Sam McHugh

Experience

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  Aviva

  Dec 2000 - Oct 2005

  • Supervision of the General Ledger Assurance Team - 1 ADO role and 7 OD’s• Responsible for business acceptance of the cornerstone reconciliation project design in relation to the GLA team in order to ensure processes where captured correctly so as to minimise the impact with reference to both Finance and Operations.• Review and authorisation of control account reconciliations• Liaison with operations to continue to improve process efficiency• Month End Allocation review which involves the apportionment of balances within the Cash Balancing Fund to the relevant writing companies for reporting purposes.• Main point of contact for the Financial Reporting team throughout the year, with reference to balance sheet queries.• Liased with Ernst & Young, the external auditors for NU Life, at year end.• Presented Cash Balancing Fund training courses throughout the business to colleagues at all levels. Show less • Assisted in the management of the General Ledger Team.• Created & posted manual journals, reconciled balance sheet inter-company accounts.• Maintained and reconciled foreign reassurance accounts, which included accruals, profit and loss exchange adjustments and year end adjustments.• Assisted in the review of 300 reconciliation’s in terms of grading and risk to the business.• A central role in the commission project, which entails understanding the system processes with an understanding as to how these can be improved, from an accounting point of view.• Liased with Customer Service Managers in Norwich on behalf of the team, to both understand their requirements and to reduce issues and improve work processes.• Reviewed all Month End tasks performed by the team to ensure integrity and accuracy of the accounts at trial balance level, for reporting purposes. Show less

  • Accountant

    Jan 2004 - Oct 2005

  • Senior Finance Assistant

    Aug 2001 - Nov 2004

  • Finance Assistant

    Dec 2000 - Aug 2001
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  American Security International

  Oct 2005 - Apr 2006

  Financial Accountant

  • Updated and completed all expense analysis for the international sales team, so that all expenses where compared against new business for each product types, and sales person.• Performed and maintained all balance sheet reconciliation’s, as well as ensuring the integrity of the data, both reconciled and unreconciled.• The cash flow statement to be completed monthly and submitted to the head office in USA.• Due to high net worth clients, treasury management became essential so that maximum interest was earned.• Involved in implementing a purchase ledger system, so as to streamline the process and ensure that sufficient controls exist. Show less

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  Easi Recycling Solutions Ltd

  May 2006 - Jun 2015

  Assistant Management Accountant

  • Month end management accounts for several companies• Foreign payments Euro, New Zealand Dollar. • Assisted in the migration over to a new software system, from sage 50 to sage 200.• Expenses and wages preparation, P11D preparation.• General ledger maintenance, purchase & sales ledger reconciliation & production of payment schedules• Raising sales invoices and credit notes either monthly or when required.• Stock reconciliation • Prepayments / Accruals and fixed asset register maintenance• Submit quarterly vat returns• Reconcile bank accounts and nominal accounts• Cover maternity leave for 6 months for the Management Accountant Show less

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  Nestlé

  Aug 2015 - May 2017

  Accountant

  Prepare quarterly accounts and year end statutory accounts including all relevant discolsureInput the quartely accounts into the group acreporting software magnitudeAccruals and prepaymentsPlace cash on the money marketsDaily valuationsPayment authorisationsAccounts receivable and payablesGeneration of fund invoices for York and our branch in Vevey, SwitzerlandQuarterly VAT returnsBank account and nominal account reconciliation

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  Network Rail

  Jul 2017 - now

  Management Accountant
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  Agecko UK Ltd

  Jun 2019 - now

  • Management Reportso Customer Margin Reports / Monthly Analysiso Contract value reportso Lost / inactive Contractso Business Development Management - P & L analysis • IWS/GM and Xero Reconciliation• KPI reports from IWS• Supplier Costs• Overheads / Expenses• Manage and support finance assistant role• Crystal Reporting• VAT returns quarterly• National Statistics Return• Stock Take and Analysis• Supplier payments and approvals• Cash Flow Management• Reporting at Management Meetings• Prepayments and Accruals• Wages Authorisation/checking commissions and producing the monthly wages journal (including P11D reporting each year)• Streamlining payments from customers (i.e. look at DD collections option)• Working to ensure each new customer is fully credit checked• Easi NZ work and other invoicing Show less

  • Director of Finance

    Apr 2024 - now

  • Accounting and Systems Manager

    Oct 2017 - now

  • Managing Director

    Jun 2019 - Aug 2024