School Bursar

**Duties required**:

- Responsible for overall finances at the school level.
- Provide support to the school executive head and staff within the financial space
- Maintain financial controls
- Billing - perform and review billing of school fees and other school related income
- CAPEX - maintain capex spend and oversee procuring capex activities
- Procurement - oversee the procurement at the school
- Accounts payable - address queries raised by group shared services
- Debtors - have oversight of the book and work with group shared service to maintain a healthy debtors book.
- Cashbook - ensure cash received is allocated correcting
- Payroll - review monthly payroll
- Reviews budget, monitors expenditure against actual POs daily, weekly and monthly and advises staff and Principal/s accordingly
- Prepares annual budget/s, ensure inclusion and planning for special campus events, tours and recoveries
- Prepares variance analysis for Principal and brand finance monthly
- Meets with walk -in parents to resolve billing and account queries
- Receives arrears/ outstanding debts and advises GSS accordingly
- Reconciles student billing, Manages and monitors repayment plans
- Monitors and controls purchases on Procurement card and reconciles these
- Monitors and reports on monthly charges eg. rent, water, rates, electricity, photo copies etc
- General monthly activities

**Competencies/Skills/Requirements**:

- Good oral and written communication skills with all stakeholders
- Analytical minded, good problem solving skills and logical
- Excellent excel skills
- Attention to detail
- Excellent organisational and administrative skills
- Ability to work under tight deadlines/deadline driven
- Good stress management

**Qualifications and Experience**
- A Finance Management or Accounting Degree
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience in Accounting / Bookkeeping/ Management in similar position
- Sound Accounting knowledge is essential

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

**Education**:

- Diploma (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Accounting / Bookkeeping: 3 years (required)