
Seasoned Executive Officer with a proven track record at the National Museum of Ireland, adept in Oracle and Microsoft Excel. Expertise in financial reconciliations and management, demonstrating exceptional communication skills and a keen eye for detail. Achieved streamlined operational efficiency and financial integrity across multiple departments.
Month-end Management Accounts tasks and Management Accounting: Reconciliations of four museum bank accounts and supporting journals. Reconciliations for accounts receivable – issue and sign off reporting monthly on variances for museum income with the senior finance team. Reconciliation for public donations across four museum sites – completion of report included in the Management Accounts package issued at month-end. Month-end general ledger trial balance reconciliation for subheads under my tasks/responsibilities. Museum VOTE33 allocation – manage monthly drawdown requests. Liaise with colleagues in our parent department in order to ensure the museum has operational cash flow to pay its staff and capital/current budget expenditure. Keep audit files for inspection, as requested.
Museum Capital Grant-Aided Projects: Liaise with colleagues in our parent department in drawing down Capital Grant Aid at each of the project's tranches, and prepare all reconciled documents required to support the drawdown. Keep audit files for inspection, as requested. Museum Income/Sales Administration & Internal Reporting: Invoices prepared and issued in a timely manner; debts collected within the agreed timeframe; reconciliations completed for each month-end.
Reconciliations and reporting are performed for other reporting departments, such as Museum Rights and Reproductions, and Commercial Operations.
Compile reporting on Social Welfare receipts and issue it to NMI Human Resources on a weekly basis. Review and action emails that arrive in the accounts inbox for accounts receivable – standard remittances and miscellaneous income receipts. Customer setup and debtor reconciliation reporting.
Auditing: Prepare information for the museum's internal and external auditor requests; information prepared for review covered the museum's accounts receivable as well as accounts payable.
Museum Accounts Payable & Supplier Management:
Prepare the Paperwork required by Financial Shares Services to have a third party supplier set up on Oracle Financials, which requires good communication skills and understanding if the mandatory Irish Revenue mandatory documentation.
Review and action emails that arrive into accounts inbox from Suppliers that have invoices and
creditor statements attached.
Follow the internal process of logging supplier invoices for payment authorisation.
Museum P-Card (Procurement Cards) & Museum Credit Card
This is Month End procedure to collect and process spending on procurement card. Manage four budget holders and reconcile P-card to be posted on trial balance.
Blaženka Damjanović, +385916522288, bdamjanovic60@gmail.com, Misija-Vizija d.o.o.
Mark Sherry, Head of Finance and Procurement 087 2441244
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