CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Helen Louise Davies

Age: 49 years (14.06.66)

Address: 76 Essex WaySouth BenfleetEssex, SS7 1LPTel: 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.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.

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 clientsOutstanding premiums due to/from insurers unmatched cash itemsAny 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 slipsProcessing premiums/claims transactions processing documentationSettlement 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 2008Temping for Witan Jardine

Morgan Franklin

Position: Office ManagerDuties:

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 2005Temping

Runwood Homes PLC, London Road Hadleigh

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-

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 LedgerUpdating sales ledger using the sun system. I also followed up any overdue invoice.

General LedgerBank 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, EC3Position: 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 accountsNominal 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:

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 KeepingMay 1993 qualified first AiderDecember 1993 Lotus 1-2-3 IntroductionMarch 1994 RSA Stage 1 using MS Word-DistinctionMay 1994 Alder PageMaker DTPMay 1996 AAT NVQ Level 2 Foundation – PassAugust 1999 AAT NVQ Level 3 Intermediate – PassAugust 2000 AAT NVQ Level 4 Technician Unit 7+8 PassAugust 2002 AAT NVQ Level 4 Technician Unit 10 PassFebruary 2002 Introduction to benchmarkingJanuary 2002 Performance appraisal SkillsApril 200 Effective leader part1September2000 Effective Leader part 2

Education:September 1977 to July 1982King John School, Thundersley, Essex

Qualifications:

CSE’s Biology 3English 1Environmental Studies 1Home Economics 1History 2Mathematics 1Physical Education 3

Further Education:

1982-1983Southend College of Technology, Southend, Essex

BTEC General Diploma in Business Studies (Equivalent to 4 ‘O’ level passes)

People and Communications C

Business Calculations AThe World of Work CBookkeeping and Accounts BOffice Typewriting I COffice typewriting BClerical Services BUse of Office Machines BCombined course Assessment BPitmans 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 PayablesDuring 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.