The Difference A Year Makes
So, as I said this morning, this time last year, my job was literally killing me. I was working as a collections agent for a stationery company. My entire role was ringing up customers and chasing for money - but it was an incredibly disheartening because you were literally ringing the same people week in, week out, the same lines, the same excuses, never getting any money and never getting anywhere. It wasn't even the asking for money that was getting me down, it was the complete and utter lack of... I don't want to say job satisfaction, but I can't find the right words. It was just the going round in cirlces-ness of it. It was soul destroying.
Fast forward to today. I've been in this job a whole four days. I love it. I really love. I feel so fucking amazing, it's unbelievable. The difference a year can make! I'm still being drip-fed jobs, bits and pieces by Sophie but the amount I've learned. Before I started here, I'd not used Sage. I knew the theory behind using Sage - a while back, a lot of job apps wanted experience so I went out there, acquired a copy of Sage and taught myself to use it - but I've never used it in a live environment. With a bit of help from Sophie, armed with a notebook from learning and a copy of Sage 50 In Easy Steps (thank you, ebay!), I'm pretty up to speed... it's not exactly a difficult system when you're used to SAP!
I've pretty much mastered the purchase ledger side of things: I can post invoices, I can post outgoing payments, I can allocate said payments to their invoices. I've reconciled a lot of statements, I've sorted out historic fuckups in supplier accounts (from Sage showing us owing a supplier just under 3k, to them actually owing us a credit of just over £450!)
Tomorrow, Sophie's going to be showing me purchase orders - raising them, confirming them etc.
Next week, she's going to be showing me the credit control side of things - bank recs, allocating the incoming payments, issuing copy invoices and statements.
Then, once all the pieces are in place, shes going to give me the checklist of things that need doing on a daily/weekly/monthly basis and hello autonomy in running the department!
It's all very exciting!
In the coming weeks/months, I really want to organise the office a little better. Once the accountants are finished with the older stuff, it's all going into storage and I'm going to just have the one shelving unit, with clearly labelled folders, that just have what I need. The stuff that seems obvious. A folder for statements. Monthly incoming invoices folders. A folder for expenses. A folder for bank statements.
I need to learn to write on my whiteboard. And keep resisting the urge to doodle on it LMFAO.
Fast forward to today. I've been in this job a whole four days. I love it. I really love. I feel so fucking amazing, it's unbelievable. The difference a year can make! I'm still being drip-fed jobs, bits and pieces by Sophie but the amount I've learned. Before I started here, I'd not used Sage. I knew the theory behind using Sage - a while back, a lot of job apps wanted experience so I went out there, acquired a copy of Sage and taught myself to use it - but I've never used it in a live environment. With a bit of help from Sophie, armed with a notebook from learning and a copy of Sage 50 In Easy Steps (thank you, ebay!), I'm pretty up to speed... it's not exactly a difficult system when you're used to SAP!
I've pretty much mastered the purchase ledger side of things: I can post invoices, I can post outgoing payments, I can allocate said payments to their invoices. I've reconciled a lot of statements, I've sorted out historic fuckups in supplier accounts (from Sage showing us owing a supplier just under 3k, to them actually owing us a credit of just over £450!)
Tomorrow, Sophie's going to be showing me purchase orders - raising them, confirming them etc.
Next week, she's going to be showing me the credit control side of things - bank recs, allocating the incoming payments, issuing copy invoices and statements.
Then, once all the pieces are in place, shes going to give me the checklist of things that need doing on a daily/weekly/monthly basis and hello autonomy in running the department!
It's all very exciting!
In the coming weeks/months, I really want to organise the office a little better. Once the accountants are finished with the older stuff, it's all going into storage and I'm going to just have the one shelving unit, with clearly labelled folders, that just have what I need. The stuff that seems obvious. A folder for statements. Monthly incoming invoices folders. A folder for expenses. A folder for bank statements.
I need to learn to write on my whiteboard. And keep resisting the urge to doodle on it LMFAO.