Elsa Agbangla
From May 2008 - Full time job hunting
As a French native speaker I have lived in France and in the United Kingdom. I have got graduations from these countries : academic (Postgraduate diploma) as well as professionnal (CIMA).
My 8 years working experience were alternatively made in France and in the United Kingdom for large companies. It covers a wide range of activities among the accountancy sector.
I believe I am a hard working, confident, trustworthy and reliable person who respect my colleagues and my hierarchy.
As a responsible, well organized and adaptable person, I would like to offer my skills to add value to the company I work for.
I desire to work myself up within a Large Company in the UK .
Excel advance level, good knowledge of the various accounting systems I work with : I am keen to implement new procedures in order to improve/ to well manage the time issues. This covers the accounting sector(forcasts and variances) as well the finance (ABC Method).
17 contactsRepresentative of Information technology and Communication service, REGIONAL COUNCIL OF POITOU CHARENTES
2007 - 2008I had to deal with European accounting rules that I have learned by dealing with them. Therefore I made an audit of a European Program conducted by the Regional Council of Poitou-Charentes. Numerous entities had to make up appropriated books corrections.
- Closure all the unfinished projets concerning financial matters
- Control and audit under accounting rules the European Programme budget whom was financed by the European Union
- Evaluate and control administrative paper work
- Write up the Final Report of this Program for Bruxelles.
Accounting system : SAGE
2005 - 2007I had value to my extended maternity leave by learning.
The syllabus : French administrative organisation, European econmics, European law, international environment, English language.
2003 - 2003- Monthly and quarterly provisions for contractors and non-contractors costs
- Monthly control time-tracking and data base files before their intergration into Cosmos (Bank Accounting system)
- Monthy allocation keys using ABC method
- Prepare and book journals
- Corrective actions proposed to the superviser
- Write up standard book procedure.
- WIP projects monthly amended,corrected and/or created
Accounting system : Cosmos
2002 - 2003- Foreign and national invoices booked into SAP
- Credit notes raised
- Strong partnership with affiliates abroad
- Develop accounting procedures similar to those in the management accountant.
Accounting system : SAP
2002 - 2002- Analysis and extract accounting data from SAGE
- Auditing sales budget
- Implementing spreadsheets and macros (macroinstructions) for long term process usage.
Accounting system : SAGE
1999 - 2002August 2001 : Accounting Team Member :
- Monthly bank reconcilation and monthly expenditure forcasts
- Monthly reporting to the Parent Company and a local country (Germany)
- Calculate and book General Ledger journal
- Duty accrual
- Forcasts and variances
August 2000: Intercompany Team Member:
- Cash allocation & credit control for 8 SSC European countries – which included contacting 60 SCJ companies (many with English as a second language)
- Quarterly reporting schedules to Parent Company in the USA ensuring that they agreed with the results submitted from each Country Focused Analysts
- Monthly Intercompany billing for sundry charges.
September 1999: Expenditure Cycle Team Member:
- Perform suppliers’ process for the European Business i.e. processing and paying invoices.
- Implementing a new country within the Expenditure Cycle Team.
- Identify of process improvements.
- In charge of training new staff.
- Performing ad hoc analysis ensuring the appropriate controls are operational.
Accounting systems: SAP, Impromptu, BPCS
1998 - 1999- Finance/Treasury duties (GBP and foreign currencies): bank liaison, bank reconciliation, funding the affiliates
- Accounting duties: credit control (credit target, raise credit and debit notes), bad debts analysis, debt collection, cashbook and cash allocation.
- Management reporting to the Parent Company in the US: month end reconciliations, manual journals, cash flow reporting for the UK and affiliates.
- Monthly UK VAT returns.
Accounting system : Cosmos, BACS
1997 - 1998IBAT department ( International Business Arrangements Taxation)
- Taxation: reporting analysis and tax planning, Projects (tax research and enquiries), Duty cost Management Information
- Finance Planning and Analysis: strategic analysis upon European competitive/ Finance advantage, Involved in investment proposals/decisions (acquisitions, disposal fixed assets…), cost variances analysis (overheads and accruals).