Be the backbone of Curro's success! We're seeking experienced non-teaching professionals to support our educational mission. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and love contributing to learner growth, you’re who we’re looking for!
What are we looking for?
We are looking for someone with the following experience, qualifications and /or skillsets:
The Finance Administrator is responsible for maintaining accurate debtor & creditor records and to provide debtor & creditor admin support to finance staff at schools.
- Degree in Finance
- Financial Clerk – 3 – 5 years or Accountant 2 years
Advantageous
- Previous experience in an educational environment
The responsibilities are:
Petty Cash, Capitec and Credit card processing
- Monitor and control Petty Cash.
- Issue and authorise the distribution of petty cash.
- Captures all petty transactions and check for accuracy.
- Reconcile petty cash at month end.
- Processing bank receipts to relevant customer account
- Clearing the credit card control account monthly and processing expense management reports
- Clearing of expense claim suspense account
Monthly Billing
- Submit, check and verify billing and variance reports for accuracy and send to HO to activate billing process.
- Annual loading of income streams and discounts
School support
- Providing financial related support to all school staff
- Deal with queries and requests from the staff, EH and or RA
- Ensure that financial policies are adhered to throughout the school.
- Assist with financial controls for fundraising events and ticket sales.
Processing of Invoices
- Receive and review of supplier invoice and check VAT compliance.
- Capture invoices into systems
- Review approvals are correct for monthly and ad hoc suppliers.
- Following up with relevant staff regarding outstanding invoices not in system for payment and or open Purchase orders
- Submit municipal invoices to Central Office
Vendor reconciliations and payments
- Request supplier statement and reconcile to records.
- Resolve any queries with supplier and school.
- Prepare reconciliations for review and approval.
- Once accounts have been reconciled, submit to head office for payment
Debtors Administration
- Review accounts for manual corrections to be done to customer account.
- Ensure customer payment journals are posted daily.
- Check age analysis of payment to confirm payments.
- Commence debt collection of non-paying parents based on list of outstanding payments – only up to 30 days.
- Answers queries of walk-in clients and parents with regards to payments
- Update monthly debit orders on Synergy.
- Monitor credit balances of inactive accounts and prepare refund documentation for submission to centralized office.
- Acknowledgement of debt and repayment arrangements, as well as notes on Collectsmart
- Debtors’ communication on My Hub, email statements & send SMS’s.
- Maintain up to date contact details of debtors.
- Filing of finance documents and debtors’ contracts, including but not limited to enrolment contracts and debit order mandates.
- Send out collection communication as instructed by Central Office
- Follow up on overdue enrolment fees with admissions officer.
- Follow up on tracing MYHUB payment unallocated with parents.
- Handover process to external collection teams – Head office requires scanned contracts on ad hoc basis
Ad hoc tasks relating to debtor admin
- Assist with fee & discount budget calculations.
- Assist with price list document for annual set up.
- Advise on annual payments made, for discount to be loaded and credit notes in February.
- Assist with queries and follow up on financial assistance applications.
- Monitor and prepare month end reporting for RA on debtors’ credit, debit and inactive accounts and status changes.
- Assist with Managing Curro transfers and returning leavers with the admissions officer and to reinstate learners.
- Ensure financial policies are adhered to for debtors and discounts and any deviation brought to the attention of the Executive head and RA
The successful candidate will start on 11 October 2024.
Read more about where you will work
PRESCHOOL | PRIMARY SCHOOL
Please apply before 20 September 2024.
Curro is an equal-opportunity employer, and therefore preference will be given to EE candidates.
P.S Please view your profile for progress on your application.
If you have not had any feedback from the school within two weeks of the closing date of this advert, accept that you were not successful for this position.
But don’t be dismayed, next time it might be you.
Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be communicated with.
Curro reserves the right not to make an appointment.
NB: Please remember and take note before applying that this is a Permanent position.
NB: Please note that if you are found to apply for two or more positions that you do not qualify for in the least, you will be blocked from the system for 30 days. This is due to a large volume of applicants who are abusing the system.
