Finance Administrator
Avanti Fields School, Leicester, LE5 0BX4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
March 2026
Closing date
18 February 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
13 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: Please see JD for further details
Contract type
- Casual
Hourly rate
- £12.85 to £13.50 per hour
What skills and experience we're looking for
Please note: This is a casual role
About us and the role
We are seeking a Finance Administrator to join our Finance Team and play an important role in supporting the delivery of efficient financial operations.
In this role, you will be responsible for processing financial transactions, maintaining accurate records, and assisting with reconciliations and audit requirements.
You will work closely with colleagues across the organisation, providing timely support and responding to finance queries.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is organised, detail-focused, and looking to develop their experience within a supportive finance environment.
What will you do?
- Provide accurate and timely financial and administrative support to the Finance Team, contributing to the smooth day-to-day operation of finance functions.
- Process purchase orders, invoices, payments, and credit card transactions, ensuring accuracy and compliance with Trust financial procedures.
- Maintain accurate financial records, spreadsheets, and purchase ledger information, including reconciliations and audit preparation.
- Respond promptly and professionally to finance queries from internal and external stakeholders.
- Support finance projects, audits, and ad hoc tasks while ensuring compliance with Trust policies and safeguarding responsibilities.
What are we looking for?
- Previous experience in finance or a comparable administrative role.
- Demonstrates a high standard of accuracy and presentation, with strong attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure, prioritise a varied and conflicting workload, and meet tight deadlines using own initiative.
- hows resilience under pressure, with good organisational skills
- Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students
Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.
What the school offers its staff
This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the South West of England. All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development, and spiritual insight.
Why should you apply
Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.
You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:
- Great opportunities for professional development
- NEST pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
- O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
- Flexible working opportunities
- Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
- Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
- Free staff lunch and on-site parking
Further information about the job
Pre-employment checks
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Diversity and Inclusion
We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.
Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.
Commitment to safeguarding
Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.
Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on school website (opens in new tab)Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Avanti Fields School
- School type
- Free School, Hindu, ages 3 to 16
- Education phase
- All through school
- School size
- 1178 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Avanti Fields School website
- Email address
- talent@avanti.org.uk
Avanti Fields School is a new all-through school which welcomed the first intake of Year 7 students in September 2018. The school is rapidly expanding, and will grow year by year to a full cohort of 1,320. This is an exciting time to join the school as it moves into its new state of the arts building and continues its journey to outstanding.
Avanti Fields School; we are an all-through; 3–16 Hindu-faith school – part of the multi-academy, Avanti Schools Trust.
Avanti Schools are extremely popular with Hindu and non-Hindu parents alike who want an outstanding, disciplined and inclusive environment for learning for their children.
Our established schools in London and Leicester are all at least rated good with outstanding features and have the highest expectations are our pupils.
Avanti’s faith ethos means high academic and moral standards and an environment that values and nurtures the best within all faiths.
Avanti Fields is a Hindu-designated faith school, part of the growing family of Avanti schools. However, staff and students at Avanti Fields School do not originate from any specific faith background. Applications are welcome from practitioners of any faith and from those of none; they will, however, be expected to be in full sympathy with the unique ethos and vision of the School.
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