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Finance Assistant

1 month ago

Canterbury, United Kingdom Real Group Ltd Full time

Real Group has an exciting opportunity for a financial role in our growing company. It is a great time to join our team, make a positive difference and impact our growth.

Study support would also be considered to support your professional ambitions.

**About the role**:
The purpose of the role is to support the Finance Director to provide required financial reconciliations, reporting, and analysis to support the timely review of results and support business decision-making. Partner with the FD to complete the annual plan,and required re-forecasts. Have ownership of key financial transactions, reconciliations, and processes to ensure they are complete and accurate, and undertaken as per required monthly deadlines.

Key tasks and responsibilities include:

- Support the preparation of monthly management accounts for the Company - helping review, investigate and provide an understanding of variances to plan for Directors;
- Produce and maintain monthly management financial reports that provide Hds of, and other Budget Holders with the spend vs budget info needed, to manage their costs effectively, and help investigate and build an understanding of variances to plan;
- Support the FD in the annual and three-year planning process, by inputting and updating key financial assumptions; undertake scenario planning to provide Directors with an overview of the income/costs pipeline expected, under various assumptions;
- Support the month-end close process as required to ensure costs/revenue are recorded appropriately; Work to ensure that accruals, prepayments, provisions, and journal adjustments are booked as required.
- Take ownership of Credit Control across the company, reviewing routinely the debt position across the group, producing analysis that informs FD of the changes in the debt position, the reasons for this, prioritizing debts that are to be resolved, and communicatingactions that are being taken.
- Ensure that monthly payments to our delivery team of tutors are calculated, checked for accuracy and completeness, then authorized in a timely manner by FD, to be paid.
- Review and set up all required new direct debit mandates, and resolve any failed payments, to ensure that delegates can start courses as and when planned;
- Provide the outsourced finance team with customer dashboard data, to support invoices and journals being reported in the appropriate area of the business;
- Support and lead on ad-hoc finance projects, as the business needs;
- Cashflow planning - model the expected cash inflows/outflows, especially for Sporting Futures, alongside monitoring and reconciling the Sporting Futures bank balances;
- Support additional monthly financial, and year-end, tasks as needed.

**About you**

You have a passion for data accuracy. You are someone who likes challenges and achieving fantastic results. You are also keen to collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to improve the quality of financial data, and reports.

**Person specification**

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate:

- High attention to detail, strong numeracy, and good self-discipline;;
- Good verbal communication, interpersonal and team working skills;
- Good decision making skills to escalate as appropriate for issue resolution, or for required direction, and guidance;
- Ability to successfully meet deadlines and timescales;

**About us**

We are a dynamic, growing organisation with an established reputation for providing CPD training, SEN consultancy, and direct psychological services. We develop and deliver training for teachers within the UK and internationally. We currently have teachersin over 100 countries studying with us. We are proud of our innovative training approaches that combine psychology, education and technology. Our courses enable educational psychology to have an impact in classrooms across the globe. Our values are embeddedin the work that we do and they underpin our business culture.

**Our Values**:
?Inclusivity - valuing others, respecting others, recognising and celebrating the contribution of all

? Positivity - taking a positive outlook to challenges and embracing change and opportunity

? Curiosity - seeking to reflect, learn, ask questions and challenging orthodoxies

? Integrity - acting fairly, honestly, and consistently

? Growth - seeking growth and positive change for individuals and organisations

? Sustainability - helping regain ecological balance.

We are an equal opportunities, flexible employer with offices in Greenwich, Canterbury and Staines. Real Group has a strong culture of ethical business practice and values diversity and inclusion.

**Benefits**

We build our team with talented, positive-thinking and experienced individuals from diverse backgrounds. Working at Real Group brings many benefits including:
?Flexible working within a supportive team with the ability to work up to 40% from home if you wish

? Competitive salary

? Pension

? Training and professional development opportunities

? Health and dental plan

? Access to free mental health support

? Salary sacrifice options for purchasing a bicycle or leasing an electric car.

To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter explaining how you meet the person specification and job description

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