Finance Officer seeking work in South America

Aug 2006- London Metropolitan University, \r\nPresent Finance Officer, (Web Designer, IT Support – Secondary roles)\r\n\r\nDuties Include:\r\n\r\n• All areas of Finance managed for the English Languages School. Including: Budgets, forecasting, Payroll, PAYE, NI, Tax, procurement, statistical analysis, reporting both internally and externally on a variety of areas to many agencies. Purchase ledger, credit control, managing debtors / creditors, providing quotes for UK and international partners.\r\n• Accounts managed contributing on average £1.2m annually to the University.\r\n• All areas of the departments Website managed including design, implementation and marketing. \r\n• Digital marketing projects also undertaking using HTML ezines. Set up departments profile on Twitter, Facebook, Lindkedin, Bebo, and Gowalla.\r\n• Various miscellaneous duties such as IT support, room bookings, HR issues, tendering projects to outside vendors. \r\n• Liaising daily with a number of international offices across the world, mainly Japan, China, Saudi Arabia. \r\n• Managing teaching staff with regards to Contracts, teaching schedules, IT setup and usage, payroll queries\r\n• Daily contact with students both confirmed and prospective regarding Visa issues, CAS, SVV, accommodation, Finance, IT. \r\n• Signatory for multiple budgets in excess of a million pounds, also responsible for price setting for out services to meet budget requirements and to compete in a competitive market. \r\n\r\nMar 2006- Mychild Ltd, Holborn, London\r\nAug 2006 Finance Manager – Fixed Term 6 Months\r\n\r\nDuties Include: \r\n• General Bookkeeping duties. Payroll, PAYE, NI, Bank Reconciliations, Credit control, Financial Reporting on company trading at approx £900k per annum.\r\n• Visiting Creditors to resolve Legal issues and to propose payment schedules.\r\n• Monitoring of sales, whether targets were met. Support for sales team. Providing performance reports for weekly meetings with MD and Sales Team Leader to discuss financial forecasting and budgets.\r\n• Various projects undertaken, setting up of debt recovery, distribution of merchandise.\r\n• Set up of new revenue channels in order to increase income, performance reports provided weekly/monthly.\r\n\r\nSept 2002- \r\nMar 2006 Methodist Colleges & Schools Head Office, London\r\n Senior Finance Administrator/Projects Reporting Officer \r\n\r\nDuties Include:\r\n• Responsible for the regular transfer and management of computerised financial data from 5 independent sites.\r\n• To prepare weekly status reports on all financial data\r\n• Responsible for bank reconciliations, ensuring employee salaries and NI are regularly paid, and various other pension payments totalling hundreds of thousands of pounds.\r\n• Nominal Ledger postings for central office receipts and payments\r\n• Assisting with the annual statistics for the Board of Governors of all nine independent schools\r\n• Monitoring various departments’ budget data and information\r\n• Building and sustaining working relations with external partners \r\n• Training other members of staff in I.T. Skills.\r\n \r\n