Finance Assistant

4 months ago


Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Aldar Academies Full time

Cranleigh Abu Dhabi sits at the entrance to Saadiyat’s emerging Cultural District in keeping with the school’s motto, ‘Ex Cultu Robur’ - ‘From Culture Comes Strength’. Built over seven hectares, the bespoke campus is situated within minutes of New York University Abu Dhabi and the beautiful Saadiyat Beach, as well as the magnificent Louvre Abu Dhabi and the vibrant Berklee College of Music.

In addition to the broad academic curriculum, our daily routine offers a wealth of opportunities that allow pupils to explore their full range of talents in fine arts, performing arts, music, sport and other activities such as gymnastics, golf, horse riding and debating to name but a few. We are looking for first-class educators to join our vibrant team and work with us in our pursuit of excellence.

The purpose of this role is to efficiently manage the daily operations of cash collection and reporting. In order to support the school’s management of its cash flow and obligations. To also ensure the protection of company assets and reputation and additionally support the wider school that can be reasonably expected from the Finance department.

**Minimum Qualification**
- Degree in accounting or similar formal qualification

**Minimum Experience**
- 1-3 years in similar role
- Strong excel and other Microsoft suites
- Demonstrate a proficient level of professional skill and knowledge in accounting

**Job Specific Knowledge & Skills**
- This role is designated for UAE Nationals
- Excellent interpersonal relationships and communication skills
- Role is customer facing so there is a requirement for effective communication and excellent customer service skills
- Demonstrate attention to detail and excellent cash handling and record keeping skills
- Calm in all situations and able to delegate to team members
- Experience within a school setting advantageous

**What We Offer**

Aldar Education is a family of world-class, child-centred, and innovative schools based in the UAE. We educate over 38,000 students across our group of owned and managed schools and as we grow so does our need for highly skilled, inspirational, and dedicated school leaders. We offer an attractive remuneration package. Our future-focused learning model includes both students and staff and so we place a special emphasis on professional development, coaching and training.

**Main Duties**:

- Support accountant in generating parent bills for tuition fee during the termly billing cycle and recording of revenue according to IFRS
- Receive and process payments to ensure properly recorded and applied to outstanding invoices, and where necessary directly interact with families promptly to reconcile discrepancies
- Correspond with late paying parents to ensure timely receipt of payments
- Liaise with secure cash/Cheque collection provider for the safe deposits into the bank if required per company policy
- Process refunds, returned cheques and bad debts as instructed by Director of Finance
- Raise accounting issues to management and investigate/propose entries or other solutions
- Handle petty cash for the school and ensure respective policies are implemented
- Support Finance department in general administrative duties required in order for finance department team to meet the demands of wider school
- Custodian of security safe keys and to ensure all collections are properly accounted and secured in safe at all times

**Specific Duties**:
**Reporting**
- Assist with month-end financial statement closings by providing a verified listing of the month end billings as well as a statement of the reconciled outstanding student and other balances
- Produce weekly debtors report and circulate
- Month end reconciliation of petty cash as well as other month end duties as required

**Regulatory**
- Support in submission of VAT returns and other regulatory filings as necessary
- Supply audit information as required during annual external/internal audit process

**Operational**
- Act as main point of contact for trips, instrumentals and other fee generating activities for the school
- Custodian of petty cash and ensure all requests are accompanied with proper receipts and invoices


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