Financial reconciliation ahead of an accountant handover

Accountant handover required a reliable opening position.

Context

Accountant handover required a reliable opening position.

Scope

Sales, treasury, expenses and payroll.

Approach

Line-by-line reconciliation with salesperson-level attribution.

Outcome

Bilingual eight-sheet review report.

Skills applied

Reconciliation · Accountability

How this kind of work is done

  • Review authorities, roles and segregation of duties.
  • Identify the key risks and the controls that address each one.
  • Write or update policies, approval matrices and risk registers.
  • Agree a review cycle with the board or audit committee.

What a similar business can take from it

The same approach applies to companies facing a comparable question: start from the decision the numbers must support, make the records reliable, and keep the result simple enough for management to use every month.

Outcome

Bilingual eight-sheet review report.

Organisation

Overseas Gas

Role

Finance lead

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