Stephanie Gerard

Experience

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  Unipart Leisure and Marine

  Apr 2008 - Jul 2011

  Credit Controller

  • Responsibility and control for the car care ledger and National accounts• Dealing with Million pound accounts in all aspects• Ensuring timely payment of invoices by phonecalls, letters and emails and withholding orders ifaccount is overdue.• Extensive query resolution including pricing issues,PODs and shortages.• Control of EDI invoicing and doing a weekly EDIreport.• Use of Customer EDI based software for NationalAccounts such as Argos, and The Range• Preparing credit and debit journals as required forany accounts and coding accordingly• Raising of Manual Invoices and Credits as needed.• Monthly running of aged debt reports in excel andalso any reports or spreadsheets required forcustomers• Liaising with Sales staff to sort queries and visits• New account credit checks by use of web basedcredit reports. Once checked opening account on the system and sending letters Show less

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  Meggitt PLC

  Jul 2011 - Aug 2014

  Credit Controller

  Responsibility and control of the ledger for Meggitt Aircraft Braking SystemsDealing with all of the customer base for Meggitt for Sales, OEM and MROMonitoring all accounts and ensuring all invoices are paid in a timely manner and that invoices are not held for payment due to queries or problem deliveriesPreparing a weekly stop list for delinquent customersPreparing weekly reports for PLC for the monitoring of certain high risk customers Producing Sundry invoices and credits monthly for intercompany and customer recharges Downloading of banking information and processing payments onto SAP and reporting any receipt of proforma payments to the relevant departmentLiaising with customers to resolve queries and late payment issues via email and telephone.Liaising with customer service and shipping to resolve any issues surrounding deliveriesCollating of all MOD documentation and ensuring documents are signed and authorised and preparing them for payment to be sent to LiverpoolCollating of all documentation for EADS, Eurofighter and Panavia to be emailed and sent via UPS to the respective customerYearly reviews of customers and setting up of new customers by running Dun and Bradstreet reports and taking up of trade references• Reduction of the DSO to the lowest point in many years of Meggitt and also reducing the over 120 days debt considerably since my starting at Meggitt• Invoicing procedure insuring all invoices are sent out in a timely manner and according to customer requirements Show less

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  NP Aerospace Ltd

  Jan 2015 - Dec 2016

  Credit controller/Accountant

  Credit Controller specialising in MOD debt. All aspects of account managing from Cash allocation through to credit checks. MOD 640 handling and submissions and full use of P2P (Exostar) portal. Running of invoices and all month end reporting. Reduced stagnant debt by £12 Million since first joining. Also help on Purchase ledger for Statement Reconciliations and inputting of invoices and matching the GRNI. Journal raising and inputting. MOD Clearance to Secrets level until 2025 and CRB checked. Show less

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  Optilan

  Dec 2016 - Aug 2018

  • Responsible for the Cityfibre contracts in the north of England• Raising of site specific RAMS once project has been accepted• Raising of any PO’s and orders for goods required to complete the project site work• Raising of engineering packs for engineers to use while on site, including any safety sheets, job packs, RAMS, site reports, handover packs and testing result paperwork• Ensuring all site staff receive notification of where they will be working and ensuring all information is sent to them and agreeing timesheets for their time spent on site• Monitoring site progress with emails and phone calls ensuring any changes or issues are documented and any extra costs captured and notified to customer• Raising of Early Warning notices to customer to ensure any additional costs are communicated and agreed with Customer before proceeding on site• Dealing with subcontractor invoices and any issues that arrive from work carried out on Optilan’s behalf• Raising PO and clearing subcontractor invoices ensuring costs are within the confines of the original project scope • Raising of all handover packs to include photographs and all testing results on the fibre carried out by the Engineers so that they can be sent back to customer on completion of the project.• Raising of finance book to agree costs with Customer at the end of the project ensuring any additional agreed costs are included. Once agreed raising the invoice to be sent out to customer. • Ensuring all financials on the project are kept within agreed margins and if issues arise jeopardising this raising this to the Project Manager• Ensuring all systems at Optilan are kept up to date and all relevant information in stored within the project files, and invoicing is sent to finance for processing Show less

  • Project Coordinator

    Dec 2017 - Aug 2018

  • Credit Controller

    Dec 2016 - Dec 2017
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  HORIBA MIRA

  Aug 2018 - Oct 2018

  Project Coordinator Technician
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  Institute of School Business Leadership

  Nov 2018 - now

  Contract Support Officer