Alison Cutts

Experience

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  House of Commons

  Jun 2011 - Jun 2013

  Senior Accounts Assisant

  Senior Accounts Officer within the House of Commons in the Financial Management Department. Daily responsibilities included the management of revenue income totalling in the region of approximately £26,000 per day as well as daily credit card receipts with an annual value of £3 million. Managed departmental revenue of £9 million a per annum generated through the catering department. Other duties were to reconcile the service charge and gratuities of approximately £480,000 per annum, bank reconciliation, dealing with members account queries, receiving deposits from external organisations for private functions, setting up price changes and menus for all catering venues within the House of Commons on a daily and weekly basis. Managed 3 Accounts Officers, carrying out monthly staff supervisions, giving staff/team members the opportunity to discuss performance and productivity to assist and support them with their continuing professional development (CPD) and maintain and improve on performance.Other Responsibilities:• Accounting and Control• Compiled and published reports relating to revenue and income • Resolved revenue and income variance and queries • Actioned the transfer of monthly revenue information into the nominal ledger • Reconciled control accounts including bank reconciliations on a monthly basis • Periodically reviewed/analysed systems, controls and procedures, devising, implemented new improved systems accordingly and made maximum cost effective use of existing systems• Undertook special projects in operational areas to maximise revenue• Assisted the central cashier to carry out audits/spot checks of cash tills and independently undertook other cash control audits • Staff Management/supervision, training and CPD Show less

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  Accounts

  Jun 2014 - Oct 2019

  Finance Co-Ordinator

  The role of Finance Coordinator provides support to the business covering the following areas:• Purchase and Sales Ledger – Coding Invoices including processing and generation, invoice receipt, analysis, approval and payment.• Full project Life Cycle Financial Analysis and control for Fixed Price and Time and Materials (T&M) projects. • Customer Liaison covering all Salary and Invoice queries.• New Customer and Vendor creation on the company Project Management/Finance System (Focal Point).• Invoicing, multinational companies for services against current projects.• 2 Monthly Payment Runs • Month End accounting processes for all projects, preparing balance sheet reconciliations including Bank reconciliations, Month End Financial reports and preparation of 13 Week Cash Forecasts.• Fixed Assets & Depreciations, Balancing company credit cards against expenditure against company and projects in line with company policies and undertaking the General Ledger journals. • Completing Quarterly VAT returns.• AD HOC month end tasks• Analysing and validating timesheets and Travel and Subsistence expenses.• Assist with the preparation of external Audits.• Project closure• Monitoring Work in Progress (WIP) to ensure levels comply with financial objectives. Show less

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  Kynetec

  Jul 2017 - Oct 2019

  Finance Administrator

  Kynetec is a leading global market research company with offices across North America, Europe and Asia.The role of Finance Administrator provides support to the business covering the following:Accounts Receivables Process• Recording of all Sales Orders generated by the Project Managers, answering quires that arise from the sales orders with the billing schedules.• Forwarding on Purchase Orders from clients to the correct Project Managers and making sure that all the billing information is entered correctly on the Clients record. • Raising Global Client invoices, making sure that the right subsidiary is used and that the VAT is correct for each country.• Manage outstanding client invoicing • Checking Project set up and Approving once all the Information is correct.• Raising Intercompany Invoicing – the recharging of cost & Labour for each subsidiary.• Posting of Cash received • Providing holiday cover for the Senior Accounts Receivable Officer. Show less

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  Roc Technologies

  Oct 2019 - Apr 2023

  Billing Clerk

  Roc Technologies are an IT solution and services provider delivering business transformation through our unique process-led approach. Our solutions are built upon project management, process optimisation, platform solutions and managed services.The role of Billing Clerk has been very varied role with no solid job description, covering the following to the business:• Raising all T&M, Manage Service monthly invoicing. • Raising Sales Orders in Netsuite/Sales force • Entering Contractor Invoices and Managing their time in Timesheet system• Sorted all aged debt and Continuing to help credit controller. • Set up new processes with Finance Manager.• Helping Project Managers with Budgetary quires.• Hold bi-weekly meetings with Project managers about present and future invoicing.• Raising all intercompany invoicing. Show less

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  TechStream Group

  Mar 2021 - now

  Senior Pay&Bill Administrator