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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