Assistant Management Accountant - Independent School
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Culford School
Suffolk
- £28,000 - £33,000 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Mid August 2022
- Apply by:
- 21 August 2022
Job overview
To join a small finance team, within the independent school sector, reporting to the Finance Manager. Working across all the functions of the finance departments to ensure timely, accurate financial information to be reported to Executive, Leadership Teams and Governors when requested.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The following list is not exhaustive and assumes that from time to time other tasks not listed, may be required to ensure the efficient operation of the school.
- Completing monthly payroll for two payrolls, including processing of timesheets and statutory adjustments
- Enrol all staff onto new pension scheme starting 1st September 2022
- Work with the finance manager on setting up a new payroll system within the coming year
- Completing Office for National Statistics returns
- Completing P11Ds
- Running termly fee invoices, reconciling to admissions database to ensure accuracy
- Assisting with parent queries in a timely manner
- Production of monthly cost centre reports, to issue to cost centre managers. Meet regularly with cost centre managers to ensure they understand and manage costs
- Bank reconciliations
- Month end nominal reconciliations
- Completing VAT returns
- Assisting with preparation of monthly management accounts
- Completing year end procedures
- Assisting in preparation of statutory accounts
Qualifications/Education:
Minimum: AAT qualified/ equivalent degree
Desired: ACCA, CIMA, ACA qualified or qualified by experience.
Skills:
Good knowledge of excel, payroll experience, pro-active handling of issues and queries, confident in a fast-paced environment, strong attention to detail, deadline driven.
Personal Qualities:
Ability to work well with staff at all levels, willingness to learn, act with high degree of integrity and honesty, focus on accuracy, good communication skills.
Working hours:
08.30-17:00 Monday to Friday, which includes a one hour unpaid lunch break. Flexibility may be required to meet the needs of the department.
Salary:
In the range of £28,000 to £33,000
Benefits include but are not limited to:
• free on-site parking
• free lunch during term-time
• free membership of on-site gym/sports centre
• enhanced Sickness/Maternity Pay
Holiday entitlement:
28 days per annum, plus 7 days bank holidays. May Day is a working day.
Start Date: 22/08/2022
Culford School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; pre-employment checks will be carried out, references will be sought and successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and other relevant checks with statutory bodies.
We comply with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) code of practice and have a written policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders, both of which are available on request. As you have been shortlisted, you are required to declare any relevant convictions, adult cautions or other matters which may affect your suitability to work with children. As a result of amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (exceptions order 1975) in 2013 and 2020, some minor offences are now protected (filtered) and should not be disclosed to potential employers, and employers cannot take these offences into account.
If you are unsure whether you need to disclose criminal information, you should seek legal advice or you may wish to contact Nacro or Unlock for impartial advice. There is more information on filtering and protected offences on the Ministry of Justice website.
Nacro - https://www.nacro.org.uk/criminal-record-support-service/ or phone 0300 123 1999
Unlock – http://hub.unlock.org.uk/contact/ phone 01634 247350 text 07824 113848
Applicants must be living in the UK and be able to provide suitable evidence of their Right To Work in the UK.
To complete an application form, please visit the Culford School website at https://www.culford.co.uk/about-us/work-for-us
If interested, please apply as soon as possible as the vacancy may close at any time.
About Culford School
Established in 1881, Culford School is a co-educational, all-through, independent school in the town of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Offering places to around 700 pupils aged 1-18, the selective school sits on a large plot of rural land and boasts a mix of 18th-century buildings and modern teaching facilities.
Although the majority of Culford’s children are day pupils, the school offers boarding facilities for prep and senior pupils. Prospective students are expected to pass examinations across a broad range of subjects. The precise nature of the admissions procedure differs depending on the age of the child applying for entry.
Head
Claire Bentley
Values and vision
Culford School was originally founded in the Methodist tradition and as a result takes pride in the cultural and spiritual development of its pupils. Students are instilled with a strong moral code and encouraged to value themselves and the work they produce, as well as to always have respect for their fellow pupils and staff members.
ISI report
“The quality of pupils’ personal development throughout the school is excellent and is supported by strong pastoral care. Pupils have high levels of moral and social awareness, and a clear sense of right and wrong, demonstrating emotional maturity. They treat each other with tolerance and respect and there are excellent relationships between staff and pupils.”
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