Finance Assistant
Oasis Community Learning, London, SE1 7HS25 days remaining to apply
Job start date
18 December 2025
Closing date
12 January 2026 at 9am
Date listed
18 December 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
- SCP7-SCP11 - £26,403-£28,142
Finance Assistant job summary
“Behind every great school is a great finance team—because even dreams need a budget.”
Oasis Community Learning is seeking a diligent and detail-oriented Regional Finance Assistant to support the financial operations across academies within the North West region. Based at Oasis Academy Clarksfield, this is a vital role that ensures accurate financial processing and contributes to the effective financial management of our educational communities.
What’s In It for You?
- Competitive salary aligned with your experience and responsibilities
- Generous holiday allowance and flexible working arrangements
- Professional development through accredited training and mentoring
- Comprehensive benefits including pension scheme, wellbeing support, and employee assistance programme
- Meaningful work that directly supports educational transformation across the region
- Career progression within a growing and respected national organisation
You’ll work closely with the Regional Finance Manager and team to:
- Process purchase requisitions and invoices, ensuring compliance with budget approvals and delegation schemes
- Maintain accurate records of expenditure, income, and VAT coding across purchase and sales ledgers
- Prepare BACs payment runs and manage supplier statements and queries
- Support bank account transactions, including dinner money, trips, and payment requests
- Assist with petty cash, credit card returns, and prepayment tracking
- Post journals and recode payroll expenses to ensure proper VAT recovery
- Liaise with academy-based staff to ensure timely and accurate financial data
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for someone who is:
- Educated to GCSE level (A*-C in English and Maths) or equivalent
- Experienced in using accounting software in a finance environment
- Organised, accurate, and able to meet tight deadlines
- Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel
- Honest, adaptable, and able to work independently or as part of a team
- Committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
- Aligned with the Oasis ethos of inclusion, compassion, and community service
- A qualification or current study towards AAT or similar is desirable, as is experience in education or the public sector
Why Join Oasis Community Learning?
Oasis Community Learning is a leading multi-academy trust with a bold mission to transform lives through inclusive, high-quality education. When you join us, you’re not just taking a job—you’re joining a movement. We offer a purpose-led culture that breaks cycles of disadvantage, celebrates diversity, and invests in your growth. You’ll work with passionate colleagues in a forward-thinking organisation where innovation, impact, and community spirit thrive.
Ready to take your finance career to the next level with purpose and impact? Apply now and help us build a better future—one ledger at a time.
Further information about the job
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.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Oasis Community Learning
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
The overall vision for every part of the Oasis trust is for community. A place where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their God-given potential. As well as delivering first-class, innovative education, we seek to build a ‘Hub’ in each of the areas where we work; creating safe and inspiring local neighbourhoods that provide integrated and diverse services to benefit the whole person and whole community.
Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community
We understand the complex responsibilities of education, through a lens of character, competence and community. These principles, along with the Oasis 9 Habits and ethos, are intentionally developed and embedded throughout all of our academies day-to-day.
We have a commitment to inclusion, social integration and closing the disadvantage gap; we want to give advantage to the disadvantaged. Through a fostering of character and relationships, our students and teachers can form meaningful relationships built on a shared determination to learn and develop together as one community; one family.
Together, Oasis staff aspire to:
Create safe, stimulating learning environments
Increase progress and attainment above national averages
Provide high quality teaching which secures good and accelerated progress for all students
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