Accounts Assistant
- Employer
- Siamo Recruitment a division of Siamo Group
- Location
- Bedfordshire, Eastern England, United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive Salary
- Closing date
- Nov 3, 2020
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- Job Role
- Accounts Assistant
- Sector
- Finance
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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Student Accounting Assistant
£24,739
Job Opportunity
An opportunity has arisen to join one of our most sort after clients to work for in Cranfied. The role is for a Student Accounting Assistant to join their team for a 4 month basis, the role will be working from home.
The Student Finance Team manage all accounting relating to student invoicing, debt collection and payments to students and respond to all student financial queries throughout the year. This includes queries regarding invoices, payments, charge collections and any other questions that students may have.
You must have your own IT equipment as the role will be based remotely. This is a full time temporary role for four months. You must be available for an immediate start within 1 week.
Benefits
Immediate start
Paid Holidays
Early finish on a Friday!
Pension Scheme
Working from home
Refer a friend scheme - Earn £25 for each friend referred
Free on-site car parking (if and when onsite)
Large discount on company products
Get amazing deals exclusively available to yourselves through Siamo Benefits scheme which is totally FREE to all Siamo employees while shopping online or in-store at hundreds of different retailers
Hours of work and pay:
37 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Remote working from home with regular meetings on Microsoft Teams
Pay
£24,739
Candidate
responsibilities:
Ensure that students receive a professional service, ensuring that you bill them, collect money, process bursaries and debt chase on a timely basis
Tuition Fee Invoice raising, ensuring that the correct fee is charged and the income posted into the correct GL periods
Allocating payment dates in accordance with any agreed payment schedule, ensuring that any student who is invoiced on a module basis is fully invoiced for all modules taken.
Debt collection - collection of all student debts including tuition fees, accommodation, electricity, library, printing etc.
The Student finance team runs automated reminders at monthly/fortnightly intervals which are followed up with individual emails, phone calls and face-to-face conversations to ensure that the debt policy is adhered to.
Accommodation invoice raising and managing the departure process including refunds to students in cash, back to cards, by BACS or overseas payments.
Setting up direct debit schedules, monitoring and following up on failed collections
Payments to students - Manage the processing of payments to students (accommodation refunds, bursaries, Travel & Subsistence etc).
Daily tasks -
Include the following:
Raising sales invoices for any student related charges
Liaison with University staff, students and other external customers to resolve or raise issues and queries.
Maintaining of the Finance department records and filing of paperwork.
Student debt chasing.
The team share an email inbox and take it in turns on a daily basis to answer the emails or allocate the more complicated ones to specific team members
Review unmatched credits on the student sales ledger and match them to invoices or allocate an appropriate complaint code (e.g. TD for tuition fee deposit)
Requirements
Experience in a large complex organisation or Higher Education institution
Use of large Finance systems
Some experience of credit control and sales ledger.
An understanding of double entry book keeping.
Excellent Microsoft skills in Office range (Especially Excel, Word and Outlook)
Knowledge of GDPR
Good level of education including English and Maths GCSE at grade C or above
£24,739
Job Opportunity
An opportunity has arisen to join one of our most sort after clients to work for in Cranfied. The role is for a Student Accounting Assistant to join their team for a 4 month basis, the role will be working from home.
The Student Finance Team manage all accounting relating to student invoicing, debt collection and payments to students and respond to all student financial queries throughout the year. This includes queries regarding invoices, payments, charge collections and any other questions that students may have.
You must have your own IT equipment as the role will be based remotely. This is a full time temporary role for four months. You must be available for an immediate start within 1 week.
Benefits
Immediate start
Paid Holidays
Early finish on a Friday!
Pension Scheme
Working from home
Refer a friend scheme - Earn £25 for each friend referred
Free on-site car parking (if and when onsite)
Large discount on company products
Get amazing deals exclusively available to yourselves through Siamo Benefits scheme which is totally FREE to all Siamo employees while shopping online or in-store at hundreds of different retailers
Hours of work and pay:
37 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Remote working from home with regular meetings on Microsoft Teams
Pay
£24,739
Candidate
responsibilities:
Ensure that students receive a professional service, ensuring that you bill them, collect money, process bursaries and debt chase on a timely basis
Tuition Fee Invoice raising, ensuring that the correct fee is charged and the income posted into the correct GL periods
Allocating payment dates in accordance with any agreed payment schedule, ensuring that any student who is invoiced on a module basis is fully invoiced for all modules taken.
Debt collection - collection of all student debts including tuition fees, accommodation, electricity, library, printing etc.
The Student finance team runs automated reminders at monthly/fortnightly intervals which are followed up with individual emails, phone calls and face-to-face conversations to ensure that the debt policy is adhered to.
Accommodation invoice raising and managing the departure process including refunds to students in cash, back to cards, by BACS or overseas payments.
Setting up direct debit schedules, monitoring and following up on failed collections
Payments to students - Manage the processing of payments to students (accommodation refunds, bursaries, Travel & Subsistence etc).
Daily tasks -
Include the following:
Raising sales invoices for any student related charges
Liaison with University staff, students and other external customers to resolve or raise issues and queries.
Maintaining of the Finance department records and filing of paperwork.
Student debt chasing.
The team share an email inbox and take it in turns on a daily basis to answer the emails or allocate the more complicated ones to specific team members
Review unmatched credits on the student sales ledger and match them to invoices or allocate an appropriate complaint code (e.g. TD for tuition fee deposit)
Requirements
Experience in a large complex organisation or Higher Education institution
Use of large Finance systems
Some experience of credit control and sales ledger.
An understanding of double entry book keeping.
Excellent Microsoft skills in Office range (Especially Excel, Word and Outlook)
Knowledge of GDPR
Good level of education including English and Maths GCSE at grade C or above
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