Student Finance Manager

Unit : 
Educational Providers
Wage : 
£37,099 to £44,263
Location : 
Milton Keynes
Please quote reference : 
21396
Everlasting, Full Time
Closing Date : 
24 January, 2024 – 12:00

Change your profession, change lives.

The Open College is the UK’s largest college, a world chief in versatile part-time schooling combining a mission to widen entry to larger schooling with analysis excellence, remodeling lives via schooling.

The Scholar Finance Supervisor is answerable for offering help to the Scholar Finance Administration staff. The staff sits throughout the Scholar Charges unit of Educational Providers and is answerable for contributing to scholar success by making certain that the suitable scholar has the suitable funding on the proper time. The Scholar Finance Administration staff is answerable for the reconciliation of Tuition Price Mortgage/Grant revenue and for the restoration and administration of unpaid scholar charges.

The position

You’ll lead a small specialist staff who handle the administration of tuition charge mortgage and grant revenue. You will want to have the ability to inspire, lead, coach and allow this staff to ship scholar success by making certain that the suitable scholar has the suitable funding on the proper time. You could have the ability to exhibit your capability to convey out the most effective in individuals and guarantee nice efficiency.

To have the ability to lead this staff, you’ll need to have sturdy expertise of constructing and analysing giant and sophisticated knowledge units. You will want these to resolve issues that come up and to drive steady enchancment and extra environment friendly processes, while creating your staff to do the identical. You may be working throughout conventional staff boundaries, so your influencing expertise with a various group of stakeholders shall be key.

Additionally, you will be answerable for offering administration data in respect of tuition charge revenue and can work carefully with colleagues throughout the College to make sure that IT methods, insurance policies, processes, and controls are in place to make sure the well timed and proper administration of Scholar Loans Firm and different funding.

Expertise and expertise

This position will go well with you in case you:

• Can proof a capability to steer, inspire, affect and help people or a staff.
• Are skilled in utilizing Administration Data instruments to compile, analyze and interpret giant units of knowledge.
• Possess the flexibility to speak complicated data clearly, each orally and in writing, with a really excessive stage of accuracy and a spotlight to element.
• Possess wonderful communication and team-working expertise confirmed by working co-operatively with a variety of stakeholders.
• Can take up complicated and generally opposing data, and be certain that acceptable motion is taken, balancing operational wants and the suitable final result for college students.
• Have expertise of planning, prioritising, and organising complicated workloads, generally underneath strain, to make sure deadlines are met and operational providers delivered.
• Can adapt to unfamiliar conditions, calls for and altering roles or work practices, methods, and software program.

For additional details about the position together with a full individual specification, please see the hooked up job description.

If you need to debate the appliance or recruitment course of earlier than making an utility, please contact Paula Haycock at Resourcing Hub on 01908 655544 or [email protected] quoting the reference VRF 21396

What you get in return

We have now a robust dedication to offering coaching and improvement in and past your present position. This contains thorough induction into the organisation and common evaluations of your coaching and improvement wants.

We additionally supply an awesome vary of advantages that help our staff and their households for the long run. Workers Advantages embody a lovely pension proposition and 33 days vacation every year professional rata, plus Financial institution Holidays and Christmas closure days.

Electronic mail :

[email protected]  

How one can apply

Except in any other case acknowledged within the advert, all functions are accomplished on-line through the directions on The OU Job’s web page. Purposes submitted through third social gathering web sites is not going to be obtained.

Entry particulars for disabled candidates can be found from the Resourcing Hub, phone: 01908 655544, quoting the emptiness reference above.

To use for this position please submit the next as one doc;

• CV
• Private assertion, as much as 1,000 phrases, you need to set out in your assertion why you’re on this position and supply examples of the place your expertise and expertise meet the required competencies for this position as detailed within the job and individual specification.

Please save your doc with the next file identify as acceptable to the emptiness you might be making use of for: reference, surname, forename.

You will want to have your paperwork prepared forward of submitting the digital utility.

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You may view your utility communications on the Candidate portal .

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Posting Date : 
4 January, 2024 – 09:45