Stephen Perse Senior School & Sixth Form - Assistant Management Accountant

Summary

This role will provide technical support to the finance team and Finance Manager with a strong emphasis on supporting fees ledger with billing and management accounts. Essential to this role is the ability to prioritise workload and excellent organisational skills.

Detail

Main Responsibilities

Production of monthly Nursery fee invoices by the maintenance and update of the nursery billing spreadsheet, updating monthly with any on roll changes, creation of the bills with imports and checking of the bills before production. Respond to any queries on the nursery fee invoices

Assist the Finance Manager and fees team in the production of the termly invoices on the student management system providing technical excel support across many tasks

Assist the Finance Manager in the production of the monthly management accounts including Fixed asset depreciation calculation and posting, accruals and prepayments review and posting, variance analysis and monthly forecast preparation, balance sheet reconciliations and monthly bank reconciliations

Import all receipts and payments from third party platforms into Sage

Annual revenue reconciliation between billing software and Sage

Assist both Finance Manager and Head of Finance with year-end preparation and annual audit.

Assist the Finance Manager and Head of Finance in the Budget process, performing reconciliations of spend in prior years, undertaking detailed analysis where required and providing insight through historical spend on future decisions.

Assist the whole finance team in identifying, documenting and improving system and process efficiencies. Working to identify and implement solutions engaging other departments feedback such as IT and Admissions.

Act as the main point of contact for the Trips team to assist with the reconciliation of Trips, both Income and Cost. Work with the management accountant to produce and post the journals required to release the income and costs to the P&L after trips have been reconciled. Produce a Trips Report at each reconciliation period on the financial outcome of each trip which is to be shared within the Monthly Management Accounts Information (future report)

Act as a business partner to the wider school community

Provide general accounts support to the wider finance team as and when required

Documents

• Assistant Management Accountant - Candidate Brief PDF Document