Accounts Assistant - Part time

The Bursary is the College’s finance team; this eight-strong team is led by the College Accountant, who has responsibility for the financial budgeting/reporting and production of College’s and its subsidiary companies annual accounts. The team’s main functions include:

• students’ and fellows’ fees and charges (battels)
• supplier payments
• payroll
• estates rent ledger
• sales ledger
• investments
• donations receivable

New College places a high value on co-operative and flexible working relationships between departments and individuals. As well as regular interaction with academic colleagues and students, the Bursary works closely with the various administrative teams within the College and with the representatives of the Junior Common Room (undergraduate students) and Middle Common Room (graduate students).

College’s finance/accounting software, Mercury, is currently used for the majority of transaction processing in the Bursary. Other systems interface with Mercury to generate student accommodation charges (Kinetics KX) and catering supply invoices (Epsys/Acquire). Excel is used extensively, particularly for reporting and reconciliation purposes. A high degree of IT support is available within the College.

Benefits include:

• 30 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time) of which 5 are taken over Christmas/New Year when College is closed.
• Free lunch in college when available
• Pension: The post-holder is eligible to join one of the College’s employer-provided pension schemes, to which both the post-holder and the College contribute
• Employee Assistance program
• The College runs a bicycle and nursery voucher scheme, and a bus/train pass scheme
• Professional subscriptions paid

• Preferably AAT qualified or equivalent
• 2 years relevant experience

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Applicants should please upload to this portal:

·      a full CV

·      a covering letter outlining your skills and experience relevant to this post

·      the names of two referees

The closing date for applications is 2nd May.

Those shortlisted will be invited to interview at New College during the week ending 10th May.

Applicants need to be able to provide current proof of right to work in the UK