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CV
Ms Anja Bassen
47 Whitestile Road, London, TW8 9NR
Telephone: 0208 847 2107 (Home); 0770 4197221 (Mobile)
Email: anja.bassen@gmx.de
Professional Profile
Multilingual accounts clerk fluent in both German (mother tongue)
and English. Several years experience of working in a finance
environment mainly using SAP/CERPS & Microsoft Office. I am self
motivated, good communicator and excellent team player.
In my current role I’ve also used my experience and knowledge to
provide SAP/CERPS/AP support to other members of the team & to
LOC (incl. ‘How to’ – questions)
Career Summary
April 2013 – now Glaxo Smith Kline Ltd, Brentford
Position held Accounts Payable Executive
(acted as Senior from May 2013 – Dec 2013)
Main role/responsibilities Acting as Link between Off-Shore-Services and Local Market:
Resolving payment issues (incl. escalations)
Approving urgent payments
Providing threshold approvals to Offshore Payment Run team
Dealing with supplier queries
Providing support to Offshore teams with regards to various issues
Reconciliation of vendor accounts
Dealing with Vendor Master Data issues
Dealing with GRNI monthly report
Maintaining Purchase Ledger (Identifying duplicated / inactive
vendors & providing information to LOC Procurement, clearing Direct
Debit Accounts)
Investigating & Resolving of ‘Unreconciled Items’ on bank statement
Setting up manual payments via Online Banking (DBDi) –
Intercompany, Payroll etc.
Providing support to internal & external auditors
Running & updating various reports (i.e. Daily Dashboard) on a
regular basis (as part of a team) across all AP markets in the BSC
Dealing with all regular controls for Germany / DACH / Austria /
Switzerland – Team
Approving DCF (OTV, Manual Payment, SRM) as holiday cover
Other admin tasks to support team-lead (Updating Comm Cell board
etc.)
Sept. 2007 – April 2013 Schindler Ltd, Sunbury-upon-Thames
Position held Accounts Payable Clerk

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Main role/responsibilities Preparing, coding and processing of Third Party / Document Entry &
Subcontractor invoices
Using SAP Upload Tool for Mass Invoices (e.g. Freight & Storage
Charges or Car Hire Charges)
Running payments for Accounts Payable
Dealing with supplier queries/reminders/ provide payment advices
Reconciliation of vendor accounts
Resolving payment issues (cancellations, re-processing of invoices,
clearing vendor accounts)
Maintaining Master Data
Preparing & processing journals
Setting up Alternative Payees to Third Party Vendors or Subcontractors
Filing CIS TAX monthly return on the Inland Revenue website
Adding & verifying new subcontractors on Inland Revenue website
Providing holiday cover for the cashier
Jan. 2007 – Aug. 2007 Nestle Purina Petcare, New Malden
Position held Accounts Payable PTP (Purchase-To-Pay) Process
Co-ordinator
Main role/responsibilities Working with CS3 - Accounts Payable (Spain) and SAP R/3
(Germany)
Preparing and/or verifying invoices
Processing Accounts Payable invoices
Processing changes of bank details
Running payments for Accounts Payable – One Time
Vendor/General/Travel & Expenses
Dealing with supplier queries/reminders/ provide payment
advice
Reconciliation of vendor accounts
Resolving payment issues (cancellations, re-processing of
invoices, clearing vendor accounts)
Sept. 2006 – Dec. 2006 Back-Roads Touring Co. Ltd, Ealing
Position held Accounts and SalesAssistant
Main role/responsibilities Accounts Payable
Preparing and/or verifying invoices
Processing invoices
Running payments for Accounts Payable & Travel Expenses
Dealing with supplier queries/reminders
Reconciliation of vendor accounts
Accounts Receivable
Raising invoices
Processing invoices
Chasing customers for outstanding payments
Sales
Making travel reservations
Preparing tours for the new season
Jun. 2005 – Jun. 2006 Bauer LTD, Südlohn, Germany
Personal assistant to managing director in medium sized company
(200 employees) making recycle bins and fork lift truck attachments
May 2000 – Jan. 2005 Various part time finance related office jobs

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Apr. 1986 – Apr. 2000 Housewife
Fulltime housewife bringing up a family. Actively
involved in helping out at the schools attended by my daughters
including being a member of the parents/teachers association. Also
worked for a number of charity organisations on a voluntary basis.
Aug. 1977 – Mar. 1986 Verbandssparkasse(community savings bank) Wesel, Germany
Position held Bank clerk
Main role/responsibilities Creating trial balances (daily) and reporting to managing board of
savings bank
Creating and reporting minimum reserves statement (monthly)
to ‘Deutsche Bundesbank’
Creating and reporting intercompany comparison (monthly) to
the connected savings banks
Various statistics - monthly/quarterly/annually
Reconciliation of balance sheet accounts (annually)
Reconciliation of loan accounts (e.g. KfW SME bank or KfW
promotional bank) – annually
Cash flow management (analysis and forecast) - daily
Reconciliation of bank accounts – daily
Education
Jul. 1975 GCSE equivalent in English, German, Mathematics, History,
Geography, Religious Study
Professional Development
Feb. 2000 – Mar. 2000 Introduction to commercial accounting including Sage Accounting
Software basics and introduction to SAP R/3
Nov. 1999 – Feb. 2000 Commercial certificate in Microsoft Office IT Module (Access.
Marketing, Internet, Power Point)
Oct. 1999 – Nov. 1999 Commercial certificate in Microsoft Office IT Module (Word, Excel)
Jun. 1979 Chamber of Commerce Certificate in Banking
Jul. 1977 Further Education Commercial Certificate in English, French, book
keeping and Maths.
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Languages
German (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (fair)
Personal Details
Driving Licence Full/Clean
Health Excellent, Non-smoker
Interests Music, reading, cycling, yoga, running (including half and full
marathons)
IT Skills
Microsoft Office, email, internet and SAP. In the past I have also used SAGE.
July 2015