting objectives, monitoring and reviewing progress, and encouraging and supporting development in order to ensure that staff have the appropriate skill sets• To provide ongoing training, advice and support to Financial Accounts Assistants, ensuring your team’s tasks and deadlines (both internal and statutory) are met, and provide adequate resilience for client accounts when staff members are absent• To assist in ensuring efficient and accurate processing of all sales ledger, purchase ledger, bank, cash, VAT, payroll and expense transactions for clients, ensuring that regular and ad hoc journals are processed which will then enable the production of weekly and monthly reporting for client management as appropriate.• To liaise with the Management Accounts team where appropriate with regards to client work and staff issues Show less Job Purpose• To provide effective and efficient accounting support to enable accurate and timely financial reporting for a portfolio of clientsKey Responsibilities and Accountabilities• To assist in the management of all aspects of sales and purchase ledger processes in order to provide an excellent quality of service to clients• To undertake timely bank, credit card and petty cash reconciliations ensuring this information is always accurate and can inform financial decisions• To provide efficient payroll services including preparing and running weekly or monthly payroll ensuring that all payroll payments and PAYE payments are paid accurately and employee records are kept up to date• To process journals onto the nominal ledger, reconcile the relevant accounts with monthly schedules and liaise with the Management Accounts team in order to assist them in the production of accurate monthly/periodic reports• To prepare and submit accurate VAT returns, EC Sales Lists and Intrastat returns, if required, in line with statutory timescales and to ensure payments are made on time• To action ad hoc projects as agreed with the Financial Accounts Manager or an Assistant Financial Show less

  • Assistant Financial Accounts Manager

    Sept 2016 - now

  • Financial Accounts Assistants

    Jun 2012 - Aug 2016