Finance
Mouchel offers a comprehensive financial management, support and advice service to schools, academies and colleges. Our experienced staff work with you to manage funds and keep accounts up-to-date. Through support, advice and training we will enable you to make financial decisions that will maximise the use of the funds available, and will also help you to raise standards. Our finance advisors use our benchmarking of operating costs system to assess whether establishments are operating efficiently. We identify solutions relevant to the constrained and complex funding environment which now exists for schools, academies and colleges.
Our service offers professional development so that school, academy or college staff, whether head teacher, bursar, business manager, or finance assistant are empowered through being more knowledgeable and confident. We understand that some establishments require a bespoke service to meet their particular needs, so we are flexible in response to these demands.
Our range of support and advice services includes:
• Total financial management support
• Assurance that systems are up-to-date
• Budget planning, revision, and monitoring
• Forecast statements
• Audit and SFVS support
• Longer term financial planning advice
• Submission returns to the DfE or local authority
• Undertaking reconciliations
• Checks on adherence to financial regulations and procedures
• Assistance with recruitment and induction of finance staff
• Year-end accounts and procedures
• Monthly, three-way reconciliations
• Helpdesk support
• Whole school finance review.