Role: Senior Finance Officer
Salary: £27,129 - £29,457
Working Hours: Full-time 36.25 hours
Location: Altrincham Campus (although requirements across the Group may require cover at other sites)
Trafford & Stockport College Group (TSCG) has an opportunity for a capable Senior Finance Officer to join our Finance team to help us achieve our vision of unlocking potential and fostering success.
TSCG operates over the two boroughs of Stockport and Trafford and has five campuses located in Altrincham, Stockport, Stretford, Cheadle & Marple.
The Role:
* Reconcile, report and collect all full cost fee income
* Ensure compliance across various processes within the Finance Department
* Assist with Procurement tasks and duties
* Provide support to team in high level query resolution
KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
* Responsible for the collection of outstanding student full costs fees/income, including regular reporting, reconciling to student records system and credit control.
* Working alongside the student records team to capture and reconcile online enrolment fees
* Working with Financial Controller on all areas of compliance, maintaining non-compliance logs where appropriate – including but not limited to Financial Regulations, GDPR, Insurance, Audit, PCI, Fraud & Procurement legislation.
* Responsible for processing all central credit card payments and one-off bacs payments, including full reconciliations and journal postings
* Sharing responsibility of central email triage, daily filtering and allocation
* Purchase Order detail code approver
* Ad hoc procurement projects and duties (supporting CPC consultant) including maintenance of contract register and procurement logs
* Month end and year end tasks, including journals, reconciliations and audit requests
* Preparing grant income returns for submission
* Finance system administration, including setting up new users, and providing system support
* Assisting other members of the finance team with high level query resolution
* Assisting with the enrolment process
* Carry out any other duties as may reasonable be requested by the line manager.
About you:
If you enjoy working with people and sharing your knowledge, skills and experience and have an enthusiasm for supporting learners on their educational journeys, we want to hear from you.
Skills and Competencies you’ll need for this role:
* Have an AAT Level 4 (or equivalent) qualification. You might be Qualified by Experience – we’d love to hear from you too.
* Experience of working in a finance role or finance department
* Good communication and customer service skills
* Have an organised and methodical approach, being able to prioritise workload
* An excellent attention to detail
* Be able to confidently deal with students in collecting outstanding fees
* The ability to work with and build strong relationships with colleagues across multiple departments
* Good IT skills: especially with Microsoft packages (Excel, Word). Knowledge of Financials Live and/or ProSolution is advantageous but not essential (full training will be given)
Benefits:
* 48 days annual leave (Inclusive of bank holidays)
* Generous contributory company pension scheme
* Childcare discounts
* Onsite Costa
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Continuous Professional Development
* Free Parking
* Exclusive commercial discounts via the CSSC scheme
The Trafford and Stockport College Group promotes, celebrates and values diversity and is committed to promoting equality for all. As part of our commitment to being a Disability Confident Employer, all disabled applicants who meet the minimum requirements of the job, as set out in the job description and person specification, will be guaranteed an interview.
The Trafford and Stockport College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and expects all staff to share this commitment. Employment at the Trafford and Stockport College Group is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check via the Disclosure and Barring Service and any post in regulated activity will also be subject to an additional barred list check. The Group will meet the costs associated with this.
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