Peter Wood is seeking a new role in accounts after being made redundant due to restructuring. He has over 40 years of experience in accounts, most recently working for 18 years in the motor trade. He enjoys working with numbers, computers, learning new roles, and interacting with others. He has relevant qualifications and skills in bookkeeping, management, communication, organization, training, and using software like Excel. His work history includes roles as an Assistant Accountant and Purchase Ledger Supervisor where he oversaw staff, ensured procedures were followed, completed reconciliations, and liaised with other departments. In his personal life, he is married with two adult children and enjoys hobbies like reading, puzzles, gardening and walking

1. Peter Wood
18 Bunyan Road Braintree Essex
CM7 2PL
07473145028 | 01376321482
wood878@btinternet.com
Driving Licence | Car Owner
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Statement
I have been working in accounts for 40 years the last 18 in the motor trade.
I have recently been made redundant due to restructuring of the accounts
department and cost cutting.
I enjoy working with numbers, computers, learning new roles and interacting with
others, I also ask questions and put forward suggestions. Although I do not have
experience of Sage 50 I know I can pick it up quickly.
I have been married since 1985 and have two adult children the youngest of which
is autistic, and still living at home.
Skills
 Certificate in book keeping (82% pass with credit)
 Supervisory Management (Certified and accredited by The ISM)
 Communication
 Motivational
 Organisational
 Training
 Bank Reconciliations
 Ensuring staff have the tools and skills to compete their tasks
 Task setting
 Working to time constraints
 Experience of Excel and word plus Kerridge.
 Making suggestions to improve procedures and implementing them
 Polite but assertive
 Reconciliations of statements and trial balance
 Dealing with Suppliers, Customers and Managers
 Resolving queries
 Learning new systems

2. Work Experience
Lookers Ford, Chelmsford
April 1998 – October 2016
Assistant Accountant
 Supervisor of the cashier and the purchase ledger
 Some credit control and doing credit checks
 Dealing with vehicle debts by chasing sales managers
 TB accounts reconciliations
 Bank reconciliations
 Accruals and prepayments
 Processing and check finance commission
 Vehicle and parts stock checks
 Reconciliation of vehicle stock checks to nominal ledger
 Completed changes to internal banking procedures
 Inter Company agreements
 Physical checking of petty cash and floats
 Training sales staff on how to provide reports and banking to accounts
 Using Excel including Lookups Pivot tables and some Macros
EEV, Chelmsford
1982 - 1998
Purchase ledger supervisor
 Supervisor to six staff
 Staff reviews and performance assessing
 Staff target setting
 Staff discipline
 Work quality audits
 Weekly progress and planning meetings
 Ensuring all staff and managers adhere to procedures
 Checking authorization is correct
 Training staff when needed
 Highlighting problems to managers
 Ensuring queries were dealt with
 Attending inter departmental meetings
 Making payments to agreed terms
 Paying suppliers in various currencies
 Liaise with departmental managers purchasing and goods in
 Valuation of goods received not invoiced
 Year End Inter Company Agreements
 Producing Intrastat reports
 Monthly journal entries
 Producing debtor reports
 Reconciliation of supplier’s statements
 Communicating with suppliers
 8000+ invoices a month

3. EEV, Chelmsford
1976 – 1982
Cost Clerk
 Pricing of current stock levels
 Post L O M in Cost Ledgers on monthly basis
 Post to fixed asset and revenue Ledgers
 Balance Ledgers
 Calculate WIP value
 Help with TB
 Produce cost statements
 Liase with managers and directors
Education
EEV
Internal Course
Certified and accredited by
The Institute for Supervisory Management
Superviroy Management Jan 1997 - Jun 1998
Included
 Course Project: Investigate Electronic Filing
 Presentation Skills
 Disciplinary Skills
 Absence Control
 Alcohol and Drug Abuse
 Report Writing
 Environmental Issues
 Organisation of Manufacture
 Finance and Budgetary Control
 Quaility Audit
 Measures of Performance
 Instructional Techniques
 Trainability Testing
 Team Leaderships
 Interactive Skills
Braintree College, Braintree
1977 - 1978
O Levels
English C
Alec Hunter Secondary, Braintree
1970 - 1976
O Levels
Maths B, Chemistry C,
Physics D, English D,
CSE
Maths 1, English 2,
Geography & Social Economics 1,
Chemistry 1, Physics 2,
History 3, Woodwork 4

4. Hobbies and Interests
I have a wide range of hobbies and interests.
Some of which I have included below.
Vice Chairperson for torchlight youth club.
Reading
Paint by numbers
Jigsaws
Watching sport and films
Gardening
Walking and sightseeing.
References
References are available on request.