Charlotte Bull

• Collaborate with Finance Business Partners to prepare annual budgets and quarterly forecasting.
• Identify and post monthly accruals and prepayments.
• Produce monthly management accounts, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery to senior stakeholders.
• Deliver monthly variance analysis and present financial insights to stakeholders.
• Maintain integrity of the general ledger.
• Perform monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
• Collaborate with heads of operations and other stakeholders in the school to assist with finance queries.
• Updating staff data on Oracle and monitor staff costs monthly.
• Lead communications for the Finance Transformation Project (Culture, Communications & Engagement workstream).

• Supporting quarterly forecasting processes.
• Posting monthly accruals and prepayments, ensuring accurate period-end reporting.
• Investigate and analyse balance sheet accounts to ensure accuracy, resolve discrepancies, and support month-end close processes.
• Managing daily banking transactions and completed monthly bank reconciliations.
• Collaborating with HR to ensure accurate payroll processing; investigated variances and posting payroll journals to the general ledger.
• Providing payroll-related financial data to business partners for reporting and analysis.
• Analysing work-in-progress balances for projects, posting monthly WIP movements and foreign exchange adjustments to the general ledger.
• Supervise and support two finance assistants, overseeing daily operations and development.

• Managing daily treasury operations for over twenty bank accounts in various currencies for parent company and subsidiaries.
• Identify surplus cash as part of treasury process to be invested into money market funds.
• Update monthly forecasts and present financial insights to the Deputy Head of Finance and Deputy CEO.
• Produce and present monthly KPIs, which includes forecast accuracy, process reviews and accounts payable/receivable turnaround times.
• Review the TB, P&L, Cash Flow Forecast, and (SOFP) on a monthly basis.
• Lead monthly budget meetings with Heads of departments, advising on variances and assisting with financial planning.
• Conduct monthly financial process reviews to ensure compliance, identify inefficiencies, and recommend improvements to Head Of Finance.
• Implementation of process improvements, including communication to wider stakeholders where required.
• Update and present monthly regulatory capital reporting to the Deputy Head of Finance, highlighting key risks.
• Liaising with internal/external auditors, providing documentation and resolving queries during audit cycles.
• Assist with the preparation of annual financial reports and statutory accounts.
• Calculate and submit quarterly VAT returns, submitted using Making Tax Digital platform.

Built early‑career experience in transactional finance, completing supplier payment runs, pension payments, bank reconciliations, invoice generation, and credit control.