1. Catherine Coman
Wirral, CH60 e-mail:cathycoman@hotmail.co.uk
Personal Profile
I am a highly competent and motivated individual with an excellent track record, having performed well
in various admin’ & finance roles. I have all round accounting experience, together with a strong work
ethic and the ability to add value to any organisation.
Key Skills
 Previous experience in finance-based roles, knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Excel,
Word, Outlook, Powerpoint and Access together with the ability to touch type.
 Time Management skills - Ability to prioritise work load and deliver tasks within deadlines
 Effective team member who uses initiative and can work alone or as part of a team
 Professional manner with and awareness of ‘Equality & Diversity’ and ‘Health & Safety’ issues
 Educated to degree level –I gained a certificate in Sage 50 Accounts with distinction (Pitman’s
July 2014)
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Employment History
Currently Temporary Business Support Administrator Department of Adult
Social Services Wirral MBC
In my current role, I batch invoices, check coding accounts and petty cash. I am also involved in
investigating queries from Care Homes with regard to monthly payments for clients. My work involves
making telephone calls and treating all information in a confidential and sensitive manner. I have
recently started a new role within the Department of Adult Social Services where I am putting in place
packages of Domicile care. This part of a ‘Care Arranging Team’. In my previous role within Adult
Social Services I used Oracle, Contocc, Excel and Liquid Logic. In my current role I mainly use Liquid
Logic, Word and Outlook.
O1/10/12 to 27/09/13 (1 year contract)
Wirral Hospice St John, Mount Road, Wirral CH63
Secretarial Support Assistant
Initially working for the Chief Exec’s PA. Main duties were creating and typing documents, such as
minutes and planners. I was involved in gathering weekly staffing information through rotas. Sending

2. out memo’s and emails. I also worked in supporting HR and the Clinical Support Team and covered
the out-patient reception area at times. I Organised HR archiving and added disposal dates regarding
confidential files. I worked on the Staff questionnaire towards the end of my contract, using Word to
create it and Excel to collate the results.
27/06/11 to 01/06/12
Riverside Housing, Mersey North, 1- 5 Walton Road, Liverpool L4 4AD.
Temporary Finance Assistant
Duties
• Checking & approving Council tax and utility bills (void properties) for payment
• Updating weekly rent monitoring spreadsheet
• Preparing weekly banking
• Using ‘Sun’ to check payments already made. Using Kontrolla to approve invoices and post
banking. Looking up property details on Academy
• Solving supplier queries
30/10/09 to 23/12/10 - Grants and Contracts Clerk
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Duties
• Submission of accurate grant claims on a timely basis
• Production of Salary costings and full economic costings for research grant applications
• Verifying the appropriateness of UK and International transfers for payment and ensure they
are within budget limitations
• Maintaining grant records and setting up new grant awards including creating new cost
centres to identify specific grants, completing necessary internal processes & procedures
• Monitoring and reconciliation of grant expenditure to ensure financial integrity, general ledger
held on CODA (dream)
• Updated the Access grant database
• Liaison with grant holders to ensure required reports are submitted on a timely basis
• Integrating supplementary awards into existing financial accounts and closing of accounts
24/11/08 to 31/08/09 - ‘Senior Finance Officer’ - Muir Group Housing
Association
Duties

3. • Providing support to the finance department objectives to ensure a consistent service to
customers and to ensure that records are up-to-date
• Daily bank reconciliations for all non-rent transactions
• Investigate variances in reporting with reference to actual against budget
• Provide support to finance officers in terms of coding, imports and adherence to regulations
and procedures
• Request employer liability insurance details from all contractors used by Muir
• Lodge tenant deposits on-line with the ‘Deposit Protection Scheme’ and send out all
associated paperwork to tenants within 21 days (Rent to Home Buy Scheme)
• Download information regarding service charge payments via ALLPAY
• Assisting with service charge budgets
• Cover for manual cheque payment run
• Assisting Finance Officers at times of heavy workload
• Assisting with year end figures regarding property sales
• Reconciling HMRC court costs regarding necessary court action in relation to eviction and non
payment of rent
• Other ad-hoc duties
2007 to 2008
Various temporary short term (approx’ 3 month) roles including
1. ‘Temporary Budget Monitoring Assistant’ - Wrexham County Borough Council
2. ‘Temporary Finance Assistant’ - Wirral PCT
3. ‘Temporary Project Auditor’ - Adult Social Care, Wirral Borough Council
04/05/99 to 30/09/06 - Housing Strategic Finance Officer
London Borough of Lewisham

4. Duties
• Raised and processed journal and produced reconciliations for various control accounts
• Collated and sent out monthly management information reports to budget holders to agreed
deadlines
• Issued new cost centres for insurance claims with respect to impact and fire damage to
Lewisham housing properties
• Investigated and cleared the directorate’s suspense account in order to maintain the integrity
of the management information system (Oracle)
• Updated weekly performance related rent arrears report and e-mailed it to 40 internal
members of staff
• Raised invoices and collected funds relating to the Inter-Borough Nomination Scheme’
• Downloaded and sorted monthly transactional analysis reports using ‘Oracle Discoverer’ and
Excel
• Sent internal quarterly figures to the central finance team with regard to capital receipts
including ‘Right to Buy’ figures and associated salary and admin’ costs.
• Paying asylum seeker rents on an 8 week cycle in liaison with the social care directorate
• Other ad-hoc duties including monitoring home improvement grants, Update of weekly
spreadsheets in relation to hostel banking, petty cash and legal disbursements. Updating
grant payments under ‘the supporting people’ grant using Excel in conjunction with Oracle
discoverer.
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