Finance Assistant
Enrich Learning Trust, Norwich, NR4 6DJ6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
ASAP
Closing date
8 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
23 October 2024
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
- NJC SCP 5 - 11 (£23,500 to £25,979) PAY AWARD PENDING; PRO RATA TO HOURS WORKED
Finance Assistant job summary
30 to 37 hours per week, all-year round
NJC pay scale point 5-11 (£23,500 to £25,979 pay award pending)
Permanent
We are seeking a Finance Assistant to work as part of a busy Finance Team based at our central Trust Office in Norwich.
Main duties will include using SAGE 200 and other payment systems to:
- Raise purchase orders for goods and services, checking budgets and approvals
- Process supplier invoices, confirm the receipt of goods and prepare invoices for payment
- Reconcile supplier statements and liaise with suppliers and colleagues to resolve queries
- Raise sales invoices, review and reconcile debtor balances, allocate receipts
- Administration of credit card accounts
- Using Excel spreadsheets to analyse data and financial transactions
- Reconcile and summarise receipts from parent and student income systems
- Support the management of the Finance Team email inboxes
- Filing and general administration duties.
Knowledge of computerised finance systems and/or working in a finance environment is desirable, as are good communication skills and a “can-do” attitude.
Experience working in a school/Trust environment is not essential, but you will need to be organised and efficient, with the skills to manage your own time and deadlines. Occasional travel to the Trust’s school sites in Norfolk, as required.
If you wish to have an informal discussion about this position please contact Ms Edwina Wright, CFO, via cfo@enrich-learning.org
Closing date: Applications will be considered upon receipt
Interview date: To be confirmed
Enrich Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the Trust to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
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 Enrich Learning Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
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