Finance Assistant

Great Western Academy, Swindon, SN25 2PP

17 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  7 September 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  21 August 2026

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: £24,654.00 - £25,472.00 Annually (Actual) NJC Scale 13 - 15, £15.06 - £15.56 per hour (Pay award pending)

Finance Assistant job summary

Great Western Academy are looking to recruit a Finance Assistant to join our Finance team.

Are you a positive and hard-working person with high aspirations for yourself and others? Do you want to work in an environment that seeks to bring out the best in staff and students? Are you well organised with strong finance and administrative skills? Great Western Academy is seeking to find someone like you to join our Finance team.

The successful candidate will support our Finance Manager in ensuring the smooth running of the day-to-day financial function of the Academy. Great Western Academy uses SAGE for Education as it’s accounting package, experience of this software would be an advantage, but not essential. Further details of the role can be found in the Job Description and Information for Applicants attachments.

You will join a vibrant and effective office environment of nine staff, who share a large and well-resourced front office. This team contributes significantly to the success of Great Western Academy, whose students have achieved excellent outcomes at GCSE and A-level since opening.

Our school is built around Achievement, Care and Excellence, and this applies to staff and students alike. We are fortunate to work in a purpose-designed building which provides us with a great environment in which to learn and work.

Benefits of working at GWA include:

• Excellent CPD opportunities
• State of the art facilities
• Free Health and Wellbeing Support Service
• Staff wellbeing activities and events
• Cycle to work scheme through Cyclescheme
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice scheme through Octopus

If you believe you have the skills and aptitude to move our work forwards, then we would be delighted to hear from you. Applications close on Monday 7th September 2026 at 9am with interviews following soon after. If you have any questions prior to applying please contact recruitment@gwacademy.co.uk

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Great Western Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment and undergo appropriate checks. All posts within the Trust are therefore subject to an Enhanced DBS and barred list check. 

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Great Western Academy

• Organisation type: Free School, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1039 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Great Western Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/great-western-academy

Great Western Academy opened in brand new, state-of-the-art facilities in North Swindon in September 2018. The Academy is heavily oversubscribed in years 7,8,9,10 and 11 and our Sixth Form is thriving with exceptional results.

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