Finance Assistant
Astrum Multi Academy Trust, Romford, RM6 4TR3 days remaining to apply
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
26 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £29,346.00 - £30,630.00 Annually (FTE) OUTL4, points 7-10
Finance Assistant job summary
Finance Assistant
36 hours per week, all year round (52.143 weeks)
OUTL4, (7-10) - £29,346 - £30,630
Do you want to join an outstanding Trust and want to be part of a team that is on an exciting journey? Astrum Multi Academy Trust is a highly respected trust formed in 2017 catering for pupils with a range of Complex Special Educational Needs and disabilities. We are seeking to appoint a Trust Finance Assistant who is professional and dedicated. Our schools are all based across the London Borough of Redbridge and have great transport links from London and beyond.
Astrum Multi Academy Trust is a well-established multi-academy trust within Redbridge, comprising of Newbridge School, (an all through special school for pupils with a range of Severe and Complex Special Educational Needs) and Hatchside School, opened in April 2021 and catering for EY/KS1 pupils with a range SEND. The school is expanding and we will be opening KS2 from September 2024. In addition to our schools, we are also working in partnership with BHRUT NHS Hospitals, the Local Authority and Project Search within King George Hospital. Project Search is a one-year internship programme for post-16 pupils with learning disabilities and/or autism, whose goal is competitive employment in the community. We believe that we have the best PEOPLE working for us who make these schools and provision amazing places for our pupils.
We are looking for a professional, proactive, organised and friendly person to join our central Finance Team. The successful candidate will support our finance operations and ensure the smooth running of our financial processes. As part of our dedicated finance team, you will play a crucial role in dealing with invoices, processing financial transactions, supporting budget monitoring, and ensuring compliance with Trust financial regulations. The role will be primarily based at Newbridge Academy in the Trust finance office.
This role is full time, Monday to Friday, all year round.
We are dedicated to providing a range of induction and continuing professional development opportunities to the successful candidate and look forward to hearing from applicants with suitable skills and experience.
We are committed to developing talent and are open to offering finance apprenticeships for the right candidate. If you’re looking to gain hands-on experience while working towards a qualification, we’d love to hear from you.
Why join us?
- Employee Assistance & Wellbeing Programme
- Generous Pension Schemes
- Family-friendly working policies
- Extensive support and development opportunities
- Refer a friend scheme
- Free onsite parking
- Free tea and coffee
- Great location close to TfL Elizabeth and Central Lines
- And more…
Astrum values diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We celebrate and embrace unique individuality, background and heritage.
We are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ and all our application forms hide your personal information so we can focus solely on your experience, skills and qualities.
We believe in fostering a work environment that supports work-life balance. We are open to flexible working arrangements, including remote work, flexible hours, and part-time opportunities.
Astrum is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to actively share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as online searches, in line with Safer Recruitment guidance and the need to maintain a safe culture.
We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the advert closing date. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon 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.
About Astrum Multi Academy Trust
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- Multi-academy trust
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