Message #50426

[bex1408]

At my last job, i controlled all day to day financial matters of the company.  I never received any training, i learnt it all on the job by trial and error.

What they expected was beyond belief, i had never worked in a financial background before and when i joined the company i was the only member of office staff working with the two owners.  I had to fulfil every role needed in an office.  The one incident that sticks out by a mile was when the bank requested a cash flow.  I created a day by day cashflow over eight months, it took three weeks of solid work to create it, i had nowhere near the excel skills i have now then.  I had to deeply analyse how our money was spent (turned out we spent 75% of our income, and 85% of that went one way and 15% the other, the cash flow had to contain a formula that reflected the expenditure dependant on the sales) when our money was received etc etc.  By the end of that i was a wreck.  The boss turned round to me and said "haven't you finished that yet? It should only have taken ten minutes"  I have never felt like hurting someone so much.

I had to carry out the supplier payments, the office staff (we did grow substantially) wages, liaise with the bank on a day to day basis, the VAT return, pretty much all financial requirements bar the annual returns.  It was the hardest job i have ever had, i was always stressed but it was also the job i enjoyed the most.