Roda Abdi

Address: 21 Cooper mead close, London, NW2 6NP

Telephone: 07868 195 490 (Mobile)
Email: roda468@gmail.com

Professional Profile
MBA graduate with ACCA qualification. An experienced Accountant who possesses an extensive financial- accounting
knowledge and skill, with excellent team and relationship building skills. Competent with a proven ability to resolve
financial problems and restore confidence in reported numbers. Diligent with an ability to work autonomously and
confidently in an advisory/consulting role. Maintains a good track record of developing financial controls and
administrative processes to help improve business efficiency, performance and accountability.

Education and Qualifications

Executive MBA: Master in Business Administration, - Nottingham Business School (2015)
ACCA: Association of Chartered Certified Accountants BPP Nottingham (2012)
AAT: Association of Accounting Technicians New College Nottingham (2008)

Career Summary
2014 Date Management Accountant, Turning Point UK (Contract)
Responsibilities
Responsible for managing end to end accounting processes for the individual clients (SMEs) who complete
outsources of all accounting functions to Turning Point, by producing all the management reports including
management accounts.
Supporting management of financial resource with restating companies account for probity and efficiency
Preparation of sales invoices and process of all purchase invoices, VAT returns, bank reconciliations, updating invoice
finance and credit control.
Control and processing of payments to suppliers
Dealing with invoice finance discounting and bank reconciliation for invoice finance
Finalizing of month end journals, producing management accounts and reporting against budget.
Preparation of profit & loss account, balance sheet, cash flow forecast, and annual return.
Visiting the client's premises to audit their accounts, provide support and advise on their financial position.
Managing the posting of journals, including payroll journals
Manage salary processes and payments
Understanding customers needs and providing with service that they value
Support on introducing new software and providing financial advise
Help client to manage their financial sustaibility and staff cost
Help manage a growing portfolio of clients with the business.

Key Achievements
Re-engineered companys accounting processes to provide transparent and accurate reporting to the company and
their external auditors
Stabilised a company in financial distress by improving its financial performance and installing processes and
procedures to sustain the future development of the business
Providing accurate and timely financial statements created with the purpose of helping the directors to make business
decisions.

2008 2014 Accountant, FHP Living

Responsibilities
Responsible for the top level management reporting of all account information for the entire FHP Living Business,
Nottinghams leading estate agent, chartered surveyors & residential property consultancy
Diligently processing core account information, driving impressive changes in processes and leading change
management within the team with a commitment and solid people management skills
Communicating authoritatively and succinctly when advising senior management and maintaining the professional
standards of the business through all interactions with clients and landlords
Updating data on a regular basis onto FHP system, ensuring complete accuracy in line with tenancy
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 agreements; terminating old tenants as required to ensure the system is well maintained
Supporting the credit control by chasing rental arrears on a regular and consistent basis

Key Achievements
Substantially improving financial reporting accuracy by leading a comprehensive review of existing processes,
applying expertise to identify problems and delivering essential process upgrades
Enhancing business performance, and reducing complaints, by spearheading an initiative to dramatically improve
quality and accuracy of information held for landlords and tenants
Identified fraudulent activity by an employee and collected evidence to allow senior management to take the
appropriate action

2008 Payroll Clerk, British Bakeries

Handling all payroll administration for monthly paid staff, including calculating timesheets, calculating SSP, SMP
and SPP and holiday payments, and making BACS payments
Maintaining staff details and inputting new starter information, dealing with payroll enquiries and administering
ad hoc communications to external agencies on behalf of employees regarding mortgages or benefits.

2007 2008 Accounts Administration, Toyota

2006 2007 Payroll Officer Temporary (Hays Agency)

Consultancy Projects Carried Out As Part of Executive MBA Program

United Nations Project Geneva
Taking part in an international consultancy project on behalf of the United Nations researching best practices in
International Non-governmental organisations (INGOs) Enterprise Risk Management
- Examining current practices and Risk faced by INGOs through interviewing key personnel for some of INGOs
which included ICRC, The Global Fund, the ICJ and ICMDH
- Gaining valuable insight into how organisations work and the opportunity to put analytical skills to use in multi-
disciplinary and geographic issues

NHS Trust, UK
Involved in a Business Development Consultancy Project for National Health Services Trust in the UK
- Analysing the existing pricing strategy in comparison with competitors and markets and making subsequent
recommendations to improve performance
- Helping solve operational issues and offering viable and practical recommendations on how to improve customer
service which the trust started to implement immediately

Key Skills
Financial Reporting, Financial Analysis, Troubleshooting, Report Writing, Business planning, Project
management, Balance Sheet Analysis, Reconciliations, Credit Control, Payroll Administration, VAT Returns,
Profit and Loss Management

Microsoft Office, Prism, Sage Line 50, ESR, Dream, Integra and Crystal Reports

Economics, statistics and numeric based systems

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