Accounts Officer - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Kip McGrath Education Centres UK Head Office

Description

Location:
Gloucester


Job Type:
Full-
Time/ 35 hours per week


Salary:
£22,000 to £24,000 pro-rata _(depending on experience)_


Start Date:
Immediately


Interview Date:
TBA
We are a leading educational franchise company.

We are looking for someone to work within our finance team to assist a portfolio of small tutoring businesses in various stages of growth on a regional basis, providing finance support, guidance and criteria in which they are required to operate.

The role is on a hybrid 50/50 basis with two days working remote from home and two days at our Head Office based in Gloucester (_Mon & Wed-Home) (Tues and Thurs-Office)_


Duties Include:

• Ensuring all financial records are up to date
• Processing weekly accounts payable.
• Payroll (monthly cycle)
• Customer Support responding to enquiries to provide timely support to all stakeholders and service users.
• Provide day to day support for business accounting activities
• Training stakeholders and service users, existing and new on accounting and reporting processes required to be used
• Provide debtor management services where required
• Assist in management of cash flow and financial reporting requirements
• General Admin duties as required.

The Person:


Knowledge and Experience:

• 34 years' relevant experience
• XERO CRM experience
• Experience of financial processes and systems e.g., Star etc.
• Accounts Payable experience
• Payroll & Pensions experience
• Reconciliation experience
• Basic understanding of financial statements
• Knowledge of setting up small business's (_desirable but not essential_)
• AAT/ACCA/CIMA Qualification (_desirable but not essential_)

Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work unsupervised and deliver high quality work to deadlines
• Able to demonstrate a high level of enthusiasm, commitment and attention to detail;
• Able to analyse and interpret varied complex and conflicting information and to communicate these in a clear way to all levels of users;
• Ability to anticipate risk and proactively mitigate the situation to minimize or avoid impact on results
• Ability to forge effective relationships with a wide range of individuals and organisations and to work effectively in a multidisciplinary environment
• Team player, cooperate with other personnel to achieve results.

Personal Qualities

• Honesty and integrity
• A "cando" attitude with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Enthusiastic and with a drive to achieve
• Demonstrate drive and ambition
• Tenacity to maintain momentum in managing a detailed and varied work environment
• Organised, flexible, innovative, and adaptable.
• High level of political astuteness and sensitivity.
• Awareness and commitment to keep strict confidentiality regarding KMEC matters, stakeholders and service users personal details at all times

Other Requirements

• Ability to travel and participate on an annual basis in our National Conference which occurs one weekend per year.

Training

• Our overall system is bespoke built by our IT Department therefore inhouse training will be provided.

These are the skills we would love to see.

If you don't have all of them but you believe that you would smash this role out of the park, please still get in touch.

Salary:
£22,000.00-£24,000.00 per year


Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Gloucester, GL1 1DG