Finance Technician

Interim Finance Officer - Schools

Based in West London, hybrid working

Length: 6 months

Inside IR35

The interim Finance Officer will provide wide ranging Finance support on behalf of a Local Authority, to their schools and nurseries.

Day to day duties include:

• Providing a wide range of support to maintained mainstream and special schools, nurseries and children’s centres including: termly uploads of schools’ finance returns including income and expenditure returns, VAT submittal and bank reconciliation
• Resolving queries and issues and questions with individual schools
• Supporting schools in their closure of accounts
• Managing the allocation of government grants to schools, notably the DSG, PPG and SSF Grant
• Developing and maintaining a monthly payment schedule to ensure that grants are distributed to schools in a timely manner to avoid cash flow problems
• Managing variations from the monthly schedule to facilitate agreed emergency cash advances, agreed loans and growth funding
• Liaising with the council’s Treasury team to ensure that government grants are received and correctly allocated
• Reconciling expenditure to grant income on an on-going basis
• Reporting on and managing the recovery of excess balances as directed by Schools Forum

Experience required:

• Local Government and Schools/Education experience is essential
• Part Qualified candidates will be considered