Name: Bismark Sarbah

Professional Memberships: ACCA - Completed, London College of Accountancy, 2009CAT - Passed, Cassigg study school, 2002

Education & Qualifications: Presby Boys School, 1999

Software Experience: Practical experience: Microsoft Excel (Advance Level, business modelling, Pivots, lookups, appraisal techniques & basic macro

Several accounting systems: Oracle ADI, PeopleSoft, Great Plains, IBM Cognos TM1 E5 General Ledger, Sun Accounting, Aggresso, Epicor, OLAS, Gemini, Top dog, Accounting view, dispatch managerDatabases: CAS, Sales reporting Business objects, Access, Power-point, Credit control databases, Sics, Elixir & Qlik View.

AVIVA INSURANCE, BRISTOLJune 2014 – March 2016 Reporting Accountant & Finance ProjectsWorked on 3 projects

Data Migration (Gladis to Bancs) Writing a test script for business critical arears such as Premiums, claims and

Commissions and their corresponding products and class of business. Functional testing of accounting entries and mappings (Sub codes, Cost

Centres, Funds, Internal Reassurance , Nominal, Intercompany) using the Bancs Interface file produced at the end of the working day to check that they were accurate and complete.

Dry Runs to test the business readiness and possible areas of concern using various reports created or requested from the service providers.

Manipulating large volumes of data and creating various excel templates to be used to split commission payments between the various Entities.

Raising, updating, testing defects on Quality centre, providing suitable commentaries and engaging with system developers at Triage meetings.

Baselining of Business Critical End User Computing (Controls)

Documented, updated, tested and enhanced controls on business critical end user computing (EUC) to the standard of group finance.

Involved producing compliance control documents and running a user acceptance test on each EUC.

Solvency Two pillar 3 Project - Building EUC’S to populate SII QRT’S Refactoring large amounts of data from one system in excel to populate

another. Involved working with SME’S to Identifying gaps in current reporting procedure and gathering of data across the business, building in controls on QRT’S

Documenting processes on all application. Preparing data for dry run process using year 2013 figures to meet EIOPA

guidelines.

IMPRESSIONS, January 2014- March 2014 (Voluntary Work, Family Business),

Helped prepare financial statements for submission.

FRIENDS LIFE LIMITEDOctober 2013 – December 2013 Project Accountant(Contract Placement)Responsibilities:

Modifying EUC Templates to be used for Statutory Accounts and PRA returns and prepared a new template for the ONS Quarterly & Yearly reports to be submitted to the PRA

Liaising with Group Tax, Actuaries Accountants, Investments Team, Test Managers on the treatment of complex items on the ledger with regards to their IFRS, UKGAAP & PRA Return reporting

Ensuring the completeness and accuracy of the financial records and its compliance to the groups accounting policies and Accounting standards

Worked with other project accountants on the testing of new XLR templates to be used for the Statutory Report and PRA returns

RBS INSURANCE (DIRECT LINE GROUP)December 2012 – October 2013 Financial Accountant(Contract Placement)Responsibilities:

Ensuring all business transactions (Premiums, Unearned Premium, Instalment Interest, Bad Debt Provisions, Aggregator accruals and Payments, Rebates , Claims Paid ,Claims Reserve, Other reserves, Commissions, Profit Share Balances, Incurred but not Recorded Claims and Other Charges) are recorded accurately and completely in accordance with IAS, legal, regulatory, supervisory, and Group policy requirements and specific industry codes of practice. Ensuring transactions have been properly authorised in line with agreed policies and exceptions are reported

Production of monthly balance sheet reconciliations including intercompany balances in accordance with Group policy control framework and ensure any reconciling items are dealt with promptly and appropriately

Ensured compliance to SOX requirements – E.g. Ensured working files are EUDA compliant: prepared users guides, test plans as well as carried out testing on existing and new files I created

Maintained close relationship and liaised with key customers such as Executives, Decision Support, Cost Centre Managers, Divisional and Group support providing timely information as required such as monthly management packs, cost centre reports, statutory packs and reserve trend commentaries

Production of Insurance Premium Tax and VAT returns Prepared Notes to the account (SDP’s) on the Market risks facing the company

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GOLDSMITHS GYM NEW CROSS

September 2012 – November 2012 Voluntary WorkResponsibilities:

Helping the management team to create a suitable spread sheet template that can monitor a client’s progress through agreed workouts and advise on the progress of the programme

