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Stacey Carbon - Education External Bursar
Stacey is an AAT L4 qualified accountant. She has experience working as a School Business Manager at primary schools and private nurseries, as well as running her own External Bursar Service.
Stacey provides bursar services for maintained schools and academies.
Bursar services package
Range of tasks that can be customised to your school's needs:
- Provide finance support for schools
- Planning (with school input), monitoring and evaluation of budgets
- Assist the school with the management of expenditure within an agreed budget(s)
- Work in partnership with Headteachers to ensure oversight of financial management and administration for a given school(s)
- Provision of financial reports for a given school(s) in accordance with ESFA and Oxfordshire County Council regulations
- Provision of management information to LGBs, headteachers and staff as required
- Deliver training for Staff and the LGB on financial matters where needed
- Ensure that all cash and cheques income is recorded
- Process entries for any Direct Credits/Bacs payments/Direct Debits, Bank Interest/Charges
- Ensure that sales invoices are raised and payments received for sales invoices are recorded
- Ensure that all procurement card transactions are recorded
- Complete BACS and Cheque runs and ensure that BACS payments are uploaded to the bank and authorised
- Review all income records i.e. school meals and verify that the income due is collected. The records should be signed and dated as evidence of review.
- Review cash advance (academies)
- Prepare and submit DFC forms as required
- New Starters/Leavers paperwork & overtime claims
- Overtime/ Casual claims paperwork
- Review 1st and final payroll reports
- Complete bank reconciliation and print reconciliation report
- Carry out payroll reconciliation and investigate payroll variances to determine if action is required.
- Update employees scenario
- Produce budget monitoring report by forecasting income and expenditure and comparing outturn against budget - variance analysis
- Dealing with queries that may arise from Headteacher and LGB.
- Prepare and submit annual budget. Working with Headteacher and appropriate Governors.
- Complete Year End for external audit
- Review Aged Creditor report to ensure that they are valid and up to date
- Review Aged Debtor report to ensure that they are valid and up to date
