1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Helen Louise Davies
Age: 49 years (14.06.66)
Address: 76 Essex Way
South Benfleet
Essex, SS7 1LP
Tel: 01268 566745
Marital Status: Single – 3 Dependents
Achievements:
7 CSE passes and a full clean driving licence held for 29 years
Personal Attributes:
Hard working, self-motivated, I am neat and tidy, pay attention to detail
and I am willing to learn new things
Interests:
I am very keen on keep fit, which I try to do as regularly as possible and I
enjoy listening to music. I also enjoy socialising when my other interests
and duties permit.
Present Employment:
August 2008 to present day
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Kinetic Insurance Brokers
Position: IBA Manager/Insurance Technician
Duties: IBA Manager
Maintaining cash books on a day to day basis, including reconciling cash
books to bank accounts and the Novus system. Weekly liaising with
banks regarding payment both internally and overseas transactions.
Conversant with foreign currency transactions.
2. Lloyds and IUA central settlement transactions. Managing day to day
client/underwriting/brokerage accounts via the Novus system, including
reconciling both client and underwriting accounts. Advising clients on a
monthly basis of funds outstanding. Reporting to the Office Manager on
all matters, but in particular. Outstanding balances due to/ from clients
Outstanding premiums due to/from insurers unmatched cash items
Any other anomalies processing the FSA Monthly Client Money
Reconciliation Report for processing earned brokerage.
Duties: Insurance Technician
When required, to support the technical team and broking team with
Entering data on the Novus system. Processing placing slips
Processing premiums/claims transactions processing documentation
Settlement of funds to/from insurers via Xchanging’s A&S/ECF Systems
Duties Accounts Payable
Maintaining the office account, and processing all invoices, credit notes
payments and receipts. Input of monthly journals. Reconciling the
account monthly. Maintaining petty cash using the impress system.
Maintaining currency floats for overseas travel. And all general admin
duties required within a small office. Month end, bank reconciliations,
preparing the brokerage file for variance analysis ensuring the correct
split of booked and earned brokerage between brokers, details reasons for
variance for onward submission to the board.FCA reconciliations.
Yearly - Audit running the client money audit and assisting statutory
accounts audit for kinetic
Previous Employment:
June 2008 – August 2008
Temping for Witan Jardine
Morgan Franklin
Position: Office Manager
Duties:
3. Set up UK phone directory
Set up Asset registers (who has phones, data cards etc)
Set up processes for US secondees (T&E into UK books instead of US
etc)
VAT return
Chase time sheets
Cut and issue bills
Periodic revenue accruals for us
Accrued time and cost statements for clients (pre bill)
Generate and issue statements to clients (post bill)
Phone bill analysis
Expense claim analysis
Answering phones, organizing accommodation and keeping track of
people
Maintaining and ordering stationary
Providing IT support (i.e. chasing vodafone and O2 when we loose
connectivity and liaising with our US IT team on things like getting PCs
etc)
Guy Carpenter & Co (part of the Marsh Group)
Position: Senior Accounts Technician (July 2005 –June 2008)
Duties:
Within this leading Re-Insurance Broker’s Europe Mena team my
responsibilities were to ensure the movement of funds settled to us and
paid onto clients according to specific deadlines. Dealing with several
different currencies, trading of these. Liaising with Technicians to ensure
clients have correct documents and resolutions of queries. My portfolio
consisted of 250 live accounts of which I was targeted on a monthly
basis. Adhoc duties included clearance of historic cashes and queries, rate
of exchange differences, reconciliations of live accounts and
intercompany accounts. Reporting to management on a monthly basis
regarding funding and retained entries and updating of management
databases to reflect these movements
May 2005 –June 2005
Temping
Runwood Homes PLC, London Road Hadleigh
4. Position: Finance Manager (January 2005 –March 2005)
Duties:
Day to day supervision of the Sales Ledger Team. Reporting directly to
the financial controller. Total number of staff 2. Ensuring that all fees
from various County Councils are collected. Credit control for all 25
nursing homes. Dealing with telephone queries from both residents and
their families, and service providers.
December 1994-January 1995 (temporary contract)
January 1995 (offered permanent position)
Marsh Corporate Services, Grove House, Newland Street, Witham
Position: Accounts Payable Assistant Manager (Janaury2002-
December 2004)
Duties:
Day to day supervision of the accounts payable department. Reporting
directly to the manager of the accounts payable area, total number of staff
18. Ensuring that the clearance of the bank reconciliation is kept within
required deadlines. Authorisation of all daily payment disbursements for
accounts payable. Other duties include assisting the management
reporting team with month and year-end accounts. Day to day staffing
issues e.g.: holidays, sickness, minor reprimands. Ensuring that all
deadlines are met on the AIP system (automated invoice processing).
Dealing with queries from within the business regarding AIP.
Maintaining the Authorisation Matrix for the AIP system
Position: General Accounting Supervisor (June 2001- January 2002)
Duties:
Day to day control and supervision of the general accounting department.
Reporting directly to the manager of the accounts payable area, total
number of staff 6. Ensuring that the clearance of the bank reconciliation
is kept within required deadlines. Production and disbursement of
payments for the accounts payable area on a daily basis. Other duties
include assisting the management reporting team with month and year-
5. end accounts. Day to day staffing issues e.g.: holidays, sickness, minor
reprimands. Control and maintenance of the AP vendor master file.
