Assistant Bursar / Financial Accountant

Allen Associates; Marcham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in Oxfordshire is seeking an Assistant Bursar / Financial Accountant for a maternity cover role. This full-time position involves managing billing, funding, and payroll within the education sector. The role offers a friendly environment, 30 days holiday, pension contributions, and additional perks like free onsite parking and lunch.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance of 30 days

Pension contributions

Lunch, drinks, and snacks provided

Free parking on site

Employee assistance and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a mid-level financial or management accounting role is essential.
• Competent in using initiative to overcome knowledge gaps.
• Experience in the education sector is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead finances related to billing, funding, sales, payroll, and banking.
• Process invoices and bank reconciliations.
• Prepare monthly payroll adjustments.

Skills

Competent learning of financial processes

MS Excel

Management support experience

Education

Working towards an accounting qualification

Tools

MS Word

Job description

Assistant Bursar / Financial Accountant (Maternity cover)

We have registered a fantastic new maternity cover role for an Assistant Bursar / Financial Accountant within the education sector. Reporting to the Finance Director, this role will be primarily responsible for leading on the finances relating to billing, funding, sales, payroll and banking. This is a great role in a lovely team. The role is full time and on-site 5 days per week in South Oxfordshire.

This position will involve, but will not be limited to:

• Billing invoices to parents and processing payments
• Maintain a termly funding report of eligible pupils and prepare funding calculations
• Process and invoice non-fee sales
• processing of daily bank receipts and payments
• monthly bank reconciliations on all bank accounts including petty cash reconciliation
• Preparing and processing the monthly adjustments to payroll (e.g. overtime; clubs; unpaid leave; etc.)
• Regularly reconcile balance sheet accounts

Alongside the opportunity to work in a friendly, you will receive the following benefits:

• Generous holiday allowance of 30 days
• Pension contributions
• Lunch, drinks and snacks provided at no extra cost
• Free parking on site
• Employee assistance and wellbeing support

The Company

Assistant Bursar / Financial Accountant EssentialsProven experience in a mid-level financial or management accounting role is essential

• Competent at learning a wide range of financial processes quickly, and using initiative to overcome gaps in knowledge
• Competent user of MS Excel and Word
• Experience of supporting management in a fast-paced environment
• Working towards an accounting qualification (the school will provide support during exam periods) and experienced in the independent school's sector is desirable

Location

Based in South Oxford, this is a full-time role based in the office 5 days per week with free onsite parking.

Action

If you would like to find out more about this excellent opportunity, then please apply online today! We aim to respond to all applications within 48 hours.

Allen Associates is a leading recruitment company in Oxfordshire recruiting for Marketing, Finance, Human Resources and PA/Administrative roles. Allen Associates operates as an Employment Agency for permanent recruitment and an Employment Business for temporary recruitment. For more information on current vacancies please visit (url removed) and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. For our latest vacancies follow our Jobs on Twitter