Finance Assistant
Avanti Fields School, Leicester, LE5 0BXThis job expired on 1 April 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
1 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time: Please see JD for further information
Contract type
- Permanent
Actual salary
- Grade 4, £25,819 - £27,338 per annum, pro-rata (pro-rata if part-time)
What skills and experience we're looking for
About us and the role
Salary: Grade 4, £25,819 - £27,338 per annum, pro-rata (pro-rata if part-time)
Please note: This role is open to full time and part time candidates
We have an opportunity for a Finance Assistant to join our Centralised Finance Team, supporting schools across the Trust.
As a highly motivated and efficient individual, you will be comfortable working independently while contributing to the wider finance function. You will handle a range of financial tasks, including processing invoices, purchase orders, and BACS payments, alongside monitoring spend and reconciling supplier statements. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential, as you will engage with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels.
The ability to manage a busy workload, meet deadlines, and adapt to changing priorities is key. You should be organised, detail-focused, and ready to work flexibly under pressure with a positive and solution-focused approach.
If you are looking to develop your finance career and make a meaningful impact, we would love to hear from you.
School visits are welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school to arrange a suitable time.
What will you do?
- Support financial administration across the Trust
- Organise and maintain Contracts and Service Level Agreements (SLA) file updating information.
- Processing of Purchase Orders from requisitions, accurately and in accordance with agreed authorisation and timescales
- To provide financial information reports from the finance system for finance managers and give advice as requested
What are we looking for?
- Experience working in a Finance/busy Administration department
- High standard of accuracy/presentation with a good eye for detail
- Decisive and shows resilience whilst working under pressure
- The ability to work with initiative and multi-task during frequent interruption
- Organised with the ability to meet tight deadlines and work under minimal supervision
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 details about the role
Further information
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.
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
- Through
- School size
- 1086 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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