Student Accounting Assistant

Role Description

About the Role

This is a customer-facing role that exists to assure that students receive a professional service, ensuring that we bill them, collect money, process bursaries and debt chase on a timely basis.

About You

You will have experience of working in a busy environment in a large complex organisation or Higher Education institution. You will be customer focused in your approach to work, have good numeracy/analytical skills and good organisational and time management skills.

You must be able to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of double entry bookkeeping. You will have experience across the range of different tasks relating to operating the Sales Ledger and related credit control practices.

You will have excellent interpersonal skills to communicate both orally and in writing with key stakeholders across the University, our students, sponsors and other third parties.

Ideally you will have or be willing to work towards the AAT qualification (or equivalent), or alternatively you will be able to demonstrate equivalent relevant work experience. Prior experience of using our Finance system Agresso will be an advantage as will experience of accounting for apprenticeships.

About Us

As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here.

The role of the Finance Professional Service Unit is to ensure that all financial data is processed to enable payments to be made and received accurately and timely and that relevant, timely and reliable information is available to all stakeholders. This covers the University and subsidiary companies.

Our Values and Commitments

Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more here.

We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential. We are a Disability Confident Employer and proud members of the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme. We are committed to actively exploring flexible working options for each role and have been ranked in the Top 30 family friendly employers in the UK by the charity Working Families. Find out more about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here.

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Dawn-Marie Palmer, Student Finance Team Leader, on (E): [email protected]

Please do not hesitate to contact us for further details on E: [email protected]. Please quote reference number 4537.

Interviews to be held: 20 June 2023