Assistant Management Accountant at Stephen Perse Cambridge Senior School & Sixth Form

Main Responsibilities

• Production of monthly Nursery fee invoices by the maintenance and update of the nursery billing spreadsheet, updating monthly with any on roll changes, creation of the bills with imports and checking of the bills before production. Respond to any queries on the nursery fee invoices

• Assist the Finance Manager and fees team in the production of the termly invoices on the student management system providing technical excel support across many tasks

• Assist the Finance Manager in the production of the monthly management accounts including Fixed asset depreciation calculation and posting, accruals and prepayments review and posting, variance analysis and monthly forecast preparation, balance sheet reconciliations and monthly bank reconciliations

• Import all receipts and payments from third party platforms into Sage

• Annual revenue reconciliation between billing software and Sage

• Assist both Finance Manager and Head of Finance with year-end preparation and annual audit.

• Assist the Finance Manager and Head of Finance in the Budget process, performing reconciliations of spend in prior years, undertaking detailed analysis where required and providing insight through historical spend on future decisions.

• Assist the whole finance team in identifying, documenting and improving system and process efficiencies. Working to identify and implement solutions engaging other departments feedback such as IT and Admissions.

• Act as the main point of contact for the Trips team to assist with the reconciliation of Trips, both Income and Cost. Work with the management accountant to produce and post the journals required to release the income and costs to the P&L after trips have been reconciled. Produce a Trips Report at each reconciliation period on the financial outcome of each trip which is to be shared within the Monthly Management Accounts Information (future report)

• Act as a business partner to the wider school community

•Provide general accounts support to the wider finance team as and when required