Samantha Walton

Managing the academic and marketing budgets for the school consisting of:

Setting the budgets for the academic year, approving and issuing purchase order numbers for spend monitoring budgets for spend throughout the year. Issuing termly budget reports and meeting with heads of departments. Ensuring the schools academic recoverable charges are made and reconciled to departments spend.

Maintaining the schools prepayments ledger including the monthly posting and release of prepayments.

Being responsible for finances for school trips (UK and overseas) including preparing a profit and loss for each trip, monitoring the school bank account for trip payments, ensuring trip leaders are kept up to date and payments are made inline with deadlines.

Day to date contact with clients, including telephone calls, emails and writing letters to clients.

Overseeing the preparation of sole trade, partnership and company accounts and tax returns.

Reviewing the above work of junior staff.

Overseeing junior members of staff.

Holding client meetings to discuss their accounts and tax returns.

Dictation of all verbal client contact.

Advising clients on both accounting and taxation issues. Liaising with Companies House and HMRC over client affairs.

Attending marketing events as and when required.

Assisting the accounts manager on a daily basis which included: creating sales invoices, running weekly aged debt reports and chasing customers for payment as required.

Posting purchase invoices to the accounting system, reconciling accounts to supplier statements and making bank/cheque payments to suppliers.

Posting bank receipts and payments to the accounting system and running bank reconciliations.

Running staff payroll, making payroll payments to staff and posting journals to accounting software. Running the year end process, including issuing P60’s.

Liaising with company accountant/auditors as necessary. Performing other office admin tasks as and when required, including answering the main office switchboard.