Carol Caulfield

2016 – Present

Paisley, Scotland UK

The role involves doing a lot of controls testing, performing analytical reviews and going through the client’s financial records such as ledgers, bank statements and fixed asset registers.

• Collating, checking and analysing spreadsheet data
• Examining company accounts and financial control systems
• Gauging levels of financial risk within organisations
• Checking that financial reports and records are accurate and reliable
• Ensuring that assets are safeguarded
• Identifying if and where processes are not working as they should and advising on changes to be made
• Preparing reports, commentaries and financial statements
• Liaising with managerial staff and presenting findings and recommendations
• Ensuring procedures, policies, legislation and regulations are correctly followed and complied with
• Undertaking reviews of wages.

1993 – Present

Paisley, Scotland UK

2005 – 2016

Paisley, Scotland UK

Responsible for managing an array of accounts; achieving high sales targets and sometimes even overseeing the work of account executives but also responsible for building relationships with new clients and leading team productivity.

• Month and end-year process
• Accounts payable/receivable
• Cash receipts
• General ledger
• Payroll and utilities
• Treasury, budgeting
• Cash forecasting and check runs
• Revenue and expenditure variance analysis
• Capital assets reconciliations
• Trust account statement reconciliations,
• Fixed asset and debt activity
• Monitor and analyze accounting data and produce financial reports or statements
• Establish and enforce proper accounting methods, policies and principles
• Coordinate and complete annual audits
• Provide recommendations
• Improve systems and procedures and initiate corrective actions
• Assign projects and direct staff to ensure compliance and accuracy
• Meet financial accounting objectives
• Establish and maintain fiscal files and records to document transactions

• Commercial and business awareness
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• An analytical approach to work
• High numeracy and sound technical skills
• Problem-solving skills and initiative
• Negotiation skills and the ability to influence others
• Strong attention to detail and an investigative nature
• The ability to balance the demands of work with study commitments
• Good time management skills and the ability to prioritise
• The ability to work as part of a team and to build strong working relationships
• The capacity to make quick but rational decisions
• The potential to lead and motivate others
• Assist in reporting of the financial reports on daily/monthly/yearly basis in the security audits, information system audits, environmental audits, etc.
• Manage the reports and see to it that they are accurate, to the point and made in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles or GAAP.

• Auditing is an integrated act where the financial records must be expressed in view to the organizations internal control over the financial reporting in agreement with PCAOB (Public company accounting oversight board).
• Job often involves measures to confirm with industry strategies, policies regulatory guidelines and auditing standards.
• The assistant auditor helps the auditor to make reports which confirm with the company standards, corporate policies, acknowledged by the ISO standards.
• Coordinate the activities with the staff and the senior auditor concerned.
• Prepare balance sheets in the interest of the organization.
• Inspect and correlate the overall audit report with the balance sheets provided and report it to the seniors for approval detect frauds and bring it to the notice of the senior auditors