SEND Payments Team Leader
Kettering
Contract
£21.14 per hour PAYE or £27.96 per hour limited paid via umbrella company inside IR35
Our client is looking for an experienced SEND Payments Team Leader
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General Overview
The HNF Team Manager is responsible for ensuring all funding related to the High Needs Block is:
* Accounted for and passported to the correct recipients, accurately and timely, via a variety of payment mechanisms
* Reported on in terms of expenditure and financial commitments and forecasts
Working knowledge / experience of Synergy, ERP Gold and Microsoft Office, in particular Excel are essential.
Working knowledge / experience of Dedicated Schools Grant High Needs Block is essential.
NNC schools are paid via monthly top up transfers, non-NNC schools are paid via invoice (ERP Gold interface).
Key Daily Responsibilities
* Update all master spreadsheets with all funding decisions to accurately calculate the financial year commitment and allow for invoice verification and funding statements to be produced.
* Investigate any funding queries and update master spreadsheets as above.
* Manage 2 x Finance Assistants (they check and process all invoices against the master spreadsheets and collate onto an ERP interface for payment)
* Manage all ad-hoc tasks / payments / data requests / reports etc
Key Weekly Responsibilities
* Check and approve invoice worksheets / ERP interfaces prepared by Finance Assistants
* Prepare any Direct Payments due to parents
Key Monthly Responsibilities
* Consolidate all master spreadsheets into monthly monitoring report to provide Finance / SLT with total High Needs Block forecast for financial year
* Reconcile all transactions on ERP against master spreadsheets
* Update all master spreadsheets to ensure monthly changes are tracked
* Prepare Post 16 funding file for payment via interface
Key Termly Responsibilities
* Prepare all NNC school master spreadsheets for termly top up payments and funding statements
* Check and calculate payments due for special school / unit commissioned place funding, additional place funding, special arrangements, grants etc
* Complete top up transfer template for Schools Finance
* Prepare and issue draft and final funding statements for NNC special schools and units
* Oversee preparation and issuing of draft and final funding statements for NNC mainstream schools
* Investigate all queries returned by schools relating to the funding statements and update master spreadsheets accordingly and calculate any payment adjustments
* Prepare EY EHCP top up funding payment data for interface payment
* Consolidate permanent exclusion data ready for clawback invoices to be raised
* Calculate any Notional SEN top up funding due to NNC schools and pay via monthly transfers
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The first part of our recruitment process is to send your CV. Should you be short listed Colbern Limited will contact you within 5 days or we may contact you about other job opportunities. Colbern Limited along with our clients
are an equal opportunities employer