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I play second violin in two orchestras and have been playing violin since i was 16 and now 60. I also play clarinet. I have danced amateur on stage.

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Sheila Pauline Martin
48 Cooden Ledge
St Leonards on Sea
Sussex
Telephone No: 01424 854878
Mobile No: 07949 531193
E mail address: sheilamartin10@hotmail.com
School Tom Hood Technical High School
Leytonstone London E11 1961-1967
National Insurance No 36 81 18A

Qualifications: GCE’O’level Maths
GCE’O’level English Language
GCE’O’level Art
GCE ‘O’ Book-keeping and Commerce
RSA Shorthand 100 wpm
RSA Typing 60 wpm
Cook’s Professional Epping Forest College
Certificate 1 and 2 studied at Walthamstow
Technical College London E17
NVQ 2 Hospitality and Catering
Heath and Hygiene
Health and Safety

Training: SAGE Instant and On-Line 50 and Payroll and Quick Books MYOB
Microsoft Excel, Word 3, Publisher, Website 1 day
Access Database 2 days
Pitmans Minute Taking 1 day and
Interviewing Course
French
First Aid Health & Safety Training at West Ham United Football Club
Passed Compu-teach Logistic and Spelling Test for application to their IT
courses.
Grosvenor Property Management Software



28.06.10 Worked at Covent Garden Opera House Amphitheatre Restaurant with Michelin Star Chefs
28.07.10 Havering College studying NVQ 2 for one year. Passed.

Treasurer Woodford Symphony Orchestra– present

January 2007 until 19.10.07

Rona Partnership Rayleigh Essex £10 per hour
Bookkeeper Using Grosvenor Package 10 Year Bank reconciliation and accounts prepared for accountant and daily usage of system. Banking and archiving and sorting out system to show true figures. Updated the company from manual to on line banking and tidied up mess over the past 15 years.

Temp Contracts
Builder Started Aug 2006 – Jan 2007
Builders, CIS Tax forms 6 months accounts transferred on to SAGE Factoring Accountants and
Wine Company, Media Companies and Architects.
SAGE Accounting Payroll Book keeping Secretarial.

Princeton Investments Limited
7/8 Conduit Street London W1S 2XF
October 1998 – March 2006
Salary £26,500
• Project Co-ordinator Office Manager Book Keeper/Personal Assistant
Dealing with Management Companies on the Property side collecting rent and dealing with mortgage companies. Financial Control with bank with internet banking. Account and bank reconciliation, income and expenditure summaries, raising invoices and cash allocation Liaison with solicitors, banks and joint venture partners. Book-keeping to Trial Balance and keeping records on SAGE, PAYE Directors’ Nannies and company staff. VAT Returns and End of Year Tax Calculations for Directors for the accountant. Personal Directors Tax Returns P11Ds Petty Cash.
Charity letters, donations and accounts dealt with Keeping records of for the management accountant and auditors at year end. Email correspondence, setting up computer systems, minutes, office management. Maintaining office equipment.

Working for a Chairman and two Directors who travel all over the world. Correspondence with France and various European countries. Dealing with the personal correspondence and paying house bills. One Director owns an art collection and I deal with overseas -galleries, paying transfers and bills, importation etc. Health & Safety and Human Resources dealing with staffing, interview, increments, first aid and fire drill.

1997 - October 1998 Kvaerner Trollope and Colls ~Dysart Street London EC1 £18,500 pa + pension
• Personal Assistant/Secretary to Construction and Project Director.
Working on marketing of projects such as Harrods, Fenwicks, Old Bailey, Bank of England. Re-establishing filing systems. Keeping diaries on Scheduler and Psion, Holiday charts and files. New forms produced with company system. Organising lunches and conferences, interviewing staff. Working with surveyors, planners and engineers for many major jobs.

PEPMA c/o Robson Rhodes City Road London EC2 1995 – 1997 £18,000 per annum
• Personal Assistant/Book keeper assistant to Executive Director and Managing Director
PEPMA is now based in Cleveland, Middlesbrough (in City when employed) PEPMA was a trade association acting as a third party advisors of PEP administration Personal Equity Plan) and now works with ISAs.