HAYS ACCOUNTANCYNovember 2011 – August 2012 Financial Accountant(Contract Placement)Responsibilities:

Preparing monthly Accruals and Prepayments for Marketing and Advertising cost

Balance Sheet reconciliations -Temp Net pay, AP Payment rejects &Various control accounts

Variance analysis of outstanding items on debtors accounts, TNP, Payments rejects and Clients Refund Control account

Commentaries on period end balances and movements between accounts Provided ideas on how to improve the task and reports I work on Wrote Process notes on PeopleSoft, designed new templates for easier

management reporting and helped trained a team of accountants from India in the transition process

This role involved a lot of team work to ensure reports are delivered in accordance to service agreements with senior Managers

LEGAL & GENERAL INSURANCE GROUP PLCDecember 2010 – October 2011 Finance Analyst(Contract Placement)Responsibilities:

Working on Project Zebedee. Involves testing and development of new spreadsheets, posting journals, reconciliations, Planning, general ledger management and GFAS reportingo Fund switches involving With Profit fund and subsequent fees and charges

are correctly accounted for under the IFRS ledger and have sufficient Audit trail

o Providing support for developmental Projects, modifying updating and regression testing ADI reports, mapping spreadsheet, manual and automated journals amendments

o Various FSA reports, OMO Claims Summary, EC schedules and LPRB Revenue Analysis, Re-insurance commission reporting, Year End Disclosures for Consolidations

o IAS Fees and Charges Correction using NUARs, Intra and Inter Company Reconciliation

o Liaising with test managers, organising test scripts and reporting defects on HP Quality Centre, executing tests, signing off test results

Trivial Pension tax calculations to HMRC, Bad debt Analysis and provisions, Intercompany reporting, Trial balance and balance sheet commentaries, Various Notes to the accounts

Daily reconciliation of group claims Cancelments, ICOM, Trivial Payments and Funds Close off (Zeroising), Cash flow to Actuarial

Wrote Process notes on new EC Schedules and documented the entire changes project Zebedee will have on current reporting and when Zebedee goes live

Worked on group Life and Pension Consolidation (analysis of gross premium written) with commentaries in accordance to UK GAAP & IFRS

Also worked on Project Elixir (Risk) – Internal Policy administration system which seeks to record Premiums (First year, renewal, Suspense) and Claims Paid (Maturities Due, Surrenders)

Involves checking accounting entries and making sure sufficient audit trails exist for all transactions

FRIENDS PROVIDENT LIFE ASSURANCEJanuary 2010 – April 2010 Operational AccountantResponsibilities:

Assisted with the year-end accounts preparation and analysis in accordance to UK GAAP and IFRS, posting journals and various balance sheets reconciliation

PACIFIC LIFE RE LTDOctober 2007 – July 2009 Assistant AccountantResponsibilities:

In house software- PeopleSoft and Sics NT system Assisted with Budget management for 7 departments, accruals and

prepayments, allocations, journals and provisions, intercompany reconciliations

Multi-currency balance sheet reconciliations (10 different balances) and payroll postings

Worked with the transition team on testing of applications for new owner of business

All aspects of Accounts payable and associated month end procedures All treasury functions i.e. foreign currency reconciliations (20 different

currencies), credit cards, intercompany Transfer, Daily cash positions and liquidity, cash flow forecast, bank reconciliations (8 Bank accounts) and staff expenses Processing

Quarterly analytical review of balance sheet and P & L figures and documenting with explanation of the variances, uploading spreadsheets, Nvision reports

Quarterly write reports to the FC on Balance sheet and P & L movements including producing monthly management report and MI Pack

Worked with 7 departments on cost cutting measures, expense coding and transfer pricing

Assisted in the preparation of VAT return for the company with Deloitte & Touche

Key Achievements: Developed, monitored and improved strong financial control around cash

management

Presented to CFO and FC on two separate occasions better alternatives to credit card providers that were subsequently implemented by the CEO across the whole organisation

Documented processes on transition services, PeopleSoft, SICS software and banking procedure

CBS OUTDOOR LTDJune 2007 – September 2007 Accounts Payable ControllerCLARIDGESApril 2007 – May 2007 Systems Auditing SpecialistCABLE & WIRELESS UKOctober 2006 – February 2007 Junior AccountantFIRST CHOICE HOLIDAYS PLCJanuary 2006 – September 2006 IMS Processing Specialist

Accounts Payable