Finance officer

Kings Cross Academy; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

KINGS CROSS ACADEMY is seeking a Finance Officer to support the CFO and Head Teacher in maintaining robust financial processes within the school. The role involves accurate processing of transactions from order to payment and keeping precise records using Sage 200, Google Sheets, and Excel.

The successful candidate will liaise with suppliers, manage purchase and sales ledgers, handle BACS payments, and assist with reporting to governors and auditors. A strong eye for detail is essential.

Qualifications

• Accurate processing of all transactions from order to payment.
• Maintain accurate financial records using Sage 200, Google Sheets, Excel.
• Support CFO and Head Teacher with financial information as required.
• Liaise with suppliers and reconcile statements.

Responsibilities

• Support the CFO and Head teacher to ensure the school finance processes are robust and followed at all times
• Accurately maintain financial records using Sage 200, google sheets, excel and other financial systems
• Processing orders accurately and efficiently, advising staff, dealing with any returns, matching delivery notes and settling invoices
• Ensuring budget holders adhere to the financial procedures at all times
• Liaising with suppliers, reconciling statements and investigating and resolving queries, quickly and accurately
• Purchase Ledger- maintain supplier list, entry and allocation of invoices and payments
• Sales Ledger– raise invoices, allocate income and credit control
• Generating bacs payments and allocation of receipts
• Expenses -processing staff expense claims
• Maintain accurate records for trips and other ad hoc income
• Regular reconciliation of sales and purchase ledger records
• Filing andmaintenance of all folders and files relevant to the job role.
• Reporting toand working with the CFO
• Providingfinancial information when required by staff, governors and auditors

Skills

Accuracy

Record keeping

Staff advisory

Financial reporting

Tools

Sage 200

Google Sheets

Excel

Job description

The finance officer will support the CFO andHead teacher to ensure the schools finance processes are robust and followed atall times.

The finance officer will ensure there is accurate processing of all transactionsfor the Trust from initial order to payment.

Followsystems and processes to keep accurate records of the schools’ finances.

• Support theCFO and Head teacher to ensure the school finance processes are robust andfollowed at all times
• Accuratelymaintain financial records using Sage 200, google sheets, excel and otherfinancial systems
• Processingorders accurately and efficiently, advising staff, dealing with any returns,matching delivery notes and settling invoices
• Ensuringbudget holders adhere to the financial procedures at all times
• Liaisingwith suppliers, reconciling statements and investigating and resolvingqueries, quickly and accurately
• PurchaseLedger- maintain supplier list, entry and allocation of invoices and payments
• Sales Ledger– raise invoices, allocate income and credit control
• Generatingbacs payments and allocation of receipts
• Expenses -processing staff expense claims
• Maintainaccurate records for trips and other ad hoc income
• Regularreconciliation of sales and purchase ledger records
• Filing andmaintenance of all folders and files relevant to the job role.
• Reporting toand working with the CFO
• Providingfinancial information when required by staff, governors and auditors