Position: Accounts Payable Supervisor (October 2000 to June 2001)
Duties:
Day to day control and supervision of the accounts payable department.
Reporting directly to the manager of the accounts payable area, total
number of staff 35. Other duties include assisting the management
reporting team with month and year-end accounts. Day to day staffing
issues e.g.: holidays, sickness, minor reprimands. Setting up new
vendor’s accounts.
Adhoc Project involved in the implementation of a new system-Oracle
Position: Team Leader Accounts Payable (April 1997-October2000)
Duties:
Responsible for a team of 14, authorising disbursement reports daily for
bacs/cheque run. Setting the payment criteria system. Balancing payment
reports to disbursement reports. Dealing with more complex queries
from external and internal sources. Covering AP Manager when on
holiday or sickness. Looking after staff holiday and sickness records.
Dealing with basic staffing issues. Preparing month end journals.
Making sure that all monthly, quarterly and year-end deadlines are met.
Position: Accounts Assistant (1995-1997)
Duties:
Checking for correct authorised signatures. Preparing invoices for
payment and payment vouchers. Inputting invoice data onto computer
system for payment. Checking and keeping statements from suppliers
and chasing up outstanding invoices. Answering supplier’s queries over
the telephone and also internal queries. Authorising batches for input on
other areas.
Sales Ledger
Updating sales ledger using the sun system. I also followed up any
overdue invoice.
6. General Ledger
Bank Reconciliation’s-checking any outstanding items and receipts and
payments are clear.
1983-September 1994(due to redundancy)
The Institute of London Underwriters, 49 Leadenhall Street, London,
EC3
Position: Accounts Assistant
Duties:
Cashbook:
Maintaining manual records for payment/receipts on 3 bank accounts.
Performing bank reconciliation’s on a timely basis on all bank accounts
Nominal Ledger:
Raising input documents for cashbook, nominal ledger and sales ledger.
Input onto the computer system all accounting transactions.
Bought ledger:
Checking for correct coding and authorisation before supplier’s invoices
are processed for payment. Making timely payments to the Institutes
suppliers. Ensuring that all discounts available are taken up. Dealing
with queries from suppliers.
Sales Ledger:
Preparation of invoices to all Members for various goods and services
rendered by the ILU. Ensuring that all queries from the Members in
respect of invoices raised are dealt with. The review of Aged Debtor
Analysis (outstanding payments). Performing the relevant follow up
work and reporting to the Financial Director on overdue items.
Reconciling the control account to the sales ledger on a timely basis.
Travel Advances:
The control of foreign currencies held in stock on behalf of Executives
for their foreign travels. Reconciliation of physical cash to nominal
ledger records.
Petty Cash:
Ensuring the petty cash records are kept up to date. The reimbursement
of the float on a regular basis.
General Administration:
Ensuring that the department stationery suppliers are adequate.
Systems Used:
7. Fact 2000, Tetra Plan, lotus 1-2-3, Windows software, Sun System,
Millenium, Amipro, Oracle 11i. (AP GL and Cash management), excel,
Sage Accounting, Twins, SAP, Global, and Novus
Courses Taken:
July 1998 Basic Book Keeping
May 1993 qualified first Aider
December 1993 Lotus 1-2-3 Introduction
March 1994 RSA Stage 1 using MS Word-Distinction
May 1994 Alder PageMaker DTP
May 1996 AAT NVQ Level 2 Foundation – Pass
August 1999 AAT NVQ Level 3 Intermediate – Pass
August 2000 AAT NVQ Level 4 Technician Unit 7+8 Pass
August 2002 AAT NVQ Level 4 Technician Unit 10 Pass
February 2002 Introduction to benchmarking
January 2002 Performance appraisal Skills
April 200 Effective leader part1
September2000 Effective Leader part 2
Education:
September 1977 to July 1982
King John School, Thundersley, Essex
Qualifications:
CSE’s Biology 3
English 1
Environmental Studies 1
Home Economics 1
History 2
Mathematics 1
Physical Education 3
Further Education:
1982-1983
Southend College of Technology, Southend, Essex
BTEC General Diploma in Business Studies
(Equivalent to 4 ‘O’ level passes)
People and Communications C
8. Business Calculations A
The World of Work C
Bookkeeping and Accounts B
Office Typewriting I C
Office typewriting B
Clerical Services B
Use of Office Machines B
Combined course Assessment B
Pitmans Elementary Typing Pass
References: Available upon request
Additional information
I was involved in the set-up and implementation of oracle 11I during
2001 for Accounts Payables
During 2002 I was part of the project team for AP benchmarking and
going forward E-procurement.
During 2003 we implemented an automatic invoice processing, using the
software 170-markview systems. I was a member of the project team and
was responsible for the setting up and sign off of the authorisation matrix
for the trading side of Marsh. I was involved in the testing ensuring that
all current aspects of the manual AP system were encompassed and
where the product would allow enhancements were requested. I was also
involving in the change management aspects relating to the
implementation, as the working practices throughout the company with
regards to AIP were affected and this had to be communicated to all
business areas. I was also a member of the training team for the new
system travelling all over the UK.