Finance Officer

at  Happy Days Nurseries

• Newquay, UK
• Posted 3 weeks ago
• £26,000.00 GBP / Year
  Happy Days is looking to recruit a full time, permanent Finance Officer to work within our busy Finance Team based in Summercourt, Cornwall – situated centrally between Newquay, Truro & St Austell, which allows for hybrid working.
  You will be required to ensure the smooth running of the day-to-day sales ledger, bank & cash and Early Years funding activities so that processing deadlines in the monthly accounting timetable are met.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Provide high quality customer service both internally and externally
• Experience maintaining a sales ledger and ability to deal with complex billing scenarios and high volumes
• Knowledge of bank & cash posting and reconciliation
• In-depth working knowledge of computer software such as Sage, Microsoft Office and Outlook
• Confident in ability to reconcile control accounts and post accounting journals
• Credit control and maintaining provision for bad and doubtful debts
• Able to multi-task and work to strict deadlines
• Strong team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude
• Good, confident and honest communicator
• Previous experience working in the childcare sector would be advantageous but not essential

• Confirm sales invoices from the Nursery Management System (NMS) are correct by liaising with nursery managers
• Raise sale invoices using the NMS, with associated reports
• Import sales invoice and cash receipt data from the NMS into Sage and reconcile balances
• Ensure Early Years grant funding applications are accurate and complete and create journals to defer the grant funding correctly over a period of time
• Administrate direct debits
• Prepare and deliver training to nursery managers and finance colleagues
• Monitor trade debtors and implement credit control procedures for bad and doubtful debts
• Post bank transactions to sage daily and complete reconciliations
  As well as the main duties outlined there will be additional tasks to fulfill this role.