Finance Officer - Market Bosworth, United Kingdom - The Market Bosworth School

The Market Bosworth School

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Market Bosworth, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Market Bosworth School is very proud of its students and staff. We have excellent academic standards and work hard to create a safe and enjoyable learning environment for all.

We have been rated as an "Outstanding" school by Ofsted 3 times in 2009, 2012 and most recently in 2018, where inspectors commented "_A sense of care and nurture permeates the school_".

Main responsibilities will include:

Accurately process invoices ensuring payments are made in a timely manner.
Raise invoices through the Academy's financial system.
Use finance system to raise purchase orders prior to ordering goods and services in line with financial regulations.
Assist in the maintenance, control and monitoring of all monies in the school in particular petty cash, including processing claims reconciling cash and receipts, and balancing cash in accordance with Academy's financial procedures.
Be the main point of contact and maintain positive relationships with suppliers.
Assist in ensuring value for money.
Supporting the production of monthly and periodic reports to the relevant stake holders.
Reconcile the bank on a monthly basis.
Manage the unreconciled items to a minimum.
Lead on the day to day management of the Scopay system (parent payment system). Including the setting up of payment items, running reports, posting payments onto the financial system and reconcile within the agreed timeframe.
Manage the Academy debit card, including entry of transactions and reconciliation of statements.
Support budget holders by regularly reporting income and expenditure to ensure operating within allocated budgets.
Raise internal journals specific to the Academy onto the finance system (e.g. pupil premium), as directed.
Support The Academy Business Director in preparation for internal and external audits.
To assist in the closure of annual accounts
To establish effective working relationships with external bodies as necessary.
Process Salary summaries onto the Academy's financial system.
Complete regular payments runs by BACs or occasionally by cheque.