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Carol Eldred

Poole

Summary

Part Qualified CIMA with 20 years experience as a Financial Controller in a fast moving holiday ownership company.

Being conscientious and diligent enabled me to perform all the department tasks single handedly during Covid lockdown, this was quite a challenge to go from a Team of 12 to just 1 as the Travel industry was hit particularly hard and regulatory bodies required more analysis during this period.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Financial Controller

Idiliq Group
09.2003 - Current
  • Extremely varied role within major holiday ownership group based on Costa del Sol.
  • Head of department Managing a small Accounts & Admin team.
  • Total control of 3 subsidies, responsible for all accounting functions including Invoicing, Collections, Forecasting, Budgeting & Cashflow for our Member Clubs and Internal Travel department.
  • Production of Monthly Management accounts with supporting variance analysis working to set deadlines
  • Preparation & submission of quarterly Abta & Atol returns
  • Preparation of Vat returns for Group FC consolidation
  • Balance sheet review monthly & annually. Preparing data for Audit, working with Audit teams as required
  • Treasury functions, Bank reconciliations with multi currency accounts
  • Bank & Control account reconciliations
  • Journal entries


Accountant

InnFocus Ltd
05.2002 - 03.2003

All Accounting tasks associated with small chain of managed public houses.

  • Income, Expenditure, Stock Control, payroll inputting all data into Sage accounting system.

Management Accountant

Businesswise
01.2002 - 04.2002

Small Accountancy practise responsible for Management reporting extracting data for analysis from Cropwise reporting system

Assistant Management Accountant

Nigel-Lynn Associates
09.2000 - 11.2001

Long term assignment with FLS Aerospace at Stansted Airport.

  • Reporting to Hangar Management Accountant, producing weekly KPI's in respect of Heavy maintenance checks.
  • Interrogating various data systems to extract information relating to employee attendance records & job card bookings.
  • Responsible for completion of monthly management model designed to calculate WIP, recovery & recoverability of every maintenance check.

Education

CIMA Papers 4,6 & 8

Remote
2001

CIMA Foundation Level

Farnborough College
Farnborough
1999

Business Studies

Chesterfield College of Technology
Chesterfield
1981

Skills

Advanced MS Office with excellent knowledge of excel

Accurate, methodical, organised with great attention to detail

Able to prioritise workloads

Work to set targets, meeting deadlines

Experience in data analysis

Adaptable

Confident with various client database & accounting systems most recently Sun, TSW, Dolphin, Sage, Comtec

Timeline

Financial Controller

Idiliq Group
09.2003 - Current

Accountant

InnFocus Ltd
05.2002 - 03.2003

Management Accountant

Businesswise
01.2002 - 04.2002

Assistant Management Accountant

Nigel-Lynn Associates
09.2000 - 11.2001

CIMA Papers 4,6 & 8

Remote

CIMA Foundation Level

Farnborough College

Business Studies

Chesterfield College of Technology
Carol Eldred