Managed sales growth for over 20 accounts, in a declining market. Building lasting relationships with the best in the paper industry. I managed the smooth running of an office of 8 employees, including all finance functions and regulatory responsibilities.

Managed all aspects of finance, including credit control, general ledger, a self-billing payables system, and month end management accounts. Supervised critical KPI data collection and reported to senior management. Coordinated all aspects of the forwarding function for Graphic, Containerboard, RDF, Timber and Pulp as a senior member of a small, dynamic team.

Managed a comprehensive MIS system (created in my previous role) to capture labour and volume throughput.  Maintained full payables and receivables service.  Online banking and maintaining a petty cash system.  Calculated quarterly VAT returns.  Consulted on labour planning (Operations) and plant maintenance (Engineering).

Primary role was the development of Management Information Databases suited to clients' individual needs, including the design, collection and inputting of close to real time data.

Also performed ad-hoc IT tasks including installation, configuration and and maintenance of hardware/software.

Day to day running of a popular and busy public house, including all aspects of running a hospitality business.

Primarily designing, coding and testing in-house tax software for one of the big three accounting firms, but also included other aspects of public accounting work.

Designing and testing, working alongside outstanding programming talent, to create award-winning tax and accounting software.  During this period I was working primarily on the UltraTax Fixed Assets module, and played an instrumental role in implementating the new Property Tax functionality.

Designing and testing, working alongside outstanding programming talent, to create award-winning tax and accounting software.  During this period I was working primarily on the UltraTax State Corporation Tax modules, and in particular, I was responsible for the successful role-out and subsequent maintenance and support, of Alaska, Hawaii, Indiana and Iowa State Corporation Tax modules.

Staff Accountant duties, including auditing, financial reviews and tax computation for individuals, corporations and partnerships.

First role out of university, primarily responsible for accounts payable, but I also looked after the fleet of company cars and performed other ad-hoc tasks as set by junior and senior management.