Finance Management

Delivering a Positive Effect to the Bottom Line

Today, Further and Higher Education institutions run as businesses, supplying products and services to meet market demand. Your institution needs a robust Finance Management Solution that can support your strategic goals. These may include student growth, better utilisation of resources, creating a surplus rather than a deficit, cost control, lowering transaction costs for the delivery of education by implementing modern ICT systems.

Exceptional finance management is now a fundamental business requirement, where every transaction needs to be tracked and accounted for. This puts unprecedented pressure on not only the senior management team and finance staff but on the ICT systems as well. Sophisticated finance systems play a critical role in improving financial planning, optimising and streamlining business processes and increasing the transparency of business performance.

Finance Management Solutions that underpin institutions are responsible for the control and manipulation of large volumes of ever-changing data. There is always a danger of obsolescence and limitations arising from the technology employed. It is vital that the underlying technology is well established to ensure the integrity and validity of data analysis over a considerable period of time. A Finance Management Solution must also offer the flexibility and potential for future development, supporting rapid changes to business, management and academic demands. In short, its attributes must enable the institution to respond effectively to increasing commercial and competitive pressures within the education sector, as well as the changing demands of external bodies.

With over 20 years' experience, Capita ES is at the forefront of providing integrated Finance Management Solutions, as embodied in the UNIT-e Finance Management Solution, incorporating Aptos' from B-Plan'

Core attributes include:

  • Control financial business processes and increase automation
  • Manage and affect devolved input of and access to financial information in a secure environment to empower users
  • Manage complex student finance, fees and debt
  • Full income management, offering choice and accessibility of differing payment methods
  • Manage statutory financial returns & meet audit requirements
  • Tailored to suit an institution's business processes and branding
  • Provide powerful and flexible reporting tools

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