Finance Administrative Assistant

Sfaet Ltd, Romford, RM2 6HJ

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  28 April 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  3 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £23,903.00 - £24,245.00 Annually (Actual)

Finance Administrative Assistant job summary

The Finance Administrative Assistant is a member of Trust Associate staff, one of a team responsible for making sure that the efficient and effective organisation and administration of Trust processes, procedures and policies delivers the best possible service to all stakeholders.

Key Accountabilities

To provide an effective and efficient customer service through communication, the provision of services and dealing with and resolving enquiries, problems and complaints.

To be responsible for following finance policy and procedures to make orders via the Financial Management System on behalf of all schools within the Trust

To assist the Finance and HR Team Leaders and senior management team as and when required.

To be responsible for following finance policy and procedures to make orders via the Financial Management System on behalf of all schools within the Trust.

To reconcile income received through online payment systems including ParentPay and any other systems as schools join the Trust.

To complete monthly reconciliation of print costs for all schools.

To make orders using charge cards for appropriate schools and ensure the finance policy is followed to reconcile all expenditure as required by the Finance Operations Manager.

To receive, record, and process direct credits and direct debits using the relevant financial systems of the Trust.

To raise invoices on behalf of the Trust through the Accounts Receivable system and collect debts and payments due by monitoring records, making requests, following up and taking action on responses and identifying, investigating and resolving arrears.

To raise journals as required and ensure inter company journals are completed where costs are associated for more than one of the schools within the Trust.

Professional Development

Gain a basic understanding of bookkeeping and accounting processes and terminology.

To engage in continuous professional development.

To complete school based induction and any subsequent training required to improve performance and take part in performance management.

Other Duties

To undertake any other duties commensurate with this post as directed by the Finance Manager, Director of Finance or Trust SLT.

Staff in schools work subject to statute and many policies and procedures. The post holder will be expected to become familiar with these and work in accordance with them.

The Trust expects its employees to work flexibly within the framework of the duties and responsibilities above. This means that the post holder may be expected to carry out work that is not specified in the job profile but which is within the remit of the duties and responsibilities.

To carry out the work of the job in a way that is consistent with the culture, ethos, equalities and inclusion policies of the Trust.

To take appropriate action to identify, evaluate and minimise any risks to health, safety and security in the immediate working environment

As an employee you will be covered by our excellent well-being support and medical cover programme through MyMedicash.

This includes;

• Claim back the cost of your dental bills or new glasses (up to your annual limit)

• Wide range of therapy treatments covered, including physiotherapy

• Access to payment for private specialist consultations

• mProve, Physio & SkinVision included

• Options to upgrade and include your partner via personal direct debit

For an informal discussion about this role please contact jporter@sfaet.co.uk

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient suitable applications for the role. If you are interested in the role, please submit your application as early as possible.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Sfaet Ltd

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sfaet-ltd

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