Job Description

Reference: 3943

A Public Sector company in Watford are seeking a Qualified Finance Manager to join them on a permanent basis!

The purpose of the Finance Manager is to be responsible for maintaining financial and accounting ledgers, processes and procedures in order to meet all legal and statutory requirements. The successful candidate will play an integral role in the business and be responsible for ensuring high standards of financial probity across the trust.

We are ideally seeking someone who has experience working in a school.

The position will consider some form of hybrid working after a completion of a full financial year.

The position will manage the finance team on a day-to-day basis. You will need to have experience within a leadership position in a previous role.

• To produce the financial reports and/or schedules for the preparation of final audited account in line with current Dfe Guidelines
• To produce the monthly reporting pack
• To prepare and present the monthly management accounts and associated reporting in a timely manner.
• To co-ordinate and produce the budget forecast returns for the ESFA
• To prepare budget modelling scenarios including (but not limited too) original budgets, provisional budgets and final budgets with full financial variance analysis.
• To review and oversee the Group VAT returns
• To review and maintain appropriate accounting records within the Finance System Accounting Ledgers and to ensure a monthly reconciliation of a range of balance sheet accounts including (but not limited too) all bank accounts, Payroll, specific debtor/creditor accounts and all suspense accounts.
• To review and take responsibility for all inter-company transactions
• To produce cash flow statements on a monthly basis, to advise on any variances and alert Director to any issues.
• To reconcile, analyse and prepare variance analysis for all Payroll costs both monthly and annually for internal and external review.
• To oversee and review P&L statements for each revenue stream.
• To manage the financial processing and reporting of Capital expenditure
• Posting prepayments and accruals monthly.
• To be responsible for ensuring payroll and pensions accounting, reconciliation and processing is managed efficiently and correctly.
• To liaise with the auditors
• To oversee the fixed asset register

This is a great opportunity for someone who has experience producing financial statements, maintaining cash controls, purchasing, maintaining accounts payable and managing all financial record keepings. The position must work within a schools financial procedures and in compliance with statutory requirements.

Think Accountancy and Finance is the finance division of Think Specialist Recruitment, an independent recruitment agency based in Hemel Hempstead and working across the Herts, Beds and Bucks area. We specialise in permanent, temporary and contract recruitment with areas of expertise including: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Finance Admin, Part Qualified Finance, Credit Control and Bookkeepers.

Think Specialist Recruitment