Finance and Admin Assistant

Greenleas School, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 2AB

9 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  22 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  12 June 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: £7,071.00 - £7,182.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Point 2 levels 3-4

Finance and Admin Assistant job summary

We are looking to appoint a driven and energetic Finance and Admin Assistant who will support and enhance the school's business and operations functions. You will support the Business Manager and Finance Manager to maintain the school's financial performance and deal with a range of administrative systems to ensure that the school enables pupils and staff to reach their potential.

This post will span our two office teams, finance and admin. Your main focus will be supporting the Finance Manager. It is planned that the role will focus on early years funding - liaising with parents, checking funding forms and eligibility, inputting , reconciling details of hours, invoicing and debt management. This is an important role as more than £500,000 income for the school is generated through our early years, You will also deal with placing orders and checking deliveries. Additionally, this role will support our busy admin team, checking registers, dealing with admissions (we manage our own early years admissions), supporting with compliance, as well as dealing with day to day communications.

This is an interesting, varied and busy role which offers many interesting opportunities - where else will you be looking at detailed figures at one moment and advising someone what to do with a dying duck on the playground the next? You will work at both our school sites and be part of a committed, experienced team who will support you as you get to grips with your role.

Hours: 12.5 hours per week, the working pattern can be discussed but is likely to be over five days. Term-time only.

Closing date: We may interview and appoint suitable applicants before the closing date. An early application is advised.

The ideal candidate has:

• Experience & knowledge of finance in an education setting.
• Experience with accounting/budgeting software & Microsoft packages.
• Experience of working in a finance-based role.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• The ability to embrace new challenges.
• The ability to manage own time and prioritise workload in order to meet deadlines.
• Commitment to innovation & has a drive to learn & develop.
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team & have a good sense of humour.
• An understanding of the importance of confidentiality.
• Skills in accuracy with an attention to detail.
• The ability to exert assertiveness in a professional manner when/if required.
• The ability to remain calm under pressure. (and work out what to do with injured ducks)
• Be committed to putting children at the heart of all decision making.

This role offers individuals the:

• Opportunity to develop new skills and knowledge.
• Potential for career development.
• Potential support for financial qualifications.
• Opportunity to learn from and shadow effective individuals.
• The opportunity to help improve the lives of children in our schools.

Additionally, you will be a member of the Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contributions of 28.2%

Equality and safer recruitment

We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. We are particularly keen to hear from applicants who can help us better reflect the diverse ethnic backgrounds of our pupils and wider community.

We operate a safer recruitment policy and follow the CBC Code of Practice. Our recruitment process includes undertaking online searches in line with the requirements of Keeping Children Safe in Education. This post will involve regular contact with children, and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which for any other purposes are “spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected” under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974

Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Additional checks in relation to the Childcare Disqualification Regulations will be undertaken for successful candidates. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.

Commitment to safeguarding

Greenleas School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. We will carry out enhanced DBS checks where necessary on all staff and take references. Please note that online searches are undertaken as part of the safer recruitment process.

Central Bedfordshire Council Schools are equal opportunities employers and welcome applications from all members of the community.

Please advise us if you have a disability, learning difficulties, medical conditions or needs for which you would like us to make reasonable adjustments so that your application and working experience is more accessible.

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 Greenleas School

• School type: Local authority maintained school, ages 2 to 9
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 679 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 2 to 9
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Greenleas School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/greenleas-school

We are a two-site school in the market town of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. We have over five hundred and sixty main school pupils in addition to those attending our Early Years provision which brings our total number to nearly seven hundred. We have one hundred and thirty staff across both sites.

We have a senior and middle leadership structure, providing opportunities for career development.

Our teachers have shared PPA on a Friday afternoon and come together across both sites for our staff meeting/Inset every Wednesday. We plan as a team across both sites.

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