UCAS is at the heart of connecting people to higher education.

UCAS is the world’s leading shared admissions service for higher education. We provide application services for UK universities and colleges as well as delivering a wide range of research, consultancy and advisory services to schools, colleges, careers services, professional bodies and employers.

We’re a successful and fast-growing organisation, which helps hundreds of thousands of people every year. We're committed to delivering a first-class service to all of our customers — they're at the heart of everything we do.

Our Finance and Corporate Services business unit is a fusion of multiple functions — financial planning and accounting, facilities and building management, procurement, corporate governance and performance, legal and compliance. The Finance Team also defines UCAS' financial strategy.

To provide transactional and administrative support to the Financial Accounting Team for both UCAS and UCAS
Media Ltd, ensuring that accounts processing runs effectively and to the required timescale.

Key accountabilities:

• Proactively analyse outstanding debt, continually monitoring the aged debt reports to ensure month end cash collection targets are achieved.

• Timely dealing with customer queries, including price discrepancies, PO requests, payment processing and
  copy invoices.

• Working collaboratively with internal colleagues to deal with queries arising due to organisation of our
  events held.

• Onboarding of new customer including credit checks, due diligence and setting up on finance system.

• Timely processing and reconciliation of all accounting documentation, including sales invoices/credit
  notes.

• Daily reconciliation of bank accounts for both UCAS and UCAS Media, including posting of all
  receipts and payments. This will include the extraction of statements from the on-line banking system, analysis and resolving of any queries.

• Develop and maintain good working relationships with all stakeholders both internal and external.

• Assist with general administration duties within the team.

• Transactional Accounting Experience.

• Ability to deal with financial issues in a confidential and professional manner.

• Ability to work autonomously or as part of a team.

• Competent IT skills, specifically Microsoft Excel and prior use of accounting systems.

• A working knowledge of VAT.

• Able to prioritise workloads to ensure deadlines and targets are met.

• People-orientated, with excellent listening and communication skills

Salary - up to £26,500 

• 30 days annual leave (plus 3 concessionary days over Christmas and your bank holidays!)

• Flexibility – UCAS positively supports Hybrid working for its employees, meaning you can work between home and the office in a way that suits you and the business and also has a comprehensive Flexible Working Policy

• A generous pension scheme

• Hundreds of high street discounts and offers with Perkbox

• Internal training and development

• Subsidised gym and café

• Be rewarded for going above and beyond with our ex-gratia bonus scheme and Celebrating U, our quarterly employee recognition scheme

• Dedicated volunteer employee networks promoting wellbeing, awareness and inclusion