Finance Assistant (Maternity Cover)

Gateway Multi Academy Trust, Romsey, SO51 8ZB

28 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  5 January 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  8 December 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £25,186.00 - £26,244.00 Annually (FTE)

Finance Assistant (Maternity Cover) job summary

Finance Assistant

Maternity Cover - Temporary, up to 12 months

37 Hours, 5 days per week

8.00am to 4.00pm Monday to Thursday and 8.00am to 3.30pm Friday

52 weeks

Grade C

£25,186 - £26,244

Actual salary dependent upon experience

The Gateway Trust is seeking to appoint a Finance Assistant to join our team based at The Romsey School.

The role will be to provide a professional service, supporting the Finance Manager in all financial aspects of school management, ensuring accuracy and compliance. The post holder will also undertake general administration duties and any other tasks as required to enable an effective and efficient financial administration service.

The successful candidate will:

• Have previous experience of working within finance or administration
• Be competent in the use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Have an understanding of basic financial practice and processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• High attention to detail, numeracy accuracy and speed of input.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proactive, self-motivated and resilient.
• Work collaboratively with all members of the central finance team; Be enthusiastic about their own professional development.

(Please see Person Specification and Job Description for further details).

In return, The Gateway Trust will provide you with:

• 24 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays
• Access to the staff benefits programme which includes the ‘cycle to work’ scheme
• Focus on staff wellbeing, including 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, flu vaccination and eye care vouchers
• Discounted lunches from our excellent in house kitchens on our School Sites
• Access to an Employee Discount for our on-site nursery, Little Sunlights
• On-site, free staff car parking
  

If you are interested in this position, we would love to hear from you.

Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to interview exceptional applicants before the closing date.

The Gateway Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment. All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring checks along with other relevant employment checks. The Gateway Trust is an equal opportunities employer.

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

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 will not be accepted for this application.

About Gateway Multi Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/gateway-multi-academy-trust

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