Claire Davies

Summary

Experience

• Edvance Consulting

  Managing Partner

  1 - 5 Employees 2015 - Current

  

  I am the financial and admin arm at Edvance Consulting. We specialise in Start Up businesses helping them to grow their business and ideas using constructive mentoring and financial advice. This is a joint effort with my business partner Elliot. Also as part of this company we do bookkeeping and payroll work. I have just started using Xero accounting package which I am finding very user friendly and it will help me to interact with my clients more efficiently. 

• CLD Bookkeeping

  Managing Director

  1 - 5 Employees 2014 - 2015

   I reopened my company in February 2014 after terminating it in September 2011 due to having my youngest child. All my client base from this company has been amalgamated into Edvance Consulting which was set up in February 2015.

   Marketing the business through traditional and social mediums

   Offering Bookkeeping services to individuals and small – medium sized businesses

   Using Excel for spreadsheets, profit & loss accounting, and payroll management

   Knowledge of Iris Kashflow systems

   Knowledge of Iris Open Tax 

• Arena Digital Productions

  Accounts Assistant

  21 - 100 Employees 2007 - 2014

  This was my first bookkeeping role after achieving my ICB qualifications in 2007. Upon expanding the company took on a Financial Controller who I worked closely with on a day to day basis. My main job roles were:

  •   Processing around 300 purchase ledger invoices a month onto Sage Line 50

  •   Processing around 250 customer invoices a month onto Sage Line 50

  •   Inputting sales receipts and purchase payments through Sage Line 50

  •   Reconciliation of the bank accounts on a daily/weekly/monthly basis

  •   Entering wage details into the system including tax payments etc.

  •   Weekly sales reporting onto a sage spread sheet of sales made on a weekly basis

        •   Entering petty cash receipts, payments through banking in Sage Line 50

• Jobcentre Plus

  AO

  100+ Employees 2004 - 2006

        I worked in the call centre when new claims to JSA, Incapacity Benefit and Income Support started to be taken and the applications filled out over the telephone. This was my main role but I also got involved in:

        Mentoring new staff members

        Acting as deputy team leader

        Executing a number of different Jobcentre initiatives, including helping vulnerable customers to claim benefits whilst liaising with Welfare Rights and the team leader. 

  Implementing benefit claims management including telephone communication with claimants, data inputting, completion of all relevant paperwork and appointment scheduling.

   Attending conferences with managers from the district area for brainstorming sessions to develop new ideas in order to improve customer service and the claim process.

   On occasion I performed computerized job searches as per telephone requests from job seekers. 

   During my two years at Jobcentre plus I was evaluated and credited with a High Performance Standardization

Education History

• GCSE's

  Palatine High School

  1990 - 1995

  Completed 10 GCSE's with grades A-C

• A Levels

  Blackpool and the Fylde College

  1995 - 1997

  Passed Law, Psychology and English Literature

• Business and Financial Management

  Blackpool and the Fylde College

  2014 - 2016

   Modules currently passed Academic and Digital Literacy, Develop Enterprise for Small Business, Intro to Financial Accounting, Managing in the Legal Context, Managing People in Organisations and Responding to Business Information Systems. 

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