Finance Assistant - Sutton Coldfield, United Kingdom - Academy Transformation Trust

Academy Transformation Trust

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Sutton Coldfield, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking for an exceptional individual to join our busy central Finance team in Sutton Coldfield.

This role offers the post holder the opportunity to be involved across different finance processes and academies and to be involved in the continuous improvement and efficiency of our ways of working.

Responsibilities include:

Support the Trust and Academy level purchase requisition process to ensure purchasing requirements are accurately described and coded, appropriately approved and effectively processed. This currently entails validating requisitions and /or raising Purchase Orders, sending approved orders out to suppliers, deleting orders or part order values no longer required, goods receipting within 48 hours and occasional interaction with the Purchase Ledger team who process supplier payments.
Responsible for managing the payments made on academy credit cards (in some cases acting as card holder), producing the monthly credit card expenses reconciliation and uploading payments data into the General Ledger.
Administration and checking of monthly employee expenses claims, relating to specific local academies (education budget only), ensuring compliance with expenses policy and uploading data to the general ledger.
Raising sales invoices (e.g. in relation to local sports and lettings and any additional education income) and supporting debtor management
Creating school trips on school money/Bromcom and My Child At School (unless performed by another academybased employee). Creating Trip cost centres in PSF as required and ensuring the Trip lead has arranged for a funding route across all educational trips.
Supporting, liaising with and updating the Regional Finance team on elements of finance (e.g. ensuring all duties described are completed within the month end timetable, queries re monthly payroll reconciliation and responding to ad hoc queries).
Responsibility to support the smooth running of academy finances by raising issues to relevant person in a timely manner.
To periodically monitor cash levels and controls within specified academies and ensure banking of cash balances is completed once levels in safe have exceeded authorised levels.
Collate student bursary payments and forwarded to the PLT for payment.
Supporting Trust level processes as required such as recording income receipts, bank reconciliation, key supplier reconciliations and head office recharges.
Any other duties reasonably required by The Trust/line manager.