About Me

I am a very flexible and reliable person with excellent team leader/member skills; I have experience in customer service as I have worked in the betting industry with Ladbrokes and Coral. I have retail experience, where I have worked for JJB Sports, Marks & Spencer and Healds (Day & Nite).
I am a creative and well motivated team leader/member who promotes good timekeeping and high standards of duties within the workplace.
I am a very physically fit, computer literate person who can work collectively on my own, as a team leader/member and under pressure.

Languages Spoken

Experience & Qualifications

General Experience

 Managing, supervising the premises and other branches on a permanent basis
 Dealing with cash, cashing up and cash handling and banking
 Coaching and progressing new staff
 Creating staff rota’s for forthcoming weeks and informing base office of any amendments
 Dealing with customers and providing them with vital information
 Data inputting
 Managing the gaming machines, setting up, dealing, emptying the cash and making sure the machinery is in working order and reporting any faults
 Making beverages for customers
 Dealing with SPAR outlets over the telephone
 Invoice Matching
 Distribution of main order invoices to the transport department
 Data inputting
 Stationery ordering
 Filing
 Dealing with the incoming mail on a regular basis
 Posting the outgoing mail on a regular basis
 Dealing with the company’s clients outlets over the telephone
 Data inputting using Excel spreadsheet
 Filing
 Dealing with the internal and external mail on a regular basis
 Invoice matching
 Processing invoices using Coda database
 Data inputting using Excel spreadsheet
 Distributing invoices to the various departments for authorisation
 Getting cheques signed by the company directors for authorisation
 Filing
 Archiving previously used invoices for storage

Qualifications & Training

Colleges & Training: Preston College Moor Park Annexe, Moor Park Avenue, Preston, Lancashire
Preston College Trinity Building, Great Shaw Street, Preston, Lancashire
Training and Resource Centre, Manxman Road, Blackburn, Lancashire
Preston College, St. Vincent’s Road, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire
Marshall House, Ringway, Preston, Lancashire

QUALIFICATIONS

AEB Geography 75% Pass with Merit
B-TEC Sport and Recreation Pass
GCSE Food Studies Grade D
GCSE Mathematics Grade D
GCSE Art Grade E
GCSE English Language Grade E
GCSE French Grade F

EDI Personal Licence Level 2
Internet Technologies Stage 1
Business Administration NVQ Level 2&3
RSA C.L.A.I.T. Stage 1
Excel 97 Advanced/Stage 3
F.A.S.T. Word Processing Level 1&2
Retailing NVQ Level 1&2

Other Information

Relevant Skills

 EDI Personal Licence holder.
 Excellent customer service skills.
 Good working knowledge of licensing laws.
 Cash handling and banking.
 NVQ Level 2&3 in Business Administration.
 Internet Technologies Stage 1.
 RSA C.L.A.I.T.
 Experienced word processor.
 EXCEL 97 advanced certificate.
 Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite.
 NVQ Level 1&2 in Retail.

Interests & Hobbies

I am a very big sports fanatic. I love football and my favourite teams are West Ham United, Chesterfield and Sunderland. I am a long distance runner, I have competed in the Great North Run on 4 occasions and I do also lot of long distance running for local charities, I enjoy going out and socialising with close friends and work colleagues. I love traveling, and I love going around the country by rail, seeing the sights, socialising, visiting famous and historic buildings.

Miscellaneous Information

I am registered disabled as I suffer from Asperger's Syndrome (higher-functioning Autism), similar to Dustin Hoffman's role in the film Rain Man but nowhere near as severe. I have been in employment for all but 7 months (unemployed) of 17-and-a-half-years of my working career.
I can supply you information about this condition, alternatively details about this condition can be viewed on the National Autistic Society website.