Finance Assistant

**What's on the offer**:
**Salary Circa: £22,000 to £26,000 per annum (depending on experience)**

**Hours: 37.5 hours per week**
**Hybrid Remote working**
**Core Business Hours (10 am - 4 pm)**
**25 days plus 8 bank holidays**
**Enhanced sick pay**
**Wellbeing day**
**Perkbox**
**EAP (Employee Assistance Programme)**

The Finance Assistant will work as part of the wider Finance Operations team to provide an accurate and efficient treasury function for BSC companies.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Responsible for ensuring the bank accounts are reconciled on a daily basis to SAP and Fidelo
- Reconciling differences should be investigated and cleared promptly
- Posting miscellaneous payments such as bank charges, merchant fees, interest and direct debits on a daily basis
- Posting receipts from students and customers to SAP and Fidelo
- Liaising with Accounts Payable to ensure that all other outgoing payments are posted on a timely basis
- Maintain good working relationships with both internal colleagues and banking partners, as well as Partner Agent
- Working closely with the Commercial team and the Admissions & Accommodations team, projecting a professional image of the Company at all times
- Preparation of operational cashflow forecast and actual files and preparation of reports for senior management
- Ensuring that liquidity is managed on a day to day basis between bank accounts
- Preparation of petty cash reconciliations and ensuring that all posts are made to SAP
- Provision of regular and ad-hoc reporting as required by the business
- Support the audit process as necessary
- Ensuring all processes and controls are documented and that sufficient controls are operated to ensure integrity of data and safeguarding of company assets.
- Provision of a draft cashflow forecast each week
- Any additional duties relevant to the role.

**Internal Communications**
- Provide support to all teams across BSC as required, keeping the teams regularly updated on pertinent information
- Maintain a sufficient product knowledge of BSC’s portfolio of products in order to best understand how the role supports the needs of the Commercial and Operational Teams

Further Information

**Job Skills**
Specific Role Requirements
- Intermediate Excel skills
- Minimum of 2 years of prior cash-management/treasury experience within finance essential

**Desired Experience/Skills**:

- Process improvement experience a distinct advantage
- Previous experience in a multi stream business preferred
- Studying for recognized accounting qualification highly desirable
- SAP knowledge desirable but not essential

At BSC, we expect all our colleagues to behave in ways that both support and promote our Vision, Mission & Values.

**BSC VISION**:_To provide customers with steppingstones to their future by delivering outstanding and transformational learning experiences. _
**BSC MISSION**:_By believing that “Great Things Start Here” and standing behind all that this means. If we believe it, our customers will achieve it_

**VALUES**

**Aim Higher**:We proactively make suggestions and solutions for challenges and opportunities.

**Collaborate**:We are team players -we treat everyone with respect and understand that we succeed
collectively, not as individuals.

**Communicate**: We communicate in a timely way with clarity, respect and transparency.

**Customer Focus**: We seek to provide consistent high-quality experiences that customers will remember.

**Team Focus**: We seek to reward and recognise excellence and innovation within our employees.

The above list of job responsibilities is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope, grading of the post and at the request by management.
We are committed to providing a creative, rewarding and successful learning and working environment for our students and team.

**We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome all interest in joining our team. Successful applicants will undergo our safeguarding checks in line with our Safeguarding Children & Vulnerable Adults Policy & our**
**Recruitment Policy, including an Enhanced DBS Check, Barred List, Prohibition Lists check and overseas criminal records if applicable.**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £22,000.00-£26,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Birkenhead, CH41 1EU: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Birkenhead, CH41 1EU