Assignment Start Date:
20th January 2025 Rate of Pay:
£15.17ph - Weekly pay Shift Times:
09:00 - 17:00 Location:
2 St Paul's Pl, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2JE Working arrangements:
Office Based Full Time Department Background: Join the Department for Education's Sector Reporting division, where you'll play a pivotal role in designing data collections to streamline financial data submissions for nearly 11,000 schools and colleges. This data ensures academies and Further Education colleges meet their budgeting and financial management obligations. Be part of the team producing the Academy Sector Annual Report and Account (SARA), a key consolidation of financial statements from 2,500 academy trusts, providing Parliament with a comprehensive overview of England's academy sector. This involves applying consistent accounting policies and making critical judgements to meet the requirements of the Academies Act 2010 and central government standards. Key Responsibilities: Reviewing land and buildings information for approximately 10,000 academy schools to determine asset recognition for a £60 billion property portfolio, ensuring compliance with accounting requirements. Validating financial accounting returns from around 2,500 academy trusts to support one of the largest accounts consolidation exercises in the UK public sector. This role also includes other finance-related tasks and offers full training. Familiarity with company accounts is desirable but not essential. Qualifications and Skills: Good interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, with an ability to interact well with people at different levels across the team. Ability to work under pressure and deliver to tight timescales, with a good attention to detail. Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, seeking advice and guidance from managers as appropriate. Literacy, numeracy, and an ability to follow the logical steps of a prescribed process in an organised way, and record clear, concise notes on findings. Competent IT user with good experience of using Microsoft Excel, and exposure to Outlook, Teams and other office applications, and willingness to use unfamiliar tools with training. Experience of or training in financial accounting and/or wider finance operations. Experience of Microsoft Dynamics CRM (a customer relationship management tool). *PLEASE NOTE - To progress with your application, you will be asked to complete a Literacy, Numeracy and Excel assessment. Should you be successful in this application, you will be required to provide right to work documents and references to cover the past 3 years in full.*
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20th January 2025 Rate of Pay:
£15.17ph - Weekly pay Shift Times:
09:00 - 17:00 Location:
2 St Paul's Pl, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2JE Working arrangements:
Office Based Full Time Department Background: Join the Department for Education's Sector Reporting division, where you'll play a pivotal role in designing data collections to streamline financial data submissions for nearly 11,000 schools and colleges. This data ensures academies and Further Education colleges meet their budgeting and financial management obligations. Be part of the team producing the Academy Sector Annual Report and Account (SARA), a key consolidation of financial statements from 2,500 academy trusts, providing Parliament with a comprehensive overview of England's academy sector. This involves applying consistent accounting policies and making critical judgements to meet the requirements of the Academies Act 2010 and central government standards. Key Responsibilities: Reviewing land and buildings information for approximately 10,000 academy schools to determine asset recognition for a £60 billion property portfolio, ensuring compliance with accounting requirements. Validating financial accounting returns from around 2,500 academy trusts to support one of the largest accounts consolidation exercises in the UK public sector. This role also includes other finance-related tasks and offers full training. Familiarity with company accounts is desirable but not essential. Qualifications and Skills: Good interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, with an ability to interact well with people at different levels across the team. Ability to work under pressure and deliver to tight timescales, with a good attention to detail. Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, seeking advice and guidance from managers as appropriate. Literacy, numeracy, and an ability to follow the logical steps of a prescribed process in an organised way, and record clear, concise notes on findings. Competent IT user with good experience of using Microsoft Excel, and exposure to Outlook, Teams and other office applications, and willingness to use unfamiliar tools with training. Experience of or training in financial accounting and/or wider finance operations. Experience of Microsoft Dynamics CRM (a customer relationship management tool). *PLEASE NOTE - To progress with your application, you will be asked to complete a Literacy, Numeracy and Excel assessment. Should you be successful in this application, you will be required to provide right to work documents and references to cover the past 3 years in full.*
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