Posted:Dec 9
By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Education Management
Description:
Nova Pioneer Education Group is a Pan-African independent school network offering preschool through secondary education for students from ages 3 through 19. We prepare the next generation of leaders and innovators through world-class teaching methods with an emphasis on 21st century skills. We established Nova Pioneer because we believe education should prepare young people to create their future, not just work in it. Nova Pioneer is a launchpad where ambitious young Africans can begin to shape a better future for the continent and the world. We began by asking ourselves the question, "What capabilities will young people need to succeed in and shape the future that they will encounter, and what approaches to education will best develop those capabilities?” All of our founders have extensive backgrounds in education at top institutions across the globe, having studied at universities such as Harvard and Stanford and led education programs for McKinsey and Co., the African Leadership Academy, and top school networks in the US (Excel Academies). Yet at Nova Pioneer we believe that you never stop learning. So we visited and studied leading schools spanning from Singapore to Peru, and the United States to the United Kingdom. We connected with leaders of the cutting-edge education research, and leading thinkers on 21st Century Learning such as Sir Ken Robinson and teachers and atelieristas from Reggio Emilia, the leading global early education model, to name a few. We launched our first school in South Africa in 2014, with the aim of incorporating the best education models in the world, while keeping it as affordable as possible. We’ve since expanded within South Africa, and to Kenya as well - with our first Kenyan school launching in 2015. In all of our schools, we bring in and train top educators to deliver educational excellence in an environment that nurtures our students to uncover their potential and blaze trails in the world beyond our school walls.
Job Description
ABOUT YOUR ROLE:
As Billing & Receivables Coordinator, you are responsible for executing effective and efficient financial operations and accounting functions relating to revenue and billing. The Billing & Receivables Coordinator reports to the Global Billing & Receivables Associate Manager.
Key responsibilities for the role include:
- Billing and receipts
- Generate accurate annual, termly monthly tuition and other fees invoices for all revenue streams
- Issuing of credit notes
- Ensure generation of customer receipts and provision of receipts to customers on a daily basis
- Escalation and resolution of any missing receipts with relevant colleagues
- Resolving of receipts with missing billing with relevant colleagues
- Reconciliations and general ledger management
- Perform daily reconciliation and allocation of all receipts from the previous day across all campuses
- Perform reconciliations of individual student accounts
- Perform bank reconciliations
- Perform general ledger entries related to billing, receipts, bad debts and bad debt provisions
- Bookkeeping
- Cross-skilling with associate accounting team members to assist with broader finance functions including reconciliations and general ledger activities
- Contribute to the month-end and year-end reporting and audit processes
- Reporting
- Producing monthly debtors age analysis, bad debts, bad debt provision and associated reports analysing the billing of Nova Pioneer versus collections
- Produce reports at a detailed level explaining variances between budgeted and actual revenue, collections and bad debts
- Track and update required databases and dashboards
- Budgeting
- Assist in preparing annual and revised revenue budgets
- Business control environment
- Recommend & implement internal controls across areas of responsibility to ensure accuracy and timely delivery of responsibilities
- General
- Contribute to the ongoing improvement of Nova Pioneer by suggesting and implementing measures that increase productivity, reduce costs and raise customer service levels
- Maintain effective and productive working relationship with the collections department and contribute to activities to improve interaction and collaboration with the collections department
- Achieve and maintain proficiency with system and tools required to perform duties
- Other duties as assigned by the billing team leader which may include (but not limited to) assisting with collections and parent gating during peak times.
ABOUT YOU:
Skills and Qualifications required:
- Bachelor's degree in finance or commerce preferable
- At least 2 years experience in a finance, audit or similar role preferable
- Highly motivated self-starter with bias for action and teamwork, comfortable working in a startup environment
- Outstanding organization, project-management, problem-solving, and communication skills
- You have a passion for education and Nova Pioneer's vision of transforming schooling across the African continent
Education: Degree, Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time
