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Full Time Finance Administrator

We are looking for a Full Time Finance Administrator to support the provision of our 6 Outstanding Childcare settings.

Position: Full-Time (37.5 hours)
Holiday: 28 days per annum pro rata including 8 statutory holidays
Salary: £21,000-£22,500 depending on experience

You will be working closely with and reporting to the Office Manager across a broad range of workstreams including:

• Reconcile and processing of payments made by customers via BACS, credit/debit card, bank transfer and other payment methods
• Ensuring financial information such as payments and invoices are collated and updated with accuracy and efficiency
• Updating ChildsPlay Manager (the nursery booking software system) by:
  -Adding new starters and processing leavers
  -Making amendments to bookings
  -Occasionally generating and issuing invoices
  -Processing reports
• Customer Service – answering general telephone and email queries throughout the working day
• Supporting parents and nursery managers with queries relating to nursery bookings, fees and invoices
• Quickly gaining a high level of understanding with a view to becoming an expert about Early Years Entitlement Funding
• Supporting debt management processes
• Taking payments using the debit/credit card terminal
• Answering general telephone and email queries
• Typing documents and letters, photocopying and filing where needed
• Occasionally work on special projects including identifying and implementing new office software and hardware to improve business efficiency
• Any other reasonable duties as deemed relevant

As a result of ongoing COVID restrictions you may be required to share your working time between the office (with sufficient social distancing protocol in place as per our Office COVID-Secure Risk Assessment) and remote working from home. This will be covered in more detail in the interview and recruitment process but if you are uncomfortable with either some office working in addition to some remote working then you should consider your application carefully.

Satisfactory references are required, and this position is subject to a DBS check at enhanced level.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for more information

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