Cover Letter for Accountant

Dear Ms Fairbairn,

At Brindleford Joinery I brought the month-end close down from nine working days to four¹, so the directors now see last month's figures by the fifth of the month instead of the middle of it. Perrin Valley Dairy's listing for an Accountant asks for someone to speed up reporting as the business grows, and that is the work I have been doing for the past three years.

I joined Brindleford as an assistant accountant and now run the ledgers for a business with 180 staff and a turnover of £24 million. The faster close came from three changes: daily bank reconciliations instead of monthly ones², accrual templates that the purchasing team fill in themselves, and a close checklist in Excel that shows who is waiting on whom. I also prepare the quarterly VAT returns and the year-end file for our auditors, who raised no adjustments last year.

Fixing the close showed me where money was leaking. While matching supplier statements I found £38,000 of duplicate payments made over two years, recovered all but £2,100 of it, and set up a check in Sage that flags any invoice number already paid to the same supplier. It has stopped eleven duplicates since³.

I am a member of ACCA and spend most of my day in Sage 200 and Excel, both of which your listing names. Brindleford makes everything to order, so I have costed jobs line by line, and I would like to bring that habit to a dairy where margins depend on milk prices, waste and transport.

I would be glad to show you the close checklist and walk you through how we built it. I am free most afternoons after 2 pm.

Yours sincerely, Agnieszka Wierzbicka