Nursery Accounts Administrator
Location: Corby, NN17 1XA, Blackberry House Day Nursery & Forest School
Salary: £21,840.00 - £24,960.00 per annum / £14.00 - £16.00 per hour
Hours: 30 hours per week
Working Pattern: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday – 8:00am–4:00pm
Non Working Day: Tuesday.
We are looking for an experienced and highly organised Accounts Administrator to join our new Head Office department in Corby, working alongside our established Head Office team in Wisbech.
This is a varied role combining bookkeeping, accounts administration and childcare administration. Responsibilities will include purchase and sales ledger, bank reconciliations, family accounts, credit control, childcare contract processing, CRM updates, register auditing and maintaining accurate records across the Childcare Group.
The role would suit an AAT-qualified or studying candidate who is comfortable working across both finance and operational administration, takes pride in accuracy and organisation, and is confident managing a varied workload independently.
Key Responsibilities
- Purchase and sales ledger administration using Sage 50
- Processing supplier invoices and allocating customer payments
- Bank reconciliations
- Monitoring debtors and supporting credit control
- Investigating account discrepancies
- Maintaining accurate financial and supplier records
- Supporting childcare invoicing and family accounts
- Supporting expenditure and childcare funding administration
- Auditing childcare contracts and processing contract changes accurately
- Updating holiday requests, amendments and changes to childcare arrangements
- Ensuring CRM records reflect agreed childcare contracts and placements
- Supporting the Childcare Onboarding Lead with new placements and documentation
- Completing weekly childcare register audits
- Checking attendance records against childcare contracts and identifying discrepancies
- Supporting corrections to childcare registers and maintaining audit records
- Maintaining accurate CRM, childcare and compliance records
About You
Essential:
- AAT Level 2 minimum, or equivalent bookkeeping experience
- Previous accounts/bookkeeping experience
- Good understanding of purchase ledger, sales ledger and reconciliations
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail
- Confident using Excel and accounting systems
- Able to manage your own workload and investigate discrepancies
Desirable:
- AAT Level 3 qualified or currently studying towards Level 3
- Experience using Sage 50
- Experience supporting month-end accounts
- Experience within childcare, education or a multi-site business
Pay: £21,840.00-£24,960.00 per year
Benefits:
- Childcare
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
