Description
Sopra Steria Recruitment is working in partnership with a major public sector client in the UK. We are currently recruiting a Finance Manager to be based in Oxford for an initial period of 14 months with possible extension.
Requirements:
Qualifications required for post:
Management or Financial based qualification
Experience required for post:
- Significant experience of managing a financial team
- Provenability to manage and motivate staff and proven record of achieving measurable results
- Project Management experience
Overall purpose of post:
- Responsibility for the management of the Cashiers Team and the Student Funding Team.
- Responsibility for reconciliations and implementation of new systems and processes within the Student Finance Team
Main duties:
Specific duties - Student Funding Team
- Responsibility for the payment of Brookes Bursaries, scholarships and fee waivers to all eligible students and ensuring correct operations of controls for the team's reconciliations, to include establishing the eligibility of students for inclusion in the scheme;
- Responsibility for producing the legally required sector returns including, OFFA returns and Hefce data returns
Specific duties - Cashiers Team
- Management of the Cashiers & Team Leader
- Responsibility for the cashiering and banking functions
- Responsibility for ensuring the team efficiently identifies and allocates all income into the bank account receipt, credit card, cheque or cash methods
- Responsibility for ensuring PCI DSS compliance
- Responsibility for ensuring effective cash collection functions
- Identifying cost effective procedures and processes
- Responsibility for management and enhancement of online shop
Specific duties - Payment Systems & Reconciliations
- Representing the Student Finance Office: at both internal and external forums
- Reviewing the Student Finance Team's systems and approaches.
- To identify cost-effective improvements to procedures and practices for both staff and customers.
- Responsible for undertaking the following reconciliations:
- Tuition Fee Refunds
- Advance Tuition Deposits
- Cheney Deposits
- Tuition Receipts Control Account
- Accommodation Receipts Control Account
- Managing and reviewing all aspects of the remote payment systems for tuition and accommodation. Responsible for continually reviewing the service provider and ensuring the client's is employing the most cost effective provider.
- Responsibility for being the main contact for WPM the client's current online card service provider
- Responsibility for the continuing research into all types of electronic payments so that the client has the most appropriate solution
- Any other duties commensurate with the scale and nature of the post