School Accounts Administrator
A lovely role working in an established, successful school in the Watford area.
Seeking an experienced Finance Assistant to work within the accounts team reporting to the head of finance. Duties will include:
· Producing the fees and other associated billing to parents each term
· Banking and taking receipt of all fees ledger payments, deposit and issuing refund cheques
· Controlling and posting deposits, fees, cash, discounts and adjustments through to the fees ledger
· Maintaining and reconciling Fee and Bursary details with the fees ledger
· Reconciling all nominal ledger accounts that involve fees, bursaries and scholarships by term and annually.
· Reconciliation of the fees ledger bank account
· Maintaining all direct debit records and initiating and controlling payment runs
· Administration of the school fees monthly payment scheme, voucher payment schemes and fees in advance schemes
· Calculating Nursery fee bills and local authority subsidies
· Assisting with the input of charges(extras) to parents
· Maintaining the database information re boarders, day pupils, fees, bursaries etc to ensure this ties up with the billing ledger
· Primary interface for answering parents’ account enquiries
· Producing and maintaining the Bursary and Scholarship schedules and updating the fees information schedules
· Administration of the bursaries and scholarships offered by the school
· Maintenance, completion and reconciliation of fee insurance returns
· Checking fee receipts prior to payment of commission
· Initiating transfers between the fees and bursar’s ledger
· Filing of pupil acceptance forms and other parent information
· Production of statistics for return purposes and assisting the auditors with all the fee and bursary reconciliations and schedules they require at year end
This is a 35 hour a week job and does run 52 weeks of the year. Parking and a good pension scheme on offer
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