Education accountancy and finance jobs

Within the education sector there is great variation in terms of the scope of the organisation in which you could work. In education accounting jobs, you could be working in a small school that serves the local population or a university with a truly international profile.

Within the education sector there is great variation in terms of the scope of the organisation in which you could work. In education accounting jobs, you could be working in a small school that serves the local population or a university with a truly international profile.

Key areas of the education sector include:

• The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) 
  This department supports the government in striving to improve educational standards and services       throughout the UK.
  
• Learning & Skills Council (LSC)
  The LSC provides funding to colleges and training providers across the UK.
  
• Universities                                                                                                                        
  Universities specialise in providing higher education courses including degrees, HND’s and foundation courses. Students tend to be attracted locally, nationally and in some cases internationally.
  
• Colleges
  Colleges concentrate on providing further education courses to 16-18 year olds, although they also undertake additional courses in supplementary GCSE’s with a focus on adult education.
  
• City academies
  City academies are a recent introduction to the education sector and their aim is to improve standards of education in low-income locations. They receive some additional funding from the European Union (EU) and part of their remit involves the re-education of parents so that they can understand their responsibilities in supporting their children’s education.
  
• Training providers
  Training providers include a wide range of activities from ‘learndirect’ courses to NVQs and sector-specific training schemes to support commercial employers’ recruitment needs.
  
• Schools
  Schools receive funding from their local authority and purely provide an education service to the local geographical population. By their very nature, they are much smaller organisations and tend to employ a stand-alone “bursar” in most cases. 

Education accounting jobs are available in all of the aforementioned areas, and which area you choose is dependent upon which sub-sector interests you the most.

In the education sector, finance functions are in most cases structured along similar lines to commercial organisations: a director of finance heads the team followed by a deputy director of finance, a financial accounting manager, a management accounting manager and financial support staff at various levels. You will be supporting the operational business managers on their budgets, forecasting, business planning, systems development and ‘ad hoc’ project work.

Education is always high on the political agenda, constantly developing to give everybody the best chance in life at every stage. A finance career in education offers significant variety and provides you with an environment that will challenge you for many years.

At Capita Resourcing we have a wife range of accountancy and finance jobs for both qualified and part-qualified accountants in the education sector. Register with us or contact our one of our offices to talk to a specialist financial recruitment consultant who will be able to help you find your ideal job. Sign up for our job alerts so that you are the first to know when new education sector jobs are on the market.

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