Duties: Day to day administration and running of the company. Financial Control, Accounts to trial balance to SAGE, PAYE and VAT. Preparing End of Year Tax Forms P35 and P14/P60s. Preparing quarterly and year-end accounts for meetings and Auditors, VAT returns and control of VAT exemption Marketing the company to target new members and sending new packages out and keeping the subscriptions on access database. Preparing agendas and minute taking at conferences and meetings. Attendance lists, badges, programmes and booking forms and all subscriptions kept on file. Documentation prepared for each meeting and circulated with over 100 participants. Catering and venues organised, organising hotel bookings – Hurlingham Club, HMS Belfast, Café Royal, Barclays Bank and Dresner Kleinwort Benson. Looking after IT and disaster recovery and use of NT server in conjunction with Middlesbrough office.

1992 -1995 Brian Clarke Media Limited London Caledonian Road London N1 £14.000
• PA to Managing Director, Media Director and Accountant

Brian Clark was a media buyer working in conjunction with newspapers. Clients included Investec, Four Seasons, Iveco Ford, Duties: Secretarial, telephone, filing and general administration, Database of clients on an Applemac, preparing pye charts, graph and spreadsheets produced for marketing and circas.

Worked in pub for 2 years as a cook and chef part time at Weekends.

1989 – 1992 £15,000 pa + overtime Pension
Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited, Barking Reach Power Station, Essex

• Three Year contract Value £350 million working hours 7am 5-30pm 1000 staff on site.
• Senior Secretary Personal Assistant to Commercial Manager and Project Director.

Computer Software Word Perfect. Setting up templates for Sub-contractors and claims. Shorthand typing, minute taking. Conferences and meetings organised Previous contracts Limehouse link and Jubilee Line.

1988-1989 £14,000 pa + overtime Pension Edmund Nuttall Limited Contract to build East India Dock Link, Docklands E.14.Civil Engineering Company, who had won the above contract. They also constructed all over the world and UK ie Dartford Bridge, Thames Water Barrier.
• Personal Assistant to Project Manager in charge of overall 55 engineers and surveyors.
Hours 8.30am – 6pm Shorthand/typing taking minutes of meeting. Multimate word processor, reports, letters and setting up templates for forms. Keeping control of site stationery, library of files and forms for the whole project until complete. Organised meetings and catering, daily dairies, social functions for the staff. Responsible for two secretarial/ receptionists. Staff Recruitment and Office Management

1986-1988 Cumberland Hotel Sales Office Marble Arch London W1 £10000 pa
Subsidised lunches
• Personal Assistant/Secretary to the Sales Director of Reservations and Travel Bookings.
The Cumberland Hotel was a member of Trust House Forte Group. The duties I performed were general correspondence, word processing, shorthand typing, filing booking forms and stationery requisitions. Telexing and organising office

1983 –1986 Colnaghi Art Gallery 14 Old Bond Street London W1
Old Master picture gallery Consortium owned by Swiss Financiers.
• Part-time secretary book-keeper to the Finance Director of an Italian Art Gallery.
Four hours per day at £6.50 per hour. Used SAGE Dos programme for accounts and stock transferred a manual set of accounts on to the computer, invoice analysis, bank reconciliation to trial balance an foreign currency payments, PAYE, telex and shorthand typing.

I left Tom Hood Technical High School in 1967 and then worked and also studied at Pitmans in the evenings Shorthand Typing and Commerce and Book keeping.
After having my children my ex husband had his own export company of which I was a Director. I left this company to work for accountants temporarily. Also I temped for a while at accountants and solicitors working in the conveyancing department.

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I have always worked at a high level for partners and directors and feel that I have a very good knowledge and experience.
Whilst my children were young I went back to college to study City and Guilds Certificate – Cooks Professional for 4 years. I now live with my partner in Chigwell and my hobbies include swimming, aerobics, skiing, knitting and music. I play the violin in an amateur orchestra and attend concerts varying from Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Beethoven to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Rodgers. I also sing in a local choir and have they have asked me be their treasurer.