Finance Assistant (Part time)
Southend High School for Boys, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS0 0RGThis job expired on 5 October 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
5 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
26 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 18 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Scale 5, actual £11,926
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for a part time Finance Assistant who can provide an efficient and effective data service for the School.
Reporting to the Finance Manager you will work alongside a counterpart part time Finance Assistant to provide efficient and professional support to our finance function, primarily the ‘Accounts Receivable’ function.
About The Role:
As an organised, strong communicator you will:
- Complete and process orders and requisitions
- Check and process invoices and credit card transaction documentation
- Maintain the preferred suppliers list, and set up new suppliers as required
- Prepare BACS file documentation, and work with Finance Manager on associated processes.
- Work as part of a small Finance team to ensure timely and professional response to queries or enquiries from all stakeholders (pupils, staff, parents and suppliers).
About You:
- You’ll have some experience of general office administration and finance processes.
- You’ll be comfortable working with finance software systems and Microsoft Office.
- You’ll be able to manage time effectively, and able to use initiative to resolve queries or challenges.
What the school offers its staff
Benefits:
- Auto-enrolment into a contributory pension scheme (LGPS for support staff, employer contribution 25%)
- Free on-site parking and cycle to work scheme
- CPD through internal and external providers (including a subscription to National College)
- Employee Support Programme offering retail discounts and vouchers, a 24/7 confidential advice line, and counselling.
- Specsavers Eye care vouchers
- Free use of the sports facilities
Keyterms:
- Hours: 18 hours per week (over Monday, Tuesday and Friday). Please note that whilst exact working hours are negotiable with the successful candidate, the working days are fixed.
- Term time plus the equivalent of two week’s hours to be worked during school holidays
- Duration: Permanent
- Location: Based on site within the school (please note due to the nature of the role tasks, there is no working from home applicable to this post)
- Remuneration: The Essex Schools’ Local Government Scale 5, Point 9 (within ranges 9-12). FTE £27,254 gross per annum, actual £11,926 gross per annum. Figures include an element of holiday pay.
To Apply:
Please download an application form from our website and complete in full (Word document), then email to us. There is a section on the form to articulate your reasons for applying for the post and your suitability. CV’s alone will not be accepted due to safeguarding procedures.
Applications Deadline: 5th October 2025
Start date: 1st November 2025 (with expected handover dates prior to this)
Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview. The need to appoint quickly means we reserve the right to appoint at any time.
Contact: Applicants who require further information should contact the HR Managervia the contact details on our website
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.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Southend High School for Boys
- School type
- Academies, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1325 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Southend High School for Boys website
- Email address
- recruitment@shsb.org.uk
Southend High School for Boys (SHSB) is an ‘Outstanding’ school (Ofsted 2015), rated as outstanding against every one of the inspection criteria. It is one of four selective schools within the Borough of Southend. The main school, years 7 to 11, is single sex boys whilst the large sixth form is coeducational. It is situated thirty miles from London on the Thames Estuary and is close to main road and rail links from London, and to Chelmsford and Cambridge. SHSB has ‘an ethos of excellence in both academic achievement and a wide range of activities [that] permeates all aspects of the school’ (Ofsted 2015). At SHSB talent is nurtured, learning is valued, challenge is welcomed, participation is expected and achievement is prized. SHSB is not only a lively and stimulating institution, but also a welcoming community with an open and friendly approach.
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