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Finance Assistant Apprenticeship
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Finance Assistant
St Edmund’s School Canterbury is seeking to employ a School or college leaver with the interest in building a career in finance and achieving AAT status. The role of Finance Assistant will support the Accounts function and play a crucial role in managing the school’s finances, ensuring accurate and timely processing of transactions and contributing to the smooth running of the finance department.
Working Week
- Full-Time
- The position is permanent. The usual hours of work for the post are 8:30am to 4:30pm, 5 days a week (37.5 hours net of 30-minute lunch per day)
Wage
- £8-£12.71 per hour dependant on age
- Wage rises to National Minimum Wage after 12 months if over 19 years old.
Qualification
- Assistant Accounting Level 3
- Duration: 18 Months
- Training Provider: LMP Education
Duties and Responsibilities
- Accurate and timely data entry of supplier invoices
- Complete Monthly Reconciliations of supplier statements
- Ensuring supplier invoices are settled in accordance with due dates via BACS payment runs, international transfers and bank transfers where applicable
- Processing purchase orders and training new budget holders to raise purchase orders
- Ensuring the school is utilising the most cost effective suppliers and identify and implement cost saving solutions
- Produce termly fee invoices and issue them to families
- Processing of bank receipts and reconciliation of bank accounts
- Monitor and pursue unpaid school fees directly with families in an appropriate and timely manner
- Undertake and achieve Level 2 AAT (starting point of Level 3 would be considered dependent on previous experience).
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Specifically, duties and processes include:
- Entering invoice data onto accounts purchase ledger software
- Manage receipt of goods onsite matching delivery notes to goods received and original orders
- Liaise with stakeholders across the school to process orders and seek approval of invoices
- Reconciliations of pupils attending the school and raising termly invoices
- Processing charges onto termly fee invoices
- Ensuring the correct level of remission are applied to fee termly invoices where applicable
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Key Skills and Attributes
- Excellent organisational and planning skills
- Ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines
- Confidence with Microsoft Office including Excel spreadsheets
- Strong attention to detail
- Able to reason logically – with a methodical approach to tasks
- Able to operate independently
- Willingness to be able to perform important but often repetitive tasks, e.g. making data entries
- Ability to work under pressure
- Demonstrable ‘can do’ attitude
Education and Qualifications
- Maths and English at GCSE level at GCSE level A-C (4-9) or functional skills equivalent.
About the Employer
We are a co-educational independent day and boarding school for pupils aged 2–18, offering a warm and supportive environment that values the individual and encourages pupils to explore a wide range of opportunities, whatever their interests or strengths. Located on St Thomas Hill, just five minutes from Canterbury city centre, the School enjoys an attractive setting with far-reaching views across the city
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