Our buy as you need services include:

Financial Dashboard.  This dashboard provides you with an easy and visual way to view your financial data to aid understanding and support effective and accurate financial planning.  It is designed to be intuitive to any user, whether an experienced school business manager or a governor with no prior financial experience;   

Automated pay check facility extracting payroll information from the corporate ledger and importing into the Budget Planning Software (BPS). This creates a monthly payroll variation report, comparing actual salary data vs budgeted salary data. The benefit of this facility is that it will save your school time, and ensure this essential task is undertaken.

Training in a variety of areas such as SIMS FMS, Schools Financial Value Standard (SFVS) benchmarking and Financial Management.  Our training can be delivered to your school’s leadership team, administrative staff as well as newly appointed finance staff;

Support with the recruitment and selection of staff with financial responsibilities in school;

Short Term Cover for a vacancy of absence in your school, this can include a Payment Processing Service for schools experiencing a short term cover requirement or we can offer higher level cover if required;

Attendance at governors meetings;

Additional meetings including to support deficit budget situations; and

For academies - the production of statutory budget returns.